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Manufacturer: All Things Equal
Brand: All Things Equal, Inc.
List Price: $29.99
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A game of questionable advice and in this uproarious family party game, players dish out anonymous and crazy advice, and then try to guess which player said what. A card is drawn and everyone completes the sentence. Every time you correctly match a player to his or her advice, you move up the mountain on the board. It's a race and the first one to the top wins. Game includes a game board, advice cards, answer pads, 6 game pieces, pencils, 1 die and instructions. It takes approximately 60 minutes to play. For 3 to 6 players and ages 13 and up.


DESCRIPTION:

Manufacturer Maximum Age: 100
Amazon Minimum Age: 156
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Toy
Brand: All Things Equal, Inc.
EAN: 0635975444445
Feature: From the makers of loaded questions
Label: All Things Equal
Manufacturer: All Things Equal
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 156
Model: 4102561
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: All Things Equal
Release Date: 2008-03-14
Studio: All Things Equal


FEATURES:

• From the makers of loaded questions
• Guess who wrote which answer, advance one space for every correct answer
• Takes about an hour to play
• For 3 or more people
• Great party game



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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: If Laughter is Your Aim, "Words of Wiz Dumb" is Your Game!
Comment: "Words of Wiz Dumb" shares a similarity to "Things: Humor in a Box", "Wise and Otherwise" and to a lesser extent "Balderdash." Specifically, players are asked to submit answers in response to a card prompt. There are four characters representing four potential types of advice per card. The statement you read or answer-depending on whose turn it is-is determined by the guessing player's spot on the board (players' pawns move along color-coded spaces that correspond to an advice-giving character on the statement cards).

Each card features four statements. Advice givers include "Dear Gabby says..." (an advice columnist), "Mr. Know-it-All says..." (the "expert"), "Mama Says..." (a parental figure) and "Wise Man Says..." (a sage representing ancient wisdom). Each advice statement contains a blank. Players submit responses that complete a statement of advice. There are many laughs to follow upon reading and guessing who wrote what response. Unlike "Balderdash" or "Wise and Otherwise" there is NO right answer. Players ascend the mountain of knowledge illustrated on the game board according to how many statements they correctly match to the player who wrote them.

IMPRESSION

"Words of Wiz Dumb" sounded promising for its ability to deliver laughs; nevertheless, my initial concern was that the cartoon caricatures offering statements of advice would appear too cheesy to appeal to the five adults with whom I initially played the game. Notably, the game leaves out an important category of advice givers: friends and coworkers. On the other hand, it includes a parental figure, which may give the impression that the game is slanted slightly toward a teenage audience. To its credit, however, it didn't include "classmates" as an advice-giving category; clearly, there was no intent by the game's developer to put off adult participants.

PLAYING THE GAME

"Words of Wiz Dumb" delivered even more fun and laughter than expected. The advice has the potential to be as serious or hilarious as the player who completes it. Most players opted to complete the blank in the most humorous way possible. To add a hint of strategy, players also opted to throw off other players' guesses by filling in an answer they believed would be misattributed to someone else. Additionally, "Words of Wiz Dumb" lends itself well to theme-based answers and inside jokes, depending on how players fill in the blanks. Our game produced a number of laughs revolving around answers that involved players' occupations or interests.

Correctly matching answers to players is significantly more challenging than one may at first expect. The game is designed to take roughly 60 minutes, but with six players present and only an average of one correct match per turn, our ascent on the mountain of knowledge slowed to a crawl-despite the fact that our group consisted of folks who are well acquainted. When it became clear after the first hour that the game was not about to end before midnight, we agreed to begin rolling the included die. If a player matched one or more response correctly, he/she was permitted to roll the die ONCE and move forward a corresponding number of spaces in addition to the usual number of advances earned for correctly matching players' answers. This introduced an added element of luck into the game. Introducing "House Rules" also enabled us to fit the remainder of our responses onto our answer sheets before running out of space. More importantly, it permitted us to complete the game before using up the statement cards. (My main complaint in this regard is that the game should have included more scoring sheets and double the amount of statement cards.)

CONCLUSION

I would rate "Words of Wiz Dumb" as a five-star party game but for the fact it does not provide an alternate "fast play" set of rules AND ships with too few statement cards. Still, for game enthusiasts looking for laughs and a unique theme, "Words of Wiz Dumb" can't be beat. This one will definitely come out of the game closet again-but we'll know better than to get a late start!

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