Customer Reviews

Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary

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2 star:		(22)
1 star:		(38)

 

 

I love board games and have always been a big fan of the origianl Trivial Pursuit (though I was never very good at it). These questions are all from the last 20 years, so I thought it would be a cinch! It's STILL challenging, but much more fun for the 20-something crowd. I highly recommend it if you enjoy the other Trivial Pursuit games.

The nostalgia and gathering with friends is what makes this game fun. We had three people playing ranging in age from 32 to 40. We found the questions to be very difficult, and in over 2 hours of play answered no more than 15 questions correctly. The game definitely is not what the product description leads you to believe. However, for some reason I do look forward to playing again!

Don't do what I did folks. I read the lousy reviews, decided I needed to find out for myself, bought the game that night, and guess what I found out? That I just wasted money! This is NOT your fun, yet challenging trip down memory lane for 20 to 30 year olds like I thought it would be. The questions were impossible to get answers to, took the fun right out of it. The commercial that advertises the game is very misleading; instead of showing pictures of Michael Jordan and Clara Peller, they should be showing the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek Magazine. In fact, this game is ideal for those of you 30somethings that did NOT spend any time watching TV or listening to music when you were growing up. Instead, you were glued to CNN.

I had read many reviews of this game and was very scared to buy it, although I was a fan of the original. However, never being one to listen to public opinion, I decided to get it and see for myself. Honestly, I couldn't have been more content with my decision. This was and still is a great game. People wrote reviews saying things like "the questions were too hard or about subjects no one knew anything about." But, would you rather the questions be too easy? I remember playing the orignal when I was 10 and some of the questions no one knew and were hard, but that's how it was supposed to be. They are supposed to be hard questions, if the game was easy, it wouldn't be any fun. I am not a genius (nor is my sister, with whom I played the game with), but we enjoyed and loved this game greatly. It took about an hour to play. I am 19 and she is 23. The questions are simply about TRIVIA, it does not matter if you didn't finish high school or are a harvard graduate. If you have paid any attention to the last 20 years and have picked up some trivial information here and there (for ex: What is the name of marvel comic's foursome who reside in the Baxter Building?), then you are well equipped and will enjoy this game as well. If not, then by all means return it. But give it a chance.

As someone who dreaded playing the original Trivial Pursuit, I wasn't too thrilled when I got the 20th edition for Christmas. I played it with my husband, sister and brother-in-law. Usually when we play Trivial Pursuit my sister and husband kick butt while me and my brother in law watch TV and pretend to play the game because we know none of the answers. Well, with the 20th edition my brother in law won in about an hour and I came in second place. With the old Trivial Pursuit we never finished a game becasue it took forever. Needless to say we found this edition to be much easier than the old one. We have played with 20, 30 and 50 year olds. The older generation didn't like it as much, but the 20 and 30 year olds loved it. I agree that the board is much cheaper, and we don't even use our dispenser, just pass out a stack of cards to each person, but we really enjoy the questions.

This game was so difficult. We played with 8 adults, all college educated ( with Masters Degrees ) ranging in ages from 25 to 38. We all found the questions to be poorly worded and difficult to read. Most were also impossible to answer. All 8 of us agreed we had no desire to torture ourselves again with this game. Warning: This is no Genus Edition!

I wish I would have read the reviews before I bought this game. I am so disappointed, I wouldn't expect a trivial pursuit game to be so bad. Now I know that having a cheap board is not a reason not to buy the game, but how could they justify charging the amount they do for this cheaply made game? This game has the least amount of questions/cards of any version I have ever played. It's true about the card dispenser also, it is very hard to get out just one card at a time, and when there are so few to begin with, you don't want to waste any. Also the questions are not as much fun as I thought they'd be from the tv ads. Some were more wordy than they needed to be and weren't very clear. I played it with 4 people and we all agreed that we didn't like this version at all. I wouldn't recommend this game even if it was half the price, but I really think it's overpriced. Go for the other versions instead, like the genus version, it's tried and true. I'm not the only one that feels this way, take a look at many of the other reviewers, you'll find many of the same comments.

Ok, I've seen that reviewers that have given this a bad review have gotten bad reviews themselves (ie. people are voting that their review isn't helpful). Well I'm just going to give you my opinion but also tell you WHY I feel this way about the game, and hopefully you'll find it helpful. First of all, I love trivial Pursuit, I have the millenium edition, Genus edition and the Star wars edition, so I wasn't already going into the game with a bad attitude or anything. I was very excited about this edition, I was born in the 70's so I figured questions from the last 20 years would be just up my alley, I didn't expect to know all of them, but I expected the questions to be challenging, entertaining and well-worded. It was challenging, it asked many things I've never heard of, and the questions weren't entertaining and were so poorly worded, we had to read the questions 3 times before we understood what the question was looking for. Even the topics are obscure- like "Global View" what exactly is that representing? At least other trivial pursuit you knew what type of question would be asked. I agree with all the other reviewers that said the board was extremely cheaply made, and I had trouble with the card sorter too, it would bend cards and pass out 2-3 at a time :( I enjoyed other versions much, much better. They'd ask questions where, maye you didn't know the answer- but you'd laugh when you found out- Like "Who Invented the toliet?" Answer: Thomas J. Crapper. There are no questions like that here. Now it's not just my opinion, I have played with a total of 8 different people (at different times) they are all 20 or older with different likes and educational backrounds, and everyone agreed they did not like this version. Also, look at other reviewers, you'll see my points are echoed in other reviews. Lastly, I noticed a big price drop, I payed quite a bit more for it, so Hasbro muct be receiving complaints about the cheapness of the board. My advice is to try to see if a friend or family member has it before buying, ask them what they think of it, or maybe try it before buying it yourself. Good Luck.

After playing this game, using only the "A" deck of questions, I felt that this game wasn't terrible. My wife and I thought we would know many more of the answers than we did, however we did get many correct. Several of the questions were poorly written and very difficult to understand without re-reading a few times. Overall this wasn't much different than any other trivia game, but because of the fact that the questions are from the last 20 years people think that they would know more when they don't.

P.S. by the way, if you don't know the answer, guess "Bill Clinton."

We bought this thinking we had a chance to get some right. We were so WRONG. This game is hard, if not impossible sometimes. We are 25 and struggle with Brown (virtually impossible to get any right unless you get lucky) and Yellow. It is very expensive at ..., the card holder is very nice, it can be used for blackjack also, but the board is not very durable. You'd think for [the money] they would have a more durable board. I reccommend it, but be prepared for games longer than Monopoly!!!!