Customer Reviews

Trivial Pursuit 25th Anniversary Edition

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I have love T.P. since it came out in the 1980's. I still have my original, but was happy to update my game with this. Not only do the added levels make this fun, it also allows for my kids to play (with different answer levels we can keep theirs on an easier plane).
My biggest problem is the incorrect answers. We have only played this with the family twice (one session lasted 8 hours...because we did not put in a time limit) the other about 3. Both times we came across questions whose printed answers were incorrect.
For example...History: 5/6 (on difficulty level) "Who was pope immediately prior to John Paul II?" They provide the answer as "Pope Paul VI"...but lest we forget there was a Pope John Paul I who served for about one month as pope after Paul VI,but died in his sleep bringing forth John Paul II. So JP I is the correct answer.
So, as long as you do not mind having a laptop at the ready to double check things like this...or marking up your cards with the correct answers...you will have some fun with this.

Love this game! The 25th Anniversary Edition is all the fun of the original Genus version with added play dimension. As players move thier pie shells around the board, answering questions to collect wedges, they also move a second little figure around the perimeter zones. These zones can let you move one player's pie shell anywhere on the board, or allow one to challenge an opponant to a speed question, with the possibility of winning a wedge or causing the other player to lose a turn. Another cool feature: since this edition has questions of varying difficulty on the same subject printed on every card, it is easy to play with a beginer or a child without "dumbing" the game down for experienced adults. Buy this game now!

We always play Trivial Pursuit at Thanksgiving with our family and have tried many of the versions and found this one went over very well. Love the easy, medium, hard question feature which allowed all trivial-skill levels to play. Everyone had fun and we'll play it again.

Simply stated, this game was very poorly put together. There were several typos, questions were often worded poorly, and some of the "facts" were just plain WRONG. For example, there was a question referring to the atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki. The card stated that the name of the bomb was "Fat Boy," when the correct answer should have been "Fat Man." I did like the idea of six levels of difficulty for each question, but the question writers for this game didn't exactly stick with this concept. One of the HIGHER level questions actually asked me "What d-word is used to describe the bouncing of a basketball?" Really?? I didn't know this game was meant for 2nd graders. So, overall, I was VERY disappointed with this game. It seems to me, seeing as how this is an anniversary edition, they could have hired people to fact check and spell check all the questions, rather than just throwing this thing together.

We love to play games and thought this would be a fun addition to our other T.P. versions~ wrong!! Each card has the same topic so you can no longer show the card to the player trying to understand the question. There are a lot of repeat topics and repeat questions. The questions are really idiotic and don't count on 1 being easy and 6 being difficult- the "average" person absolutely did not write these questions. Because there are now 6 different stacks of questions, you can't easily just keep a stack of cards in front of you. This game is much more frustrating than it is enjoyable, definitely not worth any amount of money!

We bought this because it said it had easy questions and we thought our children would be able to play it with us, it is terrible the easy questions are harder than the questions on the original trivial pursuit. Also made very cheap, the cards are way thinner than the old cards. Plus all the questions on one card pertain to one thing so it is easy to memorize the cards after playing a few times.

The Trivial Pursuit genre has stepped backwards with this one... not only is the redesigned board completely lacking in the elegance of the earlier versions, but what they did to the questions caused more problems than they solved. While I sympathize with the need to have easier and harder questions, constantly passing the six packs of cards around leads to messes- and, because there are so few cards for each category of question, in just a few games, we find ourselves repeating the questions! Also, how they sorted the questions into easy, medium, and hard is a little bizzairre sometimes. There are quite a few cards where "hard" is much easier than "easy" questions.

I bought this because I was sick of answering questions from the 70s (Idi Amin and Charles Lindberg's baby are the answers to half of the history questions), but I'm not sure it was worth it. The silly moving the token around the exterior ring, while it adds a new action to the game, doesn't seem to improve the gameplay.

If I could trade this in on a few new boxes of the old-style question cards with one question from each category on each card, with a few hundred cards in each box like they always had, I'd jump at the chance.

We had fun playing this game, although we didn't play by the complicated rules. We just played the game the regular way. They tried to put a spin on the game, but it's confusing.

I love Trivial Pursuit in general. This product is about as awful as Trivial Pursuit can be. My girlfriend and I have played it many times and never finish without frustration. I am interrupting a game of it right now to register my frustration. We just had a question asking which Peter Sellers' Inspector Cluseau movie did not have "Pink Pather" in the title. I know well that the answer is "A Shot In the Dark". I love that movie. The card lists the answer as "The Wrong Box"... that is just plain incorrect. Look up the movies on [...] for yourself. "The Wrong Box" is not an Inspector Cluseau movie, Peter Sellers isn't even in it.

Some of the "hard" questions are rather easy, I remember one game asking who Bill Clinton's main 1996 opponent was in the U.S. presidential election. This should not be a hard question for anyone who was at least 10 years old at the time.

We just had a question in the "Sports and Leisure" category asking which kind of pigeon is now extinct. How is this "Sports & Leisure" rather than "Science and NATURE"????!! I recognize birdwatching is a hobby, but, come on.

I love the review which declares this product a "Steaming Turd", it's an embarassment.

Save your money and watch "Jeopardy" instead.

I bought this version of Trivial Pursuit based off of others reviews. I played it this past weekend and enjoyed it a lot. For me it was similar to other versions. It still had the original six categories: geography, entertainment, history, art & literature, science & nature, sport & leisure.But -THIS IS NEW - each category now has its own card, with six questions and varying difficulty levels. What you roll determines the level of difficulty of the question.
Also they give you little pawns to play with and there is suppose to be some new way of playing with them. But we just used the original pieces and moved them around the board like we always do.
I would recommend this game because I enjoyed the new questions.