I’ve oft-lamented that while I would love to collect and play Shakespeare board games and card games, I don’t really have anyone in the physical world to play with. My family will try to play, but the game ends up 90% me explaining things and letting them keep up. Where’s the fun in that?
Well when Shakespeare Trivial Pursuit was announced a month before my birthday I knew I had to have it, even if to just add to my collection.
But! I think I’ve found a way to rewrite the game for when the number of Shakespeare geeks is drastically outweighed by non-Shakespeareans.
- All of the Shakespeare Geeks are on one team. Anyone not a self professed Shakespeare geek is playing for themselves.
- The cards are shuffled and placed in the center.
- The first non-SG player picks a card. Player is allowed to look at all the questions, and the answers. Player must then decide which question they think the SG team is most likely to get wrong, and ask SG team that question.
- If SG team gets it right, they get the card. If they do not, asking player gets the card.
- First player or team to a pre-determined number of cards, wins. SG team must get at least two times that number (since they get a chance to collect a card on every turn, whereas individual players do not). Odds can be adjusted (3x, 4x..) depending on how many players, and how good SG team is.
Always read the question out loud, as well as the answer (in cases where SG team does not guess correctly). This has the added advantage of teaching the non-SG players something about the subject 🙂
If you play this way, let me know how it goes! Also let me know your ideas on what’s up with the extra wedge holder thingie, I still don’t understand that. 🙂