Wits & Wagers Board Game First Impressions
Wits & Wagers involves guessing & betting.
Lots of guessing.
Not a trivia buff? It doesn’t matter! Each player writes a guess to a question such as “In what year did the bikini swimsuit makes its first appearance?” or “How many feet wide is an NFL football field?” and places it face-up on the betting mat. Think you know the answer? Bet on your guess. Think you know who the experts are? Bet on their guess. The closest answer pays out according to the odds on the betting mat. Strike it big and you’ll be cheering like you just hit the jackpot!
Wits & Wagers is a trivia game that lets you bet on anyone’s answer. So you can win by making educated guesses, by playing the odds, or by knowing the interests of your friends. It can be taught in 2 minutes, played in 25 minutes, and accommodates up to 20 people in teams.
That’s the game right there in a nutshell. The only thing the blurb misses out on is the best bit for me.
You don’t have to be correct to win the round, you just have to have to be closest to the correct answer. However, you have to be under the limit set so go too high and your answer will not count.
This is great until you reveal your answer of ’60’ and you wrote 60.2 for some reason.
It’s a good laugh, a bit American in the questions. It does feel more like a Pastime than a game and it loses out to Concept in that area but it’s still good fun.
Wits & Wagers Update May 2018
There are plenty of quiz games around, but this is still one of the best. The fact you can play from 5-6 players up to a room full split into teams is really fun.
No other quiz-style games really stand out. They’re either too random, too boring or don’t have enough questions in the box.
Terra is a good example of a game that does this well. Plenty of questions each with different types of answers on it. You may not know how tall a certain monument is but maybe you know what country it’s in so you have a chance to get points.
Also, like Wits & Wagers, if you know someone who will know you can piggyback off their knowledge.
Mr Listers Quiz Shootout is a good example as it switches up the different style of game round to round and keeps it all fresh.
I’d like to see a nice either a UK edition or a less US-centric edition. Some of the questions were very US based which is fine, we can work with them. But as you can see from the image above for one question we had guesses of $60k to $2.2 million because we had no idea of the range of the question.
But we had fun guessing!
Jesta ThaRogue
