Welcome to Bid……The best trivia game you’ve never played

Welcome to Bid……The best trivia game you’ve never played!

Important: This page explains how the game works. All the other pages are part of the game, so no peeking! (You may need to look at one other page to help you understand the rules).

What to do now:

Simple ! Print off the file, (or at least one page per person playing), take a moment to read this page and then enjoy one of the best new trivia games around….

Getting Ready:

Give each player a pen and one of the printed pages. (Players should not see other people’s sheets).

How to play:

Bid can be played by up to eight people, usually five or six players is the optimum number.

Nominate one player as the first Reader. The Reader looks at the box at bottom of their sheet and reads the contents aloud twice. The box lists ten numbered items from a category. Some of those items genuinely fall within the category whilst other do not.

Everyone except the Reader secretly writes down which items they believe to be genuine and which they believe to be false.

Starting with the person to the left of the Reader and moving round the group in a clockwise direction, each player in turn (except the Reader) bids a quantity of genuine items that they believe they can correctly identify on the card.

The person who makes the highest bid then says which item numbers they believe to be genuine. (If more than one person shares the highest bid, the person who bid first goes first). It is not necessary to correctly identify all the genuine items listed on the card.

The Reader listens, silently comparing the answers with those shown in his/her box and not giving any clues as to which items are genuine and which are false.

If the all the answers given are genuine, the Reader declares a "winning bid" and that player scores a point for each correctly identified genuine item.

However if the Reader says that the player's answers are not all genuine then the next highest bidder reads out their answers. This continues until a winning bid is found and the scores are calculated as above.

After any winning bid, all the other players lose their chance to read out their answers and must calculate their score for the round. You do this by working out the difference between your bid and the winning bid and you lose that many points.(For example, if you bid 6 and the winning bid is 8 then you are two away, so your score will be -2).

The person to the left of the Reader becomes the new Reader and a new round begins.

A game can consist of as many rounds as you like, providing that each player is the Reader an equal number of times. The person with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

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This is a free trial version of Bid. You’ll find both the original boxed version and a full version in a download format like this at . Both versions are inexpensive and provide many hours of fun. ã Copyright 2009 . All rights reserved worldwide.

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Your Bid:

Your Score:

When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Olympic Sports:

1) Softball

2) Mountain Biking

3) Beach Volleyball

4) Handball

5) Trampoline

6) Darts *

7) Table Tennis

8) Badminton

9) Snooker *

10) Water Polo

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Capital Cities:

1) Kabul in Afghanistan

2) Rio de Janiero in Brazil*

3) Geneva in Switzerland *

4) Islamabad in Pakistan

5) Wellington in New Zealand

6) Bonn in Germany *

7) Sydney in Australia *

8) Peking in China

9) Antwerp in Belgium *

10) Lilongwe in Malawi

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Animals that existed over 150 million years ago and still survive today:

1) Coelacanth (fish)

2) Spaniel *

3) Horseshoe Crab

4) Crocodile

5) Dodo *

6) Cormorant *

7) Duckbill Platypus

8) Turtle

9) Australian Lungfish

10) Golden Tree Frog *

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Countries with populations amongst the ten largest in the world in 2000:

1) Great Britain *

2) Italy *

3) China

4) India

5) The USA

6) Indonesia

7) Pakistan

8) Bangladesh

9) Mexico *

10) Nigeria

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Your Score:

When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Flightless Birds:

1) Sparrow *

2) Cassowary

3) Dodo

4) Emu

5) Heron *

6) Puffin *

7) Kiwi

8) Moa

9) Ostrich

10) Penguin

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Men who had units of measurement named after them:

1) Michael Miles *

2) Andre-Marie Ampere

3) Joseph Henry

4) Heinrich Hertz

5) Ernest Ounce *

6) James Joule

7) Isaac Newton

8) Alessandro Volta

9) Frederick Fathom *

10) James Watt

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Shakespeare Plays:

1) Macbeth

2) Falstaff *

3) Taming of the Shrew

4) Romeo and Juliet

5) Caesar and Cleopatra *

6) The Tempest

7) The Odious Spinster *

8) Twelfth Night

9) Hamlet

10) Notoriety *

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

dinosaurs:

1) Crocosaur *

2) Tyrannosaurus Rex

3) Triceratops

4) Stegosauras

5) Megasaurus *

6) Plesiosaur

7) Icthyosaur

8) Diplodocus

9) Supersaurus

10) Rustisaur *

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Movies directed by Steven Spielberg:

1) ET

2) Hamburger Hill *

3) Raiders of the Lost Ark

4) Jurassic Park

5) Schnidler's List

6) Ghandi *

7) Jaws

8) American Beauty *

9) Saving Private Ryan

10) My Fair Lady *

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When it’s your turn to be the reader, read the contents of this box aloud to everybody twice.

(False entries are marked by the * sign).

Works by Tchaikovsky:

1) Aida *

2) The Blue Danube *

3) Water Music *

4) Flight of the Valkyries *

5) Swan Lake

6) Sleeping Beauty

7) Nutcracker

8) 1812 Overture

9) Serenade for Strings

10) Romeo and Juliet

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