Customer Reviews

Smarty Pants: Trivia for Everyone

5 star:		(33)
4 star:		(22)
3 star:		(15)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Terribly fun trivia game for all ages - literally. Up to four people can play & the questions are actually adjusted to meet the participant's age levels! Sweet. The topics are well chosen, the questions are varied, the Wii pointer works dead on the money. You buzz in by snapping the wiimote backward, feels rewarding.
This is a great trivia game for friends or for family gatherings around the holidays... not too hard to include the kids and not easy for adults. It's bright and friendly and very inviting to both gamers and non-gamers. Feels like everyone playing a really fun board game, except it's much more fun.

We brought Smarty Pants to Christmas dinner, and the wii generation was playing this game. The elders and non-gamers could see and hear the game from the side and started to pay attention and join in. Soon thereafter, our parents were playing a round themselves! While "competitive," the entire family started to help all four players, making for great memories and laughs. It is an easy platform for fun and icebreakers at parties. The game is most fun if there is a group of people. I could not imagine it being fun with just two people.

The drawback to the game is that we did see some recycled questions within the two games played. And in some instances, the questions didn't make sense though age appropriate. However, everyone started jumping in to eliminate the wrong answers. Now who's got the quickest thumb to buzz? A bunch of laughs within itself.

This game is great! Anyone can play since you enter your age in order to receive age-appropriate questions. Great for the whole family and so much fun! Highly recommended!

We absolutely love playing this game! Family game night has become a Smarty Pants night...the board games are growing dust.

This is a very fun game because each player enters their age so I can play with my all of my kids at one time and no one has an advantage. Not to mention the kids love the silly things you have to do like tug of war and spinning of the wheel

I would recommend this to anyone...its also quite a bit of fun with friends over and a few glass of wine :)

If you own a Wii you should pick this one up!

What is really neat about this is that it is AGE oriented meaning that questions correspond with a person's age. That said, being that I don't know a lot about a lot of subjects and am more "specialized" for lack of a better word, I got a lot of wrong answers. No matter, I went back and lied about my age (told it I was 20 when I'm really 40) and it was a little better.

The entire family played this togehter and we had a lot of laughs! Having to "dance" or "wave" to get more time is ingenious! Here you go - play a trivia game for the Wii but you STILL HAVE TO KEEP MOVING! Thus you can get your exercise while playing. And we all laughed at each other and our silly dance moves.

Something else that was nice - at the end, it seems that everyone gets an award - even if you miss every question (as I did while still playing as a 40 year old). I often got the "fastest" answer award; my youngest got the award for getting three out of four correct in a given category, et cetera. So you can keep your spirits up and not feel bad. Besides that, we all helped each other. My husband and dad shouted out answers to the sports questions - I gave answers on science and we all were amazed at what we didn't know about fashion!

Fun - but it IS Trivia! I think it's best with a crowd.

This game is fabulous fun for ALL ages. We have played it with ages 6 thru 87, everyone had a blast! Highly recommended...this is not the kind of game you only want to play one time. ENJOY!

Smarty Pants is a collection of trivia questions accessed via the Wii as opposed to the old-school deck you'd find in a traditional board game. Unfortunately it stops there, since the scant additional features feel tacked-on like a lazy afterthought.

Though the menu claims to offer options, they boil down to single vs multiplayer and co-op vs competitive. The rest could be summed up as "difficulty". Once the game commences, you are presented with multiple-choice questions and choose the answer you want by simple point & click with the Wii remote.

The game's weak attempt to add motion control is implemented so poorly that as long as you waggle hard enough you get credit for any task you're supposed to perform, be it "Dance", "Jump", or even "Tug-of-War". I was hoping for more, but found myself disappointed.

The positive side of being such a basic game is that there was little opportunity for bugs or glitches- I certainly didn't encounter any. The game offers a lot of questions on a pretty wide variety of standard trivia topics, so if you're just looking for endless trivia this will be slightly more interactive than going through a Trivial Pursuit deck card by card.

In the end, though, if I'm going to plunk down my hard earned green for a video game whose core concept is already available in non-electronic format I expect to see some additions to the recipe and a unique experience. Smarty Pants fails to fulfill that expectation.

The game list for $49.99, but has been on sale for $39.99 and now is $29.99.
At $30 this game is a steal if you enjoying having people over who like trivia. The game plays similar to restaurant/sports bar on screen trivia games. The family mode is ok, but I would not buy the game if your kids are younger than 12. In conclusion, the game is for those who like trivia and want to play with friends. If you don't already like trivia you will not enjoy the game.

My husband and I enjoy this game. My 4-year-old is too young to play on her own, unless we read her the questions (in which case, she can easily answer most of them that are geared to her age, but she loses interest because how fun is it to just be asked questions by your mom?). I wondered if the "dancing" part of it would make my husband roll his eyes and grab for something more "manly," but it ended up just being pretty funny. The questions are challenging, the remotes easy to use (my 65-year-old non-video-gaming parents picked it up immediately) and the categories are broad enough to remain interesting. We've played it quite a bit and only rarely do we get repeat questions. Overall, worth the money!

I got 'Smarty Pants' for my girlfriend, and it is one of the most entertaining multiplayer experience on the Wii, especially if you have a group of friends with differing areas of expertise. There are many fun twists to the gameplay, such as 'cards' that you might earn that give you abilities such as passing a question or giving your opponent a more difficult question. 'Spinning the Wheel' to choose categories with the motion control of the Wii-Remote is very engaging, as is 'flipping' back and forth between categories with your opponents in the final moments that the wheel is spinning.

At its heart, this game focuses on the Trivia, with over 20,000 questions in various categories such as 'Art,' 'Science,' and 'Fashion.' Everyone is given some kind of award for 'fastest buzz in' or 'Science Expert' for getting the most questions in a certain category, so even the losers can take refuge that they were the best at something. All statistics such as average ring in time and amount of correct questions are saved with each Mii.

In a final note, the Mii support in this game is excellent for a third party and the animations with your little characters are very well done and entertaining. This game is very great fun and I promise that the trivia fan(s) in your life will not be disappointed!