Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It!

by Hasbro

Product Features

• It is the most inclusive and exciting game of Trivial Pursuit yet
• When you play it, you don't have to know all the answers to win - it's what you think your friends know that really counts
• Bet they'll know it or bet they won't, either way a smart bet can turn your winnings into wedges
• Provide something for everyone
• With 1,800 fascinating questions there's plenty of great content to get you talking

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0036RKKM2
• Item model number: 04988
• Manufacturer recommended age: 16 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,955 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

TRIVIAL PURSUIT BET YOU KNOW IT is the most inclusive and exciting game of Trivial Pursuit yet! When you play Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It?, you don’t have to know all the answers to win - it’s what you think your friends know that really counts. Bet they’ll know it or bet they won’t, either way a smart bet can turn your winnings into wedges! With 1,800 fascinating questions there’s plenty of great content to get you talking.

Product Description

Bet You Know It edition is the most inclusive and exciting version of Trivial Pursuit yet, where players don't have to know all the answers to win - but they do need to know their friends. Trivial Pursuit: Bet You Know It edition introduces high stakes betting to trivia, where players bet on whether or not their opponents know the answer. Guess correctly and players will earn chips that can be used to buy wedges -- or they can earn wedges by answering questions correctly on their turn. On each turn, players are able to choose their favorite from one of four rotating topic cards in the specially designed Mixologist envelope. So, players may answer a Geography question about Dogs, Breakfast, Broadway, or Jingles. Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It cards have 1,800 fresh questions which also feature a variety of new styles, including images and multiple choice. With a chance to earn a wedge on every turn, victory is that much closer. The game includes: 1 gameboard, 6 movers, 36 wedges, 1,800 fascinating questions on 300 cards, 80 chips, Mixologist envelope, 1 die and instructions. It's for 2 players and up.

• Product Dimensions (inches): 3.5 (L) x 10.5 (W) x 10.5 (H)
• Age: 12 years and up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I got to try this before you can buy it!, June 18, 2010

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Tracy "Middletown Mom" (Middletown, CT) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It! (Toy)

This is different way to play the classic game of trivia. You get the chance to win a pie piece on every turn you take. And your friends get to bet chips on whether they think you are going to get the question right or wrong. To win, you are asked 1 question after you have received all 6 pie pieces. If you pay 15 chips you can pick the topic or the category. If you pay 30 chips you can pick both the topic and the category.

The differences in this game versus the classic game:
1. Betting

2. If you get the answer right, your turn is still over. (no more having 1 person or team run the whole game!)

3. Each card has a topic and then the 6 traditional categories (science, lit, entertainment, sports, geography, history). So for example, the topic is: Large Birds and then you have the categories: Science of Large Birds, Birds in literature, etc). You get to pick the topic that you want to be questioned on and then the color that you land on is the category.

4. The Buy It option - if you land on the Buy It or Roll Again space you can purchase a wedge piece for 10 chips. I thought it might happen more than it did - but we didn't land on it as much as I thought or we chose to conserve our chips for later.

5. Up to date questions - a nice mixture of questions that you can actually answer!

All in all - a great upgrade to the classic game. I would recommend it for any family gathering or game night!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Combines trivia and betting, November 10, 2010

By 

Michael Ceciliani "Mike C" (New York City) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It! (Toy)

Unlike the other reviewer, I had to buy my version of this game after it was released. I got it for $5.00 on another website (sorry Amazon). It's amazing how they keep reinventing the TP game, but I like this version. The betting adds a new twist to it and each of the cards now has a topic on it (like Birds or Cooking). Each card has six questions related to the topic in the traditional Genus categories, like History, Entertainment, Science & Nature, etc. A special card holder allows you to choose from one of four topics. Whether you get your question right or wrong, your turn ends and the next player goes. So no more one person monopolizing the game because they're super smart or just happen to get questions they know.

One more thing about the betting. If someone answers their question correctly, they get the chips of those who bet against them. Ah, revenge is sweet. You get 15 chips to start with and you can bet up to 10 chips per question. I made a rule that's not part of the original rules. You must bet at least one chip on each question. You can also buy wedges and topics with your chips. The first one to get all six wedges and correctly answer a game winning question is the champ.

This game went over big at the game convention I brought it to. All the slots were filled prior to the con. It's trivia with poker so to speak. It's fun, and the "one question per turn" rule keeps the game moving.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good and Bad Points, February 2, 2011

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Garnet (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It! (Toy)

I bought this game for the holidays and, while we enjoyed the element of being able to bet on other people's knowledge (or lack thereof), the range of questions was rather odd and obscure. With too many obscure questions it can be less fun if hardly anyone can get anything right and can only win chips to be able to buy wedges.

This game turned out to be more of a question of how well you knew the other players than what you knew yourself. I'm not sure if being able to bet adds enough to the game to make the price worthwhile. One could just as easily get some poker chips, make up your own betting rule, and use previously released sets of questions.

The only other quibble that detracted from the game was that the cardboard holder for the cards didn't work very well (there was some fold inside that the cards kept catching on unless you put them in just so). We had to fight almost every time to get the cards to slide down inside and, eventually, this got very tiresome. By the end of the game, we were ready to just ditch the nifty card holder altogether.