Wits and Wagers board game combines poker and trivia. It’s a great party game. Up to 21 people can play. Players are asked a series of seven questions. After each question, they guess the answer. Then the answers are placed on the board. Players make their wager on which answer they think is correct or the closet without going over. All answers are a numeric value. If you win the bet, then you win the payout listed on the board, and if it’s your answer your earn extra chips. After the seven rounds, the person or team with the most poker chip value wins the game.

Wits and Wagers is great fun and is a great game for non-gamers. Easy to learn but hard to stop from playing.

This week I was introduced to the board game A Game of Thornes. I’m not a big strategy board gamer. In fact, Risk is the most strategic board game I have ever played. I’m always willing to give games at least a try.

I knew the game might be complicated when my friend asked another friend to help him set up the board. I find setting up a Monopoly board a lot of work. Monopoly has nothing on A Game of Thornes. There are plenty of game pieces that have to be sorted, stacked, and shuffled. After a good ten minutes of set up time, it was time to begin the game. I think the explanation of how to play the game actually took longer than the game. Maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but rules took a while to go over and not everything was covered. It is especially hard to pay close attention with a one year old vying for your attention.

The game was a lot of fun. Once play began the rules, while many, are quite simple and straightforward to follow. Next time I will have more of a clue as to how to play.