it is called trivial pursuit: best card

Internet, I have been meaning to tell you this forever. Really, I'm going to tell you right now, on this post-daylight-saving-time Wednesday evening that is surprisingly chilly for Georgia and faintly smelling of the neighbor's woodstove, because as we move from state to state to state--from Minnesota to Wisconsin to Michigan to Georgia--we've been hauling this game called "Best Card" with us, and as it spreads, I fear that one day this game will take over the world and then everyone will claim "they" invented it, when really: we did. 

When I say we, I mean the weirdos that I used to live with, back in the day--back in 2005 and 2006, when we lived in a shitty Cape Cod-style house in a little town in southern Minnesota with sporadically running hot water. Back then, we threw dance parties, and we went to school and taught classes (HAHA HAHAHA REMEMBER TEACHING ONE CLASS OF 25 STUDENTS PER SEMESTER? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA) and, in my case, worked at Grizzlebee's.

And because we were a voracious type of nerdy drunk, we invented a modified version of Trivial Pursuit that we called "Best Card" because it combined our favorite things: having a conversation, and drinking, and reading and answering Trivial Pursuit questions.

Now we live here, and we have played many a round of Best Card with the fine folks of Georgia, which makes it my favorite kind of game: the one that travels well.

Here's the recipe for you, Internet.


Best Card

One deck Trivial Pursuit cards (preferably not the dumb new ones)
One case beer (optional, but highly recommended, except when in vehicle)

Directions: Sit around a table, or the living room, or in the car. Appoint one person to read all the questions from one Trivial Pursuit card, letting the other players propose answers. Allow all members to guess, spitball, or straight-out insist the answer is "John Wayne," even when this is patently wrong. Drink the beer. Pause the discussion as needed to play a few hands of the Douchebag Game*, or make fun of the dog, or just because you forgot you were playing Best Card. All group members present must eventually reach a consensus on the answer, unless the question is deemed "stupid," in which case two or three answers may count as being right.

When all six questions have been posed, the card reader will flip the card and read the answers. The goal is hit the Best Card: ideally six correct answers on a single card. (Note: in the case of a six-question streak, those two- or three-possible-answer questions do not, technically, count.) When the temporary Best Card is found, place it in the middle of the table/coffee table/car visor. The card reader should pass the deck to the nearest person. Repeat until the very Best Card is found, or X number of Best Cards have been acquired, or when all the beer is gone**.


*see also here, though be warned: you gotta want to find it
**at this point, one or more group members may propose switching to bourbon, but this generally does not result in spectacular card results, unless it does, in which case: good for you! You're not in the car, though, right?