Review: Challenging! This game book could help you, however
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2013
"We love quizzes"--quote from some British friends, as we amused ourselves with a music game on a long bus ride. Yes, we love quizzes, Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit and I even married a guy that my friends introduced me to at a game gathering, because they wanted to see which of us trivia fanatics would prevail. So, if I say this book is challenging, well, I think I am qualified to say that.The test questions are interesting in that they involve common knowledge (pop culture, scientific inventions, the Internet, history) but there is a twist. The questions are in the form of a narrative description about someone or something or some event, and the clues may help you to infer the answer. Mostly, I got three out of five, with one test five out of five, but that was not the norm for me. You may do better than me.The book is fun for two reasons. Firstly: it will provoke much discussion and guessing if you pull this out and play as a group or even a couple, let's say, on a long car trip, plane flight, a rainy night in a camping tent,  or whenever it seems time is dragging. And secondly, answering these kinds of questions could help you guess the answer to high school or college test questions. The process of reading the hints inbedded in the paragraph, putting together that information and deciding when or what it is that is being talked about makes you use all sorts of information and logical abilities as well as pulling out wild-donkey guesses. Good brain food.