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cs771's Bezzerwizzer (Other)
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| [March 27, 2012 10:32:30 PM]
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My second playing session of Bezzerwizzer was less enjoyable. The game play was still dynamic and interesting but the random nature of the game came out. My team continually drew tiles that we had no knowledge about like Politics, Tradtion & Beliefs, Communities, and Design. We were able to Zwap one of the tiles for a tile we were more comfortable with, but we still continuously drew tiles that we had no knowledge of.
We were even more competitive in the second session than the first session. One of my strategies was to use the Bezzerwizzer tile a lot to try and steal questions from other teams. There is a risk/reward structure to the use of Bezzerwizzer tiles. If I use the tile and the team that initially had the question is wrong and I am also wrong, I go back a space. Also, if I was feeling especially confident about a certain category (such as Technology) I can use a Bezzerwizzer tile before the question has been read. If I am right and the initial team who had the question is wrong I get to go forward three spaces. This will allow you to continue to progress through the game if you are getting bad categories but are especially proficient with other categories.
I think this game wouldn’t necessarily work as a computer game but it could work as a mobile application. You could start a game with friends of yours and have it ask you questions and give your opponents the chance to steal the questions. It would be a turn based game so that you could answer questions when you had the option. Of course with any computer game or mobile game it would be very easy to cheat and would have to use the honor system.
There is also one thing I would like to change about the game. The board could be increased in size and the number of spaces increased. There are a few select circumstances where a team could win in a few turns. However, over all I was very pleased with the game and thought it was a refreshing alteration to the standard trivia game. It gave you options to answer questions about categories you had knowledge about and not just random questions about things you have no idea about. In Bezzerwizzer you are rewarded not just for your over-all knowledge but for strategy and trickery.
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| [March 27, 2012 10:13:54 PM]
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I found the game play very interesting and dynamic based on who you were playing with. Players with certain types of knowledge categories will play with different strategies than other players.
The game comes with 100 question cards that each have a question and answer from each category. Play starts with players from each team drawing 4 tiles from a bag. There are 20 tiles to start out with, each representing a category. The categories range from Architecture to History, Nature to TV & Radio, Humans to Music, etc etc.. The players will organize their four tiles in priority of how confident they are they will get them. The tiles represent which kind of question you will be asked when a card is drawn. A first priority tile answered correctly will let your game piece be moved forward by one spot. A second priority tile will yield two spaces, etc etc.
The game play is different from other trivia games because of the addition of "Bezzerwizzer" tiles and "Zwap" tiles. These allow you to incorporate strategy and trickery into the game. By using a Bezzerwizzer tile you can attempt to answer another team's question with them. If they are wrong and you are right, you move forward one space. You can use a Zwap tile to exchange one of your game category tiles with another team's. This can be useful if you want to trade your Design category with the other team's Technology.
The game keeps me interested because of the diversity of the questions and my capability to answer them. The game can be continually interesting because you can Zwap a category tile you don't have knowledge about for a tile you know more about. As well, because the game has 20 different categories you will get a wide range of questions. Because of this you can also learn a lot of information while playing the game.
In my first session of play I played with 5 of my friends. The play was fun and competitive. Because of me and my friends having similar knowledge categories we all desired the same tiles like Technology, Nature, and Science. We were continually competing for these tiles by "Zwapping" back and forth.
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cs771's Bezzerwizzer (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 27 March, 2012
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