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One of my main pleasures is entering pub trivia quizzes - the success of our team usually depends on how many pints we've downed (that's my other hobby) before the quiz starts, So last week I broke open my piggy bank and shelled out £30 for the Trivial Pursuit board game. One week later and The Hit Squad release the computer game for four quid - flippin' typical!

Now celebrating its sixth birthday, this accurate conversion [So how come the categories are the wrong colours? - Ed] has up to six players going round the board, landing on squares to determine the category of the question asked: get it right and you have another go. The throw of the die is replaced by randomly chucking a dart - super, smashing, great!

Questions are asked by a cute animated chap called TP, who turns on his stereo for musical questions and pulls down a chart for visual ones. Rather than using multiple-choice responses, answering is achieved by shouting out loud, then telling TP whether you were right or not (obvious room for dishonesty here!).

Improvements upon the board game include automatic calculation of which squares you can move to (saves all that counting!), and statistics for all players, showing the number of questions correctly answered/attempted in each category.

The problem with most computer quiz games is the eventual repetition of questions but TP cleverly shuffles and rephrases them so you don't learn them parrot-fashion, and new question blocks can be loaded in. Yes, it's a well-executed conversion all right, and great value for money - especially compared to the costly board game.