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Trivial Pursuit Mini Game - Family Edition (1993) - Kraft General Foods in conjunction with Horn Abbot Ltd. A set of two games, version one (green box) and version two (yellow box). Each mini game contained 20 game cards - 10 cards for adults and 10 cards for children, 1 die, 2 scorecards, and a set of rules.
Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question they are asked from a card (from six categories including "history" and "science and nature").
A best-selling book in its day, The Trivia Encyclopedia was brought back to public consciousness in the 1980s, when author Worth unsuccessfully sued the makers of Trivial Pursuit for copyright infringement. Worth claimed that they had sourced their questions from his books, even to the point of reproducing misprints and typographical errors.
In the days before video gaming, we used to gather together face to face to socialize and play games made of paper and plastic. No kidding. In the mid-80s, a new board game, Trivial Pursuit, swept ...
The Trivial Pursuit game that they developed was trademarked on November 10, 1981, and 1,100 copies of the game were released later that month for sale by retailers for $15. [4] The company they formed to market the game, Horn Abbot, lost money on each of these initial sets, which cost $75 each to manufacture. [4]
Fred L. Worth, the author of The Trivia Encyclopedia, placed deliberately false information about the first name of TV detective Columbo for copy-trap purposes. He later sued the creators of Trivial Pursuit, as they had based some of their questions and answers on entries found in the work. The suit was unsuccessful, as the makers of Trivial ...
Talpa Studios, founded by “The Voice” and “Big Brother” creator John de Mol, has launched “Trivial Pursuit,” a quiz show format based on the Hasbro trivia game, at TV market Mipcom in ...
The CW has handed series orders to Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble, new game shows based on the classic Hasbro board games. Neither series currently has a host, which is likely to raise eyebrows ...