Trivial Pursuit: The 1980’s master game with light grey game box cover
Question categories: Personalities / Entertainment / In the News / That’s Life / Sports & Leisure / Wild Card
For ages 7 and up – but challenging for most adults too!!!
Includes:
~~ Game Playing Board, quad-fold, 20 inches square
~~ 6,000 Questions on 1,000 Question and Answer Trivia Cards in 2 Boxes, 6 on each card, color coded by category
~~ 6 Plastic Player Tokens (pie wheels), in different colors
~~ 36 Plastic Scoring Wedges (pie pieces, 6 for each pie wheel)
~~ 1 Die
~~ Trivial Pursuit Ziploc Bag (to hold all the small pieces)
~~ Code Card (with category for each color)
~~ The 1980’s Edition – Rules of Play
~~ Original Game Box, measures 10.25” inches square x 3.5” deep
More Info:
~~ Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions.
~~ The game was created in December 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Chris Haney and [[John Baker] AKA Just Jon],
~~ a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press.
~~ After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game.
~~ With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.
~~ In North America, the game's popularity peaked in 1984, a year in which over 20 million games were sold.
~~ The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro) in 1988.
~~ In 2008 Hasbro bought the full rights, for US $80 million.
~~ As of 2004, nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages.
In excellent / very good condition, from smoke-free home
Pick up in Berlin, MA (sorry we don't ship items, really we don't)
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