{"id":21884,"date":"2013-01-15T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=21884"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:35:34","slug":"melissas-game-night-kwizniac-trivia-countdown-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/melissas-game-night-kwizniac-trivia-countdown-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa’s Game Night: Kwizniac Trivia Countdown Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welcome to the second installment of “Melissa’s Game Night<\/a>,” the blog post series where I fill you in on the behind-the-scenes product testing I conduct on new uncommon games. Basically, I force all of my friends to play games with me, then I write about it. <\/p>\n

This time around, we played Kwizniac<\/a>, “The Trivia Countdown Game.” <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Kwizniac is the kind of game that is the perfect time-filler. As people trickled in for the game get-together (I have some punctual friends, and some not-so-punctual friends) I had the box sitting on top of my counter. I was whipping up some dinner for everyone–boiling pasta, and heating up canned pasta sauce. I know, I\u2019m a culinary genius–and people kept grabbing cards out of the deck, reading through them, chuckling, and then reading out the clues to me and the others while I \u201ccooked.\u201d This informal play was just as much fun as when I got the whole group to sit down with their dinners and we actually played the game for real. <\/p>\n

The way the game works is simple. There’s \u201ca set of 10 clues provided in decreasing order of difficulty, where each clue is easier to decipher than the previous clue in the sequence.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The scoring system is also easy to follow. If you guess the answer on the first clue that is read you get 10 points, and \u201cthe number of points a player receives for a correct answer decreases as he or she progresses through the sequence of clues. The player with the highest score wins the game.\u201d To be honest, though, I have never even paid attention to the score while playing the game \u2013 what\u2019s great about Kwizniac is that the score isn\u2019t really necessary or isn\u2019t even the most fun part of the game. It\u2019s highly interactive, and seems to spiral off into fun conversational tangents every time I play. It\u2019s the kind of thing that you can pick up and read through only one card and it still has that moment of competitive trivia fun, or play for an entire span of time. You can use it for a true game night with a bunch of friends, as a conversation starter among two friends or on a date, or as a fun moment of learning alone. (Yes I have done all 3, don\u2019t judge.)<\/p>\n

The variety of clues is also great. There were a bunch of clues about everyday objects and creatures that were great in the \u201cwow, I had no idea!\u201d kind of way (i.e. Did you know that giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any animal? Or that garlic belongs to the onion family?), and then clues that are a little harder to capture at first but become obvious as you go through. For example, for Barbie, the first clue is \u201cShe made her debut in 1959\u201d (no idea), the 5th clue is \u201cShe has over 40 pets, including a horse named Dancer\u201d (still fairly open), the 3rd is \u201cEvery second, two of her are sold somewhere in the world\u201d (getting warmer), the 2nd is \u201cHer boyfriend\u2019s name is Ken\u201d (got it!), and the last is \u201cIf she was a real person her measurements would be 36-18-38\u201d (yikes).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I love this deck. We had a ball at game night, and my copy of Kwizniac now lives next to my couch, where houseguests pick it up all the time and flip through it. It\u2019s a fun, easy piece to keep around \u2013 perfect for kids and adults alike. Kwizniac is destined to teach you something new!<\/p>\n

Thanks for joining me for Game Night. See you next time!
\nMelissa<\/p>\n

P.s. Our community moderator<\/a> just told me that she should have read through and memorized all of these before she tried out for Jeopardy!<\/a> recently. I agree.<\/p>\n

*Editor’s Note: The quiz game fun doesn’t have to come to an end after the first deck. Kwizniac 2nd Edition<\/a> is also available, so your friends can guess the answers to those countdown clues for many game nights to come! And, there’s a version for younger trivia fans, too: Kwizniac Kidz<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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