Customer Reviews

The Amazing Race Board Game

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Quick Review: I have both this version and the DVD version, and this board game version is much more like the actual TV show. This one has the Yields, Fast Forwards, etc... and in the rules, it is spelled out just like on the show. In the DVD version, it is more stiff and fixed in the way the game is played, but this one brings the full excitement home to the players with tons of questions that will not be repeated often. This version is for the show purists, and the DVD version for those that want the footage and music of the show while they play.

This game does its best to capture the spirit of The Amazing Race, including variations on Detours and Roadblocks, and incorporating Yields and Fast Forwards, but overall it falls flat.

The vast majority of gameplay consists of answering questions on cards and then moving forward a number of spaces for answering correctly. This is fine when questions are geography- or culture-related, and for die-hard Race fans, even the trivia questions pertaining to racers from the show are acceptable. However, in the case of Detours, players blindly pick one of two options, and one option allows players to move forward further than the others.

The game is entertaining for people who follow the show faithfully, but for players more interested in the board game itself, the blind luck involved in Detours and the inclusion of show-specific trivia questions is a turn-off.