$25,000 Pyramid Board Game - Game Show Network Review

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(More customer reviews)One would think that a company who was going to produce a home version of a favorite, classic TV game show, would get someone who was an expert on the game to develop it before marketing. It is obvious to this longtime "Pyramid" fan that this was NOT the case. I'll start with the rules sheet. Although the description of how to play the preliminary game is pretty complete, the description of how to play the winner's circle round (which is more complicated than the preliminary game) is not. It states that "The player who sees the categories may give a list of things in the category." Period. Longtime fans know the rest, but what about a new player? They don't know that the clue-giver is not allowed to use his hands, is not allowed to give descriptive clues such as prepositional phrases, and not allowed to use part of the answer in their list of items.
My biggest complaint is that anyone who is a "Pyramid" watcher knows that the least difficult categories in the winner's circle round are on the bottom row, getting increasingly more difficult as they climb the pyramid. Here are a few examples of this game's $50 categories: "Innocent Things" (That category was generally either a $250 or $300 category); "Things that are clear" (easily a second tier category); "Things you clip" (another $300 category); In reverse, some of this games $300 categories include: "What a swan might say"; "Baby Things"; "Measures of time", all which belong on the lowest tier, probably as a $50 category. Most "What a ___ might say"-type categories were the $100 category. In some cases, there are more than one "What a ____ might say" category in a game. That would never have occurred on the show. Putting the difficult categories on the lower tier causes one of two things: Players don't get beyond the bottom tier, or the game is an anti-climax. The makers should have checked with some "Pyramid" experts to deveop this game.

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