kNOW! is Possibly the Best Trivia Game Because it Uses the Internet
The biggest problem with trivia games is that after a few years, the answers are obsolete. That’s why there are a billion editions of Trivial Pursuit. Well, kNOW! is a new trivia game that wants to change that. I’ve played kNOW! a little and it’s a lot of fun and the fact that it is always up-to-date (on about half the cards) makes it a blast.
There are four colors or categories of mini-games: Creativity, Fun, Intuition, and Knowledge. Each category has a few different mini-games for different things. For instance, Intuition has a lot of questions where you guess how many/big/long/etc. things are and the closest person wins. Meanwhile, Fun has some where you try to guess the song the quiz master is humming. It’s a wide variety of topics and questions that make for a great trivia game. Combine all of this with Google Assistant integration, and it makes things even easier as now the quiz master (the person asking the question) can participate in some of the questions as well.
Each stack of cards can further be divided into Online and Offline cards. Roughly 1/3-1/2 of each deck is Offline which means that the answers are on the card and no internet is required. The rest are Online questions which utilize Google Assistant to either completely ask and answer the question or simply provide the answer after everyone (or one person) has guessed. You can choose to play with either deck, or combine them for a mix of fun.
Another great feature of kNOW! is that you decide how long you play. There’s no definitive end from the game. Instead, the game lets players choose when they want to end the game, either via a time limit or after a section of the board, etc. This also makes increasing the duration really easy after everyone starts having fun.
Overall, kNOW! is possibly my favorite trivia game ever because there are plenty of instances where the answers are constantly changing, and so rote memorization isn’t always the key to winning. Combining the changing answers with the variety of mini-games and you’ve got a night of fun ahead.
