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Beatles Game Review: The Beatles Trivial Pursuit
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My family had the same experience. While we didn’t have any trouble moving our pieces (see below), the questions were all way too hard for even me, the only true beatlemaniac in the house. Since we couldn’t get any of the questions answered, moving our pieces was a moot point. For crying out loud, those questions just were way too hard. Some of the people they are talking about I have never even heard of! Maybe someone should put together a better set of questions for this game. I would sure buy a box!
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Honestly when it comes to the difficulty of the questions I beg to differ, at least somewhat. Some of the questions are just stupidly easy…for example “In March of 1964 what Beatles record could fans buy, even if they couldn’t buy love?”
The answer of course is “Can’t buy me love.” And there are alot of questions of this nature, where the question itself leads you to the answer.
While admittedly some of the questions (like the one referenced in this review) are quite difficult, I really don’t know what people were expecting. When you buy a topic-specific version of trivial pursuit like this, it is how the game is designed…not for the casual fan. I’ve played Star Wars trivial pursuit as well…as a casual fan..and I felt ridiculous and unable to answer a large majority of the questions I was asked. That is kinda how it works.
I also think it is unfair to just discuss
the “Beatles in America” section and gloss over the rest..as that is BY FAR the most difficult of the sections.Now could they have made the questions tilt slightly towards the less difficult…perhaps that would have helped things..yes I can agree to that, but I think that the game is (for the most part) appropriately difficult
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We played this game (received as a gift) with 4 60 year old Beatles fans and 7 20 somethings who had all grown up listening to the Beatles. It was really boring and too hard. There was little about the songs or words to the songs. Who knows what George was holding on the cover of Sergeant Pepper? Obviously someone,but the object of the game is to have fun with a group of people. 11/11 “let’s stop playing now” after less than an hour.
Why doesn’t someone just write boxes of new questions for the old game?
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Thanks for the overview, I’ve heard comparable things concerning
the game and might be reviewing it for myself next month!
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My family had the same experience. While we didn’t have any trouble moving our pieces (see below), the questions were all way too hard for even me, the only true beatlemaniac in the house. Since we couldn’t get any of the questions answered, moving our pieces was a moot point. For crying out loud, those questions just were way too hard. Some of the people they are talking about I have never even heard of! Maybe someone should put together a better set of questions for this game. I would sure buy a box!
Honestly when it comes to the difficulty of the questions I beg to differ, at least somewhat. Some of the questions are just stupidly easy…for example “In March of 1964 what Beatles record could fans buy, even if they couldn’t buy love?”
The answer of course is “Can’t buy me love.” And there are alot of questions of this nature, where the question itself leads you to the answer.
While admittedly some of the questions (like the one referenced in this review) are quite difficult, I really don’t know what people were expecting. When you buy a topic-specific version of trivial pursuit like this, it is how the game is designed…not for the casual fan. I’ve played Star Wars trivial pursuit as well…as a casual fan..and I felt ridiculous and unable to answer a large majority of the questions I was asked. That is kinda how it works.
I also think it is unfair to just discuss
the “Beatles in America” section and gloss over the rest..as that is BY FAR the most difficult of the sections.
Now could they have made the questions tilt slightly towards the less difficult…perhaps that would have helped things..yes I can agree to that, but I think that the game is (for the most part) appropriately difficult
We played this game (received as a gift) with 4 60 year old Beatles fans and 7 20 somethings who had all grown up listening to the Beatles. It was really boring and too hard. There was little about the songs or words to the songs. Who knows what George was holding on the cover of Sergeant Pepper? Obviously someone,but the object of the game is to have fun with a group of people. 11/11 “let’s stop playing now” after less than an hour.
Why doesn’t someone just write boxes of new questions for the old game?
Thanks for the overview, I’ve heard comparable things concerning
the game and might be reviewing it for myself next month!