Trivial Pursuit 25th Anniversary Edition

This game is HORRIBLE!

By harold  Dec 25, 2008

Pros: Can be used to stack other games on top of!!

Cons: poorly written q's, bad English, inconistent difficulty, monotonous gameplay

Words to describe this game: inconsistent, poorly written, innaccurate, and perhaps for multiplayer somewhat confusing. We played this game with our fmaily on Christmas eve. The game started out well enough-- a reminder of the original, a seemingly e...asier difficulty rating, and new questions. We quickly found out the game was a mere shadow of the original. This game tries to take the "easy for everyone" approach, meaning in theory that even young persons can answer the suppossed easier lower numbers rolled. It is suppossed to be difficult for the higher numbers. In actuality, however the game questions are wildly inconsistent. One level one question asked us the number one exported wood of burma. Uh hello, maybe that's easy if you live in Burma, but the answer: Teak, is not common knowledge. This extended to different categories as well. In science and tech, an easiest of the easy category (#1), the question asked to name the fruit part of the rose? Rose Hips?!? What the %#@% is that? Conversly, the hard questions were sometimes mystifyingly easy. A level Six question asked which country was the world's number two exporter of opium, ruled by the Taliban!?! Umm...australia? If you were locked in a cell in the artic for the last decade this might have been hard. Another question's level six answer was Shakespeare. Yet another card had all the same answers on the back of the card...wow great way to save development and research money, hey parker brothers? In actuality this game looked like a bunch of pot smoking college kids had come up with questions after an all nighter. For instance one of the questions from Sports and Leisure (in which a surprisngly amount of olympic questions were, and absolutely not one baseball or football question ever came up) gave the dimensions of a women's olympic apparatus measuring 23.5 inches wide, 317 inches tall, and 16 feet long with two mats? answer: balance beam?!? since when is the balance beam 2 feet wide and 26 feet high! Did anyone proof or edit this game? Hello quality control! Another moderate amount of questions, had inaccurate questions, improper use of English or simply wrong answers. They described a slammed dunk as dropping the ball through the hoop--that technically is called a layup, and used to be the rule in basketball as a slam dunk was considered a technical foul. Unfortunately, more and more questions were either poorly written, inaccurately placed as far as difficulty, or just plain wrong. Stay away from this game unless you want a night of confusion, head shaking, and general frustration at a game that has glaring inconsistencies. Read more Less