- 1668 questions about important events from 2007 to 1000BC contained in 278 question cards
- Each question card contains six questions which all have the same answer - a year, decade or century
- For 2 to 8 players or teams. Every player competes in every round to guess CLOSEST to the year of an iconic event. There are no wrong answers - whoever is the nearest wins the round
- Round winners collect tokens, but may also lose them during the game in a Duel, to a Highwayman or the Plague. Whoever has the most tokens at the end wins
- Question cards are kept in a cardholder that only reveals one question at a time
- Time Cards give extra clues about the answer: e.g. an extra question from the same year
- or a single Digit from the answer year
- Player pieces are famous historical characters including Cleopatra,Elizabeth I, Napoleon, Mozart, Gandhi, Genghis Khan and Joan of Arc
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About Time is a thrilling board game that invites players to test their general knowledge, lateral thinking and poker-style cunning as it takes them on a journey through time. Players compete to win the most tokens before the end of the game by guessing CLOSEST to the year of an iconic event. There are no wrong answers as you only have to get closer than the other players! Like history itself, the About Time board game is littered with pitfalls and surprises. You can catch the Plague, be held up by a Highwayman or be challenged to a Duel and see your fortunes rise and fall. There is no waiting around in About Time as all players take part in every round and everyone can play and win, from teenagers to grandparents.
Product Description
About Time Guardian Front Page Card Set is a unique set of front pages in handy card format. Guess which year the front page is from. The card set can be easily added to About Time board game for an excellent addition to the great family guessing game!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I loved this game! It is beautifully produced and such a good mixture of knowledge and chance. We played it on Xmas day - a group of family and friends between 20 and 60 years old - and everyone was fully engaged by it. We played in three teams of 2-3 people per team and were able to get into it quickly, learning the more complex aspects as we went along.It is basically a game where you guess the date of historical or recent happenings.... but our rather tenuous hold on history didn't spoil the fun! There were numerous opportunities for cunning and luck to make and break your fortune of tokens, and plenty of interest in the wide variety of questions asked. The attractive board and novel question card holder all added to our enjoyment and it will take us a long long time to get through the questions available.
I would imagine it could be played at a rather higher intellectual level by history students and help people of all ages to construct a mind map of our pasts - but for us we just had a good time and look forward to playing it again.
I would imagine it could be played at a rather higher intellectual level by history students and help people of all ages to construct a mind map of our pasts - but for us we just had a good time and look forward to playing it again.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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It's nice to see a new concept for a board game (not just a different version of monopoly). Everyone getting to answer each question keeps it interesting all the way through - even when you're asked to give the date of really obscure events, the closest date wins so it's always worth guessing.
Nice balance of skill and luck - I can imagine when you get the hang of the time cards you'll be able to win by scuppering even the best guessers.
Can't wait to play it again - even with my lack of historical knowledge!
Nice balance of skill and luck - I can imagine when you get the hang of the time cards you'll be able to win by scuppering even the best guessers.
Can't wait to play it again - even with my lack of historical knowledge!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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No more getting bored stiff while Grandma & Grandad spend for ever arguing over exactly which year it was. With this game, everyone answers the question and they've 30 seconds to do it; closest to the answer wins the pot.
Add to that the Timecards for some great player interaction (and skullduggery) and you've a game that knocks your bog-standard Trivs into a cocked hat!
The quality of components and print is really, really good. This is a classy game!
Add to that the Timecards for some great player interaction (and skullduggery) and you've a game that knocks your bog-standard Trivs into a cocked hat!
The quality of components and print is really, really good. This is a classy game!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Brilliant game
I bought this game for my boyfriend for christmas, he is really good at these sorts of things and i'm not so good. Didn't really know how the game would play out. Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. Blanch
Great fun even for the history-phobic!
I bought this game for my family to play over Christmas. Trivial Pursuit is always a controversial choice in our house as a lot of the history and sports questions are not exactly... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ms. Emma Murray
Great Family Fun
Like people have reviewed before, one of the great things about this game is that it can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Matt Williams
At Last !
I'd all but given up on board games. As long a I live I will never play another game of Monopoly, Trivial Pursuits or Scrabble again. Read more
Published 17 months ago by noo noo
brilliant
I hate board games with a vengeance, but I played this game and have become a total addict. The clinching cleverness of this game is that if you know a lot about history or... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. Mark Adderley
Good fun even if you're not good at remembering dates.
I bought this game so that we could play it with friends and family over Christmas. We've played it twice now and everyone enjoyed it. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2010 by Yssie
A whole load of family fun
We played 'About Time' last christmas with the whole family. We had 4 teams of 3, aged between 10 and 70, it was some serious fun. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by FunFair
Better than Trivial Pursuits
This game has a really well designed balance of skill, chance and skullduggery and is dead easy to play, either individually or in teams. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2007 by DB
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