Before it was released for the Xbox Live Arcade earlier today, Wits & Wagers was a fun and successful board game.   Imagine a game like Trivial Pursuit, where you might get a question like "What was Michael Jordan's average number of points scored per game over the course of his career?".   On the surface, the question seems simple enough.  But what makes Wits & Wagers different is that not only are you trying to get the question right (or as close to right as you can), you're also placing bets on which player came closest to the right answer.  

And that betting can really make things interesting.  If you've got a friend that's a die-hard sports addict, you can bet on them.  But if you're that sports addict, and you know people will be betting on you, you can always throw the question.  The game offers lots of possibilities, and is a ton of fun when you're playing against other people you know.  It also makes a great icebreaker and lets you get to know others very, very quickly.

Wits & Wagers earned a Party Game of the Year award and earned quite a few accolades before it hit the Xbox 360.  And now, we're offering you a chance to check out this fun and enjoyable board game that led to today's XBLA release.  And to sweeten the deal, we're giving away TWO copies of the game, absolutely free.

Here's how you enter.  Leave a comment on this post, talking about some of your favorite memories playing a board game. On Wednesday, May 14th at 5:00pm Pacific, we'll randomly draw two entries from the list of comments and award them a brand new copy of Wits & Wagers, absolutely free.  You must be in the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) in order to enter.  Sorry, international folks, but it's a legal thing.  And make sure you read our contest rules before posting.  We'd hate for you to lose a chance to win a brand new board game.  

Good luck! 

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BrotherJohn said:

Probably the best memory I have of playing a board game was with Balderdash. You had to put your initials on your answer sheet. The guy reading the answers to the question would always laugh everytime he saw a BS answer signed with the initials BS.

May 07, 2008

AstYak said:

I've got to say that playing Monopoly during a power outage with a 20 sided die was the most fun. Made things move much quicker.

May 07, 2008

One Crazy Idiot said:

My favorite memory is playing the Simpsons version of Sorry with my two younger sons. They really love that version because of the characters and get into the game.

May 07, 2008

TyGuy22 said:

One of my favorite memories of playing board games is while playing Trivia Pursuit. A friend got a question about octopusses and mistakenly answered testicles when everyone assumed he meant tenticles. Well the joke was on us because testicles was the correct answer. We all laughed endlessly and still will refer to getting "kicked in the tenticles" or the likes as an inside joke. Good times.

May 08, 2008

One Thousandth Member said:

One of my favorite memories was playing battleships with my cousins and the game would always end up one of us being forced by our parents to pick up all the pieces because somebody got mad and flipped the board.

May 08, 2008

SEANX0R said:

My best memory from a board game is from playing Diplomacy. Diplomacy is a bit like risk, minus the dice rolls, the only way to win is to by making deals with other people. I formed a four person alliance and one at a time back stabbed my partners. After we offed the first person, I made plans to take out the next one. I straight up lied to the person, convinced him to attack another player, and while he did that I attacked his defenseless country, wiping him out in one turn. He didn't talk to me for like two weeks.

May 11, 2008

Carlito33 said:

So many great memories one that stands out has to be playing a 12 hour game of Monopoly with 6 friends. Watching years of friendship slowly fade away as trust was lost, and pride was forgotten. When it got to the point where someone wasn't able to pay the rent, virtual possessions came into play like titles in N64 wrestling games. There were no winners that day, sure someone was victorious, but seeing how everyone turned on eachother and phone calls were ignored for weeks, led me to the belief that Monopoly is not a board game, but one of the devils most sinister creations, coming in second only to the internet.

May 11, 2008

DancnDude said:

I love board games! One of my favorite memories is playing a board game called Nightmare with my sister and neighborhood friends when we were younger. It was a VCR game with a creepy guy that came on the screen and talked to the players (and called everybody maggots ). You got the try and scare people throughout the course of the game and try to beat the timeclock that was counting down on the screen or nobody won. It was so much fun!

May 12, 2008

RAVEN said:

Me and my wife love this game. would like to have it on the xbox360.

May 13, 2008

Biohazard92 said:

Playing Pictionary in college with my fellow fraternity members. Due to a disagreement over what a "tumbleweed" blowing through an Old West town looks like, my wife still won't play with me! I've mellowed since then.

May 14, 2008

SKirkham1967A said:

Scrabble always intrigued my mind. I would love to see Scrabble come to the 360...anyway, I remember holding the q and z for a long time, and finally getting to play when my opponent made the classic mistake of leaving this open: TIPLE WORD SCORE (Blank), next letter to the right was a U, then an I after that, then a blank. Well, I was loosing by 30 points. Well, low and behold, stick the Q and Z right there at the beginning and the end, and voila: 64 points racked up in one play! Yeehaa, for the win by 34 points! I QUIZzed my opponent as to whether he knew that I had them and whether he was paying attention that UI was indeed a phiony word and that I was not going to challenge, him, because i was indeed going for the win. Anyway, I hope I get my name drawn for one of the board games. That would be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

May 14, 2008

e house said:

Scrabble. Just last weekend i beat my mother-in-law for the first time. ever. she's a super-sweet lady, so there was no grudge there . . . but it still felt pretty good. oh . . . i also have memories of NEVER finishing a game of Monopoly. Is that odd?

May 14, 2008

Cut La Rock said:

Chutes and Ladders yo! Why? Because what more accurate representation of life is there? For every ladder you climb, there is a chute waiting, ready to beat you back down.

May 14, 2008

Sboyle1 said:

Probably the best board game moment I had was trying to figure out the damn rules for the Lost board game that Cardinal put out a year or so ago, love the show and was pumped when I got it as a gift and since it was an odd hybrid of a RPG and Risk esque conquest game I was double excited but it was put together so poorly and so confusing it was almost unplayable, finally when some buddies and I developed our own rule set the game took off and now we play it ever so often with new locations and characters added as the show evolves and we just have a rocking time playing hate on your neighbor.

May 14, 2008