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Trivial Pursuit

Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit
Pratyeka • CC BY-SA 4.0
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Overview

Born in 1979 from a simple conversation between friends, Trivial Pursuit became a worldwide phenomenon by transforming curiosity into competition. It celebrated the joy of knowing of remembering facts, stories, and cultural moments that define an era. Before search engines and instant answers, knowledge itself was the treasure, and memory the map that led to it.

Objective

Players move around the board answering questions from six categories, earning colored wedges for each field of mastery geography, entertainment, history, art, science, and sports. The first to collect all six and answer the final question correctly claims victory, but every round is its own celebration of learning and recall.

Why It Worked

Because it honored the human mind in its purest form. Trivial Pursuit made intelligence social, turning knowledge into play and memory into meaning. It captured the thrill of thinking for oneself, of drawing from within rather than consulting a device a ritual of intellect that no algorithm could replicate.

Legacy

At its peak, it united generations around the table, proving that wisdom could be joyful and that learning could belong to everyone. Trivial Pursuit stands as a monument to the age when knowledge lived not in machines, but in the living minds of humankind.

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