Addictively Entertining Trivia Family Game | Addictively Entertining Trivia Family Game | Conversation starter, cozy conversation | The game for anyone who loves new trivia, wild guesses, and uproarious laughter! | Are you prepared to learn what you friends really think about you? | A trivia party game with unexpected questions and answers you’ll never see coming! |
110 cards 440 questions, hours of fun | 110 cards 440 questions, hours of fun | 110 cards 330 hygge questions | 110 cards 440 questions, hours of fun | 110 cards 330 laugh-out-loud and unexpected questions | 110 cards 440 questions, hours of fun |
2 or more | 2 or more | 2 or more | 3 or more | 3 or more | 2 or more |
14+ | 14+ | 14+ | 14+ | 17+ | 17+ |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Your next party, dinner, or get-together with freinds and family! | Your next party, dinner, or get-together! | Cozy conversations and memorable times with family and friends | For your next party, game night with friends, you evening at home, or dinner! | A fast-paced game for your next party | For your next party, dinner, or get-together! |
Quality trivia time with family and friends | Quality trivia time with family and friends | A Hygge evening, everybody wins! | The answers are always numbers in this game so you can always take a wild guess | Get to know your friends even better | Party Trivia Game jam packed with fun facts, random trivia, and useless knowledge |
Okay, let's cut to the chase: Is there anything that sets this trivia game apart from the gillion other trivia games out there?
Not really.
How Did You Know That? doesn't have a board, instead using small notepads for players to write down their answers. Questions are read aloud to the group, everyone writes down their answers, then the correct answers are revealed, with everyone scoring a point for each correct answer. You play to an arbitrary total of your choosing, and that's it. That's the whole game.
(The rules encourage you to shout "How Did You Know That?" if there is only one person who knows the answer, but there is no REASON to. It's not like Uno or something, where you are penalized for forgetting. It's just some random thing to do.)
The game is basically one deck of cards (about 400 questions) and some notepads which you don't even need to use, because any scrap paper will do. That's it.
Is it fun? Sure, it's fun in the same way ANY trivia is fun. If you love teasing your brain, hey, here are 400 more questions for you. So that's neat.
If there is anything that sets is apart, it's that the questions are a little more quirky, varied, and less "intense" than that big famous trivia game with the initials "T.P." You won't need knowledge of obscure philosophers or the like. These are much lighter questions that even younger teens can answer. It's very accessible, which makes it a good choice for a mixed crowd.
As a GAME, I have to be honest, there isn't much here. There is barely a game at all. It's just a deck of trivia questions. They couldn't have spent more than two minutes thinking about the "game" part of it.
But if you like trivia, well ... it's more trivia!
I went back and forth between giving this three stars or four. It's a 3-star game based on the GAME aspect -- like I said, there isn't much "game" to speak of -- but the fact that it's so accessible eased me into giving an extra star, since unlike T.P., you can break this out with any kind of company and no one is going to feel left out or dumb because they didn't know that Descartes wrote "cogito, ergo sum."
So it's not a great (or even good) GAME, but it IS fun and accessible trivia, and as a fan of trivia, I'm okay with that.