MATTER OF FACT Board Game

I love this game. I love playing it with my family. They have great questions like Do these Dogs weigh (more or less) than a Doberman Pinscher? or Popular comedies, did they star Bill Murray or Steve Martin? It's fun for everyone, even the youngest kids can play, even if they are randomly guessing they can win. It's a lot of fun, teaches you crap you never thought you needed to know. and everyone is able to play. It comes with 5 player tokens, but we had to add a barbie shoe, and a jack, for my family. Very fun game.

I got this game on the amazon.com website. It was delivered to me quickly and I've brought it to two of my game groups. It was a smash hit both times. The game is fun, moves quickly and is easy to learn. Here's how it works: The game should be played by up to three individuals. If there's four or more players, divide up into teams. Pick a game piece color and place it on the start space on the board. You will then get a card with seven choices on it. Most cards have a 50/50 choice option - like "Were these people Vice Presidents or Explorers?" The seven names or items are then read, one at a time. Teams confer and give their answer. A good idea is to have a team captain give the official response. The more answers you get right, the more spaces you move ahead on the board. Getting all seven right moves you ahead seven spaces, but beware. If you get less than three right, you will move BACK on the board. There is a tracker scale on the board. Any game piece can be used to keep track of scoring. If you or your team gets to the finish first, you win. However, all players/teams should get an equal amount of turns, especially if other teams are seven or less spaces from the finish. They should be allowed to try to create a tie. Some cards will have a question with three or four choices but most cards give you a 50/50 shot of two choices. IMPORTANT RULE - after hearing the question, the player/team can say PASS if they don't like it. If you pass, you MUST take the next card, you cannot pass more than one card per turn. Each player or team can pass a card a maximum of TWO times for the entire game. Passed cards go in the back of the box - the other team doesn't get them. There are 240 double-sided cards for a total of 480 questions. After using the green side, use the orange side. There is no timer, but if people are taking a real long time, you may want to use a one or two minute timer from another game to keep it moving. A fun game that's challenging and not as hard as Trivial Pursuit. I highly recommend this game for your trivia or game night.

This is a fun, laid back trivia game that can be both difficult and easy. Most of the cars have only 2 options to give an answer. For example: "Who starred in these films, George Clooney or Brad Pitt?". Because of this style of trivia, players who aren't really knowledgeable in many areas (such as younger people) can partake and basically guess their way across the board. What I don't like about the question cards are some of them are ridiculously easy and some of them are ridiculously hard. An easy card example: "Who makes these cars, Toyota or Chevy?". The ridiculously hard questions often have to do with unheard of novelists, playwrights or artists that most have never even heard of. I find that most of the questions are intelligent guesses. For example: "Do these cities have more or less people than the population of Rhode Island" or "Simon and Garfunkel song or so-and-so Novel" (All of these types of questions have very obvious answers, as you can tell the difference between the name of a song and the name of a novel). Anyway, fun game but like with most has some drawbacks. I would recommend it.

This has hours of entertainment for two or more. Great for shut ins. Especially 2020 and 2021 (quarantine time). I play this game with another shut in and we've only gone through 1/3 of one side in 3 weeks. It's patterned for this new generation - everything is multiple choice.

I really like this game. It is very simple to learn and a lot of fun. Basically, it is a "race" trivia game. You answer 7 trivia questions from a card and move ahead a certain number of spaces depending on how many you get right. If you get zero right answers, or just a couple of right answers, you have to move back some spaces. The first person to the end of the track wins. What sets this game apart from many other trivia games, in my opinion, is the types of questions it asks. They are creative and fun. For example, some questions are "Claim to Fame" and say something like, are the following people famous authors or opera singers? Others want to know something along the lines of which product was introduced first, and then gives a list of 7 pairs of products. Some questions turn out to be very easy, some are more challenging, but all are fun and interesting. A game with only 2 players lasts about 30-45 minutes, and 4 players takes an hour or maybe a little more (depending on how well everyone does!). The suggested age is 16 and up, and that seems about right to me, although a precocious younger child may be able to do well. If you like trivia games, I highly recommend buying Matter of Fact. I think you will love it.

My girlfriend and I love this game. It's quick and challenging and I love the format of the questions. You have a main question (e.g. "Do these cities have a warmer or cooler average temperature in July?") then a list of things, people or places. The number of items you get right on each card dictate how many spaces forward (or back!) you move. First one to the finish wins!