Electronic Theatre offers an analysis of the latest videogame adaptation of a Hasbro board game license from Electronic Arts, Trivial Pirsuit, now available in Europe.

Facts & Friends Mode jumbles things up a bit. Each of the players shares a single representational piece on the board, and moves this piece in turn with each roll of the dice. Players can accumulate points towards earning a Wedge by correctly answering questions on normal squares, and will receive a full Wedge from the Wedge HQ square as normal. In addition, players can earn points by betting whether or not other players know the answer to the proposed question, or selecting the “I Know” option for a chance to answer the question themselves, should the first player get it wrong. Once a Wedge has been collected, that category disappears from the board, and players will have to steal it from the winner in order to claim it as theirs.

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