Trivial pursuit 2000s free#

Free delivery when you spend over £39.99 applies for UK mainland onlyĮxpress Delivery FREE - when you spend over £75.00, or £2.99 when you spend over £39.99, or £5.99 for orders under £39.99.Delivery in 2-3 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays).The new ones come with little lips which make it easier to get them out of the pie dish – definitely an improvement on the original.How much does UK delivery cost? Standard Delivery FREE - when you spend over £39.99, or £2.99 for orders under £39.99 What are we keeping? The good bits: the questions and the pie pieces. Not the weirdly shaped board, not the plastic card-holders which don’t quite fit together, and definitely not the gameplay or the custom die. Side note: I once used “Casablanca” as my default answer all through a game, except for the one question I knew I knew but couldn’t quite bring to mind: What film was based on the play “ Everybody Comes to Rick’s“?ĭisappointing as it is, we aren’t going to get rid of our set, but we aren’t going to use much of it either. Unless the question is looking for a movie, in which case go for Casablanca. On which note, when in doubt, answer Gough Whitlam for Australian political questions and Ronald Reagan for entertainment or US political questions. But that’s still probably an improvement on the minutiae of the early 1980s. Not unless they split the difference: old-school gameplay with modern questions.Īnd even the questions are much more likely to be multi-choice now. But they’re not going to get that challenge from Trivial Pursuit 2000s. In my (admittedly not extensive) experience, young people are just as keen as ever to rise to a challenge and achieve something they can be proud of. Because Hasbro have not only built their marketing but the actual gameplay around a stereotype: young people want achievement without effort. Millennials, in fact.Īnd while there are approximately as many denigratory things said about millennials as there are actual millennials, I think this is a big mistake. This might be reasonable if it’s intended as a game for small children – or a game which will even the playing field between small children and adults – but the box suggests that it is aimed at people 16 and over. Now if you are anything like me, you are up on your hind legs screaming in outrage right now. If you want to win, though, you need to answer a question. There are three ways to get a piece of pie: correctly answer a question, get someone else to answer it incorrectly, or just – keep going. Are you sitting down? If you make it all the way to the end of a particular colour’s section without getting that piece of pie one way or the other, you get given it as a parting gift. You don’t have to know anything you just need your opponent to not know anything either.īut if you decide you will answer the question, and you get it right, you get the piece of pie. If they get it wrong, you get that colour piece of pie. If they get it right, they move forward a space. If you choose not to answer, you read the question out, and your opponent attempts to answer it. So you get given your topic, and then – get this! – you decide if you want to answer the question, or make your opponent answer it! The person with the card reads out the topic of the card – because the cards are not only segregated by colour, now, they’re segregated by topic too. But it gets easier!Īll the squares of a certain colour are in a row, so you throw the special die (two ones, three twos and one three) and move that number of squares. The questions aren’t the only thing that’s changed.įor starters, you only need to go around the board once to win, because getting a question right automatically entitles you to that piece of pie, regardless of whether you’re on the big ‘pie’ square or not. Of course, the game is wrapped in plastic, so you can’t get a good look inside, but once you do – once you’ve bought it, that is – whew. Clearly, it was time for some fresh blood. We have two sets: a New Zealand set, and an Australia expansion pack – both from the mid eighties. All right, they don’t call it that, but that’s what it is.įor the last, er, lifetime, I have been playing Trivial Pursuit with questions as old as I am.