Did You Know?

The Fool card, with the Fool poised at the edge of a cliff, was adopted as the U.S. Games Systems logo, both because the founding of the company required a leap of faith and because April 1st is the birthday of its founder, Stuart Kaplan.

Wizard is popular but not available!?????

 

WIZARD has Five-star ratings in this Quebec chain of stores but is not available for sale.
Marketing appears to have failed badly.

WIZARD OMNIBUS is a Super Deal! Three Versions for the price of one.

 

The Times of London and Wizard courtesy of Tim Burton

 
The Times of London has a story about board and card games. I have a subscription and have posted a response.

Bored by board games? How your old favourites are fighting back

In a world filled with digital distractions, players’ attention spans are growing shorter. So manufacturers are making their games quicker and easier to win

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bored-by-board-games-how-your-old-favourites-are-fighting-back-p0vlsf0d5

I highly recommend a card game called Wizard, invented by a guy from Toronto.  Easy to learn, harder to master, it is played with a regular deck of cards, plus 8 extra cards.  Play for free online at a site you can find by googling card games (can't list it here by rule but try wizardcards dot  com) where tournaments are also held  monthly.  A yearly World Championship is played  in Europe where representatives from countries such as Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Canada and the USA, where Wizard is very commonly played, compete for the title of Master Wizard.
 Tim Burton

PERFECT GAME ANOMALY

 Perfect Game Losers

Some people are uncomfortable with the fact that a player can make all his/her bids
correctly and still finish in second or third place. One attempt to remedy this problem
was the “PINK Tournaments” where total points did not determine the winner.

I would like to conduct another experiment to increase the likelihood of a perfectly bid
game being the winner. The winner would still be determined by the most points but power hands would be somewhat reigned in, to prevent large point gains.

Wizard Limited
For 4, 5, and 6-player games the maximum bid is 4.
All of the other rules for all versions (excluding the German game) of the game remain the same.

The ramifications of the “limited bids” are many and varied.
However, there is little or no effect until the later hands of play. 

Your cooperation is needed to test the validity and usefulness of “Wizard Limited”.
When you host a new game and would like to test the limited bidding system, simply
post in capital letters “LIMITED” on the home page so that players joining will be
aware that it is a “limited bid” test game.
After you have either hosted or played a few games of “limited bid” please provide
feedback at wizardjester@gmail.com