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Trivial Pursuit
The board game that turned family game night into a six-category trivia showdown, complete with the satisfying click of a wedge sliding into place.
- Era
- 80s
- Released
- 1981
- Category
- board games
- Availability checked
- 7/16/2026
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The pitch
Six categories. One pie piece. A thousand arguments about who actually knew that answer. Trivial Pursuit turns any living room into the final round.
Why people remember it
- Everyone remembers the little pie-shaped playing piece and the race to fill it with colored wedges.
- It made trivia a party sport, with genre editions eventually covering everything from sports to Disney.
- The 1980s edition became a pop-culture phenomenon, selling millions of copies within its first few years.
Did you know?
- Trivial Pursuit was created by Canadian journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in 1979 after a game of Scrabble went missing pieces.
- Over 100 million copies have been sold worldwide across all editions.
- The original 1981 "Genus" edition question cards were famously riddled with trivia errors that later editions had to correct.
How people search for it
“trivia wedge board game”, “pie piece trivia game”, “classic 80s trivia game”
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Questions people ask
- When did Trivial Pursuit come out?
- It was created by two Canadian journalists and first released in 1981, becoming a breakout hit by 1984.
- How many categories does Trivial Pursuit have?
- Six: Geography, Entertainment, History, Art & Literature, Science & Nature, and Sports & Leisure.
