The Office Trivia Board Game

I was surfing NBC's website one day this past summer and looking at all of the Office merchandise that they have and I found a trivia board game!! I was so excited and automatically told my mom that we had to buy it and we ordered it right then and there. When it came, we played it at least 3 times that night. I had been expecting a fun game, but it was so much more intricate and detailed than I would have ever guessed! The goal is to race around the office and collect a Dundie from every room by answering a trivia question correctly in each room. You must also win the Fun Runs and end with all the Dundies AND the Support the Rabid bracelet!

You get to pick what character you want to be, and they don't just have the main characters, they have everyone you can think of! You cannot be Michael though, because his role is to slow you down by following you around and asking you questions about himself. So, you start by picking your character and then rolling the colored die. You then place your person in the room that is the same color as what you rolled and that is where you begin the game. The player who was born closest to Scranton, Pennsylvania gets to go first. There is also a "Support the Rabid" bracelet from the episode Fun Run and the person who owns the game gets to start off wearing it. Every player also receives a token that reads "That's What She Said" and you can use it during the game if someone makes a comment that could then be followed by "That's What She Said." The other players get to decide if it was worthy or not, and if you comment is approved, then you get a Dundie of your choice to help you win. This is how my mom won our first game...I said that one of the questions was really hard...and she got the last Dundie that she needed to win!

Whenever it is your turn, you roll the colored/numbered die and move that number of spaces to try to enter one of the rooms. Once you're in a room, you have to wait until your next turn to roll again and answer a question. You have to then roll the other die, which has the Dunder Mifflin logo and Michael's face on it. If you roll Michael's face, then he enters the room with you and you have to answer a question about him. If you get it right, then you get to move on to your normal trivia question. If you get it wrong, then you are stuck in that room until your next turn and you have to try again to answer one of his questions before you can move on. If you roll the logo, then you get to skip the Michael question and go right ahead and answer the trivia question.

As you race around to answer questions from every room and collect all the Dundies, you must also worry about landing on a Fun Run space and stealing the bracelet. If you land on Fun Run, all of the characters "race" by moving to one end of the board and taking turns rolling the die until someone gets to the end of the finish line first. So you could land on Fun Run but not necessarily get the bracelet. It's hard to worry about getting the bracelet and all of your Dundies, especially because the bracelet can get taken away from you so easily.

That's basically the premise of the game and it's a lot of fun and really fast-paced! There are also 2 questions on every trivia card, one of which is easier than the other, so even people who aren't obsessed with the show like me could have a lot of fun playing the game! The board is really colorful and fun and there are random spaces along the way that make you lose a turn or move you ahead while referring to different scenes from random episodes. For example, one space says "Jinx! You can't talk until your next turn!" The game covers seasons 1-4, so it is really current and I feel that anyone who has watched the show would love playing the game! There are 698 questions so you can play many times before getting repeat questions. There is also a DVD trivia game with clips from the show which I'm sure is also extremely fun! Check them out!