The Best game Invented EVER (Trivial Pursuit Genus IV)

Member Name: darrenloud

Product:	Trivial Pursuit Genus IV
Date:	27/02/01 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: Questions are great, entertaining for all the family.

Disadvantages: The board game is a bit boring.

Trivial Pursuit is a classic, Q and A type game. It's renound for it's challenging questions and 'bits of cheese', let me explain.

The game can be played as individuals or teams. Each player or team has a token that they move around the board using dice to allocated the number of moves. Each space is allocated a category, there are 6 categories namely:

1) Geography
2) Entertainment
3) History
4) Art and Literature
5) Science and Nature
6) Sports and Leisure

If you land on a geography space, you are asked a question on geography and so on. There are 6 squares on the board, representing each category, that are special in that if you answer the question correctly, you are awarded a bit of plastic to fit in your token (that looks like a bit of cheese).

The object of the game is to collect all the bits of cheese and get to the middle of the board and answer a question (category selected by the opposition) to win the game.

I personally think the board game is boring and very fiddly. My family and I have developed an easier way to play it. Basically you sit everyone in a circle (round a table or whatever) and hand each person 3 cards (6 questions on each). Each person in turn asks the person to their left a quesion from the card. If they get it right they are awarded 3 points, if they don't get it right it can be offered to the next person for 2 points and the next for one point. Understand? easy really. The winner is the one with the most points at the end of game. It's much easier to play that way.

All in all, the questions are very good. Some of which are very hard, but a question is only hard if you don't know the answer! As I explained above, you can use the questions in whatever way you like. Afterall, you pay for the questions, the board and bits of plastic are simply accessories. My advice is to buy the questions seperately and devise your own game! <
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