Yesterday I played Bezzerwizzer for the first time. It is a boardgame I got for my birthday (Thanks again!). The game is a bit like Trivial Pursuit, but with more categories (20) and extra rules.

Most important of all: Every team (can be only one player) drags a category from a bag and determines a value for the category. So every team has to decide what its favourite topics are. the higher the value, the more points the team gets for the correct answer. But be aware: The other teams can swap categories and so if you have your favourite category on a high value, you might get another category you don’t like on the same position.

There is also a “Bezzerwizzer-Chip” each team can use twice a round to challenge other teams in a category. If the callenged team doesn’t know the correct answer to a question the contending challenging team can earn extra points (or lose point, if it doesn’t know the answer either).

All in all the game is fun, though not as much fun as I thought first. But I think the fun raises, if the teams are more different in their knowledge than they were yesterday, because the challenges and swaps are more interesting then.