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Brand | Mattel Games |
Genre | trivia |
Batteries Required? | No |
CPSIA Cautionary Statement | No Warning Applicable |
Item Weight | 2.5 Pounds |
About this item
- This is Bezzerwizzer
- 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
- The real trick is to win
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 10.38 x 2.25 x 10.38 inches |
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Item Weight | 2.5 pounds |
ASIN | B002MUALIC |
Item model number | R1886 |
Manufacturer recommended age | 10 - 15 years |
Best Sellers Rank | #290,720 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #9,481 in Board Games (Toys & Games) |
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes |
Manufacturer | Mattel |
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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!
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Customers like the ease of use, value, speed and the trivia of the board game. They mention that it's a really fun trivia game with some fun twists. They appreciate the speed of play and the fact that it can be played in under an hour. Customers also like the trivia. However, some customers have mixed opinions on quality, sturdiness, and delivery.
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Customers find the board game easy to use. They say it's a really fun trivia game with some fun twists. There's more strategy built into the game with the buzz and zwap tiles, which allow for more thought-provoking play. The game itself is fine and is easy to learn and understand. Some customers say the trivia ranges from really easy questions to very obscure, and that there's definitely a lot more strategy involved than other trivia games. Overall, customers are happy with the game's ease of use and recommend it to others.
"...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..." Read more
"...These are all fun twists on traditional trivia games like Trivia Pursuit where you are forced to confront more topics you don't know..." Read more
"...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...." Read more
"This trivia game is so much fun!" Read more
Customers are satisfied with the value of the board game. For example, they mention that it is an excellent value at Amazon's price and an excellent buy.
"...Bottom line: An excellent value at Amazon's price for the wild-minded, competitive, and ready to roll group...." Read more
"...game aren't overly elaborate, and that's part of what I imagine keeps the price down...." Read more
"...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...." Read more
"...It is cheaper than Trivial Pursuit and more fun...." Read more
Customers are happy with the speed of the game. They say it's fast paced, fun, and can be played in under an hour, even with 4 players/teams.
"My family and I LOVE this game! It is fast, fun, and easily inspires friendly competition...." Read more
"...replay-ability and unlike the other trivia games this one can be played in under an hour even with 4 players/teams...." Read more
"...If you pick a bad group of categories, the game is fast paced enough for you to catch up in the next round...." Read more
"This is not your ordinary trivia game. It's fast paced (thank goodness), fun, and definitely very competitive...." Read more
Customers like the trivia. They say it's great, perfect for any trivia buff, and has well-rounded questions for all players. The game has strategy, a bit of education, and requires guessing opponent.
"...It's a fun game and has well-rounded questions for all players." Read more
"Great game which has strategy, a bit of education, and requires guessing opponent knowledge...." Read more
"...You learn some interesting facts, too!" Read more
"perfect for any trivia buff! was a birthday gift and we played it for birthday and for thanksgiving. Great for groups!" Read more
Customers are impressed with the competitiveness of the board game. They say it is fast, fun, and easily inspires friendly competition.
"My family and I LOVE this game! It is fast, fun, and easily inspires friendly competition...." Read more
"...It's fast paced (thank goodness), fun, and definitely very competitive. I like that you can steal another opponents questions and get the points...." Read more
"...; and "second guessing" that can advance players and keep things competitive...." Read more
"...Like all games played at our house, they are very competitive" Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the board game. Some mention that the questions are diverse, ranging from very difficult to shockingly simple. The variety of categories make it more challenging and fun, and the question difficulty is suitable for adults. The game covers a wide range of topics, including hard, challenging, and easier ones. However, some say that the question are a bit difficult and obscure at times.
"...The questions are diverse, ranging from very difficult to shockingly simple - and you never know what you're going to get!..." Read more
"...genrally as "off the wall" as other trivia games, some of the questions are ridiculously simple; many questions are amazingly difficult, and there..." Read more
"...Second, there are 20 different categories, and you don't have to answer them all to win--each team draws four per round at random, so you never know..." Read more
"This 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..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the sturdiness of the board game. Some mention that it's well-made, while others say that it was all broken to pieces.
"...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..." Read more
"...Plastic tray inside has some damage. It's still playable but this appears to be a used product but was not sold as such." Read more
"...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...." Read more
"...that holds the cards and game pieces inside the game box was broken in many places...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the delivery of the board game. Some mention that the delivery was quick and in great shape, while others say that the packaging was poor.
"...Delivery was prompt and the game will be enjoyed by the recipient this Christmas." Read more
"...the game was fine and I would have given it 5 stars, but the packaging was poor and the advertisement stating it was factory packed could not have..." Read more
"This game arrived very quickly and is a lot of fun to play. I have played it with people of all ages and we all had a good time...." Read more
"...Delivery was quick and it arrived in great shape. Thank youBezzerwizzer" Read more
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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.
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.
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.