Trivial Pursuit without a scorekeeper: Teamzy balances the teams and keeps the wins
Teamzy draws teams balanced by level, you pick the winning team at the end, and the app keeps the match in the history. Over your game nights, you see who really wins most often among friends.
Trivial Pursuit rules in 30 seconds
Trivial Pursuit is a general knowledge game from Hasbro, played free-for-all or in teams, with 2 to 6 players or teams. You roll the die, move your piece around the board and answer questions from six categories, each with its own color. On a category's headquarters space, at the end of each spoke, a correct answer earns a wedge of that color: you can only have one wedge per color. With all 6 wedges, you head back to the central hub: the other players choose the category of your final question, and answering it correctly wins the game. There are no points: the first team to get there wins, and there is never a tie.
How a game of Trivial Pursuit ends
There is nothing to count: nobody scores points, you collect wedges. The game has two stages. First you win the 6 wedges, one per category, on the headquarters spaces. Then, with all 6, you reach the central hub, where the other teams choose the category of the final question: a correct answer wins the game on the spot, a wrong one only ends your turn, and you try again on the next turn. In Teamzy there is nothing to enter either way: you pick the winning team.
How the game ends, as Teamzy explains it
| What counts | Points |
|---|---|
| All 6 wedges, then the final question right | win |
| Wrong answer to the final question | try again next turn |
| Tie | never |
A night with four friends, two balanced teams, one win
Lucas, Emma, Hugo and Léa make four. Each has a level at Trivial Pursuit in Teamzy, from 1 to 5 stars. The app draws two teams balanced by level, so that the two teams' totals are as close as possible: the Eagles (Hugo, Léa) against the Tigers (Lucas, Emma). Each team plays with its own piece, and anyone on a team can answer its questions.
- 1The teams take turns around the board: a roll of the die, then a question, and a team keeps rolling as long as it answers correctly. Each team aims for the headquarters spaces, at the end of the spokes. A correct answer on one earns the wedge of that color; a wrong answer ends the turn.
- 2The Eagles are the first to collect all 6 wedges: their piece goes straight back to the central hub, and all they have left is the final question.
- 3On the Eagles' next turn, the Tigers agree together on the category of the final question, before the card is read: History. Hugo and Léa confer, but get it wrong. Their turn ends and their piece stays on the hub.
- 4The Tigers play, answer correctly on a headquarters space and reach 5 wedges: one short. On the Eagles' next turn, there is a new final question (the Tigers may change the category), and Léa has the right answer.
The Eagles win: all 6 wedges, then the final question answered correctly. The Tigers were one wedge short, but it changes nothing: the first team to answer the final question correctly wins at once, and there is never a tie.
In Teamzy, on the match screen, mark the Eagles as the winners, then save the match: it joins the history with its winning team. "Save and play again" saves it the same way and sets up the rematch with the same teams. Before tonight, 5 matches had already been played with the same teams: the Eagles had won 3 of them. With this one, the game details show 6 matches and, under "The best", Hugo and Léa lead with 4 wins ("4 W · 67%"), then Emma with 2 wins (33%); Lucas, tied with Emma, is in "See the full leaderboard". Teamzy draws the teams, remembers every match and keeps the count for you: all you have to do is play.
The questions that come up at the table
You collect the 6 wedges, one per category, then go back to the central hub and answer the final question correctly. Each wedge is won on the headquarters space of its category, at the end of a spoke. The first team to answer the final question correctly wins the game. In Teamzy, you pick the winning team on the match screen: the match joins the history and the leaderboard.
The Classic Edition rules of Trivial Pursuit on Hasbro's siteThe other players or teams, together, before the card is drawn and the question read. When you play in teams, it is the other teams that choose, and anyone on your team can answer. If your team gets it wrong, they can keep the same category for your next try or pick a new one.
Your turn ends and you try again on your next turn, with another final question: the others may keep the same category or choose a new one. In Hasbro's Classic Edition, your piece stays on the central hub while you wait for your turn. Your wedges stay yours: you keep trying until someone gets it right, you or another team. In Teamzy there is nothing to enter along the way: only the winning team is noted at the end.
No. You do not score points: you collect wedges, and the game stops as soon as a team answers the final question correctly. That is why Teamzy has no score sheet for this game: you pick the winning team at the end, and the app counts each person's wins in the leaderboard. There is never a tie.
The principle does not change from one edition to another: with the 6 wedges, you win by answering the final question correctly. The way back to the center varies. In Hasbro's Classic Edition (2016), the 6th wedge sends your piece straight back to the central hub. The Master and Family editions make you land on the hub exactly, and the Family edition also makes you leave the hub on your next turn after a wrong answer, then come back. The latest Hasbro edition adds special spaces (choose between two questions, steal a question, a question for everyone) and a shorter mode where any correct answer earns a wedge, with the same ending. Teamzy follows the classic rule: you simply pick the winning team.
The Family Edition rules on Hasbro's siteGive each mate a Trivial Pursuit level, from 1 to 5 stars, then choose "Balanced by level" before you generate. Teamzy splits the players into teams whose levels add up as close as possible, so that one team of know-it-alls does not crush the other; if several splits are equally good, it picks one at random, and "Reshuffle" offers another. The balanced draw is part of Premium (one-time purchase): without it, the teams are drawn at random. Teamzy sets up a match from 2 players, in teams by default; "Free-for-all" is there too, when everyone plays alone.
With Teamzy: save each Trivial Pursuit match with its teams and its winning team. The game details and the leaderboard show the mates who win most, with their number of wins and their win rate, and each mate's sheet traces their matches.
Your next Trivial Pursuit game, with fair teams and a leaderboard
Draw balanced teams, pick the winning team, carry on with "Save and play again", find your matches in the history and see who wins most often among friends. Free to start, Premium as a one-time purchase, no account and no ads.
