Eggheads

I’m not too worried about winning, but it’s a boost when you do. I like learning about things and pay particular attention to the answers to questions I don’t know and try to remember them as they may come up in quizzes I go to sometimes. I just find it enjoyable.

You won’t win many rounds because of the mistakes the creators of this game have made. In a history round, a question about Spanish Kings called Charles had two of the multiple choice answers the same. Spain Spain and Scotland. Unfortunately, I chose the ‘wrong’ Spain and lost the round. On another occasion about the British armed forces in 1918, the answer was RAF. There was no RAF in WW1, it was the RFC. My grandfather was in it. So when the people who set the questions don’t know the answers, what chance is there of winning. It’s only a game, I know, but it ought to be fair.

For the first edition this is a pretty good effort. Yes, it could be improved in the ways suggested by other reviewers and I would expect the creators to do so in the future but it is still fun to play and you get a sense of the real thing. I wondered whether any egghead would get an answer wrong but it did happen.