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Wits & Wagers Party

Game ID: GID0391043
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Year
2012
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Wits & Wagers Wits & Wagers Family Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas, Baby!
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Description

Wits & Wagers Party, a simplified version of the most award-winning party game in history, comes with 250 of the best questions from the out-of-print Wits & Wagers: Expansion Pack 1. These questions were chosen because they are lighter and more fun than the questions from the original Wits & Wagers, making this the best edition to play with your non-gamer friends and family. The poker chips in this edition are twice as heavy and thick as those from the original W&W.

How to Play
1) Someone reads a question.
2) Everyone writes down a guess.
3) The guesses are placed face up on the table and ordered smallest to largest.
4) Players place their Betting Tokens on the guess they think is closest to the right answer.

Players score one poker chip for a correct bet or for having the closest guess. On the seventh and final question, players can bet their poker chips. The player with the most poker chips after this question wins.

Description

Wits & Wagers Party, a simplified version of the most award-winning party game in history, comes with 250 of the best questions from the out-of-print Wits & Wagers: Expansion Pack 1. These questions were chosen because they are lighter and more fun than the questions from the original Wits & Wagers, making this the best edition to play with your non-gamer friends and family. The poker chips in this edition are twice as heavy and thick as those from the original W&W.

How to Play
1) Someone reads a question.
2) Everyone writes down a guess.
3) The guesses are placed face up on the table and ordered smallest to largest.
4) Players place their Betting Tokens on the guess they think is closest to the right answer.

Players score one poker chip for a correct bet or for having the closest guess. On the seventh and final question, players can bet their poker chips. The player with the most poker chips after this question wins.

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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Flows faster
  • Quicker to play
  • Easier to play
Cons
  • Less appeal for gamblers
  • No catch-up mechanic for those who keep screwing up
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Closest Answer Wins — The core concept remains: players write down answers to obscure questions, and the person closest to the correct answer without going over wins.
  • Limited Bidding Rounds — Players are only allowed to bid with their two main chips until the last round.
  • Simplified Betting — Players only have two chips to bid with, and there are no odds (e.g., two-to-one, three-to-one).
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Quotes (from this video)
  • If you're judging this group and you're on the sheepdog and you're digging through all that fur and you only see one eye then you've got the wrong end
  • Ugly on a moose have you ever heard that
  • the investigators are dogs and you're investigating like evil cats and everything like that
  • this game is a brain burner
  • it really is and it's very mathy
  • it was surprisingly faithful to the game in how you play it
  • we were debating like would it be better to put down this card and take a hit to our water if it meant getting some money back for it
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