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Forzee
Forzee and Wowzee are a pair of innovative solitaire games from BSX International, a small shareware developer that was most famous for the Madame Ching series of adult games that could be found on most BBSes in the early 1990s. While these card games may not excite you (no pun intended) as much as other dubious BSX titles, they will certainly impress you with their unique concepts, excellent execution, and surprising replay value.
Forzee is a single-player card game based on Yahtzee and poker. To be more precise: the game plays like poker, but scores like Yahtzee. Five cards are dealt at the start, and you can discard any number of cards, or none if you wish, and draw new ones. The hand you now hold is scored similarly to Yahtzee for different poker hands. For example, a flush (all five cards of the same suit) gives you 60 points. Four cards with the same face value is called 'Forzee' and is worth 80 points. If you are lucky enough to get it more than once in the same game, you will get 160 points for each additional set. The player who gets 300 points first wins the game.
Wowzee is a similar game, except with the added rules of Mahjongg solitaire: you don't deal cards, but draw them from a pile with one stacked on top of another. As in Mahjongg, you can only remove a card if there is no card stacked on top or immediately next to it. After removing five cards and scoring the hand (based on the scoring rules of Forzee), you have to repeat the process until you have exhausted all scoring possibilities. Once the stack is exhausted, you will be given a new stack to continue.
Both Forzee and Wowzee are interesting, unique and fun card games. Both games feature beautiful EGA graphics and the ability to play in tournament mode. The additional Mahjongg rules make Wowzee the more difficult game of the two, but both games will challenge all card players looking for innovative solitaire games that rely more on skill than pure luck. Highly recommended.
Note: as with other BSX games, both Forzee and Wowzee were advertised as 'shareware' but are identical to the registered version (the authors clearly believed in the goodwill of the players).
Guzzle
Guzzle is an entertaining mix of drinking games and trivia for 2 to 4 players.
The game is intended to be an 'electronic companion' when you get together with a few friends for a drinking competition. Basically, each player (or, more appropriately, 'drinker' in this case) takes turns rolling a die on a Monopoly-style board. The player's token may land in one of the following possibilities A DRINK box (e. g. , '2 DRINKS'), in which case he or she must Guzzle the specified number of drinks. A GIVE box (e. g. , 'GIVE 3'), in which case you must choose a victim, and make Guzzle the specified number of drinks. DETOX MANSION or GOTO DETOX MANSION, in which case you are trapped (not unlike 'GO TO JAIL' in Monopoly), and the only way to escape is to roll a 3 or a 6. Guzzle, in which case all players not in DETOX MANSION must have a drink. THROW AGAIN, which is self-explanatory. GO, in which case nothing happens and it goes to the next player. ? in which case the player must answer a multiple choice trivia question. If you get it right, you have to give a drink to the victim. But if you get it wrong, you have to take a drink. The fun of Guzzle, like all drinking games, lies in seeing who will be the last person to get drunk. But this game also requires knowledge: it won't help your luck if you don't remember episodes of Star Trek, songs from the 1970s, or Stanley Kubrick movies. The winner, as the manual ironically describes, is determined as follows: 'How do you win? Well, if by the time any player gets grossed out and chooses to EXIT, you're still awake and in control of your limbs, congratulations: you've won. But if the next day you wake up with puke all over your pants and spend the evening asking people, 'Hey, what asshole puked on me?' then you're a loser. At the end of the game, a score sheet appears with each player's drink total. It's a bit like golf: the lowest score wins. Of course, as with all drinking games, the losers get all the fun'. So if you can get a few beer friends together, check out this neat little game that makes a great party companion.
Note: Like other BSX games I've reviewed, this one is marketed as 'shareware', but since the registered version is identical to the shareware (except for the absence of the 'warning screen'), I've labeled it as freeware here.
Guzzle
Guzzle is an American shareware quiz/drinking game for up to four players/teams.
The screen is divided horizontally into two areas. The bottom three-quarters is the game area and the top banner shows whose turn it is, as well as actions, questions and messages. The game is controlled with the mouse and the cursor is trapped in small input boxes. It is a computerized board game in which players/teams roll a virtual die and perform actions depending on the square they land on, if the player lands on a DRINK square then they must take the specified number of drinks, a GIVE square, then has another player take the specified number of drinks from him, DETOX MANSION takes the player out of the game until he rolls a six or a three, which is a nasty piece of game design because a three means the runaway takes a drink and a six leaves him in the Guzzle square. While in DETOX MANSION a player cannot receive drinks from other players Guzzle if any player lands on this square then all players not in DETOX MANSION must take a drink. - This is where the player must answer a trivia question. If the answer is correct, he can give a drink to another player; otherwise, he must take a drink himself. Giving a drink and Taking a drink refer to physically drinking alcohol and the instructions warn that drinking a drink or two when prompted is NOT recommended.
The game ends when one of the players has had enough and EXITS the game, at which point the winner is the player with the lowest score, the person still in control of their faculties, and anyone who wakes up covered in vomit, not necessarily their own, is considered the loser.
Wowzee
Forzee and Wowzee are a pair of innovative solitaire games from BSX International, a small shareware developer that was most famous for the Madame Ching series of adult games that could be found on most BBSes in the early 1990s. While these card games may not excite you as much as other dubious BSX titles, they will certainly impress you with their unique concepts, excellent execution, and surprising replay value.
Forzee is a single-player card game based on Yahtzee and poker. To be more precise: the game is played like poker, but scored like Yahtzee. Five cards are dealt at the start, and you can discard any number of cards, or none if you wish, and draw new ones. The hand you now hold is scored similarly to Yahtzee for different poker hands. For example, a flush (all five cards of the same suit) gives you 60 points. Four cards with the same face value is called 'Forzee' and is worth 80 points. If you are lucky enough to get it more than once in the same game, you will get 160 points for each additional set. The player who gets 300 points first wins the game.
Wowzee is a similar game, except with the added rules of Mahjongg solitaire: you don't deal cards, but draw them from a pile with one stacked on top of another. As in Mahjongg, you can only remove a card if there is no card stacked on top or immediately next to it. After removing five cards and scoring the hand (based on the Forzee scoring rules), you have to repeat the process until you have exhausted all scoring possibilities. Once the stack is exhausted, you will be given a new stack to continue.
Both Forzee and Wowzee are interesting, unique and fun card games. Both games feature beautiful EGA graphics and the ability to play in tournament mode. The additional rules of Mahjongg make Wowzee a more difficult game of the two, but both games will challenge all card players looking for innovative solitaire games that rely more on skill than pure luck. Highly recommended.
