How to Make a Trivia Game

Making your trivia game

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  Find questions. Questions that relate to current news topics, songs, and interesting facts can be exciting components of your trivia game. Selecting trivia questions can be as easy as jotting down interesting questions and answers from today's news highlights.

  You can create questions about songs you like. Save the song without its title, instead labeling it with a corresponding question number. Then play the song and ask for the title or artist.

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  Create question-and-answer cards. For song-based questions, numbered questions would ask players to listen to a clip from the portable music player. Based on the type of question (fact versus song) create categories by color-coding the note cards. Add more categories for different age groups (kids, teens, and adults) or topics (animals, electronics, etc). Write 10 to 15 questions for each category.

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  Assign point values. Write down a point value on each card, based on level of difficulty. If the player gets the question right, he would then accumulate this number of points.

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  Set up game. If you choose to use dice, then the number the player rolls could be the question number in the deck the player must respond to. For example, rolling a 6 would require the player to answer the sixth question in the deck of questions.

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  Define rules to your preference. Using playing cards or other board games in your trivia game is an interesting way to spice up classics. Be sure to keep a defined set of rules available for the players. Keep a score of each person's points per category. Whomever achieves the most points after all the questions are answered will be the winner.