WS Game Company Trivial Pursuit Vintage Bookshelf Edition Trivia Board Game | Classic Board Game

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WS Game Company Trivial Pursuit Vintage Bookshelf Edition: What to Know

The number worth thinking about is 1,200. That is how many questions are in the box, across 200 cards held in two card holder boxes, and unlike every other game in this line it is a consumable rather than a mechanism. Monopoly and Scrabble generate a new game from the same components indefinitely; a trivia game is exhausted when the questions are familiar. Twelve hundred is a decent number and it is not infinite, and that is the single most important consideration before buying this as a gift for someone whose taste in games you are guessing at.

For a household that genuinely likes trivia it is excellent, and the format works at the widest range of player counts in the line: WS states 2 or more players, with no upper limit, because trivia scales to however many people want to shout answers.

The components are a full-sized folding game board and the two card holder boxes, with the vintage styling consistent across the line. There are no die-cast or wooden pieces here, because a trivia game does not need them, which means this is the edition where you are paying most for the case and least for the contents.

The stated age is 8 and up, though in practice trivia has a much harder age gate than any other game here: a question set written for adults will leave a child unable to participate regardless of what the box says.

Two honest notes. Trivia dates: questions written years ago include references that have aged, and there is no way to refresh them within this edition. And of the five, this is the one most likely to be displayed and least likely to be played a second time, which is worth being clear-eyed about.

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