![]() ![]() This runs counter to the spirit of most board games-like Monopoly and Scrabble-which promise endless permutations. Purists, though, ignored the new games and gravitated back to the blue box 23 years after its American debut, the original edition still accounts for a huge percentage of Trivial Pursuit’s 80 million units sold. As the years passed, Abbott and Haney worked furiously to reinvent the franchise, creating new editions like “All-Star Sports” and “Baby Boomer” (which seemed slightly redundant). Whether one memorized the questions or not, the original Trivial Pursuit contained a finite amount of entertainment. He continues, “If your opponents are people with whom you may expect to play again, you will be better served by suggesting that the correct answers not be read aloud.” If that fails, a player may attempt to “throw his opponents into a tizzy by providing extra bits of information or alternative correct answers they will have to look up, only to grudgingly agree that he is right.” And, finally: “The possibilities are limited only by the deviousness of your mind and the viciousness of your competitive drive. Heller suggests that a player memorize all 6,000 answers before his opponents arrive and be prepared to contest the validity of any question in which his answer is deemed to be wrong. In a 1983 volume called How To Win at Trivial Pursuit, author Robert J. The social stigma of losing necessitated strategy, even chicanery. “This game can make you feel incredibly brilliant or incredibly stupid,” a player told the New York Times in 1984. With nothing less than cultural identity on the line, Trivial Pursuit matches became pitched battles.
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