Board Games We Love: I Love Trivial Pursuit!

Hasbro Games Trivial Pursuit Family EditionCheck Price
Trivial Pursuit - The Game Where Useless Information Wins!

Trivial Pursuit is yet another great thing we can thank the 80s for along with the music and the movies!! When your mind holds onto what most people call useless information you can reign supreme as a Trivial Pursuit Megastar!

When I was younger we had many a Trivial Pursuit evening at home with just the family, as I got older I also played with friends. All of a sudden Trivia nights were popping up all over the place! Everyone wanted to play Trivial Pursuit.

Thanks to my brain holding on to a range of interesting trivia and the advent of the game Trivial Pursuit I was able to have my first ever ride on a helicopter! Yes Trivial Pursuit led to Trivia nights everywhere and there were some fantastic prizes up for grabs :)

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Trivial Pursuit, the Original

The original Trivial Pursuit is known as the Genus Edition, although I like to call it the Genius edition......unless we're playing against my parents as they always seem to beat us! It comes in the instantly recognizable blue box, but the only problem with this version is that some of the answers are dated. It is fun, however to try and guess what the answers were back in the 80s and it's certainly easier on my geography!!

Trivial Pursuit: Master Game - Genus EditionCheck Price

There are 6 different categories which are distinguished by different colors and you basically have to work your way around the board to collect all of the different colors to make up your wheel/pie/pizza or whatever it is you call your gamepiece!

Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture DVD

This is the version which is in our games cupboard at the moment and it is great fun. Instead of the usual History, Entertainment, Geography, Science & Nature and Literature the categories are TV, Music, Trends, Film, Gossip and Sports & Games.

There are two ways to play this game - the usual way and the short version. This is very handy as Trivial Pursuit games have been known to go for hours and hours at times!!!!

Trivial Pursuit POP Culture DVD GameCheck Price

Kids Love Trivial Too - Family Edition Trivial Pursuit

~~My dd wants us to buy the family edition Trivial Pursuit. The one we have at the moment is too hard for her, however her McDonalds one (thanks happy meal toys!) is way too easy for us to enjoy!~~
We've brought the family edition Trivial Pursuit and it is awesome. The family edition comes with two lots of cards which means the whole family can have fun and still play at their own levels. Mind you if I get something wrong my daughter is quick to tell me she could've got that one right and it's for grown ups!!!

Hasbro Games Trivial Pursuit Family EditionCheck Price

The 6 categories are People & Places, Entertainment, Wild Card, Science & Nature, Sports & Leisure and History. With kids questions and adults then the younger members of the family shouldn't get too frustrated at not being able to understand the questions, while the older members can still flex their memory muscles.

Trivial Pursuit Disney EditionCheck Price

Disney also contains cards for both adult and child players categories are Heroes & Heroines, Once Upon a time, monsters and villains, supporting stars, places and props, the wonderful world of Disney.

Trivial Pursuit For Kids Nickelodeon EditionCheck Price

This game is supposed to be strictly for the kids, but if (like me) you sit down and watch the Nickelodeon channel with your children,,,,you might be able to score a few points!

Trivial Pursuit Goes 80s

The Trivial Pursuit 80s Edition has been on my Santa list for two Christmas' now, but my hubby still hasn't brought it! I think he's too scared that I'd beat him!! I haven't played this game, but I think it would be a lot of fun.
I'm a child of the 80s and so are a number of our long-term friends so I think this version of Trivial Pursuit would be something fun to make a night of over while listening to 80s movies and drinking some of the delicious cocktails with x-rated names that we all enjoyed back then!

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Trivial Pursuit into the 90s

Some of my 'younger' friends may prefer the 90s version to the 80s and it's just more proof that there is a Trivial Pursuit game to suit everyone.

Looking at some of the sample questions I think the 90s version would probably really appeal to children of the 80s as well with questions such as what sitcom star popularized the Rachel haircut?

Trivial Pursuit 1990's EditionCheck Price

Trivial Pursuit for Everyone

There are so many different versions of Trivial Pursuit on the market that there really is a trivial pursuit for everyone from music lovers, bookworms to movie buffs.

My uncle used to hate playing with my parents, but if he picked a television inspired trivial pursuit version then I'm pretty sure he could clean up :)

Music Lovers Trivial Pursuit

The first music related Trivial Pursuit edition that I came across was based on The Beatles, having grown up in a post-Beatles era (notably the 1980s) I did surprise myself by how much I knew with the sample questions. There were a couple other music related Trivial Pursuit games available as you can see here -

The Beatles Trivial PursuitCheck Price

The Rolling Stones Trivial Pursuit GameCheck Price

Classic Rock Trivial PursuitCheck Price

Trivial Pursuit for Movie Lovers

Whether you love the glamorous silver screen movies of the 30s and 40s or are a die hard Lord of the Rings movie fanatic you can find a Trivial Pursuit game to enjoy, just check these three out -