History of the World (board game) the number of armies it gets, its capital or starting location in parentheses, and the seas it can navigate in parentheses. Each epoch there is a minor empire and a kingdom that can be played as event cards, and these are listed at the bottom of the epoch. History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch. The first edition of
Trivial Pursuit: America Plays to a credit roll, and the studio contestant won a Trivial Pursuit board game. At any point, if it became mathematically impossible for one bank to overtake the other, the final round stopped. If the studio bank won in this situation, the studio player had the chance to play the next unused question as a double-or-nothing wager, or decline to do so. If America's bank is higher, the remaining questions were discarded. If there was a tie at the end of the game, a sudden-death question was asked. The bank who answered the question correctly won the game. Trivial Pursuit: