Trivial Pursuit: 6th Edition

by Hasbro

Product Features

• America's favorite trivia game
• 4,800 new general knowledge questions
• 6 categories: People/Places, Arts/Entertainment, History, Science/Nature, Sports/Leisure and Wild Card
• 2 to 6 players or teams.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.6 x 10.6 x 10.6 inches ; 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000096QI9
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 41039
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,464 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Play the updated edition of America's favorite trivia game. Test your trivial knowledge in 4,800 new general knowledge questions in 6 categories: People/Places, Arts/Entertainment, History, Science/Nature, Sports/Leisure and Wild Card. Answer questions correctly to collect all the wedges in your pie, then race to the center of the gameboard to win!

Product Description

From adding machines to laptops...JFK to George W...bell-bottoms to bootlegs...beta cassettes to DVD. For over 20 years, Trivial Pursuit games have provided endless hours of trivia amusement to millions of people worldwide.

The tradition continues with Trivial Pursuit Volume Six. Packed with 4,800 all-new general knowledge questions, from topics including People and Places, Art and Entertainment, History, Science and Nature and Sports and Leisure. You can even take your chances with the Wild Card category. Includes: gameboard, question and answer cards in a two boxes, one die, six tokens, 36 scoring wedges and instructions.

For 2 to 6 players or teams.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

154 of 157 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You have to be kidding me . . ., December 26, 2004

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J. Klein (SF, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: 6th Edition (Toy)

Sorry, but Volume 6 does NOT compare to the classic Genus and Genus II versions of this game. Rather, Volume 6 relies heavily on People Magazine-type trivia -- lots of inane pop culture-oriented questions, for which even die-hard trivia fans will be saying "Who cares?" An example of this is a question about Christina Ricci appearing in a GAP commercial. This was in the HISTORY category! Lame! About 40% of the questions seemed to fall into this category. Another 20-30% were ridiculously easy, a further 20% ridiculously obscure. The creators have also ditched the nuanced questioning style of the original game, by which one could often deduce the answer, even when it was something otherwise unknown.

I think the problem here is that TP is issuing too many versions in too short a period of time. Genus 5, which I DO like, came out fairly recently (I think), and I think TP needs to take some more time to write better questions. Part of the fun of TP has been that you learn from the questions you miss. With Volume 6, you just don't care.

122 of 128 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much like the Classic, May 21, 2004

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A. K. Berger "filburt_girl" (Nebraska, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: 6th Edition (Toy)

As a person who's rumored to have been playing Trivial Pursuit since she was six years old, I have to admit that version 6 of this game has to be one of the better ones to come along in years. Much like the first Genus edition, the questions have a great range in both subject matter and level of difficulty. However, a problem plagues Trivial Pursuit 6 that has plagued all other recent editions: NOT ENOUGH QUESTIONS. After about 5 full length games, I found myself and my companions repeating the questions! Trivial Pursuit 6 has about half the number of question cards that Genus I (from 1979) had. The new version 6 is great if you're a casual player who won't play it that often, but for any die-hard fans, this game is going to get really old really quickly.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Basics, But Tinged With Pop Culture., March 3, 2005

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tvtv3 "tvtv3" (Sorento, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: 6th Edition (Toy)

TRIVIAL PURSUIT VOLUME 6 is one of the better regular editions of trivial pursuit to come along in several years (the last good regular edition was VOLUME 2). It's the same basic trivial pursuit game that has been played for the past 20 or so years, but with over 5,000 new questions. The categories are the same as in most of the Trivial Pursuit games: People & Places, Arts & Entertainment, History, Science & Nature, Sports & Leisure, and Wild Card. Also, there haven't been any major rule changes as far as I can tell.

Nevertheless, the game does have one major flaw. There is an overabundance of questions relying on popular culture that pop up (pardon the pun) in all of the categories, including the history and science & nature categories. I know that some of the early Trivial Pursuit games made for young people contained many pop culture references, but the original Trivial Pursuit games did not. One of the reasons that the history and science & nature cateogries used to be some of the most difficult categories to win at was because they didn't have any pop culture questions. That isn't the case with this edition.

Still, the game is a lot of fun to play and is a great way to study up on useless knowledge (something that I'm quite familiar with). By the way, what extract of the cinchona tree was once known as "Jesuit bark," for the missionaries who first brought it back to Europe? Anyone know?

A: quinine.