The $25,000 Pyramid

The game the $25,000 Pyramid arrived in perfect time. It was obviously an original, not a copy. It was only missing the hourglass timer, which is easily replaced. It brings back fond memories and will be used for years to come.

Great board game version of the pyramid. It helps if you're familiar with the show and to follow the rules that way. Didn't really pay much attention to the instructions but rather played it like the TV show.

The build quality isn't so great (most everything is made of cardboard), and it's annoying that there's no way to look at the answers to one category without looking at the answers to all categories. Also, the Winner's Circle categories don't seem like they are correctly ordered and matched to the dollar amounts in order of difficulty.But, on the plus side, this is the only Pyramid board game that I've played that works like the 1980s Dick Clark version of the show. The older board game editions from the 1970s and 1980s that I got from eBay don't have the Winner's Circle at all, which is a big letdown. I'm so happy that this edition includes the Winner's Circle!

Has to be a mistake. How can this be $100??? Game arrived opened and used!!!

This was the best gift for someone. They loved it

Game cards aren't separate like original and pyramid board window covers don't work.

One would think that a company who was going to produce a home version of a favorite, classic TV game show, would get someone who was an expert on the game to develop it before marketing. It is obvious to this longtime "Pyramid" fan that this was NOT the case. I'll start with the rules sheet. Although the description of how to play the preliminary game is pretty complete, the description of how to play the winner's circle round (which is more complicated than the preliminary game) is not. It states that "The player who sees the categories may give a list of things in the category." Period. Longtime fans know the rest, but what about a new player? They don't know that the clue-giver is not allowed to use his hands, is not allowed to give descriptive clues such as prepositional phrases, and not allowed to use part of the answer in their list of items.My biggest complaint is that anyone who is a "Pyramid" watcher knows that the least difficult categories in the winner's circle round are on the bottom row, getting increasingly more difficult as they climb the pyramid. Here are a few examples of this game's $50 categories: "Innocent Things" (That category was generally either a $250 or $300 category); "Things that are clear" (easily a second tier category); "Things you clip" (another $300 category); In reverse, some of this games $300 categories include: "What a swan might say"; "Baby Things"; "Measures of time", all which belong on the lowest tier, probably as a $50 category. Most "What a ___ might say"-type categories were the $100 category. In some cases, there are more than one "What a ____ might say" category in a game. That would never have occurred on the show. Putting the difficult categories on the lower tier causes one of two things: Players don't get beyond the bottom tier, or the game is an anti-climax. The makers should have checked with some "Pyramid" experts to deveop this game.

Don't even have to play it with a board... the cards are enough fun!