At-home game nights are our go-to cheap date. No babysitter needed, we can pop some popcorn, make a few drinks, and play.
From the time my husband and I were first dating, we starting amassing a board game collection. My personal favorite type of game is trivia games, though apparently that can get old if you’re always getting beat. I wouldn’t know, I don’t tend to lose those. *insert evil laugh here, along with my husband rolling his eyes*
If you think trivia games, you probably think Trivial Pursuit. I love the new take on the game that you can play on the Hasbro Game Channel.
This version of Trivial Pursuit has more of a game show feel. You can select a 3 round game or a 5 round game. Everyone gets a chance to answer the questions, so there’s no downtime where you’re waiting for your turn again, so it feels much more interactive and because it’s always some form of multiple choice, everyone has a shot.
My favorite round is one called “Close Call” where the answers are ranked and you’re trying to scramble to be the first to pick the one with the highest rank. For example, “Which of these shapes has the most sides?” You’d want to pick dodecagon first, but if someone else snagged that answer before you could, at least grab decagon or octagon before you got stuck with hexagon or pentagon. Once everyone has selected(or time runs out), the answers are ranked from highest to lowest and you get points according to where your answer fell in the ranking.
Another round is Grab Bag, where there’s one question and a whole screen full of possible answers, half which are right and half which are wrong. You go back and forth selecting answers, getting points for the correct answers.
You earn pie wedges for points you accrue, not necessarily for a specific subject, so if you have a weak subject, you can still win despite that(my husband tries to pick sports every time he can, but shhhh… my real weakness is geography).
For the final round, there will be a category selected and then a question asked with two possible answers. Everyone who answers correctly moves on to the next question(with those same two answers as possibilities). The last player standing earns a pie wedge, though if more than one person answers all the questions correctly, more than one person will get a pie wedge. For the next category, everyone is back in and this continues until someone has filled their pie.
Of course I won.
The Hasbro Game Channel can be downloaded on Xbox One and PlayStation®4, while MONOPOLY, RISK, and TRIVIAL PURSUIT can be downloaded individually on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3. We’re having a blast with these games and can’t wait to see what’s next!
What is your favorite game to play?
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I always loved Trivial Pursuit. This sounds like a lot of fun!
We love the Hasbro game channel! I love it because I’ll actually play those games on a console, and my kids love it because they’re actually getting me to play ANYTHING on a console. It’s a win, win.
Trivia can be HARD! Either you really know it, or you don’t. It’s hard to guess!
This sounds like fun. We’re a very competitive family and would definitely love to get the highest rank!
Love this! We have friends over and love playing games but we have gotten bored and know all the answers to the trivia games we own. Going to have to check this out for the next time we have friends over.
We’ve gotten like that with some of our games, too. We’ve had the same questions over and over.
We played this, this weekend and I love how it lets everyone play at once so you don’t get bored. I’m trying to talk my husband into playing even though he will totally dominate LOL!
It’s definitely more fun for a group with this version. We’re playing it during our storms!
This looks like a lot of fun!
I haven’t played Trivial Pursuit in ages! We have a weekly wii game night but we always play dance or singing games and rib each other mercilessly we will have to pick this one up and try it!
I love playing the dancing games, too! We try to balance out with different types of games.
I’m such a sucker for game night! Especially trivia games.
Aren’t they so much fun? Such an easy date night!
This would be so great for a family game night. My sister’s family would have a blast playing this with my family.
What is my favorite game? I do like Scrabble but then I love the silly games from past like Life.
this is my kind of game. I love trivia games
We’ve been playing Trivial Pursuit A TON and just love it! I like how the trivia isn’t too old.
It makes it easier to answer when the questions are more recent. That’s a challenge with the older versions of the board game.
Ooh! This sounds like something that my family would just love! We are always looking for new, fun games to play together!
Hubby and I like to play Trivial Pursuit. We’re the only two in the house who like it though, so we usually play something else. 😉 Everyone likes Yahtzee.
I was over at my parents’ to feed their cat this weekend and saw a Trivial Pursuit encyclopedia out on the counter. I wonder if it would help me win big at this new version of the game.
You have to answer too quickly for that, I think. Too quickly even for google!
How fun. I haven’t played trivial pursuit in so long. I think this could be such fun!
Oh, how fun!! I love Trivial Pursuit. I remember when the very first edition came out. We still have that game and the board is all worn out because of how many times it has been played.
I still have my original blue box Trivial Pursuit game from when they first came out. You know, I still cant answer half the questions.
It seems like the older versions are harder. Or maybe it’s just b/c it’s easier to know the trivia about events we actually lived through!
Sounds like some fun. Great options to play also.
This looks like such a fun way to play Trivial Pursuit! Would make a fun family game night!
We love to play Catchphrase. It’s my game of choice and I’m extremely competitive. We have Game Night at our house and it is so much fun. I own a lot of fun games.
This looks like a great game. I an sure my family will love it. We like to have Wii sports battles.