Trivial Pursuit

As regular visitors to the site will attest, we at Pocket Gamer enjoy hunting down a good bit of tedious trivia as much as the next man (provided he’s of average height at 1.85m obviously) and we equally love the idea of the Trivial Pursuit board game. And yet we don’t actually play it. Why? Simply because it takes bloody ages to get through.

Let’s face it, we’ve all been there, haven’t we? Sitting around with friends or family after dinner, the conversation wanes and then out of the stony silence someone helpfully pipes up with “Who fancies a game? I know, let’s get out the Trivial Pursuit, everyone loves that!” There follows much enthusiastic agreement and some frenzied team-formation negotiations before the first die is cast and first question purposefully asked, usually accompanied by a statement such as “now this is an easy one!’ Turn the clock forward 2 hours however and the game is back on its dusty shelf (minus a few lost wedges), half the contingent have gone home or to bed and the few remaining revellers are still bickering over the identity of the first goal scorer in the 1966 world cup final.

So just imagine then if you could compact all the juicy nuggets of knowledge into a slicker, quicker and more handy format and one moreover that didn’t require a dinner party or family gathering to be organised in the first place. Now wrap that idea up with some slick presentation, plonk it into your handset and you’ve got Mr Goodliving’s Trivial Pursuit Mobile edition.

The board is pretty much the same (well minus 1 square between each wedge), the rules are the same and the questions are just as random as ever, however by cutting out all the dithering, this mobile edition allows you to rattle through even a multiplayer version (up to 6 players) in less than half an hour. Chose to play on your own, either in classic mode or the even nippier ‘against the clock’ challenge and you could have a full wheel of cheeses/pies/wedges inside 5 minutes. What’s more, there’s even a high score table to dispel all myths about who answered the most questions correctly or quickly!

Okay, so the purists might argue that the use of multiple choice answers rather than having a completely open ended question makes life a little bit easier, but only marginally and at least this solves any concerns about pronunciations or spelling. This small niggle aside though, Trivial Pursuit is a perfect demonstration of how to bring a board-game to the mobile and adequately fills that triangular spaced trivia hole in everyone’s life.

Trivial Pursuit

There’s nothing trivial about it; a truly excellent conversion of the classic board game
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Chris James
Chris James
A footy game fanatic and experienced editor of numerous computing and game titles, bossman Chris is up for anything – including running Steel Media (the madman).