

Even gold-plated playing pieces are available. There are six versions, with more in the works, including British, French, and German versions. Trivial Pursuit, the best-selling board game since Monopoly, is expected to sell 30 million copies this year.

The people who own Trivial Pursuit estimate that their boxes of 6,000 questions each will bring in $1 billion worldwide Mitel projects its computerized telephone switches and other high-tech gadgetry will net about $425 million for 1984. Trivial Pursuit, the Canadian board game, will almost certainly bring in more money this year than Mitel, the Canadian telecommunications company. And, unlike the game that always answers, but never explains, here's the reason. What Canadian game is going to make more money than a big Ottawa phone company? Answer: Trivial Pursuit.
