This Wednesday: Wits & Wagers abets XBLA lineup

23 Comments by Ludwig Kietzmann May 5th 2008 5:55PM
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Casual

This Wednesday's Xbox Live Arcade addition is "trivia party game," Wits & Wagers. That's what it says in the headline. Not conveyed in the bold line of text is that the game offers 700 different questions -- none of which you necessarily need to know the answers to. You see, the trick is to place bets on the answers which you think are "closest to the truth." There's also "dancing characters and upbeat music" to look forward to, so that's nice.

Wits & Wagers (only available in the US, UK and Canada) supports 4-player couch play, 2-6 players online, as well as those wacky camera and big button peripherals you have hooked up to your Xbox 360. But how much is it?

$1,000,000
239 Wii Points
13 pieces of eight
800 MS Points
The Truth

Place your bets on the one you think is closest to the truth.

Tags: Wits-and-wagers, XBLA, XBLAWednesday, Xbox-Live, Xbox-Live-Arcade

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Daniel: May 5th 2008; 6:09PM

Hate to point it out, but this seems to be a blatant copy of a TV game-show called Duel. Look it up, it's actually quite entertaining.

DomCrap: May 6th 2008; 10:46AM

Daniel, the Wits & Wagers board game came out before the television game show called Duel. And I think Duel is different enough from Wits & Wagers that it does not break any of our patents.

Dominic Crapuchettes
Designer of Wits & Wagers
www.NorthStarGames.com

colin: May 5th 2008; 6:10PM

oh, i get it ... its a riddle.

DangerMouse: May 5th 2008; 6:20PM

* $1,000,000 - lol, i don't think so.
* 239 Wii Points - Again, doubtful. I think you overestimate the Wii's graphical power.
* 13 pieces of eight - I are confused.
* 800 MS Points - For this POS, that price can't be right, either.
* The Truth - FFS, JUST GIVE ME THE ANSWER!@$#

Eggy: May 5th 2008; 6:46PM

13 pieces of eight is a Pirates of the Caribbean reference (3rd movie if I remember correctly).

Eggy: May 5th 2008; 6:48PM

Uh nvm, that is supposed to be 9 pieces of 8.

Lone Starr: May 5th 2008; 6:30PM

So I can watch a guy play with his hairy balls AND play this game at the same time?

I'm sold.

Rask: May 5th 2008; 6:56PM

Hmm.. Get more use out of my big button controllers???

I might have to investigate this title.

h2c: May 5th 2008; 6:59PM

Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Wits & Wagers...never thought XBLA could be used so well for board games.

One might even say it is a paradigm shift for video games. ;)

Tiptup300: May 5th 2008; 7:04PM

Shovelware, seriously, these people will be in trouble when the superior FREE xna games are released.

Demento: May 6th 2008; 1:03PM

XNA games are not going to be free, Microsoft will be selling the best games that are voted by the XNA creators club and giving a portion to the creator.

Tiptup300: May 6th 2008; 8:43PM

Um, no. It will be totally free. Don't comment unless you know what your talking about. Microsoft said they may have a system for people to have the ability to sell xna games, as of current there is no legal method.

Learn before preaching.

WhatIsThatThing: May 5th 2008; 7:27PM

Of course the answer is the one closest to "The Truth." That's really clever! But I wouldn't expect anything less from Ludwig.

Markez (MKWii 4339-2878-5120): May 5th 2008; 9:54PM

It'd be neato to see a decently rated game come out for XBLA, but I haven't seen anything terribly worthy of picking up as of late.

I could have some fun with folks over if this is decent.

MattLoter: May 5th 2008; 10:57PM

The boardgame version is actually a lot of fun. I'm not at all sold on it's value as a digital property though. I can't imagine it being much fun when played online.

Joe Smith: May 5th 2008; 11:32PM

I have the board game this is based on. It's a lot of funa round a table. Not sure how well it will translate to the console.

Joe Smith: May 5th 2008; 11:34PM

Oh -- and TipTup300, if you really think the XNA games are going to be anything but a huge pile of crap, I have a bridge to sell you.

Mr.ESC: May 6th 2008; 12:15AM

Isn't Bionic Commando going to be released in the xlive the exact same day?

Ibere: May 6th 2008; 8:42AM

This should be tagged as shovelware.

ScottG13: May 6th 2008; 9:05AM

Yuck. Where is the fun stuff like Castle Crashers and Bionic Commando? Heck, even Undertow was better than this.

rockintom: May 6th 2008; 10:17AM

...700 questions? Wow, that sounds like it might last a few games.

DomCrap: May 6th 2008; 11:04AM

It sounds like people already know that Wits & Wagers was originally a board game. It went nationwide at Target in 2007 and has won more industry awards than any other party game in history. This is why Wits & Wagers is coming out on the Xbox. I have played the Xbox version 25+ times and I think it translated pretty well (except perhaps in single player mode).

A preliminary contract has also been signed to turn Wits & Wagers into a TV game show.

To learn more about the Xbox rendition, go to www.HiddenPath.com.
To learn more about the original board game, go to www.NorthStarGames.com.

Cheers,
Dominic Crapuchettes
Designer of Wits & Wagers
www.NorthStarGames.com

thebeast: May 7th 2008; 2:46AM

The board game is crazy fun. Hope this translates well since I am gonna drop $10 bucks on it. If it is close to as good as the board game, it will be a nice addition to the collection.

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