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Wer weiss mehr

and has the courage to say so?

Wer weiß mehr? is a new quiz game with a communicative element including a bidding variant. Players sort themselves into teams and bid on their ability to name a certain number of terms for a category by naming this number. The game comprises cards featuring three categories on each side, for instance Internet Games or Items in a Man’s Cosmetic Bag. The cards are stacked in the middle of the board.

The active team chooses a category and marks it by placing a white marker. Then the team names a number of terms, the other teams must overbid or pass. The highest bid is marked on the scale and the timer is set in relation to the value of the bid. The team naming the highest bid starts to call out terms. When the team manages to name the number of terms equal to the bid, the marker of the team moves forward one step on the score track. When the team fails to name the necessary number of terms all other teams move their marker one step forward, then the next team is the active team, the top card is removed and the team chooses a category for the now revealed card; thus the choices are reduced for each following team. When all six categories are marked all markers are removed and the next team has again the choice between six categories. The first team to reach a score of 8 wins the game.

Wer weiß mehr? offers a nice version of well-known standard mechanisms, the questions are more oriented towards entertainment, events and consumer information then to school knowledge.

Players: 4-15

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Carlo E. Lanzaveccia

Artist: Dennis Lohausen, Kurt Gall

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: W & L Spielspass 2011

Web: www.spielspass-verlag.de

Genre: Communicative quiz game

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Good mix of questions

Questions on current topics

Well-known, well-mixed mechanism

Good for large groups and parties

Compares to:

FortyTwo and other quiz games with bids on number of answers

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0