Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit

Cover for the Classic Edition
Designers	Chris Haney Scott Abbott
Publishers	Selchow and Righter Parker Brothers Hasbro
Publication	1981; 44 years ago (1981)
Years active	1981–present
Genres	Board game
Languages	English
Players	2–6 (teams allowed)
Setup time	5 minutes
Playing time	45'–90'
Chance	Medium (dice, order of question cards)
Skills	General knowledge, knowledge of popular culture

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question they are asked from a card (from six categories including "history" and "science and nature"). Each correct answer allows the player's turn to continue; a correct answer on one of the six "category headquarters" spaces earns a plastic wedge which is slotted into the answerer's playing piece. The object of the game is to collect all six wedges from each "category headquarters" space, and then return to the center "hub" space to answer a question in a category selected by the other players.

Since the game's first release in 1981, numerous themed editions have been released. Some question sets have been designed for younger players, and others for a specific time period or as promotional tie-ins (such as Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, and The Lord of the Rings movies).