Bigger Is Better

Is This A Funny Way To Measure Obscure Things?

As a quick overview, Bigger is Better is a light, adult-orientated party/trivia game where players have to order a selection of four random things by their size; tallest to shortest, heaviest to lightest, or most to least for example. Knowledge isn’t always power here; there are only so many useless random facts a person can remember, so a lot of the gameplay here is guesswork and laughter.

Game Unboxing and Setup

Bigger is Better contains a large deck of double-sided trivia cards, 4 wipe-clean boards, and 4 dry-erase pens (and some instructions of course).

Set up is really simple. Each player takes a score board and a pen, and the trivia cards need shuffling and placing in a pile with the question side face up.

Gameplay Overview

To begin playing Bigger is Better, players just need to determine who is going to read the trivia cards, or who will begin reading them if you’re going to take turns. Don’t worry, the person reading the cards can also play as the answers are on the reverse (just don’t show the other players the reverse of the card when you take one from the pile!).

Each trivia card will have a category question and four answers. All players have to do is write the four given answers in what they believe is the correct order on their board. When everyone has had a guess, players reveal their boards and the answers are revealed, and players score one point for every answer they got in the correct position.

For example, the question may be “list these from longest to shortest” and the four given answers may be “pickle”, “hot dog”, “candy cane”, “hamburger”, or you may be asked to list “the number of legs from most to least” with the four given answers of “insect”, “crab”, “millipede”, “spider”.

According to the rule book, play continues until someone reaches a total of 20 points, however you could have as many rounds as you like and determine the winner at the end by seeing who has the most point.

It’s important to note here that this game is listed as an 18+ adult only game because some of the questions are inappropriate for younger gamers as they feature adult knowledge and topics such as famous people or sexual body parts that make these questions unsuitable for some players (and absolutely hilarious for adults who have had one too many drinks). That being said, we’ve played this game with our 9 year old and just filtered out the questions that we know he can’t (or shouldn’t) be having a go at answering.

Final Thoughts

Whilst Bigger is Better is essentially a party game, it’s only made for 2-4 players as it only contains 4 player boards and pens, but there’s nothing stopping you from getting some pencils and paper and increasing your group size to 6, 8, 10 or more players or playing in teams of two.

The mixture of intuition and absurdity required to organize the given answers makes it a funny take on a trivia game, as let’s face it, how many of us actually know whether there are more joints or more bones in a human adult body, and how many of us actually know whether Barack Obama is taller or shorter than Donald Trump?

Bigger is Better offers a quick, fun, low-pressure, social game that fits nicely into a few different situations from a games night warm-up to an adult birthday party or even a family Christmas post-dinner laugh (so long as the little ones are doing their own thing or you filter out the rude questions!).

I think all in all, there’s a limit to how often we’ll be able to play because once you’ve had a question once you don’t want it again in a while, and that makes the large number of question cards included a good thing, but does also limit the replayability a little. If you’re looking for a genuine trivia game, this isn’t for you, but if you want to learn some interesting and totally useless facts and have a laugh in the process, it’s perfect.