Trivial Trivialities

The party game night that lives around you, not the cloud.

Trivial Trivialities turns the devices you already own into a full game night. One person hosts, everyone else with the Trivial Trivialities app installed joins from their iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro — or gathers around the Apple TV. Games run on a spontaneous network: no accounts, no sign-ups, no internet required. You don't have to be on the same network — just have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on, though the same network is more reliable.

SEVEN GAMES IN THE BOX

• TRIVIA — Nearly 12,000 questions across all subjects, from geography and science to the '80s, '90s, and 2000s.

• SKETCH — Draw it, guess it. Rotating artists, team play, and a word pool with themes for kids, grown-ups, holidays, and everything in between. Objections are settled the old-fashioned way: by the people in the room. Only one phone between you? With the Apple TV hosting, pass it around and everybody plays under their own name.

• BLUFF — A question with an answer almost nobody knows. Everyone secretly writes a convincing fake, the truth hides among them, and the room votes for what's real. Score for finding the truth — and for every friend who falls for your lie. Big parties take turns: a few write while the rest pick, then swap.

• OPPOSITES — What's the opposite of a tree? Of zero? Of Tuesday? There's no right answer, so everyone writes one anyway — then a couple of judges spend their points on the answers they love. Roles rotate, so everyone gets a turn on the bench.

• BRACKET — Tournament packs full of contenders worth fighting over. Everyone votes blind each round, and the room's true favorite emerges from fields of 8 to 64. Or bring your own: type a list of anything and let the room settle it.

• WOULD YOU RATHER — Impossible choices, no points, no winners. The split of the room IS the scoreboard. Dilemmas designed to start conversations.

• SORT OF — Does it belong or doesn't it? Vote on the items that sit right on the edge of a category, then defend your answer to a skeptical jury.

BUILT FOR THE LIVING ROOM (or CAMPSITE)

• KID MODE — Filters out some grown-up topics (nothing here is graphic, but still) and levels the playing field so kids can score right alongside the adults (it will not filter custom brackets).
• TEAM UP — split the room into couches in the lobby, and every game's leaderboard tracks the team race across the whole night, on every screen including the TV
• Everyone plays on their own device — answers stay secret until the reveal
• Apple TV joins as a playable host: it runs the game on the big screen with stages, team boards, and callouts, while someone drives it from the couch. For Sketch, Bluff, and Opposites it's the stage — the drawing, the ballot, and the big reveal up where everyone can see
• Game archive keeps recent rounds (expire in 7 days unless saved) — replay the sketches as a slideshow, or relive every reveal, Bluff's and Opposites' alike
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