Media Masters

I’m not the biggest fan of trivia games. Especially those that require players to know a specific answer, and a hundred times those that sporadically stuff me into a locker with an unexpected sports question. “Who soiled his pants while stealing two consecutive homers during the 1914 Cinnamon Bakeaway summer camp?” the question will ask. “Nobody could possibly know that,” I begin, only for my father to scream “Mickey ‘The Dugout Dog’ O’Queefe!” for ten thousand points. Book Club and Movie Night are teensy-tiny trivia games by Peter Hayward. Each session lasts five minutes, sometimes a run of cards will produce an impossible question, and they’re titles that will prompt the most obnoxious person in your gaming group to insist they’re activities rather than games. For all that, they’re the rarest of beasts: trivia games that put creativity and lateral thinking on the same footing as raw factoid retrieval. Name a book! Rather than walk through the rules, let’s open with a demonstration.…