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Wits & Wagers

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Game Info

Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios

Developer: Hidden Path Entertainment

Genre(s): Trivia

Players: 6

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: May 7, 2008

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] Wits & Wagers is a trivia party game where you don't need the right answers to win. For each question, bet on the answer you think is closest to the truth, whether or not that answer is your own. Use your knowledge of trivia, your intuition, and the odds to help decide where to bet. Seven rounds of questions - plus dancing characters and upbeat music - keep a fifteen-minute game lively for family and friends, local or online. Wits & Wagers includes 700 unique and fun questions for up to 25 hours of exciting play. The game supports one to four players at one console, or two to six players online. Invite your friends over to your house, or invite your friends online. Wits & Wagers supports both the Xbox Live Vision Camera and the Big Button Pad controller. [Hidden Path]

Cheat Codes & Hints: Cheat Code Central

Also On The Web: Official Website

What The Critics Said

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Official Xbox Magazine

A genius quiz-show game that ranks right up there with classics like "You Don't Know Jack." [Apr 2008, p.68]

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

One of the best family games out there. [June 2008, p.78]

Team Xbox

It's actually a pretty fun experience...IF you’re playing with a small group of close friends. Outside of this specific situation, though, the experience loses a lot of its initial interest.

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Games Radar (in-house)

Put this one squarely in the party game camp, but it’s a welcome spin on the quiz genre.

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X360 Magazine UK

If the answer to "who considers themselves up for a quiz?" is you, check this out. [Issue#34, p.116]

1UP

I would've liked to have seen more pizzazz and personality from the actual gameplay and questions (instead of just the silly avatars), and the game flow could've been streamlined considerably (I don't need between-round updates on the betting tendencies of A.I. opponents), but Wits & Wagers is a loose and enjoyable experience that fills a necessary gap on Xbox Live Arcade without significant monetary -- or mental -- investment.

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IGN

If you like numbers – dates, weights, estimates, measures, etc. – then Wits & Wagers may be right up your alley. But as an overall trivia experience, it wears out its welcome fairly quickly.

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Da Gameboyz

At the end of the day Wits and Wagers is nice start for trivia games on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, but there is definitely room for improvement.

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GamePro

The games biggest offender is the questions themselves, there's no rhyme or reason to any of them.

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Console Monster

Ultimately the game dies due to the problems with the multiplayer, and so here lies the paradox: it would be great to see more people playing this online, but online is so crippled it doesn't make buying it worth while. Go figure.

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Planet Xbox 360

Half the fun of a trivia game is that warm glow of superiority when you know something your friends do not. Thanks to the random-fact, numerical nature of the questions, that feeling of 'knowing' the answer does not happen often enough to warrant the, 800 Microsoft Points, price tag.

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GameSpot

The XBLA version of Wits & Wagers is cheaper than the board game but not nearly as easy to recommend.

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Eurogamer

When you've got a quiz where players don't even need to understand the question to win, you've got a quiz that doesn't really work all that well.

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Worth Playing

The entire Wits & Wagers experience tries too hard and fails at nearly every turn.

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Xbox World 360 Magazine UK

Some board games translate well. This doesn't. [Aug 2008, p.99]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

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