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Bezzerwizzer

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The game of trivia, tactics and trickery
It's a friendly competition to be the first to the finishing line
A game of quick wit and tenacious tactics
2+ players
The perfect gift for the family

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Not a complaint about the gameThe game is fun I love it. But I bought it used because the new prices were ridiculous. It said minor wear from.use but the inside container was heavily damaged. Also it's dirty as if someone kept it outside and just wiped it down really quick. I feel lied to about the wear. 5The Game's Afoot!Based on experience with family & friends, plus a review of the game itself, Bezzerwizzer is a fine, swift-paced, and engaging game for many---but not all--kinds of minds. Among the pluses is that as few as two and as many as 16 are able to play comfortably; the game itself is sturdily made and well-produced; and the interpretation of the rules can accommodate a variety of ages and stages.In its simplest form, a player (and his or her team) can decide to stick with the four (out of 20) categories drawn by chance. So do the other three teams, and the race is to the fastest, most confident, best informed team. This works well if you have three or four persons on a team whose minds are sticky-traps for factoids and have diverse ages and interests. We/I once had a killer team of a sports-obsessed 13 year-old, a science and literature whiz of 15, and an 80 year-old who'd remembered a lot of history. The 15 year old was a decisive team leader; it is a game giving opportunities like this to all ages.Bezzerwizzer is well, but intricately designed, and the 10 to 15 year old age group suggested may over-estimate younger players' skills. It is probably best for those with flash access to the memory banks, warp speed in responding, and possessors of many factoids common & arcane. It is, however, still fun even when the strategy options available to all teams are not used.However, Bezzerwizzer is even more engaging when all the strategy options come boldly into play. For example, suppose your team drew four topics or areas that are winners for you but your opponents could run all around you with one of their categories. Do you stick with your four or pre-emptively get their strongest area by trading in your weakest, to block 'em? How sure are you where their strengths and weaknesses may be? Are they likely to be assertive? Slower on the draw? What's your best strategy? When, if at all,during the game as it develops, do you want to use your Bezzerwizzer and ZWAP tiles?These and other considerations add to the complexity of the game. It probably takes three or four dry-runs for everyone to get the hang og it or decide they are likely to be terminally bored. In general, the more strategy games such as chess they play, they better. Putting in this learning time adds much to Bezzerwizzer's interest and moves it farther (much farther) from Trivia.Bezzerwizzer has proved a great friends and family game for people fast on the draw and richly endowed with sticky-tape minds for trivia, use of strategy tiles, and so on. We've found the trivia-type questions to be intriguingly varied from pretty simple (hey, we all like a few sure wins) to quite arcane to a few that are somewhat debatable. This can lead to checking things out on the net, debates, and considerable cortical enrichment. Although one can never discount knowledge. That 13 year old came up with the abbreviation for lead, and fast!Bottom line: An excellent value at Amazon's price for the wild-minded, competitive, and ready to roll group. Up to four on a team seems to work well, though three is even better for maximum opportunity for involvement.Any cons or reservations? As noted, one almost always needs to match the characteristics of a game with the mix of players. Bezzerwizzer is great for many, but not all, players. And eventually, one does want more question cards! Also, to keep things moving, the group should decide on a time maximum per turn & have a timer. We use 1 minute and a simple egg-timer. 5A fun game, but gets repetitive.My wife and I enjoyed this game - kind of a trivial pursuit where you have a little control over the categories. That said, the fun ended as we started repeating clues.Each round you will go through 8 cards with just 2 players, and each game you can easily use 40 cards or more. As such, you run through the cards once and start seeing repeats. In most games, this is well obscured by the variety of categories, but here you get some control over the categories, so many categories are used more often than others. In the categories you like most, you get repeats, and the repeats get more common, quickly diminishing the replay value of the game. In the end, its a great group game, but it has only modest replay value because of the repetition within cards.Pros:Fun conceptEnjoyable game playNice small to medium group gameCons:Short-ish deck that is quickly recycled 3Great Game. Why no support for it?This game is a lot of fun. We bring it out at parties because it is a quick and fun trivia game that everybody can play. You are able to weigh topics that you know for more points when you answer them correctly. You are also able to switch a topic you don't like with another opponent. To "Bezzerwizzer" means that you buzz in and answer a topic you like when it has been asked your opponent (only if he gets it wrong). These are all fun twists on traditional trivia games like Trivia Pursuit where you are forced to confront more topics you don't know (and make the game take longer).The pieces of the game aren't overly elaborate, and that's part of what I imagine keeps the price down. It is unfortunate that Mattel released this one edition and doesn't seem to be supporting it in any way. The webpage and facebook page do not appear to have been updated since the game's initial US publication. The biggest downside of this is that there has been no extra card pack expansions to keep the game fresh for people who play it regularly (or even semi-regularly). This means that you will run out of questions and answers that you haven't seen before. It will also give you an unfair advantage when playing with new players.Maybe this game didn't sell as well in the US as it did in Europe? Maybe Mattel didn't do an effective enough job of marketing it. As it stands, I will give the game five stars because I enjoy playing it, but know that it will only provide you limited joy until Mattel produces more cards to prolong the game's lifespan. 5Surprisingly fun!I will start off by saying that I am NOT a trivia game person. I bought this game at the recommendation of a friend when looking for a game that might catch the interest of my brother-in-law who IS a trivia game person. I opened this up on Memorial Day during our family get together to try it out not expecting to like it excessively, but hoping it would be passable enough that I could play it with my family when they were in a trivia mood.Sadly, my brother-in-law didn't make it, so I still don't know if he would like it, but I did get a mix of players with different game preferences. We all, to our great surprise, loved the game.There is trivia in this game for every kind of person, and you have the option to steal other people's questions if it's something you know. Altogether, that makes it so no one had a huge trivia advantage, leaving others to feel like "what's the point?" which I've often seen with games like Cranium and Trivial Pursuit. Everyone felt engaged and like they had a real chance of winning.Overall, I would recommend this game to people who enjoy trivia games, but I would also recommend it to those who haven't like them in the past. Especially if you have a competitive streak. 5Fun game! Highly recommend for teenage through adult families.My family and I LOVE this game! It is fast, fun, and easily inspires friendly competition. We play round after round, changing partners to see how different pairings fair, and sometimes playing individually. The questions are diverse, ranging from very difficult to shockingly simple - and you never know what you're going to get! There's a bit of strategy involved, but not too much, making for a game that does not require a lot of cognitive commitment to understand. I only wish they had expansion packs available, as we have played it so many times we are starting to repeat questions. As a child I remember playing Trivial Pursuit, and getting so frustrated that one or two pie pieces would always escape me, because I couldn't get the number I needed to land on that category. There is nothing like that in this game - the first person around the board wins, and you receive new categories after each player has answered her 4 questions. 5Great Family GameThis game is great for a group of four to eight people. Bezzerwizzer questions vary from obscure to common knowledge, so it can be fun for people that range from trivia masters to the very uninformed. There is some strategy with the selection of of which questions to swap and challenge, but not so much that you have to pay overly close attention to what is going on.The only complaint I have is that the box that holds the questions could be designed to more clearly indicate which side has the used questions, and which side should be drawn from. The way it is, you have to find the small word on the card to see which side is facing out and then figure out how the cards go back in. You could just put your own sticky post it note on one side for clarity. Overall the game is designed very well and the actual game is easy to learn and understand. 5Best Game Ever!This is such a fun game, i monitored it on Amazon for months until it came down to an affordable price ($50!), but when it arrived and I finally opened it to play, it was missing a piece of the board (the blue section), and the wrap looked like it had be re-shrink wrapped or something. Kind of a bummer considering the game is discontinued so I doubt the manufacturer or the seller are going to get me the last piece.UPDATE: The company reached out an took care of the situation. Nice to know they had my back, even if they went well beyond the norms to rectify the situation. I'll surely buy again. 5Fun, fast paced games that can be four person or 4 teams!This game was bought on a whim, to be used to occupy 4 adults who were going to be spending a lot of time in the hotel room in short spurts between meetings. Too short of spurts to play poker, trivial pursuit, monopoly or risk, and we heard this game could be played in 30 minutes, and was trivia and had a sport element to it with the use of bezzerwizzer tiles to challenge your opposition, if you think they are clueless. It was a laugh a minute, and fun, and can indeed be played in 30 minutes or less if you have some smarty pants people playing and 45 mins if you have younger kids too. There are questions in there that anyone can answer and then there are some harder questions to keep everyone on their toes. This game is so worth the money, as the board and pieces are well made, so are the cards and I look forward to playing this game for years to come. It goes on all our trips with us, and we play it with houseguests after dinner, before everyone goes home too. 5The questions are so obscure at times that you and all other players are going to feel both absolutely dumb and incredibly smartThis trivia game is not your average trivia. The questions are so obscure at times that you and all other players are going to feel both absolutely dumb and incredibly smart throughout the process. Team play is not a must, but would be very VERY helpful. Eclectic knowledge is the key here. I love it, but I'll admit that it makes the questions in Cranium or Trivial Persuit seem like child's play. Dad thought it should have said in the instructions or on the box that it requires at least a Masters or PhD to play. I disagree, just need to know when you know and accept when you don't. Eventually, you'll get one that you know for sure, and it may be the winning move. 5

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