Trivial Matters

I picked this up a few weeks ago. They changed it up a bit and added an “easy, medium, hard” feature where each card has a single category and questions of varying degrees of difficulty. The question you get is based on the dice roll, and answering correctly moves a second game piece around the edge of the board. Certain spots on this outer ring give you added bonuses like being able to move other players’ tokens, getting only easy questions, and being able to steal away pie pieces by answering first.

My friends and I tried it out one night, and while it did make the game more interesting, there is too great of a possibility of stealing away the game. I managed to get mostly easy questions and had all of my pieces before one player had answered a single question correctly (she was getting all hard questions) and then she kept getting her pie pieces stolen because the other two had made it into that part of the outer ring.

Overall, it’s a fun game to play with people you know, but I wouldn’t bring it to a games night with strangers. I think the next time we play, we’ll ask only hard questions or play one of the other varients listed in the game book.

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