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Before the Parker Brothers came down from their mountain with Trivial Pursuits, there was a trivia game that was played without a playing board, dice, game pieces or question cards. Boticelli.
In a live face-to-face setting, the game was best played with a group of at least 8 to 10 people, but I've been involved in games of 20 to 30 as well...the more the merrier! I've tried this one other time on another online forum, and I would like to try to get at least 3 or 4 other active players.
I will try to explain the rules as clearly as I can, but feel free to ask questions if you need:
The rules are fairly simple:
In a live face-to-face setting, the game was best played with a group of at least 8 to 10 people, but I've been involved in games of 20 to 30 as well...the more the merrier! I've tried this one other time on another online forum, and I would like to try to get at least 3 or 4 other active players.
I will try to explain the rules as clearly as I can, but feel free to ask questions if you need:
The rules are fairly simple:
- One person starts as IT and must think of a name of a person. The person they think of can be real or fictional, living or dead. The goal of the game is for everyone else to figure out who the person is that the IT person is thinking of.
- For the sake of an example, lets say that I'm it, and I'm thinking of Winston Churchill.
- I tell the group that the first letter of my person's last name is C.
- YOU will have to earn the right to ask me a YES or NO question about my person, and you do this by asking me a trivia question. The answer to your trivia question must start with the letter that I've given you for my person!
- So, given my example, you have to ask me a trivia question that the answer starts with C.
- If your trivia question has more than one possible correct answer that start with the same letter, say "What is a pie filling Martha Stewart might use on her original TV show?" Even if you are thinking Cherry, Chocolate would still be a correct answer!
- If I get the answer correct, your turn is over and the next person gets to try to stump me.
- But if I miss the answer, you get to ask me a question about my person that can be answered with either YES or NO. (You can't ask, are they REAL or FICTIONAL?, you'd ask, 'Are they real?' and if I say yes, then you can assume they're not fictional )
- Getting that response, the turn then moves on to the next person. The game proceeds like this and you try to extract details about my person until someone thinks they know.
- If you think you know who my person is, whether its your turn or not, you can make the statement, "I challenge!" Having made the challenge, you can then ask, "Is it __________?"
- If you correctly guess that it IS Winston Churchill, YOU are now IT, and get to choose the name of another famous person!
- Remember the CF rules! No disrespectful questions, and no famous people that others would find objectionable--like porn stars.
- Because we're not in the same room sitting around in a circle I will ask that 'turns' be determined by simply asking that the same person not take multiple turns one after another, and that the IT person (starting with ME) cannot answer a different person's question till they have finished the turn of the person who's asked a question.
- If you're IT, you cannot "research" (especially online!) someone's trivia question--this one will be on the honor system, but it would be unfair, and we'd never get any qualifyers if you get to peek!
- Same for posing trivia questions, no researching questions that will take a PhD to answer! Again, we're using the honor system.
