The idea

Four people plug their iPods or MP3 players into the cords connected to the game. A card is then drawn from the center of the box that says something along the lines of finding a “song with a color in the title” or a “song that mentions food in the lyrics.”

Each player then searches their playlists for an appropriate song and presses play when one is found. The quickest-picked song then plays through the speakers of the game for the rest of the players to hear.

The good

Most people have some kind of iPod or MP3 player and know their music selection fairly well, so this is a game for anyone.

You find out a lot about your friends — who secretly loves country music, who has copious Christmas classics or who just genuinely has rotten music taste. This game gives you a ton of arsenal for making fun of them later on.

The game also doubles as iPod speakers.

The bad

The voice that tells you what to do next on the game won’t stop talking. It’s helpful for the first few rounds but after that, it gets just straight up annoying.

Some of the categories are rather difficult. “A song from the year you were born” is hard to do, considering most college students don’t have the “year” information on their iPod.

When a player picks a song, it starts off playing on the speakers at the beginning of the song. Essentially, you end up hearing a lot of song intros.

The ugly

After about 10 minutes of play, the game gets extremely dull.

There’s no way to check if the song choices you make are right. If someone picks a song that doesn’t match a category, they just lose a point, which you have to decipher yourself.

Unfortunately, the “modern” game requires old fashioned technology — pen and paper scoring.