Wits & Wagers Family is a party-style trivia game that can be a great way to help students develop problem solving and estimation skills. The game includes 300 questions that all have a numerical solution. One player reads the question, and every player writes down a number guess on a small dry-erase board. After all guesses are made, the boards are lined up from lowest to highest, and players bet on any answer they think is closest to correct without going over. Regardless of your original guess, you can still win the round by picking the best answer. Players can choose to have no discussion until everyone makes a bet, but the most learning will come if players discuss how they came to an answer so students can listen and develop their own problem solving skills. Another approach is to have teams of players to be sure there is discussion. This is a great game that can be played with families, in the classroom, or even with teams of multiple children to encourage discussion, reinforce social skills, and help students improve their problem solving skills.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Social Awareness
• Multi-player activity with a clear 'winner' and 'loser'

Wits & Wagers Family brings history’s most award-winning party game to the entire family! Now, the parents are finally the underdogs! Do you know the average number of times a person blinks each day? Of course not – and you don’t need to! That’s the fun. No one knows the answer.

How to Play

A fun question is asked...Everyone writes down their guess.

Place your Meeples... Which guess is the closest? Feeling confident...Place a Meeple on your guess. Think your kids know better?...Place a Meeple on their guess.

No idea...Place a Meeple on any guess and hope to get lucky!