Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice

by Trival Pursuit

Product Features

• Customize your favorite trivia game by downloading your own questions
• Play your favorite trivia game the way you've always played but read questions off an electronic unit instead of cards
• The unit includes 600 pre-loaded questions from classic categories of Trivial Pursuit
• Go to mytpchoice.com and download up to 1800 questions from over 100 micro categories of your choice at no additional charge
• You will never have to repeat a question. Includes USB cable, 36 scoring wedges, 6 scoring tokens 1 gameboard 1 die and instructions

Product Details

Manual [PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 2.8 x 10.7 x 10.7 inches ; 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0013WF6A8
• Item model number: 4179
• Manufacturer recommended age: 18 years and up
• Batteries: 3 AAA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,882 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You download music, ring tones, and movies-now you can download your Trivial Pursuit questions. Play your favorite trivia game the way you've always played, but read questions off an electronic unit instead of cards. The unit includes 600 pre-loaded questions from classic categories such as sports and leisure, people and places, science and nature, and history. Then go to mytpchoice.com and download up to 1,800 more questions of your choice. Love sci-fi and fantasy. Know all there is to know about movies. Customize your electronic unit with your favorite categories to create the perfect game- you will never have to repeat a question. Whoever you are, whatever you love, and this is the Trivial Pursuit for you. This includes electronic unit containing 600 pre-loaded questions, USB cable, 36 scoring wedges, six scoring tokens, one game board, one die and instructions. It can be used for 3 to 6 players.

Product Description

Your trivia, your choice! With this new twist on trivia, a digital card deck allows you to control what content you play with for every experience. Customize your game for each occasion or go online to get even more content and categories. Easily portable. Requires three "LR03" batteries, not included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Concept, But Not Able to Download New Questions, November 26, 2008

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Jesse Spencer Smith (Champaign, IL) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice (Toy)

Everyone loves Trivial Pursuit, but we each have our favorite topics. Too many sports questions in a row ruin my night! With Digital Choice you are supposedly able to download new questions easily, choosing the subjects. Fantastic idea. Terrible execution. While the handheld device for questions and answers is perfectly adequate, it seems as if the computer-based software and the online service from which you download questions are not functioning. I've been unable to download new questions in the month since buying the game, always running into a "Server Not Available" error. After trying to contact technical support to no avail, I've tried lowering our firewall and opening a port in our router without success. We've run through the questions that come preloaded, and until the online service is up and running (or the client software glitch is patched), Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice will have to remain on the shelf.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally - An Electronic Version Better than the Original Game!, January 11, 2009

By 

Suburban Dad (MA United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice (Toy)

Ever since the Jeapordy interactive game, I've been hesitant to buy the digital version of any game...but Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice has made me a believer again! This game is fantastic! It's basically the same Trivial Pursuit game, but instead of using a box of paper question cards, you have a small electronic screen that has all the questions. At the start of each game, you can pick your categories from a bunch of pre-programmed ones (or you can invent your own questions!). Once you pick the question, you decide which question categories will be used for each color. So you could have the "Legends & Unsolved Mysteries" category be orange this game, and blue the next.

The digital question console is battery powered and lighted, and it's really easy to read. It also hides the answer, so if you need to show the actual question to the guesser, they can't see the answer.

Lastly, the console plugs into your computer with an included usb cable and there's some software that you install that lets you add/remove questions from it. If you have some free time, you can create your own categories and questions. We collected trivia questions from our family and we now have a "Family Trivia" category that has questions about all our family members ("What year was Sophie married?", "What color eyes does Grampa have?", "What was Aunt Sara's maiden name?", etc...)

It really makes the game a whole lot more fun.

I 100% recommend this.

Some other things to note:
- it's not clear from the description, but this DOES come with a normal trivial pursuit board, game pieces and pie wedges. The only difference is that there aren't any printed questions (all the questions come from the digital console).
- read all the instructions to figure out the console. It's easy to use once you know what the buttons do, but if you just "open and use" without reading the instructions, you might get confused.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Careful downloading questions. They don't have more to buy!, December 27, 2008

By 

Steve - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice (Toy)

Be careful not to use up your "free" questions thinking that you'll be able to easily buy more. The desktop software says:

"Problem: I have downloaded all of my free questions. How can I get more?
Solution: Go to http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ and select Trivial Pursuit (?). You will be able to purchase additional questions. After you purchase the questions, you will be provided a code to enter under the My Questions tab."

The problem is that there doesn't seem to be any way to actually purchase additional questions at that site, nor is there any indication anywhere of how much money they'll charge if/when they actually do allow you to purchase additional questions. This seems like a fairly easy thing for Hasbro to do and it's somewhat unbelievable that they haven't. Someone there has dropped the ball on this one.

The power of this game SHOULD be that when they release a new edition I SHOULD be able to go online and buy the questions for download rather than a new physical game. Thus far, that doesn't seem to be the case.