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(search on Board Game Geek) 
- Replay Value (1-10): 9
- Fun Factor (1-10): 9
- Worth Buying (1-10): 9
A trivia game where it's not always the best idea to answer the question
correctly. Each round, a trivia question is read, and each player is
given a card which has an appoximately 1 in 6 chance of telling that player
that they are an idiot. All players secretly write their answer down,
and the correct answer is read. Then, all players who got the correct
answer reveal their "idiot" cards -- if they're an idiot, they get no
points; if they aren't, they get 2 points. Then follows a round of
"accusation" -- each player, may accuse up to one other player of being
an idiot. Then all idiot cards are revealed and more points are
scored. 3 points for idiots that managed to avoid getting accused,
2 points for players who successfully accused an idiot, and a 1-point
"insult" swing for wrongful accusations (the accuser loses a point,
the accusee gains one).
Strategy-wise, at first it seems clear that you should answer questions
correctly if you're not an idiot, and not to screw up too egregiously if
you are. And maybe that's how it was designed to be played originally, but
players will soon realize more subtleties -- sometimes, if you're not
and idiot, it pays off to act like an idiot if you can harvest enough
wrongful accusations, for example. There's even some strategy in
choosing the trivia questions -- a easy question that everyone knows
is just as playable as a hard question that no one knows.
This is definitely one of the better trivia games to come out. Not so
much because of the originality of the concept, but because so many of
the components are intelligently designed -- the board contains scoring
rules, each player gets three pawns (one for scoring, one for accusations,
and one to remind everybody which color you are, which is useful for the
accusation round), and there are accusation "zones" on the board.
(I think, overall, we are seeing a trend where American party games are
actually being designed by people who are Euro-game players, and the
sensibilities of playtesting, game mechanics, and player interface
are making it in, turning a normal game into a great one.)
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