Do you like go to Trivia Nights?If so is it with friends or just acquaintance?
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As we know many teams often come to Pub Quiz to play and have fun. Friends company, family members come to play and other stuffs.
But how often is possible to create quiz team not from friends? You know when somebody didn't come just for fun, but to win also.
I noticed that people company who often come for fun do not win at all. They knowledge, ability for lateral thinking and solving puzzles are not greatest at all.
Serious teams consist of really erudite people with lots of knowledge, logic and puzzle solving abilities often take highest places.
Do you know these type of teams in Pub Quizes? Where they are not really close friends but just strong teams where they decided to always play together?
Gallahadion@reddit
I went to a trivia night with some co-workers awhile back. We formed a team and won both rounds. It was supposed to be something we did on a regular basis but that never happened.
I love trivia games because it's another way for me to put my head full of random knowledge to use.
abstractraj@reddit
My wife and I play locally, but these are pure knowledge. No puzzles or games. We’re pretty good though. My wife knows literature and history and I try to cover everything else
Vyckerz@reddit
I work for s small software development company. The HR rep likes to organize co-worker nights on occasion, usually about once a month.
Trivia night is one of our favorites. Drinks and appetizers. We have people who are baseball/sports nerds, book nerds and movie/entertainment and pop culture nerds, so we do pretty well usually. It's really fun
VagueInfoHere@reddit
Nerds have nerd friends. Playing with friends and playing to win are not necessary mutually exclusive.
Source: trivia nerd that team of friends win frequently. Enough to get boo’d before for multiple consecutive weeks of wins.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Well i know one team but they are not friends. They are just teammates who happens to be incredibly knowledgabe, good memory , puzzle solving abilities and other stuffs.
NOTcreative-@reddit
How do you know they're not friends ?
ConfoundedHokie@reddit
Booo!
seattlemh@reddit
I've been to one. It was fun, but mostly because it was at a Moose Lodge full of characters.
spartangibbles@reddit
I'd love to go to bar trivia nights but they are always on weeknights at like 10 pm and I dont need more reasons to not be in bed by then.
rawbface@reddit
We used to play at the college bar every week. It was a group of my friends, many of which didn't go to the same University. Our team name was "the Big Fact Hunt" and we won quite a few times back in the day.
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Hah-- that's us. I'm an academic, and we have a team that is entirely Ph.D.s that plays together all year. We try to find the really competitive places and then return repeatedly until we get bored, then move on to another. We all work at the same university and are friends, but trivia is basically the only thing we all do together. It's great fun, but we're also pretty competitive.
My immediate family is this way too though, we will go and compete as a foursome. On our last vacation we ended up in a cidery on trivia night just after getting off the plane, and we managed to take 1st with 20 teams competing.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Do you play in trivia where it has Strong emphasis on logic and reasoning? Where Questions often: Give clues that let you deduce the answer? That also Combine bits of knowledge + inference. Even if you don’t know the fact, you can sometimes work it out.
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Most of them are straight-up trivia, with categories like films, music, history, geography, science, etc. Our team is big (eight people) with Ph.D.s all in different fields. So we have a lot of things covered-- but also everyone is well-read, has tons of hobbies and interests, have traveled a lot, etc. so it's also just life experience. We don't end up having to guess or deduce all that often.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Well i guess you would be great even in those games where: reasoning, lateral thinking is more required than pure fact knowledge.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Cool
BrooklynNotNY@reddit
I like going to trivia. I usually go with a partner and/or friends. We’re never really in it to win. It’s just something fun to do and see if we know any of the answers.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
In our country Trivia Night is much different.
It has Strong emphasis on logic and reasoning. Questions often: Give clues, that let you deduce the answer . Combine bits of knowledge + inference . Even if you don’t know the fact, you can sometimes work it out
EatLard@reddit
All the time. Usually a good way to make back the bar tab. It’s also been a way to bring friends from different generations and backgrounds/interests together. A more diverse team means more right answers.
Slippery-Pete76@reddit
I play with friends (although we are pretty smart). Why would I want to spend a couple of hours at a bar with people I don’t like?
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Some people come to quiz randomly and quizmaster combine those people and gave name to them. Over the time they see that they knowledge combine become great teamwork
bachintheforest@reddit
My friend group likes to go to the trivia night at our pub sometimes. For a little while there we were going pretty consistently, almost every week. Sadly, life always starts to get in the way and getting our (up to) 7 people in their 30s together regularly on a weeknight is difficult.
I’d say we all count as nerds, used to play DnD together regularly too, but anyways we never come close to winning. We totally bomb on the sports questions and we always joke about studying a map on the way over because the geography questions frequently stump us. It’s just fun to try to guess stuff and hang out. Nice low-stakes group activity that doesn’t take much concentration the way a proper game does.
There are usually like 2 regular teams there that frequently win and yes they maybe have a bit of an attitude about them. One group actually I know is a group from my work, so they’re more acquaintances rather than friends. I’d say playing with your actual friends is much more fun. There’s probably at least maybe 8 teams playing each week so when it’s always the same 1-2 winning you know we’re all mostly there for fun.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Sport is very specific thing. But do you play in those trivia that requires not pure facts but also lateral thinking and logic? Question is more like long sentence and has hidden clue in question and team have to find a clue in there to find and answer. Teams don't even require to know that obscure fact to find an answer
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Big fan. I go with friends. We have a loose team with people that have specific knowledge subsets
someofyourbeeswaxx@reddit
We play casually and sometimes win, but I have smart friends. Nerds tend to stick together.
Original_Mammoth3868@reddit
I do bar trivia with a group that started as a meetup (and is still one), but in general we have a core group that comes every week. We were all strangers initially, but over time gotten to know eachother pretty well (especially trivia strengths and weaknesses).
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Do you play every week?
Original_Mammoth3868@reddit
Pretty much. They rarely cancel unless it's a major holiday like Christmas.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
It is good. Do you have any Pub Quizes where it has very hard question? I don't mean like question require you to know obscure facts. But that question is written in long sentences and has hidden clue which can help teams to find an answer?
Original_Mammoth3868@reddit
They don't do anything like that. Some occasional math and we have a music round.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
In Our country quizmasters don't like question that require pure knowledge. They like to write long sentences that contain clue and hidden hints that team should work out and find an answer even if they don't know exactly that fact
Online_Discovery@reddit
They have plenty of those here too
I've been to several different kinds near me. Some which are random facts about a specific topic, movie, or show. Some that do music or video questions. Some where the answer is more like a riddle hidden in the question, and some that are purely knowledge based
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
I think games where it is more like ''riddle hidden in the question'' often is overlooked or barely mentioned.
InevitableRhubarb232@reddit
I have never been, but it sounds like something I might enjoy. Or might hate if I don’t actually know any answer answers.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Well i don't know how it is in USA. But in our country question are not just pure facts. In our country trivia night question is longer and contain hidden clues. If teams can find certain clues in question then they can find the answer.
InevitableRhubarb232@reddit
But that’s not trivia.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
Then how do you call it?
InevitableRhubarb232@reddit
Those would be more like puzzles or problem-solving. Trivia is just facts.
PS, if you care, it’s what do you call it, not how do you call it?
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
You see in our country we call these type of games as Mind Games. But people often advertise it as a Quiz or Trivia if you just translate to our language. But we often call these type of games as Mind Games or Brain Battle.
GetInTheHole@reddit
I've played many rounds of bar trivia. I've never gone out either by myself or with others with the purpose to play bar trivia.
If I'm there, and it's starting, I'll probably play a bit. But it's never the reason for going.
gard3nwitch@reddit
I used to have some coworkers that liked to do that, so I went to a few trivia nights when I worked there, as a "team building" activity. I wouldn't mind doing it again, if some of my friends wanted to. But it would just be an excuse to socialize.
Traditional_Trust418@reddit
I don't go to trivia nights, but I also don't go to bars and that's where they typically happen
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
in our countries Trivia Night happens in library, bars, restaurant and even at school cabinet.
Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit
Stranger trivia is pretty common
ConfoundedHokie@reddit
I often go to trivia nights and just hop into a team of random people. It can be Hella fun and its a good way to meet new people.
Medical-Pace-8099@reddit (OP)
yeah. If by coincidence just created team by random people but with different set of skills can be useful.
HadynGabriel@reddit
Go with some family but smart friends when I do.