Trivial Pursuit

Nitefly

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Nitefly

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So I just lost a game of trivial pursuit. Worst of all, it was the juniors vs mum + dad. I even raised to the stakes to "the winners of this game will be allowed to reminds the losers about it for all eternity". Noooo!

Has anyone actually played the full version of this game and finished it? I suspect that many may have died in attempt. We were sensible enough to resort to a quick version whereby you win a 'cheese' (not a slice of pie or cake, heathens) if you get a questions right - even then it went on for about 2 hours. The questions are a total lottery. You think, oh right, lets play safe... blue, pink and green. Done. Then you are screwed because you know what's coming up. Yeah sure, you can fluke the yellow by guessing 'Margaret Thatcher' every time and probably get it in 3 goes. But sooner or later, you are going to attempt the brown cheese. That brown cheese is going to **** you up.

It then becomes a game of "who can fluke the easy question on the brown cheese first". Inevitably, the opposition wins.

"Heh... brown cheese"
"**** you let's rock. Hit me"
"................................"
"Go on?"
"............... who eats cow pie?"
"............ OH MY ****ING GOD IT'S DESPERATE DAN!!!!! YES. YES!!!"

I flipped the table at this point and resided back to my den. This, Sir, is no Catan!

Is trivial pursuit a good game? Do you fear the evil brown cheese? Will my parents ever let it go?
 
We played a couple of games over the last few days. Doesn't take too long, anything other than Brown or Pink cheeses aren't too hard for me to get. The only shortcut we take is that once you get into the middle for the final question you stay there rather than having to keep leaving and coming back.
 
You should try the Star Wars version! That is beyond impossible unless you are some uber mega super geek:D

They are are called 'hedges' though not cheeses - at least that was what the original PC (? May even have been BBC Micro!) version used to sound like it said. Obviously 'wedges' but it stuck in the family:p
 
Played it last night. I was able to answer about 60% of the questions.....asked to everybody but me! Can never answer my own questions :(

- GP
 
Nitefly said:
So I just lost a game of trivial pursuit. Worst of all, it was the juniors vs mum + dad. I even raised to the stakes to "the winners of this game will be allowed to reminds the losers about it for all eternity". Noooo!

Has anyone actually played the full version of this game and finished it? I suspect that many may have died in attempt. We were sensible enough to resort to a quick version whereby you win a 'cheese' (not a slice of pie or cake, heathens) if you get a questions right - even then it went on for about 2 hours. The questions are a total lottery. You think, oh right, lets play safe... blue, pink and green. Done. Then you are screwed because you know what's coming up. Yeah sure, you can fluke the yellow by guessing 'Margaret Thatcher' every time and probably get it in 3 goes. But sooner or later, you are going to attempt the brown cheese. That brown cheese is going to **** you up.

It then becomes a game of "who can fluke the easy question on the brown cheese first". Inevitably, the opposition wins.

"Heh... brown cheese"
"**** you let's rock. Hit me"
"................................"
"Go on?"
"............... who eats cow pie?"
"............ OH MY ****ING GOD IT'S DESPERATE DAN!!!!! YES. YES!!!"

I flipped the table at this point and resided back to my den. This, Sir, is no Catan!

Is trivial pursuit a good game? Do you fear the evil brown cheese? Will my parents ever let it go?
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How much port had been consumed by then? Take it you were drunk and in so being were merely providing fair handicap to the opposition? ;)
 
Played this in a pub in Winchester a few weeks ago with a couple of pals - the original 80s Genus edition. Aside from a few questions that didn't work that began 'which current...' we didn't struggle too much despite only being born in the 80s.

Conversely I played the new '80s' themed one recently too and it was pretty awful. Twice we had back-to-back questions on exactly the same thing (Duran Duran, Sinclair C5), there were far too many multiple choices, and worst of all they've obviously tried to speed the game up by only having five spaces between the wedges rather than six. It felt dumbed down.
 
Trivial Pursuits is the best game to have ever trolled humankind.

"Oh, I know this one! It's on the tip of my tongue. It's ... it's ... can you repeat the question? Ok, got it! It's ... well, it's ..."

<RAGE MODE ENGAGED>

"I AM NEVER PLAYING THIS STUPID GAME EVER AGAIN AND YOU ALL SUCK!"

Trivial Pursuit : "YOLO"
 
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