Anywhere from one to four players can battle and bluff to win up to nine different twisted trivia card games, as long as they have a LeapFrog Fly Pentop Computer (sold separately). The game comes with 68 Trivia Category Cards, four Answer Cards, two Category Counter Cards, a carrying case and a rule book. Games include Solo Psych Out, Match 20 and Hot Streak. Typical questions are “What does Karaoke mean in Japanese?” and “True or False? Identical twins have identical fingerprints.” To date, Totally Stumped has won the 2006 Parent's Choice Gold Award, the 2006 Dr. Toy Top 100 Best Children's Products Award, the iParenting Media Award and the iParenting Hot Media Award. “Totally Stumped! brings together two favorite tween activities: playing card games and answering bizarre, off-the-wall trivia questions! Bluffing, planning, strategizing, second-guessing, and sheer luck are all part of the fun,” Jo Hendrix of BinaryLabs Inc. told TDmonthly. Launch date: 2006.

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What Is It?
Totally Stumped is a trivia game designed for 1 to 4 players … and a LeapFrog Fly Pentop Computer (sold separately). The game comes with 68 Trivia Category Cards, 4 Answer Cards, 2 Category Counter Cards, a carrying case and a rulebook. It is also a 2006 Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner.

What We Thought
The solo games are fun. The Flypen actually keeps track of how many questions you get right in a row. I only got 3. Some of questions are hard. For example: “Which one of these products was not invented by a woman? Band-Aids, Circular Saw, Windshield Wipers or Duck Shoes?”” The answer was Band-Aids; I’d chosen Duck Shoes. Totally Stumped would be good for travel if you planned on playing solo games. The game requires too much setup and too many cards to accommodate multiple players on a car trip, though you could always improvise and test each other with the questions alone, avoiding the actual laying out of the cards.

Why They’ll Want It
Basically the game is fun! The questions are broad enough to make it comfortable for an adult to play against a child. The kid may know the answers to the video game trivia and random questions about pop culture, while the adult would favor other categories based on accumulated knowledge. The only drawback was that the Flypen volume was sometimes too low for a public setting. You have to pass the pen back and forth for each player to hear it. Using the earbuds solves that problem when playing solo. — Jon Arsenault, 8/25/06