Strong Point is a trivia party game where you score points not just for correct answers but also for guessing how many questions other players will get right... As the strap line puts it: 'It's not just what you know, it's who knows what you know'. The game is designed by Gillian Hauxwell and Simon Evans, and it's published by Strong Point Games.
Strong Point comes with 200 question cards. These all give the category on one side and five questions on the other. Once the category is revealed for the player whose turn it is to answer questions, the other players secretly select one of their number tokens (0-5) to predict how many questions will be answered correctly. The player answering the questions scores a point for each correct answer and any players who correctly guessed how many they'd get right get a 'strong point'. At the end of the game - after a set number of rounds; perhaps when each player has had two goes answering questions - players tot up their ordinary and strong points and the player with the most points is the winner. There's a special win condition tho' that if any player accumulates 10 strong points then they can claim an instant win.
It's a solid idea and it makes for a good trivia-based party game. The question card categories are appropriately varied and the prediction aspect ensures that everyone is involved throughout. Of course you're predicting based only on the broad category and without seeing any of the actual questions - so however well you know the other players, the 'predictions; are more often than not mere shots in the dark. After a few games where very few predictions proved to be spot on, and those that were were down more to chance than judgement, we tried a variant where 'strong points' were still reserved for fully accurate predictions but you could score an ordinary point for a prediction that was one away. Because our house rule variant encourages hedged predictions (you'd be twice as likely to collect a point card by predicting 1, 2, 3 or 4 than predicting 0 or 5), we awarded an extra point card as a bonus if you predicted 0 or 5 and that proved to be correct. It's a variant you might want to try.