Bezzerwizzer

This game is not just trivia! Tactics and trickery also come into play as you try to make your way to the finish line. The game contains: 1 game board, 4 tile boards, 20 category tiles, 8 BEZZERWIZZER tiles (to steal questions), 4 ZWAP tiles to swap categories , 4 playing pieces, 1 box for question cards, 200 question cards with 4,000 questions, 1 bag and 1 set of rules.
Are you a BEZZERWIZZER? Already a hit European game and a 2009 nominee for the prestigious Norway Party Game of the Year award, Bezzerwizzer now comes to the US and reinvents the way trivia has been played! Gather up your friends and get ready for a fun game night of trivia, tactics, and trickery. TRIVIA – With 20 different categories to choose from, and no need to answer every category, you can specialize in what you know best! TACTICS – Steal questions from your opponents. Swap categories for what you know best. Then bet on your strengths by assigning points to the categories. TRICKERY – Trick your opponents into believing what they think are your strengths, and then use those tactics to get ahead! No need to be a trivia buff to have fun with this game – everyone can have a great time by simply tapping into what they know best!

Bezzerwizzer Reviews:

This is a really fun game. You can steal other people’s questions, so everyone is playing the entire time rather than having to wait for everyone else to answer their own questions. Gone are the days of wracking your brain for an answer while the phd next to you smirks about how HE knows it. If he knows it, he’ll answer before you can, and you’ll answer before he does when he gets a category he doesn’t know, like movies. There are a lot more categories than a game like trivia pursuit, and you don’t have to answer a question from every category to win. Plus, it’s a lot faster…we finished a game in about 45 minutes. It’s refreshing…can’t wait to bring it home for the holidays to play with the whole family.
OK Our family likes board games, checkers to trivia to strategy types. Seeing this on a recommendation list before Xmas (and checking reviews from Europe for that version) I thought it looked like fun. And it does not disappoint! With over 20 different categories, covering topics from Architecture, art, business, nature, sports,TV, food, etc, and chances to steal points by answering opponents questions this game goes way beyond the normal “Trivial Pursuit” type game. You win with points rather than just answer until you get it right. You actually get to decide which category is your best chance for the most points. But watch out because your opponents can steal your category too! With 4000 questions the game has great replay-ability and unlike the other trivia games this one can be played in under an hour even with 4 players/teams.
If you like trivia (all questions are US versions but do cover worldly things too) or even if you got turned off by all the different Trivia versions give this one a try, I think you will be surprised.