Trivia

Gambit 7 has been separated from Wits & Wagers based on game rule differences and at the request of the designer and publisher.

Trivia for People Who Don't Know Stuff!
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.

Wits & Wagers Game Show events are hosted by North Star Games at Origins and GenCon. These team events have gotten great buzz from Alan Moon, Tom Vasel, and hundreds of others.

This is a party game for 4 or more players. The person whose birthday it is fills out a special bio questionnaire. Teams move around the board performing silly tasks and answering silly questions to advance. The first team to reach the Birthday Cake space gets a chance to answer the bio questions. The team that answers the most questions correctly wins.

From the back of the box:

Who will stay cool and who will Crack!

Can you keep your cool under pressure? You are given a category and must blurt out answers that fit in only 10 seconds! Everyone else wagers on how many you can spit out... Beat the clock and their guesses to win Pressure points!

University Games has introduced a new genre of family gaming with BEAT THE EXPERTS. We picked the brains of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, medicine, business, art and science to make a revolutionary new game.

You might not be an astronaut - but you could be smarter than one! Go question for question with Buzz Aldrin to find out if your mental capacity is greater than someone who walked on the moon!

Each expert has answer a list of 10 questions that are directly - or sometimes loosely - based on their field of expertise. We asked Doctor Ruth to name the Roman goddess of love. We asked Gloria Steinem when the first brassiere was patented. We asked Danny Glover to name the author of The Color Purple. Now we are giving you the chance to find out if you have what it takes to Beat the Experts!

Whad'Ya Know?: The "Not Much" Knowledge Party Game

Humorous trivia game based on the public radio quiz show Whad'Ya Know?, hosted by Michael Feldman. Works somewhat like Apples to Apples in that a different person reads a card each round, which the other players respond to. The reader (who puts a Michael Feldman bobblehead in front of them) cannot score that round. The outrageous questions are multiple choice (A,B or C) and are based on general knowledge and opinion polls.

Gameplay
Players to either side of the reader are the 2 contestants; the rest are the audience. Audience members choose and reveal their answers and then try to convince both contestants to vote for their answer. (They'll get points for their persuasive powers, even if it's the wrong answer.) After discussion and debating, the contestants vote for their answers and scoring chips are awarded.

Scoring
Anyone with the right answer to the question gets a chip. If both contestants choose the correct answer, they and everyone else with the right answer get an extra bonus chip. If both contestants choose wrong, they get no chips, but any audience member who chose the same wrong answer as both contestants gets a chip for successfully influencing them. The bobblehead is passed to the left and the new reader asks the next question. Play proceeds until someone wins the required number of chips (10-16, depending on the number of players).