Winerd Boardgame

Winerd is sort of like a trivial pursuits game with wine questions being the topic at hand. You move once around a board - from START to END - moving one space at a time. Along the way you answer wine questions and taste wine!

The game has around 22 space that you move along. On each square you are given a trivia question based on wine. The questions range from insanely easy to really difficult. If you answer correctly you're allowed to move forward. Answer wrong, and you stay still.

Every few spaces there is a blind taste test square. This is where the real fun comes in. Before the game began, you tried out 3 different wines and tried to learn how they differed for each other. For our first game for example we chose three different Chenin Blancs all from California. When you hit a blind taste test square, one of your opponents pours you a random wine, out of sight. You have to taste it and try to figure out exactly which of the 3 wines it is. The closer you are, the more extra squares you can move.

Because you choose your own wines, you can make this part very easy or very hard. You can choose 3 wines that are vastly different from each other, or if you're more advanced, you can choose wines that are very similar. You can choose a different region each time you play, to expand your knowledge of wines.

We were impressed with how hard it was to narrow down the wine once you began playing - although again we were deliberately choosing wines that were extremely similar to each other.

The questions were mostly good, but several of them that we hit we had issues with. They seemed vague and the answers were not necessarily the best. Just going around the board once was sort of short, although since you move one square at a time, if you sat around and chatted and ate while you played it could stretch the game out a bit. It might have been better to have multiple laps around the board, or more squares, or maybe some other tasks (collect wedges? :) ) along the way.

Still we had a lot of fun with this, and again since you're choosing the wines to blind taste test, you can make it harder as you learn more about wine and try different types of wines each time you play.

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