Bezzerwizzer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bezzerwizzer
Game data
author Jesper Bülow
graphic Jesper Bülow
publishing company Bezzerwizzer ApS,
Mattel , Nordic Games
Publishing year 2007
Art Board game, knowledge game
Teammates 2 to 12
Duration 30 to 60 minutes
Age 14 years and older

Awards
  • Årets Spel 2009

Bezzerwizzer is a family game that was developed in 2007 by the Danish game designer Jesper Bülow and published by Mattel and in-house . It's a traditional knowledge game that builds on games like Trivial Pursuit or other question-and-answer games. Several editions have been published for the game.

Theme and equipment

The Bezzerwizzer game is a classic knowledge board game that can be played by individual players as well as by guessing teams. The aim of the game is accordingly to correctly answer as many questions as possible from different areas of knowledge and to get points in this way.

In addition to the instructions, the game consists of

  • a square game board,
  • 4 player boards.
  • 20 category stones,
  • 8 Bezzerwizzer stones and 4 ZWAP stones,
  • 4 pieces in four colors,
  • 250 double-sided question and answer cards with 20 questions each from different areas of knowledge,
  • Overview maps for the categories
  • a storage box and
  • a cloth bag.

Style of play

Before the game, the players are divided into two to four teams. Each team chooses a game color and receives a player board and a token in the chosen player color. The pieces are placed on the starting field of the game board. The question cards are placed in the display boxes together with a category overview. Each team also receives a ZWAP stone and two Bezzerwizzer stones. All category stones are placed in the cloth bag and mixed there.

At the beginning of the game, each team draws four category stones from the bag and places them on their own player board in any order. The subsequent distribution of points is based on the points on the player board, which range from 1 to 4 points. At the beginning the starting team receives a question of the category whose stone is on its field with a point; The questions are always read out by a player on the team whose turn comes after the active team. If the team answers the question correctly, it receives a point and moves the piece forward one space accordingly; for later questions there are points according to the field on the tableau. If the question is answered, regardless of whether it is correct or incorrect, the stone in question is turned over. The teams then continue to play clockwise and answer the questions asked of them. When all category stones are turned over, they are put back in the bag and each team draws four more stones, which they distribute on the board.

When it is your own team's turn, they can decide to use their ZWAP piece and use it to swap any two category pieces between the teams. It can swap its own category stone with an opposing team as well as swap stones between two opposing teams. A ZWAP piece may only be used once within the time a set of categories is being played. A Bezzerwizzer Stone can be used to challenge an opposing team. It can be played both before and after the question is posed to an opposing team. In this case, the challenged team answers the question first, then the challenging team gives an answer. If the challenged team's answer is correct, nothing happens but that the Bezzerwizzer stone has been used; if the challenged team's answer is wrong, but the challenger team's answer is correct, it receives up to three points depending on when it played the stone. If the challenger's answer is wrong, they lose one point.

The game ends when a team has reached the last space on the game board with the piece. The round continues until all players in that round have answered the same number of questions. If several players make it to the finish line in this round, the winner is determined by an additional question.

Expenses and reception

Bezzerwizzer was developed by the Danish game designer Jesper Bülow , who published it himself in 2007 at his publishing house Bezzerwizzer ApS and via the game and toy manufacturer Mattel . Accordingly, it first appeared in Danish, but was also published in Swedish, English, German and French in 2008, and in the following years also in Finnish, Greek, Norwegian and Icelandic.

In 2009 the game was awarded the Swedish Årets Spel game award as the best game for adults. Based on Bezzerwizzer, further editions appeared: Eine Bezzerwizzer Familien-Edition (2009), Bezzerwizzer Kompakt (2010) and Bezzerwizzer Deluxe (2012).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e Official rules of the game for Bezzerwizzer , Mattel 2007.
  2. ↑ Versions of Bezzerwizzer in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on May 2, 2020

Web links