Trivial Pursuit War of the Wedges

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In 1988, a made-for-television movie entitled Breaking all the Rules: The Creation of Trivial Pursuit aired. Treated largely as a comedy, the movie featured the music of Jimmy Buffett and portrayed the creators of the game as three beer-loving Canadians. There’s a lot of reading involved in Trivial Pursuit Junior (so many questions and answers!), so if your kids are still learning how to read, they may have trouble playing on their own. In that case, perhaps wait on the Junior version and choose Family Edition so an older player can read off questions and answers for them.

Know-It All TP (2000, Subsidiary Card Set, duplicates questions from Winning Moves edition but also includes 32 additional cards) Trivial Pursuit Online Games Brings World's Most Popular Trivia Game to Uproar.com" (Press release). November 18, 2003. Archived from the original on October 5, 2018 . Retrieved October 4, 2018. Get your Question cards out and put them in a pile. Then, deal five Play cards to each player. Whatever cards you’re left with, put them in the Draw pile. When it’s your turn to play, take a card from the Draw pile and play one card from your hand.If you answered the question correctly, you are allowed to roll again and move around the board. You can keep rolling until you give a wrong answer. Wrong Answer

If the question-asker doesn’t know the answer and believes the person answering wouldn’t have any idea, they can replace the card and draw again. This would be a cool rule to implement if you are playing as a family and you don’t want anyone singled out for not knowing answers. 3. You Said WHAT?! Trivial Pursuit: Commodore-Genus Edition". Lemon64.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-20 . Retrieved 2014-07-16. Hitchhiker loses Trivial Pursuit rights battle". Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. Abc.net.au. 26 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-02-27 . Retrieved 2014-07-16. Strategy hint: You can declare a face-off even if you already possess a wedge of that color, just to try and stop it from being won by another player. If you win the face-off, just return it to the pile of wedges by the gameboard.At the center of the board, you’ll find a hub space. At the end of each spoke on the board, there is also a category headquarters space. These are also known as wedge spaces. Your aim is to get to these squares, answer the question successfully and collect a wedge. Which nicely leads us to the next piece. The Pieces/ Wedges The Trivial Pursuit game board is very striking. The shape can be best described as a wheel with six different spokes coming off it. Each space on the board will be a different color. These colors are used to designate the subjects players will be asked. If you roll a 1 or 2 then you answer the easy question. If you roll a 3 or 4 you answer the medium question. And finally, if you roll a 5 or 6 you must answer the hard question. The table below shows what each color card represents. Color Wedge questions are present in bite-size editions of Trivial Pursuit. Since there is no game board, players simply answer questions and collect question cards. If you are the first one to answer 12 questions correctly and collect six cards, you win. In the game, you start with one question. If you answer it correctly, you are given your second question or wedge question. If you get that one right too, you get to keep the card, which is equivalent to earning a wedge in a full-size game. In Spain, a version of the show called Trivial Pursuit: Spain Plays premiered in September 2008 on Antena 3. [23]

You can also install this app called Trivial Quiz-The Pursuit of Knowledge from Google Playstore. Trivial Pursuit Game Setup Yes, you actually can! You can follow the spokes across the middle to go to the other side. From there, you can continue your journey to the left or right. What is a Wedge Question in Trivial Pursuit ? Trivial Pursuit Master Game - Young Players Edition (1984, released in both Master Game and Subsidiary Card Set editions) As with most Trivial Pursuit board games, you have to earn six wedges, one from each category, to win. Trivial Pursuit Harry PotterThe game also made it to television as a game show in several incarnations in the United States and Great Britain but did not have the success of other trivia game shows, such as Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Legal challenges

Every player in Trivial Pursuit will have a playing piece. These pieces are circular and have 6 triangular wedge gaps in them. When you start playing your playing piece will be empty. Trivial Pursuit was also adapted into a featured game on the NTN system of video-bar-trivia games. The game ran during the early 2000s. Oooh this is a fun edition of Trivial Pursuit, bringing higher stakes than ever to the game! On each turn, you have to bet as to whether your opponent knows the answer. If you guess correctly, you can use your winnings to buy the wedges you need for your scoring piece. You can also earn them by answering questions (the normal way!) What is cool about this edition is that you don’t have to know all of the answers to win—you just need to know your friends’ limitations! Trivial Pursuit Bite-Size Editions In Trivial Pursuit Junior, each game board space has a color corresponding to one of the game’s six categories. These colors indicate which category the active player will answer a question from.

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Before beginning, you can straighten up some house rules, such as the time limit for answering one question, and the accuracy level of the answers. It might not rival the numerous themed Monopoly sets, but there are still dozens of different options. We’ll be focusing on the classic version of Trivial Pursuit for our guide. This is also the option we recommend for new players. What You’ll Need to Play Trivial Pursuit