Everyone’s played some version of this game — roll, land on a category, answer a question, collect a wedge. It’s one of the most remixed formats in board gaming for a reason: swap the categories and the questions, and you’ve got a completely different game. A generic trivia night deck. A “things only our friend group would know” edition. A trivia box built entirely around your last group trip. Same mechanic, endless versions.
*Requires a Pro license — the answers live on the back of each card, which puts this template past what’s available on the Free plan.
The questions here aren’t placeholder text — they’re 4,800 real trivia questions, written in and ready to go. Print the deck as-is and you’ve got a full game tonight, no extra writing required. Or swap in your own questions category by category and make it entirely yours.
This template ships with the board and the full question deck — the part that actually takes the work. Player pawns and scoring pieces are intentionally left for you to design: a chance to put your own characters, mascots or in-jokes on the board instead of generic pawns, all in 2D so they print flat with everything else.
And if you want to go further: who says scoring has to be six wedge-shaped pieces slotted into a pawn? Design your own scoring system entirely — cards, tokens, a punch-card, a little booklet you stamp — anything that tracks six categories works. The wedge is a convention, not a rule.
Getting this template ready for your next game night is straightforward. You only need two things:
Once you have the template, unzip the file, open Tabletop Creator, head to Projects, and click Load. Select the folder you unzipped and open the .tcp file inside.
The project opens with two blueprints ready to edit: the Board (the 300 × 300 mm game board) and the Card (the 800 double-sided question cards). Everything’s already built and populated — you’re editing a finished game, not starting from a blank layout.
The board is built from vector artwork, designed specifically so every color can be re-tinted from inside Tabletop Creator without needing to touch the artwork itself. Five panel groups make it up: corner text panels that show the project’s name dynamically, the Categories group (the triangular wedge panels, each tintable to its category color), the Board group (the panels that make up the actual spaces on the board — including the dice-icon spaces, which mark where a player has to roll again), and a background built from just three panels — color, border and repeating pattern — each customizable through its own properties.
The card template is simpler: the front holds the text panels for the six questions, the back holds the text panels for the six matching answers. Each question is color-coded to match its category’s color on the board. Change the panel layout once, and every one of the 800 cards updates automatically — you’re never editing card by card.
The 4,800 questions themselves come from a free, CC0-licensed trivia database, filtered and reformatted into a spreadsheet before being imported into the project — the same import workflow described below that you can use for your own questions.
The format goes back to December 1979, when two Canadian journalists, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, sketched it out over a game of Scrabble gone missing a few pieces. Trivial Pursuit hit shelves in 1982, and the format that made it a household name is almost absurdly simple: a wheel-shaped board, six category wedges, and players racing to collect one wedge per category before answering a final question.
The six classic categories — Geography, Entertainment, History, Art & Literature, Science & Nature, and Sports & Leisure — became so recognizable that their colors (blue, pink, yellow, brown, green, orange) are practically shorthand on their own. Every edition since, official or homemade, has leaned on the same skeleton: a board divided into wedges, a deck of question cards sorted by category, and a “center of the wheel” final challenge.
That skeleton is exactly what makes the format so easy to remix. Change six categories, change the entire game — which is exactly the point of building your own.
With Tabletop Creator you build reusable blueprints for the board and for each card type — questions, answers, category dividers — and keep colors, fonts and icons consistent across all of them while still customizing each one individually. Update a category’s color once, and every wedge and card in that category updates with it. Import your questions from a spreadsheet to organize them by category and difficulty automatically.
Swapping the six categories for something personal is the whole appeal here, and once people start, the ideas get specific fast.
Friend group trivia is the easiest starting point: categories built entirely around inside jokes, shared history, and “remember when” moments only your group would get right. It turns a normal game night into something no store-bought edition could ever replace.
Trip trivia takes a shared vacation and turns it into a game — categories like “things that happened on the trip,” “who said what,” “food we ate,” or “photos nobody remembers taking.” It’s one of the best ways to relive a trip together months later.
The “how well do you know me” edition — makes a genuinely personal gift: categories about your partner’s favorites, your history together, inside references only the two of you share. It shows up a lot as anniversary or Valentine’s gifts for exactly that reason.
Family trivia turns family history into something the next generation actually wants to play. Categories built around grandma’s stories, what your childhood was really like, or the things only grandparents would know: a way to keep those memories alive and actually pass them down, not just talk about them once at a reunion. A genuinely meaningful gift for holidays, reunions, or just an ordinary night together.
Team or work trivia is the perfect game for an offsite: categories built around company history, team inside jokes, or client wins that turn a generic team-building slot into something people actually remember. Way more fun than another icebreaker.
This template’s board prints at 300 × 300 mm, with question cards at standard poker size (2.5 × 3.5 in / 63 × 88 mm) so they’re easy to shuffle and deal.
Tabletop Creator works at any size you need, standard or not. You pick the dimensions, design within them, and export files ready to send straight to any printer.
The export settings let you configure bleed (typically 3 mm per side), cut marks, resolution (300 DPI) and color layout for board, cards, front, back or both. You get a clean, professional file ready for any print shop — no extra design software, no back-and-forth fixing files.
Create your own board game, make your dreams come true, and ruin your friends’ patience. With Tabletop Creator you’ll have the essential tools to do it easily.
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