10 Best Trivia Games & Quizzes for Kids Rated in 2024

Design

Kids can play on a team or by themselves and test their skills with the 1,200 questions. This kit includes the game board, a box of blue cards for adult players, a box of yellow cards for the children, two cardholders, six scoring tokens, thirty-six wedges, die and the instructions. There are six categories of questions written for ages eight and up.

Effectiveness

This game is great family fun. The rules are slightly different from the classic game, a little more streamlined. It is updated to include more current events and the questions are age appropriate. It moves quickly to keep children’s interest. They can have fun learning without even realizing it. It is much improved and streamlined to move a little more quickly so the game does not take quite as long as the original version. This is a great way to spend time together on family get-togethers, enjoy a few laughs and get a little education along the way.

Value

The best part about this game is that it is designed to challenge kids on their own level with questions just for them. It has an adult deck and a child deck so the whole family can play all together and challenge each other.

Design

The set includes 858 events total, written on 429 double-sided cards. A player reads a historical event from a card and you decide where that event falls in your own timeline/hand of cards. If you’re correct, you keep that card. The first player to reach a timeline of ten cards wins. This game is made in the United States and most suitable for two to eight players ages fourteen and up. The game builds memory recall, especially when played over and over again, as players recognize events they’ve seen in rounds before.

Effectiveness

This game is a great way to help children and adults alike understand the placement of major historical events, as well as some fun, less significant historical markers. It helps to build categorical skills as well as to understand cause and effect, and build memory recall.

Value

It’s a nice mix of major historical events and silly little sidebars. It’s incredibly straightforward and easy to play and there are enough cards that this won’t get boring after a few rounds.

Design

They are easy to read, fun to remember, and get laughs from everyone. The best part will be to see them coming up with questions or jokes of their own. Inside the book, readers will find hundreds of different kinds of teasers for the brain, jokes that will knock-knock a crowd, quizzes that test the mind, and riddles that rock. Along with the riddles and teasers, kids will also find tips and hints on how to deliver the content. Every quizzer needs quizzing and this is the book to do it.

Effectiveness

Trivia and quizzes are able to inspire and create ideas within children that will make creative thinking a process that enables them to enhance their leadership skills. Strong leaders are great at coming up with creative ideas and processes.

Value

Great trivia book to be able to take on the go. The puzzles, quizzes, and jokes are a great way to entertain kids in the car or on a plane.

Design

The game is best suited for more than three players that are over the age of six. Each round of play takes about 25 minutes. One of the best parts is kids can face their parents and can beat them. It is a family-friendly game where no matter your age you have the upper hand. The set includes the questions cards, dry erase markers, dry erase boards, an answer board, ‘Meeples’, scoreboard, and a full booklet of easy to follow instructions. Host the next family game night with this game.

Effectiveness

Trivia games are a great way to bring the family together for a game night. When families and friends join together for games it allows children to compete in a safe social setting that helps develop their self-confidence. While they build their self-confidence in an environment that they feel comfortable in it also allows them to easily branch out when in a different environment. Self-confidence is a skill and trait that builds strong individuals.

Value

We love when everyone in the family can get involved in game night with little to no help at all. It really makes the younger kids feel like they are a part of the game without having to always look for help.

Design

Each of the cards has been created to have colorful illustrations, are creative in their delivery, are fun, and colorful. The set has been carefully designed to ensure that it meets the standards of curriculum for that age group and adapts to their style of learning. It creates a fresh, lively, and spiced up a new way of learning that has some humor to it without all the books and paper quizzes. Keep the kids engaged for hours learning and laughing with this set of challenge cards.

Effectiveness

Trivia for kids is a great way to improve their cognitive skills. The games played with trivia cards are a way to cross-train their way of thinking called asymmetric thinking. It is inspired by thinking in patterns and helping their brains to learn to fire on all cylinders.

Value

Great new approach to learning and teaching kindergartners. The box included lots of humor and playful jokes, but the knowledge is right in there. Keeps kids engaged for long periods of time.

Design

This is a quick game to play. It is easy to store and convenient to carry. It is a game you can play in the car or anywhere. The first player to answer twelve questions wins. This is a fun way to test your knowledge of the Harry Potter world. The questions range in difficulty. There are six categories in the game: The Dark Arts, Magical Spells and Potions, Magical Creatures, Magical Objects, Magical People and Animals, and Hogwarts. You win by collecting six cards.

Effectiveness

This game will challenge even expert wizards. The game is quick to play so it is perfect for a spare moment. The rules are easy to follow. The first person to answer twelve questions correctly wins. It’s quick and simple.

Value

The container is small enough to put into your purse so it can be taken anywhere and used to pass the time.

Design

If you stumble, you may end up moving backward. Go down the list of questions and see how many you can answer. You can also get help from teammates. The questions come in a variety of fun formats. There are subjects for current affairs, educational, pop culture, food and drink and lots more. This makes a great party game.

Effectiveness

This is a game that can be fun for the whole family. There is a huge range of topics to choose from, and the answers are multiple choice instead of you trying to come up with your own. All of the questions come in lots of fun formats.

Value

The variety of moving backward and forward adds to the fun of the game. We like having so many topics to choose from.

Design

Wonder who will score the highest? Each of the quizzes features dynamic designs, colorful photos, and more. The questions are based on features from the National Geographic website and include true and false type questions along with themed, photo, and world fact questions. The book is compact and makes for a great traveling game along with an addition to the game shelve at home.

Effectiveness

Trivia games and quizzes are a great way to increase memory capabilities and intelligence. When you exercise the brain with fact, figures, and basic knowledge you exercise the brain to its full capacity. When you exercise your brain regularly like other parts of your body it becomes strong and more effective.

Value

Quizzes on world knowledge are something that is always great for the kids to have. This compact and easy to carry the book is a great way to introduce and test their knowledge without having to have multiple books.

Design

The game is super competitive, but there is also a twist. Each player takes a turn by either guessing at the question or being the host by asking the question. All the players have a chance to guess what the images are and when correct they are able to move their mover towards the space castle. The player who reaches the space castle first wins. The game features over 180 questions. So, test your knowledge against your kids with this fun Disney Trivia game.

Effectiveness

Playing trivia games is a great way to foster your child’s communication development and increase their conversation skills. When playing games it gives your children an opportunity to engage in conversations and learn how to effectively communicate with a team or single players. This will be beneficial to them throughout their life and career.

Value

Anything that brings the family together is always fun and this fun is surrounded by the love for Disney. Each family member has a chance to let their knowledge be known with this game. It is easy enough for the little ones, yet challenging enough to keep the bigger ones interested.

Design

The content is family-friendly and there are 203 total cards. An even number of players is helpful but not entirely necessary. This game is especially great for road trips, as the driver can also safely participate. To add a little flair, consider purchasing buzz buttons and a dry erase board from a discount crafts store to make the game more like the show viewers know and love.

Effectiveness

These fun trivia cards will test teams’ knowledge on a whole slew of subjects. The more families play, the more children become familiar with the questions and answers and the better their memory gets. Additionally, plenty of cards ask questions younger players can answer. (I.E. Q: Name a masked personality. A: Spiderman, Zorro, Batman, etc.)

Value

It’s easy to play without a lot of setup and cleanup. The box it comes in works perfectly for storage and is small enough that it can be thrown in a backpack or large purse when the family is traveling.