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calliaume:
Thinking about bringing some of my Trivial Pursuit decks to my office next week for our holiday party (some people there are going to be playing Jenga, but not all) to either play a straight version of that game or try to do a Big Showdown-type version, as has been recommended here before.

My questions are:
1) if you’ve tried this at a party, how does explaining the format to a long-gone game show go? Too complicated?
2) Similarly, all my Trivial Pursuit decks were made in the 1980s, and most of my coworkers are millennials or Gen Zs. Are those questions okay for that age group?
3) Finally, the only working “lockout” device I have is from Electric Jeopardy; my Quizzard from the $otC home game has been broken for years. Are there good options either online (where, say, each of the three players has a dedicated button on a single keyboard) or a phone app?

TLEberle:
Curt:

Buzzin.live is your friend, always and forever. Each player can use a phone or tablet to signal. You can use the free version or pay for a key that opens the door to more geegaws and widgets.

Just my own but my problem with the TP decks is that they're very straight ahead you know it or don't, and might be good for people my age or older.  Whenever I see the Trivial Pursuit: 25th anniversary game I buy it and strip the cards out to sell on ebay. The graduated difficulty might work out if Big Showdown doesn't fall down.

I don't see why it would be tricky--you can't go beyond your payoff point isn't that much different than twenty-one, or heck, The Price is Right.

BrandonFG:
FWIW, you can get Trivial Pursuit expansion mini-packs that include decades and Friends, which GenZ seems to be obsessed with.

JasonA1:
We recently used a bunch of my Trivial Pursuit decks to play the Wink version. It turned out OK! I used the standard deck for the first round and last round, and some of the specialty decks for the middle two. And if you have the Trivial Pursuit pieces already, and you're happy with one of the lockout solutions you find, then you have the entire thing.

-Jason

TimK2003:
Back in the days of homemade Game Show Conventions (the original GSC'S) we did a Big Showdown day using a TP trivia card knockoff called Forte.  Their categories were similar, but one was Soap Operas, which was pretty much the 6-pointer.

Another more difficult stack of questions can be derived from The Big Bang Theory game, as they were episode-detailed questions that you either know or you dont.

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