Before or After? - Trivia Game

Gave as a gift. Sounded like fun.

We changed the rules up a bit instead of rolling each time to pick the years, we rolled the first time and then it was the judges choice of the next years to make it harder for the players betting.

Played this with my adult children (ages 25-31) and we had a blast! It was a lot more fun than we thought it would be and looking forward to a few more rounds!

The before or after questions that are posed are a good variety. On the site, it says you don't need to know the answers. Okay. I've got that. The rules inside the box are confusing. Most especially, there is no answer key ! How can you properly keep score if you are only making guesses ?? THIS GAME SUCKS !!! I definitely would suggest that you should not buy this. You can't calculate who wins if you don't have the exact for real answers. Wrong advertising and misrepresentation.

"Before or After?" is a fun take on the trivia genre. Instead of knowing specific details about historical figures and events, players aim to guess when things happened, or more precisely, when one thing happened compared to another - before or after?The only game pieces used are cards. Each player gets a two-sided vote card with "before" on one side and "after" on the other. This card is used to cast the player's guess during play. The rest of the cards are the fact cards, each having 6 numbered events with the years listed in which they occurred. In each round one alternating player sits out and acts as the moderator. He or she will take a card and read one of the events, then take anther card and read a second event. You can play where the moderator picks the events, or allows the players to request a number 1-6 and then reads the corresponding event. Once two events are read, the players then vote whether the second one happened before or after the first. It sounds a little more complicated than it is, but it's very simple.If a player answers incorrectly, he or she is out of that round and scores no points. Players who answer correctly get a point, and can then choose to bank their points or keep going. If they keep going, a new fact is read and must be guessed compared to the last event read. As long as players answer correctly, they can keep adding points and continuing to play. If, however, a player gets an answer wrong he or she loses all of their points. Points are actually earned only when a player stops playing and banks their points.Typically you'll want to play as long as you have a decent idea when an event occurred or if you have either a very recent or very old event. But if you don't have a very good idea when one of the events happened, you'll likely want to stop and bank whatever points you've gained. You might, for example, get an event like "when was the first Youtube video uploaded?" That's obviously fairly modern. Or you might get "When was the Black Friday stock market crash that marked the beginning of the great depression?" That's pretty old, and most people have a general idea that it was in the 1920s. But then you get something less certain (to me at least) like "When was the first Starbuck store opened?" (1971). It's fun to keep gambling and building up points, and players will inevitably boom sometimes and bust others. The first player to get 30 points (or however many you choose to set for a victory) wins.This is a low key and easy to understand trivia game with a nifty twist. With 600 events that are randomly compared to one another, the replay value is very very high. It's also highly tweakable for folks who like to create customized rules. It's great for individuals or teams, and can be a short or long playing game depending upon scoring goals. About the only limitation for my family is that younger players are at a disadvantage (as with just about any trivia game that isn't limited to very recent events). Otherwise, this is very fun and highly replayable. Thumbs up!