Coming from a large family competitiveness is bread within each of us and sadly this extends to board games. Often, we will watch a day-time TV show such as 'Pointless', 'Perfection', or 'The Chase' and all argue over who is right, who is winning in terms of points, and then from there one person (more often than not my Dad) will argue that winning in this game makes them the most intelligent person in the room. General knowledge is key to surviving in my house without being looked upon as though you were a simpleton, and so I have never not known a time in which we haven't owned one version of Trivial Pursuit.

The basic premise of the game is to answer a question that corresponds with the colour you landed on, so for example if you were to land on a green square you would answer a green question which would be Sport and Leisure. The answers to the questions on that card are printed on the reverse side, and so when playing with sneaky people it becomes necessary to shield this part so as to prevent cheating, something I learnt a long time a ago. You then keep rolling the dice and doing this until you have filled your gamepiece with 6 wedges, meaning you have answered questions correctly from each of the sections.

The sections include:
Geography (blue), Entertainment (pink), History (yellow), Arts & Literature (brown), Science & Nature (green), and Sports & Leisure (orange)
however, the colour may range according to which version you are playing, this is based on the Genus version.

The version with which I grew up with focused more so on questions that relate to when my parents were young. This gave them an unfair advantage and made winning even more sweet. Since then, there have been a number of other editions released, including some specialised ones such as a Juniors, Disney, 1960s/1980s/1990s and even a Star Wars version. Whilst this may not necessarily relate to this particular version of Trivial Pursuit, and I have not played any of these version, I thought it worthy of note in case you wanted to understand the huge diversity in topic and questions Trivial Pursuit exhibits.

Trivial Pursuit is somewhat expensive to me, a lowly student, although it is well worth the money. I managed to pick myself up a modern version to replace my Family's decade old version for around £30-40 in WHSmith which was reasonable considering the amount of entertainment our family in particular has gotten from it. Two or more players can play, with a total of six wheel pieces, however we often play as 'teams' of two if there are more of us, or simply have singles vs couples and so on.