Trivial Pursuit Game Rules

The Board and Pieces

• The Trivial Pursuit board is shaped like a wheel, with a central hub and six spokes leading to an outer ring. The spokes and ring consist of color-coded spaces; each color corresponds to a particular category of trivia (such as "Arts and Literature" or "Entertainment"). The pieces are circular and contain slots for six pie-shaped wedges. These slots need to be filled in before the player can win the game.

Game Play

• Players all start in the center of the hub; a die roll determines who goes first. On his turn, each player rolls the die and moves that many spaces along the hub towards the outer ring. When he lands on a space, another player draws a trivia card from the box (there are hundreds of cards in each copy of Trivial Pursuit) and asks the question corresponding to the color of the space. If the player answers the question correctly, he may roll again and move that many spaces on the board. (After the initial roll, he may move in any direction he prefers.)

Filling Your Piece and Winning

• Whenever a player lands on a category headquarters̵2;the color-coded space which connects a spoke to the outer ring̵2;she must answer a question from that category. If she answers correctly, she gains a pie wedge of the corresponding color to put in her piece. There are six different category headquarters spaced evenly around the board, and players must use them to fill their piece with six different colors of pie wedge. (They may not gain two wedges of the same color.) When a player has filled her piece, she may then move back to the center of the board. When she lands on the hub precisely, she must then answer a final question selected by the other players. If she answers right, she wins the game. If she answers wrong, she must leave the hub on her next turn (answering a question for whichever category she lands on), then return to the hub (on an exact die roll, as before) and correctly answer another question.