7 thoughts on “There is a The Chase board game out”
James E. Parten
This could be an interesting adaptation, although I wonder about a few things.
A stock of a thousand questions seems a fairly small stock for something like this. An average episode of “The Chase” goes through around 110=120 questions in its allotted hour. At that rate, the stock could be exhausted in a few sessions–especially as one wold think that some of these would be straight questions (for the Cashbuilder and Final Chase rounds), while others would be multiple-choice (for the Chase rounds).
One wonders if there are likely to be arguments as to who will play the Chaser. I’d figure that, if the players know each other, they assign the role of Chaser to the one who always beats them at Trivial Pursuit or other such games.
As for the electronic timer, that would appear to be fairly simple, requiring start buttons for one-minute and two-minute slots, a stop button (for when the Chaser gets a Final Chase question wrong) and a Restart button (“Your time starts again. . . NOW!”).
Lile as not, this Yank will never see this game anywhere. But stranger things have happened. (For instance, one charity store here has gotten in a number of 2006-era DVD games based on various ITv and Channel 4 shows–none of which will play on American DVD machines, alas!)
Grandparents brought the game back from London, so may as well write a bit about it. Sorry if it’s all over the place and goes on for a bit, writing and being concise is in no way my specialty.
The game comes with a board, used for the main chases and the final chase, an electronic timer (sadly doesn’t use any of the show’s music or sound effects), a set of blue questions and a set of red questions, large and small pawn, Chaser tokens, and money tokens. Everything seems quite durable, though it gets a bit jumbled up quite easily.
Each player does a Cashbuilder round in turn. The player to their right sets the timer to one minute and then reads the player questions from the blue cards in the same fashion as on the show, 1000 pounds per answer.
After every player does this, they take the money token they earned. Each token has a blue side with how much was earned in the Cashbuilder and a red side with two offers on it, one bigger and smaller, you insert the token on your pawn showing however much you picked and place your pawn on the board accordingly. Each player then picks a Chaser, inserts them in the pawn matching the player’s color, and places them at the end of the board. The next bit is the same as on the show, except only one player answers questions at a timer and the Chasers’ answers are printed on the card. The player who makes it through with the most money plays the final chase.
The final chase works like on the show, save for the fact that the finalist picks two of their opponents (unless it’s a 3 player game) to work together as the Chaser, but other than that it’s just two two minute rounds, the finalist can move the Chaser back on an incorrect answer with the right answer.
This could be an interesting adaptation, although I wonder about a few things.
A stock of a thousand questions seems a fairly small stock for something like this. An average episode of “The Chase” goes through around 110=120 questions in its allotted hour. At that rate, the stock could be exhausted in a few sessions–especially as one wold think that some of these would be straight questions (for the Cashbuilder and Final Chase rounds), while others would be multiple-choice (for the Chase rounds).
One wonders if there are likely to be arguments as to who will play the Chaser. I’d figure that, if the players know each other, they assign the role of Chaser to the one who always beats them at Trivial Pursuit or other such games.
As for the electronic timer, that would appear to be fairly simple, requiring start buttons for one-minute and two-minute slots, a stop button (for when the Chaser gets a Final Chase question wrong) and a Restart button (“Your time starts again. . . NOW!”).
Lile as not, this Yank will never see this game anywhere. But stranger things have happened. (For instance, one charity store here has gotten in a number of 2006-era DVD games based on various ITv and Channel 4 shows–none of which will play on American DVD machines, alas!)
I personally assumed that the Chaser’s answers would merely be printed on the cards, so that you could play a proper game against Anne and co.
We got this for Christmas and, over 4 games have used around 25% of the cards. Hope they bring out more questions as it’s great fun .
Grandparents brought the game back from London, so may as well write a bit about it. Sorry if it’s all over the place and goes on for a bit, writing and being concise is in no way my specialty.
The game comes with a board, used for the main chases and the final chase, an electronic timer (sadly doesn’t use any of the show’s music or sound effects), a set of blue questions and a set of red questions, large and small pawn, Chaser tokens, and money tokens. Everything seems quite durable, though it gets a bit jumbled up quite easily.
Each player does a Cashbuilder round in turn. The player to their right sets the timer to one minute and then reads the player questions from the blue cards in the same fashion as on the show, 1000 pounds per answer.
After every player does this, they take the money token they earned. Each token has a blue side with how much was earned in the Cashbuilder and a red side with two offers on it, one bigger and smaller, you insert the token on your pawn showing however much you picked and place your pawn on the board accordingly. Each player then picks a Chaser, inserts them in the pawn matching the player’s color, and places them at the end of the board. The next bit is the same as on the show, except only one player answers questions at a timer and the Chasers’ answers are printed on the card. The player who makes it through with the most money plays the final chase.
The final chase works like on the show, save for the fact that the finalist picks two of their opponents (unless it’s a 3 player game) to work together as the Chaser, but other than that it’s just two two minute rounds, the finalist can move the Chaser back on an incorrect answer with the right answer.
Great stuff, thanks TBN!
Why does the last player not always play 3 counters? Some only use 2 why is that?
Because they don’t feel comfortable enough with the categories to go for three.