Wits and Wagers

Some friends introduced me to a fun game while I was away visiting them this week. It's called Wits and Wagers, and initially I wasn't that keen to play. There are seven rounds, where a trivia question is posed and each player has to come up with a potential answer (always numeric). Where it becomes interesting, and what persuaded me to play (because it means what answer you give doesn't really matter) is that each player then gets to bet on which answer they think is correct. The answer that gets the most points is the one that's closest to correct without going over the correct number, which results in some tricky calculations in terms of which option is best to go for. The questions were generally about dates, percentages and other estimated values of things - it was very US-based, but still possible to make a guess, regardless of actual knowledge.

I came last in the first game and actually won the second game, but my proudest moment was when I guessed the actual correct answer to the first question of the second game.

Definitely one I'd like to play again, and an excellent time filler as one game only takes about 20 minutes, and it works best with six or seven players. It's fun and also really interesting as the answers to the questions are often very different to what you might expect.