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I almost didn't buy this game because of the negative reviews, but I'm glad I did. This was a Christmas gift for my mother, who loves trivia, and the family played it a few times Christmas night. Could we answer all the questions? No, but had we been able to I think we would have been disappointed. I have to wonder if those who didn't like the game were individuals who are used to playing games like Trivial Pursuit and getting the majority of the questions correct, and therefore were disappointed when they couldn't do so with Wit's End. The board is not confusing, as stated in other reviews. With each roll of the die you can move in one of two directions, landing on either a question type or roll again. As long as you answer correctly, you continue your turn. These are pretty basic concepts for this type of game. Rather than collecting pieces of pie, you advance inward on the board, trying to get to the center, by answering a question correctly after you land on one of the squares where two levels connect. The questions are challenging—yeah, in some cases VERY challenging—but even when you get the answer wrong you feel like you've learned something, whereas with other games you either know (or care) about the topic or don't. After each player made an attempt at his or her question, we'd then allow everyone else at the table to take a stab at it, just to see if any of us would have gotten it correct. The different questions on each card are not categories or subjects (e.g. entertainment, history, sports), but instead are different formats of questions, with the subjects being totally random. "Teasers" are fun rhyming riddles, "Odd1Out" and "Sequence" require you to select the one answer of the four that doesn't belong or put three items in order, respectively. "Wildcards" can be of any format, but we found the vast majority of the questions we had were to decide whether each of two unrelated statements is true or false. In fact, if I were to have one criticism of Wit's End it would be that there wasn't enough variety in the "Wildcard" space, but that could have been the luck of the draw or our perception rather than an actual problem with the game. If you're looking to show off how brilliant you are at trivia, Wit's End may bruise your ego a bit. If you like a challenge, though, and have others of a similar mind to play against, this game can be a lot of fun.