Big Brain Academy Gets Boarded

[By Pirate Prince:]
All my life I've been a fan of board games. The only problem is that it seems there are very few people who are also fans. People tend to see board games as tedious, a lot of set up and usually hours of gameplay that they would rather not deal with. That's what I love about them--when you sit down with your game piece in hand (and what's not to love about a little game piece avatar??) you know exactly what you'll be doing for the next several hours and exactly what to expect. The pieces will always be the same, it is only the players that change. And winning is one of the best experiences of one's life, hands down, even if the joy only lasts for a few minutes.

So say you don't want to play Big Brain Academy on your Wii, say it's become tiresome, and you want to play with a group of people who actually, miraculously, are into board games. Then you're amazingly in luck, because University Games has made a "Big Brain Academy Board Game." I'm not really sure how it will work and still be a "Big Brain" style game, but you can be sure there will be trivia questions and some mind-benders involved. And hey, even if you can't get anyone to play it , you can set it all up and stare at it and silently weep, not that I would know anything about that.