Simpson's Losers Take All Board Game

by The Simpsons

Product Features

• Very fun family game - great condition!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• ASIN: B00005LBAP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,201 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Product Description

Product Description

Losers of the world, unite! In the Simpson's Loser Takes All Game, players travel around the board and ask themselves some of life's most important questions. "Can I flip my eyelids up?" "Have I ever photocopied a body part?" Here's the catch: another player has to predict what your answer will be. If your answers are different, you lose a Character card. And in this game, that's a good thing. If the two answers match, the other player gets to lose a Character card. The player with the least amount of points accumulated from Junk Food Tokens, Fake Money, and Character cards, is the loser--and wins the game. Homer would be so proud!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this game!!, January 2, 2002

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L. Graham "speedelf" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Simpson's Losers Take All Board Game (Toy)

This is the worst game ever! I definately felt like I was in the episode where Krusty is selling anything and everything with his name on it just to make money. First of all, this game has nothing to do with the simpsons, and the rules aren't really that clear. At one point in the directions it states that you may just wanna make up your own rules...I tried to play the game with my boyfriend and his roommate. We played for about 10 minutes, then the gameboard and all the pieces were thrown onto the floor and i just read them the questions from the cards (which dont have anything to do with the simpsons) while we watched The Tick. The questions are like "What is my favorite bean?" and "Have I ever been to Europe?". [It's terrible]. Do not buy this game.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good game, low on Simpsons content, January 29, 2002

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P. A. Cook (USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Simpson's Losers Take All Board Game (Toy)

I got this game as a Christmas gift, from friends who know how I enjoy the show. In true Simpsons self deprecating style, the box has a generic Krusty "I heartily endorse this game" cartoon, as well as a "don't be brainwashed by corporate propaganda" warning from Lisa. Unfortunately this game could have come right out of a Krusty catalogue: it's a generic product with a Simpsons gloss.

The game has little to do with the Simpsons. OK, the game pieces are Simpsons characters, and the toy money has Homer's head in place of George Washington. But the association with the show is superficial.

The aim of the game is to lose all your money and junk food tokens. You do this by taking turns with a spinner and wandering around the board trying to land on squares that will unload your food or money onto another player.

Sometimes you get to take questions, in this part of the game you read a question from a card and write down an answer. You then nominate another player to guess the answer. Some questions are goofy, like "What is the opposite of hamburger?". Others are personal, like "Do I ask for directions when I'm lost?" or "have I ever worked on a farm?". The questions mostly take an irreverant tone ("Would I ever try to make one of the Queen's guards laugh?"), but there is nothing offensive. There's not too much American-only content, most the questions aren't specific to the US, and some that are, such as "Do I know how a bill is passed through Congress?" (yes, actually) can easily be altered to fit any nationality.

By answering questions correctly, players get to turn over one of their five character cards (if they guess wrong the questioned player turns over his card). When a player gets all five, the game ends and the player with the least assets wins.

In playing the game, I found the lack of rules (you can start anywhere on the board and move pretty much anywhere) to be a minus point. As in society, anarchy equals less freedom, not more. The game lacks direction and people have too many choices -- more like chess than a fast family game.

After a while we ditched the game and just read questions off the cards. Due to the lack of rules, shy players can easily avoid the question squares (though they might get questions from the spinner) so the game itself falls down as a "getting to know you" tool too.

Overall I was quite disappointed. I was looking forward to a game for Simpsons enthusiasts. Instead, I found a game where knowledge of the show is of no benefit at all. You don't even learn anything about the Simpsons, really.

And if I may, I'd like to take issue with the idea that Homer is a loser. OK, he's a bit of a loser, but he has provided for his family for more than ten years, and resisted the advances of both Beverly D'Angelo and Michelle Pfeiffer. How many men can say that?

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad game, October 5, 2004

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M. Hashemi - See all my reviews
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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Simpson's Losers Take All Board Game (Toy)

My girlfriend and I played this game and found that, though it has nothing to do with the Simpsons, that it isn't half bad. I agree with other reviewers that the question cards are the most interesting part of the game (how did she know I don't like Pork Rinds?), but I we stuck with the whole thing because we're competative and wanted to see who'd win.