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Year Published
1983
# of Players:
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, more than 4 players
(24 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(5 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
(8 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Wiz-War
Alternate Names
Wiz War
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In this light, beer & pretzels type of game, players are transformed into wizards attempting to collect treasures from a twisted little maze. At the heart of the game is a deck of cards that the players use to cast spells, power-up spells, and augment movement. Each turn, players can move up to three spaces (or more with the use of number cards). However, the goal is to penetrate the other players' sections of the maze, pick up one of their treasures, and bring it back to your home base. The first player to capture two such treasures or kill all the other wizards is the winner.

Home Page (unofficial): http://www.wizwar.com

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Relevant Microbadges

An interesting historical note: Once, Richard Garfield mentioned that Tom Jolly introduced his Wiz-War to him. This game, among others, inspired him to create the best selling CCG, Magic: The Gathering.

Wiz-War fan: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/images/microbadges/wizwarmbro5a.gif
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84 Kwanchai's Wiz War Redesign
Redesigned with new artwork. (File size optimized).
2008-10-20
6 A Wiz-War custom card set
Custom set of cards ready to print. 12 per sheet. Either print on card stock, or print on paper and then laminate. About this set: * All Traps have been removed * Only 252 cards used * Card text has been edited to remove many common ambiguities. (If anyone requests, I can include the cards' text in other formats.) * NUMBERS 2 and 3 have been combined with spell cards; such cards are playable either as the Spell or as the Number shown. * Artwork copied from Jeff's Jeloba site ( http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/ ) * Icons shown on cards are explained in the document "Wiz-War rules summary": http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/24409
2008-03-09
4 Number Cards - Arcane Circles Theme
Wiz-war number cards, recreated for an upcoming custom version of the game I am making. Basically, I'm trying to make an ultra-swanky board layout (yay HirstArts!), and figured that I should have cards to match. This is the first of (hopefully) many releases over the coming months. The cards are provided in both QuickCards format (from www.plaincards.com) as well as a general-purpose PDF file. Note: While the design/layout of these cards was done by myself (Malfeis), the credit for the magic circles that you see in the card art were created by readheadstock from http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/ - mad props for these. For QuickCards printing: Pages 1-4 are card fronts (numbers) only, 5-8 are the backs. Naturally, if you wanted to print one complete set of cards, print the first four pages first, re-insert them into the printer, then print the last four pages. I would recommend using the "normal" quality setting on most inkjet printers, as the card back uses very dark colors which tend to bleed... PDF Printing - Similar to above, pages 1-4 are the card fronts (numbers), page 5 is the art for the card backing. For samples: http://www.cardboardlust.com/wizwar/
2008-01-26
1 Wiz War Number Cards - QuickCards Format
Number cards from http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/ formatted for printing with the QuickCards program from PlainCards.
2008-01-22
1 Wiz_War_Number_Cards.zip
Wiz-War Number Cards for the cards found in the file "Wiz_War_Cards(Alternate).zip". I think the Scroll adds a nice touch so I made number cards to go with those style of cards.
2007-11-30
8 Improved board.zip
Jeff's Improved Board from now defunct http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/
2007-05-24
7 Wiz_War_Cards(Alternate).zip
Basic, both expansions and community expansion cards, in a different style.
2007-05-24
4 Wiz-War rules summary (.doc and .pdf)
One-page summary of rules details, slightly customized. In editable MS Word format. (PDF also available.)
2007-05-16
2 SpellCards-Additional-Europe.pdf
Expansion spell card labels in European label format (Avery L7173) - after http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/
2006-08-03
2 SpellCards-OriginalDecks-Europe.pdf
Original spell card labels for European format label sheets (Avery L7173) - after http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/
2006-08-03
Statistics
User Rank: 356
Num Ratings: 1019
Average Rating: 7.03
Standard Deviation: 1.59
Num Views: 57712
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 2.0 moreinfo
Fans: 13
Personal Comments: 460
Users Owning: 1100
Users Wanting: 155
Users Trading: 36
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 2
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1570
Plays This Month: 0
Linked Items Relationship: Expansions for this Game
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Wiz-War: Expansion Set
Rank N/A
Num Ratings 50
Average Rating 7.47
Average Weight 1.71
Owned 89
Prev. Owned 6
For Trade 4
Wanted in Trade 13
Wishlist 19
Comments 24
Year Pub. 1985
Wiz-War: Expansion Set #2
Rank N/A
Num Ratings 8
Average Rating 8.06
Average Weight 0.00
Owned 19
Prev. Owned 3
For Trade 1
Wanted in Trade 8
Wishlist 8
Comments 3
Year Pub. 1993
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