20 questions
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| author | Scott A. Mednick , A. Robert Moog |
| publishing company | MB Games ( Hasbro ), University Games |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| Art | Board game, knowledge game |
| Teammates | 2 to 7 |
| Duration | approx. 30 to 60 minutes |
| Age | from 8 years |
20 Questions , also known as Twenty Questions , is a family and knowledge game that was published by MB Spiele in 1989 . The game was designed by Scott A. Mednick and A. Robert Moog , who developed it based on a popular party game. The game appeared internationally in several editions, including in Germany in the 1990s also under the name Querdenker . In addition, numerous additional packages of the questions for various subject areas have been published.
Theme and equipment
The game 20 Questions is a knowledge board game in which the players have to guess different people, places, things and years using up to 20 clues per term. The aim of the game is to answer as many questions as possible correctly and quickly and in this way to get your own "Philosopher's Stone" to its destination as quickly as possible.
In addition to the game instructions, the basic game consists of:
- a rectangular game board
- 6 pawns
- a card dispenser
- 396 question cards from the fields of person, place, thing and year
- 20 question chips
- a marker chip
Style of play
Before the game, the other players choose a color and are given the corresponding pawn, which is placed on the starting field. The card dispenser is placed next to the game board and filled with the cards face down. The red question chips also go into the card dispenser.
The starting player takes the top card from the card dispenser and introduces himself as the term to be searched for by naming whether it is a person, a thing, a place or a year and places the marker chip on the corresponding field on the Game schedule. The player on his left is now the first guesser and chooses a number from 1 to 20 and marks it on the game board with a question chip. The reader reads the corresponding answer out loud and the guesser can say which term he or she thinks could be meant. If he guesses incorrectly, it is the next player's turn and now also names a number (even if he thinks he knows the answer), an answer is read out and is allowed to guess. Some of the instructions on the cards are not answers, but instructions to the players that must be followed.
As soon as another player gives the correct answer, he has won this round. Then the card is evaluated, whereby the reader receives the number of given answers as points and the player who has guessed the term receives the remaining open answers up to 20; together they receive 20 points. Both players may now advance by the corresponding number of points on the game board. Then the player to the right of the previous reader takes on this role. If a player gets to a bonus field on the game board, he may play one card alone and choose up to 5 questions and then guess the answer. If he guesses the term after the first clue, he may move forward 10 spaces and for each additional clue the number of moves is reduced by two.
The winner of the game is the player who reaches or crosses the target field first.
Editions and extensions
The game 20 Questions appeared internationally in several editions. In 1993, a new version of the game was published in Germany with Querdenker , and in 2011 a new edition of the game appeared as Querdenker deluxe by University Games . In the Portuguese-speaking countries the game appeared under the name Perfil , in the Netherlands under Quizt't and in Norway under 20 spørsmål . There were also thematic versions and a version for children, which were only published in English-speaking countries.
In 1991 20 Questions was shortlisted for Game of the Year . In the aftermath it was described as “an appealing quiz game”, “because it requires a certain amount of knowledge from the other players without being intrusive. And if you don't know anything, you are still not stupid, as is sometimes the case with other quiz games, because you can still laugh heartily at some thought screws if you couldn't collect any points. "
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f Game instructions 20 questions for download
- ↑ a b versions of 20 Questions at boardgamegeek.com; accessed on December 29, 2016.
- ↑ 20 Questions on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV ; accessed on December 29, 2016.
Web links
- Game instructions 20 Questions for download
- 20 questions in the Luding games database
- 20 questions in the games database BoardGameGeek (English)