The XBLA seems like it should be easier - I turned on the Xbox 360, navigated to the LIVE Arcade tab and launched the game. You then have to lay down a map, and pass out chips and pens. I actually had to get up off of my couch to get a key that I used to slice open the packaging. The box was wrapped in plastic (what, they don’t want people to steal this stuff in stores?), and everything from the betting chips to the question cards were also sealed up. The XBLA version only supports up to eight players.įirst time set up for the IRL version of Wits & Wagers was a bit of a pain.
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The Xbox LIVE Arcade version of the game requires that you know absolutely no one - it can be played online against humans you don’t have to see and/or smell, or offline with AI opponents (who I swear cheat … damn you, AI Dave!). It should also be noted that the game is suitable for playing around a large table, as well as bars on trivia nights, where you can drink. The physical board game version of Wits & Wagers requires at least four players, and can be played with as many as 20 people. How did they stack up against one another? Hit the jump for “ Wits & Wagers XBLA vs. Last night, I invited a few people over to play both the physical version of Wits & Wagers as well today’s XBLA release (thanks Topher, Grrlaction, and Kev). As the box says “Brainless Trivia, Shameless Fun!” Because all of the answers are numerical, actually being good at trivia really doesn’t factor in to how well you’ll do at Wits & Wagers. Not surprisingly, the core of the game has remained the same - players place handwritten guesses to questions on a mat, and then everyone bets on whose answer is the closest (without going over) to the actual answer. Today’s Xbox LIVE Arcade title, Wits & Wagers started life as one of these fabled “board games,” and the game’s publisher North Star Games sent me a copy to check it out.
Fact: before people sat in front of televisions and manipulated things on the screen with joysticks, people sometimes sat around a table and played something called “board games.” I know, it’s difficult to believe, but it’s true.
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