Reveal Entertainment Pizza Box Football Board Game | 
| Brand: Reveal Entertainment, Inc.
Category: Toy
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $20.69
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Seller: MyAtomic
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 47787
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 10.7 x 2.5
Model: PBF231
UPC: 850776001004
EAN: 0850776001004
ASIN: B000AM2LO6
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Features:
| • | Feel like a coach, player and fan all at once | | • | Smack the offence with your defense | | • | High strategically game | | • | Fast paced | | • | The best game for football lovers |
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Product Description
Pizza Box Football is shaped like a pizza box... and it opens up into a head-to-head football strategy game designed to offer all the intensity of real football in every play. Players unfold the game board (the field) and lay it inside the unfolded pizza box. The cards guide the players as they play and show the players which dice to roll. Players must apply football strategy in order to win (when to run, when to short pass, when to long pass and when to try to fool the other team). Also included are additional plays from the expansion (sold separately) that extend the offensive strategy to include draws, screen passes and play-action passes and add run blitzes, route jumps and QB blitzes for the defense. These plays work with the existing PBF game. (The full expansion features 32 teams with different strengths on offense and on defense.) Pizza Box Football lets players feel like a coach, a player and a fan all at once. Its robust, statistically accurate play satisfies even the most demanding football fanatic while remaining accessible enough for the younger or casual fan. Four game options let opponents play for 5 minutes or an hour, they decide. Contents: 1 game board, 5 play cards, 13 color pegs, 13 dice, 1 expansion game preview card, 1 instruction booklet, 1 stat sheet tablet. For 1 or 2 players (solitaire rules available at www.PizzaBoxFootball.com). Made in the USA, this game's clever design allows it to pack up into its pizza box, and yet it is sturdy enough for play anywhere.
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 Heaven sent for the Football fan October 8, 2005
Carl Tymann (San Francisco, CA United States)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Pizza Box Football is a blast to play. It is one of the few sports games (outside of video) that brings realism to the game play. I particularly like this game because it positions you as the coach and focuses on creating a game plan against your specific opponent. But like in real football, random events can make the best plan a disaster and the weakest one a winner. You don't have to be a football expert to enjoy this either.
The various charts take a game or two to get used to, but in the end it is pretty easy to figure out. Be careful though as this game is pretty addictive and can create some real rivalries with your friends. The games get pretty intense.
Three words best describe this game: fun, fast and furious!
All the Excitement of Real Football in a Fraction of the Time March 26, 2006
Richard Staats (McLean, VA USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
As I write this review, I am serving in Iraq in the military. We do not have a lot of time for games, but Pizza Box Football is a twice weekly ritual. Everyone wants to play, and they talk about specific plays and the choices they made (or could have made) for hours afterward. The mechanics are simple. The defensive player chooses one of three potential defenses by secretly taking up one of three colored dice (red=run, yellow=short pass, and green=long pass). The offensive player announces his choice, and then the defensive player reveals his choice. The rest is done on two easy to read tables. There are special tables for special teams.
This game really captures the excitement of a football game. Players push their luck with running plays at 4th down and 2 yards to go. You see elements of surprise and trying to outguess your opponent.
Buy this game!
For fun & excitement in a tabletop sports game, this is it! January 4, 2006
Bill Eldard (Burke, VA. USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
In this Information Age, where computer sports games can put you right on the field, simulate play from numerous perspectives with marvelous graphics, and internalize all the calculations and outcomes work, it's difficult to imagine a tabletop football game offering much in the way of fun and excitement.
Then along comes Pizza Box Football --- a genuine throwback to the heyday of tabletop games, but with a refreshingly novel set of rules that gets players into play immmediately and with a minimum amount of fuss.
Sure, there's a lot of dice rolling, and reference to charts, but Pizza Box Football makes that all very easy. What makes the game so enjoyable are the defensive and offensive decisions made every down (run, short pass, or long pass), with realistic effects on play results. The offense isn't always stopped just because the defense called the play correctly. Hitting that long pass for a big gain, or running back a punt for a touchdown, or sacking the quarterback on a key down, have all the excitement of a real game. And the game mechanics are so simple, that one doesn't have to be a football fan to enjoy the game. Just follow the 6 steps on the player aid card.
We play with the Pizza Box Football 2005 expansion, which adds more plays for extra strategy (and risk!), such as QB Blitzes, Run Blitzes, Screen Passes, Draw Plays, and Play Action. Go ahead and blitz the QB to check the long pass, but be prepared to give up significant yardage if the offense called a screen pass.
Additionally, the expansion provides 32 pro team charts based on the 2004 performances of the NFL teams. Each team is rated both offensively and defensively in three categories (Run, Short Pass, Long Pass), as well as Mishaps. This allows coaches to play to their teams' strengths and the opponents' weaknesses. The clever designers have even taken the "Michael Vick factor" into account on the Atlanta chart, where "QB Run" can occur on the Short Pass and Long Pass results! And with the Professional Full Game Rules found even in the basic game, coaches can manage the clock, employing 'hurry-up' offense to conserve seconds, or eating up time with running plays, or countering that tactic with timeouts.
The Pizza Box Football website also offers free downloads for Goal Line Defense, Long Bomb Passes, Home Field Advantage, and Solitaire play.
The penalties and other 'dead time' have been removed (although, they statistically have been factored into the play results), and that's a plus in my book! Why simulate the frustration of having that 45-yard pass nullified by an offensive pass interference, or that punt returned for a touchdown whistled back at the 20 for a holding call, or penalizing a team for an "unsportsmanlike end zone celebration"? Thankfully, all that dead time is eliminated from the game!
I think Pizza Box Football is the best tabletop football game on the market, and provides hours of fun!
realistic football strategy game that moves quickly... October 11, 2005
Fredland (San Francisco, CA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've really enjoyed playing this game because it mimics real-life football strategy and game-play. It also moves quickly, each roll of the dice is a new play. I appreciate all the details in the statistics and chances for each successful (or unsuccessful) maneuver. Definitely fun for NFL enthusiasts but also easy to pick up for the newbie. Definitely can become addictive. Like to play it during halftime breaks while watching football on the weekend.
The fun of football without too much complication August 18, 2010
Tactitles (Missouri)
Yes, the box folds out like a pizza box, to become your playing field. And it is marked very nicely, complete with yard markers, goal lines, and several helpful areas to track the quarters, downs, time outs, and the time clock. Small plastic pegs are provided, which fit into small holes on the board. You also get a rule book, which contains options for several different styles of games you can play. There are short, fast games, up to a full regulation game where you pick one of the current pro teams to play. Nice, two sided laminated team cards are provided. You also get lots of dice.
This is a game of dice. But it is much more, due to the excellent game mechanics. Offense and defense secretly choose plays, and reveal them together. Consult the appropriate chart, roll the dice, and compute the result of the play. Move your team markers, and adjust the other game stat markers. Once you play a bit, you'll get faster, and the game will move surprisingly quickly. There is certainly luck involved. But there is a surprising amount of influence you can have over the play results, with your play selections. There are six offensive plays to choose from, and for me that's enough. The game incorporates many elements of real football. There are fumbles, blocked kicks, sacks, onside kicks, two minute warning, time outs, two point conversions, and many other realistic elements. There are no penalties. There are, in fact, just enough real elements to keep the game play smooth and fun, without bogging things down too much with an abundance of detail. It's a perfectly balanced game for avid fans, or casual ones. Your game decisions can certainly influence outcomes, and the concept that is worked out for the game clock is outstanding. Time is tracked with time units, and certain plays take longer than others. Time management can become critical at the end of a game, and add a lot of excitement. Overtime can also be played.
I've played complete 16 game seasons with a pro team, including playoff games and one superbowl. Use the internet to select your playoff teams available from the actual year that the team cards are based upon. You can set up a regular season schedule, pick your own parameters to make the playoffs, and then have fun. Team cards are surprisingly well represented with the appropriate strengths and weaknesses of the actual teams from the actual year. Or just play each game as a different game, with any teams of your choosing. It's all good here. I've played enough close games, overtime games, and low scoring games to be convinced of the balance of realism and ease of play in this game. Yes, you will have some games that have unusual plays and results, just as in real games we all see. Luck exists in real football, so it's not hard to accept here. I think the developers found the perfect mix. More realism, and less luck, would have resulted in another slow playing game involving too much chart consulting and down time. My verdict: great game, great fun, very high replay value, and easy enough for most of us to learn.
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