Game Review - The All American Trivia Board Game by Outset Media

I picked up this game on a hunch because my family likes trivia games.  We grew up playing all of the Trivial Pursuit editions, so it was only natural that we'd progress to other types of these games.

The game is simply built, which is nice to not have many new rules to learn.  The game board consists of 5 different spaces repeated all around the edge, those spaces include: General, Arts, History, Geography, and a flag space, which means you draw one of the flag cards.  The flag cards are totally random and can either move you forward or backwards, so it provides an interesting twist on the classic trivia gameplay.  In this case, knowledge is not the only thing that will help you win, a little bit of luck will too.  

Example: The first time we played, we had the girls challenge the boys.  The boys quickly took a large lead over the girls to the point where the boys nearly passed the girls on their second time around the board (the girls were still on their first time around the board).  But the girls caught a break, the boys drew a card which reads "Your favorite recording artist wins a Grammy Award.  You take a friend to a concert to celebrate.  Move forward to the nearest Art Space, and select one player who is behind you on the game board and move him/her to the same Art Space."  Needless to say, we caught up.  Somehow we managed to win too!

Not only is this game informative, I admit there were many questions I didn't know the answer to, but it's fun at the same time, which is a great way to learn.