Hygge GamesBefore or After? - Trivia Game

Gave as a gift. Sounded like fun.

We changed the rules up a bit instead of rolling each time to pick the years, we rolled the first time and then it was the judges choice of the next years to make it harder for the players betting.

Played this with my adult children (ages 25-31) and we had a blast! It was a lot more fun than we thought it would be and looking forward to a few more rounds!

The before or after questions that are posed are a good variety. On the site, it says you don't need to know the answers. Okay. I've got that. The rules inside the box are confusing. Most especially, there is no answer key ! How can you properly keep score if you are only making guesses ?? THIS GAME SUCKS !!! I definitely would suggest that you should not buy this. You can't calculate who wins if you don't have the exact for real answers. Wrong advertising and misrepresentation.

I'm always looking for new games that are easy to learn and portable, to take to family events. This is the right type—simple rules, just a pack of cards to carry around—but it's probably only enjoyable by people who have a pretty wide range of knowledge. The game itself says 14+ but I am definitely questioning whether teenagers (or a lot of other people, actually) would even know what some of these cards are about.Gameplay is simple (for exact rules see photo), but essentially you end up guessing which of a couple of events is “before or after” another event. Simple. The issue is, a lot of the cards have events that younger generations (or just people who don't know a lot of stuff?) won't even understand.This would be a good gift for a family who are various ages and sort of trivia buffs. I wouldn’t take this to a big party with people I don’t know that well, there's too much possibility for embarrassment at not knowing things.

"Before or After?" is a fun take on the trivia genre. Instead of knowing specific details about historical figures and events, players aim to guess when things happened, or more precisely, when one thing happened compared to another - before or after?The only game pieces used are cards. Each player gets a two-sided vote card with "before" on one side and "after" on the other. This card is used to cast the player's guess during play. The rest of the cards are the fact cards, each having 6 numbered events with the years listed in which they occurred. In each round one alternating player sits out and acts as the moderator. He or she will take a card and read one of the events, then take anther card and read a second event. You can play where the moderator picks the events, or allows the players to request a number 1-6 and then reads the corresponding event. Once two events are read, the players then vote whether the second one happened before or after the first. It sounds a little more complicated than it is, but it's very simple.If a player answers incorrectly, he or she is out of that round and scores no points. Players who answer correctly get a point, and can then choose to bank their points or keep going. If they keep going, a new fact is read and must be guessed compared to the last event read. As long as players answer correctly, they can keep adding points and continuing to play. If, however, a player gets an answer wrong he or she loses all of their points. Points are actually earned only when a player stops playing and banks their points.Typically you'll want to play as long as you have a decent idea when an event occurred or if you have either a very recent or very old event. But if you don't have a very good idea when one of the events happened, you'll likely want to stop and bank whatever points you've gained. You might, for example, get an event like "when was the first Youtube video uploaded?" That's obviously fairly modern. Or you might get "When was the Black Friday stock market crash that marked the beginning of the great depression?" That's pretty old, and most people have a general idea that it was in the 1920s. But then you get something less certain (to me at least) like "When was the first Starbuck store opened?" (1971). It's fun to keep gambling and building up points, and players will inevitably boom sometimes and bust others. The first player to get 30 points (or however many you choose to set for a victory) wins.This is a low key and easy to understand trivia game with a nifty twist. With 600 events that are randomly compared to one another, the replay value is very very high. It's also highly tweakable for folks who like to create customized rules. It's great for individuals or teams, and can be a short or long playing game depending upon scoring goals. About the only limitation for my family is that younger players are at a disadvantage (as with just about any trivia game that isn't limited to very recent events). Otherwise, this is very fun and highly replayable. Thumbs up!

I love trivia games and brain teasers, so ANY trivia game is likely to be enjoyable to me, but after a while they all bleed together, don't they?This one doesn't. This presents a pretty fun new twist. The game is EASY to learn and play, but because of the nature of the game you can use the same deck almost endlessly.It works like this: Two different events are read out from the cards. Players must guess if the second event read out loud happened before or after the first event. If you get it wrong, you're out of the round and lose any points you won that round. If you get it right, you get a point. You keep going until you get knocked out of the round or you decide to opt out and keep your points.Rinse and repeat until someone reaches an arbitrary point total. (The instructions suggest 30.)That's it. It's that simple.And it's fun. My wife and I played a rapid fire game over some pandemic wine and it was good fun. Often the answers will be very obvious, but just as often there can be some real stumpers, especially when you're confronted with an invention or something similar that was around longer than you realized.So it's not TRIVIA, exactly, but it's close, because it requires broad knowledge of lots of different topics.The questions fast, and the answer reveals can be fun and surprising. And since you never know which two events will be paired up, you can use the same deck for a long while.Comes in a compact little box that is easy to store and transport, which is great, and in a pinch you can toss the box and just keep the enclosed deck in a drawer for when you have company.We really enjoyed this and can see ourselves spending many nights challenging one another to get, Before or After - hopefully one day soon with friends!