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Title: weirdly balanced adaptation
Review: This game does its best to capture the spirit of The Amazing Race, including variations on Detours and Roadblocks, and incorporating Yields and Fast Forwards, but overall it falls flat.The vast majority of gameplay consists of answering questions on cards and then moving forward a number of spaces for answering correctly. This is fine when questions are geography- or culture-related, and for die-hard Race fans, even the trivia questions pertaining to racers from the show are acceptable. However, in the case of Detours, players blindly pick one of two options, and one option allows players to move forward further than the others.The game is entertaining for people who follow the show faithfully, but for players more interested in the board game itself, the blind luck involved in Detours and the inclusion of show-specific trivia questions is a turn-off.
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