Team trivia on a category board

Each team gets a small set of power-ups for the round. Used well, they decide it.

• Team Duel — pick an opposing team on a question. Right while they are wrong, and you take the tile’s value from their score on top of your own points.
• Block — choose a rival team and a category; the next time they win control, that category is locked for their pick.
• Double Down — once you have seen the question and your team’s votes: right doubles the tile, wrong loses its value.
• Sneak Peek — while your team has control, see clues about a tile before you play it.
• Side Bet — predict whether the picking team gets it right. Call it and win the wager; miss and lose it.
• CopyCat — secretly make another team’s locked-in answer your own.

They are the team-round cousins of 321Trivia’s Power-ups: the point is that knowing the answer is only half the game.

A standard trivia round is forty people looking at forty phones. A board round is six huddles arguing about whether to take Geography for 500. The picking, the voting and the race to answer give a table something to do between questions, and a team that is behind can swing a round on one well-chosen tile.

It suits a bar trivia night as a late-game round, a company event where you want people on their feet, and a venue that wants a team format people recognise. Mix it with 321Bingo and standard rounds — see every game mode.