The Confidence Game — Kids Edition
For one to ten players around one screen. An adult marks the answers. Nobody ever loses points here.
How many players?
How long a game?
Each player gets this many turns. Five is about twenty minutes.
Options
The rules, short version
- You get a category, then choose how brave you feel: Cautious (easier question, 1 point), Confident (2) or Reckless (harder question, 3).
- You choose before you see the question. That is the game.
- Right answer: you gain the points. Wrong answer: you gain nothing — you never lose any.
- An adult decides if an answer counts. If the table disagrees, use Override.
- You get 90 seconds to choose, and 45 seconds to answer. The answer clock can be paused.
450 questions, 15 categories. Every question has a recorded factual basis; nothing was invented. Answers are short on purpose so an adult can mark fairly when a child answers in their own words.