Remember your Trivial Pursuit days? Waiting patiently for your chance to answer a question from the Arts & Literature category. Or those times when you made up your own rules and just read the questions from that category.
Enter Bookchase. It’s billed as the world’s first board game about books.
Here’s how it works:
The first one to collect six books, one from each category, and get home wins! Of course there are hazards along the way like dropping your books in the bath.
You can collect books by answering questions, visiting the library or landing on various other lucky spots on the board.
The six categories are: Children & Fun, Crime & Thrillers, Plays & Poetry, Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Travel Adventure, Classics & Modern.
Bookchase also includes a set of tiny book jacket labels so you can personalize your books and 6 bookshelves.
There are also plans for users to submit questions for future editions where one can then print out and add to the game.
And for those who are wondering if they have enough literary savvy to compete, no worries. “Who’s qualified to play? Anyone! Never read a book – you could still win. Read all the best books in the world – you could still lose.”
The game retails for £29.95.
Hard to believe this one has been around for a couple of years and this is the first I’ve heard.
Thanks to Lux Mentis for the lead