Breaking Bread with Broken Game

We met up with our friend Spencer to see his new-ish living quarters. We headed out for pizza and played...

Geek Battle: The Game of Extreme Geekdom 3+ players
Liz got this for free from work. Some idiot opened it up and stole (or by her word "didn't replace") two of the player tokens and the 6-sided die. Stupid customers!

This is a trivia game, but with all very geeky questions. At the start of your turn, you roll the D6 and answer a question in 1 of 4 categories based on what color you landed on. If you get it right, you roll the D12 and move forward that amount. It's then the next players turn. There are 2 other special places. GB or Geek Battle spaces have you go head-to-head against another player or team of your choice. You mainly take turns listing things from a category like "Star Trek films" and the first person to answer wrong loses. There are also 6 black holes; When landed on, the player rolls the D6 and moves to the indicated black hole. The first player to get to the center space and win a Geek Battle wins the game.

I had a lot of high rolls and good answers. I won in about 4 or 5 turns. This is an okay-ish game. I wouldn't suggest anyone get it. The best part is the Geek Battle and there is very little of it. I would love it if the whole game was that. The movement is very odd, especially with that D12. I feel like they added it because D12s are geeky. The instructions could be a little bit more clear on what to do if you get a question right. It really just says you move the D12 spaces, but it doesn't tell you if you answer that question and continue until you get something wrong or if you stop there. It's a clunky game and pretty short. Usually, I say that being short makes the clunkiness more bearable, but for a trivia game to be this short, really just adds to the clunkiness.

Tally: 96/166  Bonus: 24/50