Wizard - A Five Second Board Game Review

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Played this the other day for the first time in ages and was reminded of why we used to play this all the time. It's so good and easy to teach and pick up. Definitely a top 5 trick-taker (Sticheln is still my top, I think.)

The box leads me to believes that saltine crackers are inside.

I did not expect to see Wizard today, and my day is better for it.

Wizard is an all time great. They are some big wizard fans on my game group so it gets played with some regularity. Plus I have introduced it to my mom and her siblings and they all absolutely loved it (being old time card players, but less so players of modern boardgames). A friend has the bidding wheels for simultaneous bidding, but I haven't had the chance to try them out yet. Typically there are some new players when we play. Simultaneous bidding Sounds like a fun way to play once everyone knows the game though for sure.

I'd love to have a thread discussing card games played with a traditional deck (or slightly modified like Wizard is). I've been trying out some of David Parlett's games lately and would love to talk about them.

www.parlettgames.uk/oricards/

I love traditional/traditionalish card games. I've actually got a piece pending about Chimera and how it's probably the best card shedding game.

Not familiar with most of the games on that list! I'll have to do some research.

Legomancer wrote: Played this the other day for the first time in ages and was reminded of why we used to play this all the time. It's so good and easy to teach and pick up. Definitely a top 5 trick-taker (Sticheln is still my top, I think.)

Extremely need to try sticheln, wish i was able to make it up there sunday

ubarose wrote:

quozl wrote: I'd love to have a thread discussing card games played with a traditional deck (or slightly modified like Wizard is). I've been trying out some of David Parlett's games lately and would love to talk about them.

www.parlettgames.uk/oricards/

You should click the “new topic” button and start the thread.

Would love to review some classic card games from the viewpoint of a hobbyist as well, if there is interest/I get permission, I’m always sad to see them arbitrarily sidelined as while many of them are just ok plenty are quite good and worthy of the same limelight as the best hobby games

+1 to a card games thread! if quozl doesn't create one, or wants to focus purely on that set of games, I will.
Typically I use a Rage deck to replicate many of these games, which reminds me that I haven't tried Wizard and must do that.
Stichelin is great.

Wizard is such a simple yet terribly cutthroat game. My only complaint with it is that it sometimes overstays its welcome by a few rounds with some groups.

And +1 to more traditional card game reviews (and their derivatives, like Wizard).

Damn you, I've just gone and ordered yet another game!

Quick question though: it seems that the base unit of scoring is 10 points. (20 points for a correct prediction + 10 per trick, or -10 per inaccurate bid). So why isn't it simply 1 point? Or should I be asking this question in the QE thread ?

Same difference, I've played with some people that did 1s and some people that did 10s.