McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds, makers of the award-winning You’ve Been Sentenced! party game, will release two expansions for the game by early 2009. The NASA Add-On Deck will add 80 five-word cards to the game, including scientific, technical, mathematical, and engineering terms. Each card will be themed around a certain NASA mission, such as the Apollo missions. The set is meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of NASA earlier this year and will be available late this year or early 2009. MSRP is $8.

 

Also in the works is You’ve Been Sentenced! Jr., an add-on deck targeting early readers (ages 5-8). The set will be displayed at Toy Fair in New York at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, February 15-18, 2009.

 

McNeill has won many awards for You’ve Been Sentenceda, including the Dr. Toy “Best Products Winner” of 2007, the 2006 iParenting Media Award for Greatest Product of 2006, Toys & Games Category, the FAO Schwarz Toy Audition Days Winner for 2006, and it carries the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval. The base version of the game contains 540 cards and retails for $24.95; several add-on packs, including 80 cards at $8 each, are available.