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Designed By	Tom Jolly
Art By	Tom Jolly
Published By	Chessex Jolly Games
Year Published	1983
# of Players:	2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4, more than 4 players (25 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 (10 voters) [poll]
Category	Fantasy
Mechanic	Modular Board
Primary Name	Wiz-War
Alternate Names	Wiz War
Expanded By	Wiz-War: Expansion Set Wiz-War: Expansion Set #2
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	Description Edit \| History

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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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.

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http://files.boardgamegeek.com/images/microbadges/wizwarmbro5a.gif

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Very Good	$50.00	25-Oct-2009
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Very Good	$70.00	28-Apr-2009
Very Good	$68.00	28-Apr-2009

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0	General Adding in expansions	2009-11-21	Kaph	2
1	General Organizing counters?	2009-11-13	celiborn	4
0	General wiz-war vs dungeonquest	2009-11-10	galimah	7
74	General My custom WizWar (redesign) [Page 1,2,3]	2009-10-06	Ilya 77	54
0	General Wiz-War in Alliance fall catalog	2009-10-02	Donald	3
1	General Tom Jolly announcement regarding re-release of Wiz-War	2009-09-04	Grimstax	7
0	General Card Sleeves for Wiz-War cards?	2009-08-03	davido	5
0	Rules What constitutes a spell?	2009-04-12	jeff3316	2
2	Rules So I have more questions on rules.	2009-03-14	krakenfan69	8
0	General What set(s) do I have...	2009-03-12	Knuteski	3

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Russian rules - Правила на русском языке

Перевод основных правил (пока что без дополнений) на русский. Названия карт в правилах даны для редизайна от Ilya 77.

Alver

2009-11-01

WizWar MStone Basic Set russian

Magic Stone redesign - Basic Set. 8 sectors and tokens (russian)

Ilya 77

2009-10-14

WizWar MStone Cards Basic russian

Magic Stone redesign - Basic Cards set, with numbers (Russian).

Ilya 77

2009-10-14

WizWar MStone Cards Basic

Magic Stone redesign - Basic Cards set (with numbers)

Ilya 77

2009-10-13

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Kwanchai's Wiz War Redesign

Redesigned with new artwork. (File size optimized).

kwanchai

2008-10-20

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

cosmosaic

2008-03-09

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...

malfeis

2008-01-26

Wiz War Number Cards - QuickCards Format

Number cards from http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/ formatted for printing with the QuickCards program from PlainCards.

malfeis

2008-01-22

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.

RayGuns

2007-11-30

Improved board.zip

Jeff's Improved Board from now defunct http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/

Tourresh

2007-05-24

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	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	382
Num Ratings:	1067
Average Rating:	7.01
Standard Deviation:	1.60
Num Views:	66106
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	2.0
Fans:	19

Personal Comments:	491
Users Owning:	1165
Users Wanting:	156
Users Trading:	35
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	1
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	1719
Plays This Month:	22

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Wiz-War: Expansion Set

Rank	0
Num Ratings	58
Average Rating	7.64
Average Weight	1.62

Owned	118
Prev. Owned	7
For Trade	3
Wanted in Trade	18

Wishlist	24
Comments	24
Year Pub.	1985

Wiz-War: Expansion Set #2

Rank	0
Num Ratings	12
Average Rating	8.12
Average Weight	1.00

Owned	36
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	15

Wishlist	14
Comments	3
Year Pub.	1993

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Card list for 5th edition Wiz-War	http://www.wizwar.com/wizboard/viewtopic.php?t=240...	2009-08-06
How to make a 3D Wiz-War set	http://www.hirstarts.com/wizwar/wizwar.html	2009-08-05
Computer Wiz-War (with online play)	http://www.wizwar.com/ol	2008-08-05
WhoThatGuy's Wiz-War Page	http://www.wizwar.com/members/whothatguy/	2008-02-03
Wikipedia page for WizWar	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiz_war	2006-10-09
Replacement cards, formated to print on business card sheets	http://wizwar.com/members/epengr/	2006-09-14
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2005-11-13
Homemade versions of the cards and map tiles	http://www.wizwar.com/members/epengr/	2005-06-16
Homemade Wiz-War	http://www.jeloba.com/wizwar/	2005-02-21
Additional cards from the Game Cabinet	http://gamecabinet.com/rules/WizWarCardsStart.html	2001-11-24

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