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| Designers | Chris Haney Scott Abbott |
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| Publishers | Selchow and Righter Parker Brothers Hasbro |
| Publication | 1981 |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Genres | Board game |
| Languages | English |
| Players | 2–6 (teams allowed) |
| Setup time | 5 minutes |
| Playing time | 45'–90' |
| Chance | Medium (dice, order of question cards) |
| Skills | General knowledge, knowledge of popular culture |
Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question they are asked from a card (from six categories including "history" and "science and nature"). Each correct answer allows the player's turn to continue; a correct answer on one of the six "category headquarters" spaces earns a plastic wedge which is slotted into the answerer's playing piece. The object of the game is to collect all six wedges from each "category headquarters" space, and then return to the center "hub" space to answer a question in a category selected by the other players.
Since the game's first release in 1981, numerous themed editions have been released. Some question sets have been designed for younger players, and others for a specific time period or as promotional tie-ins (such as Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, and The Lord of the Rings movies).