Global Pursuits

We kicked off our game program with National Geographic's Global Pursuit -- a circa 1987 Trivial Pursuit knockoff.  I like trivia games and I like geography so I was hopeful for this.  And I won so that's good.  But really, this game is too complicated; eliminate one or two elements and it could be a really good game.

Here's the gist:  there are five sets of map cards.  You mix them up and deal cards to each player.  You can either make one big map or five separate ones -- we chose that options.  You role a 12-side die to see who goes first and I'm not sure there's any other use for the die.  One map card from each of the separate categories is placed face-up on the table -- and you need a big playing surface because these maps get big.  Then the first person  matches a card in their hand to an edge of one on the table.  Then they are asked a question from a trivia card matching the color of the map the used.  Each card has three levels of questions leading to three different amounts of points: level one (easy) is one point, level two is more and so on.

Okay, by now you probably see how crazy this all is.  Too much stuff. Too many details.  I just want to play a trivia game and maybe learn a thing a or two.  And this isn't even all of the rules/procedures.  No wonder nobody ever heard of this game.  No wonder I found it at a thrift store.

Yes I won.  Woohoo!  Thing is, I only answered three questions right.  Other people answered more questions correctly but I chose only hard questions so I got twenty points per question as opposed to 1 point per question.  And the two easy questions I chose were hard! --Stephanie