Cheaper - For A Reason! (Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition)

Member Name: KathrynPenguin

Product:	Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition
Date:	20/04/01 (266 review reads)
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I've had the Millennium Edition for a couple of years now. I bought it because it was actually ten pounds cheaper than the Genus edition and I didn't have my own copy of the game, which I love.

~~~ Play ~~~
Playing the Millennium Edition is exactly the same as all other editions. You throw the dice, then choose which direction to move in according to what colour segment you will land on. When you correctly answer a question you get another go. If you land on the wedge segments at the bottom of the spokes you get a wedge of "cheese" or "pie" to put in your collector/playing piece. Once you have earned all six different wedges of "cheese/pie" you then have to move up the spokes of the wheel and land in the centre. When landing in the centre of the wheel your opponents nominate a category and ask you a question on that category, get this question right and you win the game.

~~~ Time Travel! ~~~~
There is only one real difference in the Millennium Edition to the other versions I have played. In the Genus Edition (and all other versions I have played) there are two gray segments in every section of the "wheel" and when you land on one of these you have a free throw without having to answer a question. In the Millennium Edition there are no free throw squares. In fact there are only five segments between the wedge segments. Four of which are coloured segments as normal and the fifth is a "Time Travel" segment. The Time Travel segments are gray with a coloured wedge on them. When you land on a time travel segment you move to the wedge segment of the same colour and can play for a wedge. This is an excellent idea as it should speed up the game.

~~~ Why Is It Cheaper? ~~~
Well I think this game is cheaper because you get a lot less question cards than in the other versions. With this edition you only get 300 question cards, but with the Genus edition you get 800. F
or a £10 saving that’s a lot less questions. But you can always buy question sets on all sorts of different subjects as there are many specialty questions available to purchase without buying a whole game set.

~~~ Question Categories ~~~
OK I explained why the game should finish a little quicker using the Millennium edition board. Unfortunately this really doesn't happen if you use the Millennium edition questions. They are unbelievably hard, much harder than the genus edition and believe me I've played a lot of Trivial Pursuit so I know. In fact after playing an edition a few times you start remembering answers as the questions come round again. With this edition you really never remember an answer even though the questions come round more quickly. The categories are really strange and not explained very well. To give you an idea, here's a list of categories with an example question from each.

Blue – Now & Then
Who played Che Guevara when Evita opened on the West End stage?
Pink – Tops & Flops
What did the Rev Edmund Stone develop after tasting willow-bark in the 1750's?
Yellow – Visions & Imagination
Which children's nursery rhyme is based on the gluttonous habits of King George IV?
Brown – Milestones
Which Persian poet died in 1123?
Green – Movers & Shakers
What was Jurg Marmet the third person to reach?
Orange – Science & Cosmos
Which have the better eye sight according to a 1997 Melbourne University study: sheep, pigs, chickens or cows?

Those six questions came off one card which I picked at random from the game, I knew the answers to two of them, compared to an average of four per card from the Genus Edition. If anyone is intrigued about the answers, I've put them at the bottom of the page.

~~~ Mix & Match ~~~
Now the great thing about Trivial Pursuit is that you can mix and match parts of the game.
I would recommend using the board from this game with different sets of questions, to aid this I swapped some of my questions for some from my Mums Genus edition. I have also bought television questions alone to use with this game. Regularly when we play as a large family at Christmas we use questions from about 4 different versions of the game to liven things up. You can even play with a mixture of adults and children, just ask the kids questions from the Junior edition. Playing with the Millennium board does help to speed up the game when you use different questions.

~~~ The Bottom Line ~~~~
The Millennium Edition did save us money over the Genus edition and is a good purchase if you intend to buy separate question sets. If you just want to pay out once though, steer clear of this as the questions are hard and its not good value for money as you only get half the number of questions compared with other editions.

~~~ The Answers ~~~
Blue – David Essex
Pink – Aspirin
Yellow – Georgie Porgie
Brown – Omar Khayyam
Green – Everest's summit
Orange – Sheep

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