The first time I met this very noisy sand timer was in 20 Second Showdown. In that game, you flip the timer, read a challenge card for your team to perform in some way (go touch the nearest fern, wheelbarrow someone out of the room, sit on a teammate’s lap and say a certain phrase) which, once complete, meant you could flip the timer over for the opposing team to do the same. The loser is the team that’s charging about the room when the timer goes silent.
Obey The Clay sees the return of the timer and challenge cards, but swaps running around like a lunatic with the more genteel art of making things out of modelling clay. The included lump in the box is very much a proto-Morph yet to be formed – this is an Aardman-themed game after all. Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and a couple of chickens from Chicken Run appear on the box, but inside you’re very much dealing with a DIY Morph situation. You won’t be recreating The Wrong Trousers here, but as many of these animated films take about half a decade to make, that’s probably a good thing for the play time.