How To Play So Wrong It’s Right

I don’t know why I find myself doing these articles, but here is another game that had us gathered round the gaming table, on a Friday night, with a few beers, shouting at each other. There were arguments, disputes and an all manner of loud verbal jostling. What more could you want on a cold Friday night in November? So Wrong It’s Right is a quiz game with a twist, the questions are usually simple but the answer you give can be from a possible five, which means even if you know the answer, if you're not quick enough, you may still be left out in the cold. Let’s get to it then.

The Setup & Early Doors

An Easy Teach and Tongue Twisting Shenanigans!

The setup and teach for So Wrong It’s Right is very quick and simple. Deal all players a question card and shuffle the answer deck, placing it in the center of the table. Pick a person to start and they read out their first question, on top of their card.

Each of these question cards has five questions on it. Simple things like “Which Jamaican singer released the songs ‘No woman No Cry’ and ‘Jammin’? The twist here is the way you deliver the answer is ruled by a deck of cards. This deck of cards makes each question a mental workout to shout out the answer in the correct format and it's sometimes funny, often irritating and most of the time, both. Good times!

This deck of cards, which also acts as the game's timer, contains five different ways to answer each question. There's the standard, ‘Got it’ which means just answer correctly, in the above example it would be ‘Bob Marley’. Then there’s the ‘Not it’ card, which requires you to shout out a wrong answer but it must be in the same category as the actual answer, which is written in bold on the card, thankfully. The game recommends you point or raise your voice when stating the category, so all players are aware. The answer to this one would be something like ‘Britney Spears’ or the like.

The other three all involve some sort of sneaky swappery within the real answer. All answers are two words and the first card in this section is ‘Flip It’ which requires you to just swap the two words around, ‘Marley Bob’, if we are still using the above example. We also have ‘Switch It’ and ‘Ditch It’ which require you to swap the first two letters of the two words or remove the first two letters, ‘Mob Barley’ and ‘Ob Arley’ respectively.