Wits & Wagers

For starters, any game playable by4-20 players has to be pretty awesome.

Imagine winning a trivia match when you don't know the answers to any of the questions. Wits & Wagers is exactly that game, pitting players' intuition rather than their knowledge against each other.

Every question has a numeric answer--for instance, "How many yards wide is a football field?" can be answered with numerals. Each player writes their answer on a slip ofpaper which is put on a green betting field.You might not have a clue what the answer is and write something ludicrous like 3, but if Uncle Rico is playing you know he knows how wide a football field is, so you bet on his answer.

This is more of a betting game than a trivia game, really. You can bluff, you can bet on your own answer, you can read players to determine whether they know what they're talking about.Wits & Wagersis an awesome party game.

You could conceivably get pretty devious. If you know the answer to a question, and you know someone else knows the answer, you could write the wrong answer because you know people will vote for yours, and then vote for the other guy's yourself. Such scuzzy tactics are frowned upon in polite society and the business world, but Wits & Wagers is an amazing alernative reality where you can behave like a Machiavellian wacko with few if any consequences. (Of course, your wife might not talk to you for a week afterward, but that might not be entirely a bad thing, either.)

Really, though, this game is really super incredibly fun. It makes a good family game, too, though players will likely know each other well enough that some of the risky elements are lost in play. And just remember that Uncle Rico will be thinking in terms of a high school football field, not a professional field. That might or might not be important.

Wits & Wagers has already won 20 industry awards:

• Wits & Wagers is "the latest in living-room play." - Time Magazine
• 2007 Party Game of the Year - Games Magazine
• Best trivia game of all time - About.com
• Best rated trivia game of all time by over 2,000 consumers - BoardGameGeek.com
• Wits & Wagers in now available on the Xbox and in 6 different languages.

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Review by C. Hollis Crossman C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur.Read more of his reviews here.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.