RIVIA 11/9/25

Mindy and Boots play a game of RIVIA with callers about board games!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So now that the weather's turning colder, a lot of
you will probably be spending a lot more time indoors
doing what playing board games.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I don't know if.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Families play as many board games, but they made a
resurgence during COVID because people were at home so much
that people were whipping out those old board games. Growing up,
my favorite was always Clue. And now we get so
competitive with my family and friends playing Sequence.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Have you ever played Sequence? M Oh, my gosh, it's
so good.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I like the games get you wonder.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Not a.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Life is there's a lot of ups and down pick four.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Points that changed through the years when we hid Now mhmm,
Jil this every time this, Yeah, I can hear you, guys,

(01:10):
but I don't enough you can hear me.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
We have a bad connection.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, older enough gifts?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Dan, where's Dan?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's going? Alright? Who do we have? We're right time?

Speaker 6 (01:57):
M Hey, Jill and Dan.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Fa Chris producer, Chris.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Why is it when it comes to Rivia we have
so much.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
I just think it's from where they call from. I
mean it's just I mean it's just the self service
where they're at.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think that Joe Lady when I've mailed her stuff.
She lives kind of out by Patascal or whatever, Pascar.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, it just really depends on where their cell towers
and all that. I mean it is. It's yeah, it's
nothing that we.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
Can give us.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Okay, well, hopefully they'll call back here. Let us know
when they are back on the line. While we're waiting,
Andrew Heston is going to be a phone to friend.
He's in studio right now. Andrew, what's your favorite board game?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Favorite time? I'm gonna is Operation was considered a Yes.
I used to love that game too.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
I was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Were you good?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You must have had a steady hand that wouldn't make
a little nose.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
He's a big drinker.

Speaker 7 (03:05):
Now like him?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Try now, Oh you just called him out? Isn't he
a good friend?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's back?

Speaker 6 (03:13):
You know?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
What's your favorite board game?

Speaker 6 (03:16):
Stratigo?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
What is that?

Speaker 6 (03:19):
It's kind of like chess a little bit, but it's
like one piece is higher than the other and you
attack it, but then you also have like things like
like how do I say? It's like you have like
bombs and stuff like that. So if you hit it,
your the player goes away.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So you have to strategize so you.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Don't know what's what's behind where because you can set
it up. However, you want a little bit like chess,
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know, it's too complicated. Do we have him back?

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
We have him back yet?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Hello? Hello?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Hello, Hello?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Much better. So, Jill, are you going up against a
guy named Dan? Do you know Dan?

Speaker 6 (04:02):
I do?

Speaker 7 (04:03):
And actually we're sitting right next to each other.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's hilarious, Dan. Have you ever played review before?

Speaker 6 (04:12):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Have you ever played revia before?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I have no? Okay, all right, we better get straight
to it then. All right, First of all, Jill, you
are the reigning champion. Do you want to go first?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Second?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
And do you want Boots as your phone a friend
or do you want our guest Andrew.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
I will always take Boots as my all my phone mine,
and I'll go first.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
All right, what a suck up? I will always take.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
All right, Boots and Jill, Jill, your first question is
what board game has sold the most world wide? So
which board game of all time has the highest sales
all across the world. Your choices are Checkers, Monopoly or Scrabble.
Checkers Monopoly or Scrabble.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
H This is totally a guess I'm I'm gonna say.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Gravel.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, that sold the least.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yes, Checkers has sold fifty billion, Scrabble one and sixty
five million, and Monopoly two.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
Hundred and fifty English plate Checkers.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (05:26):
All right, Dan?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Are you ready for your first question?

Speaker 6 (05:31):
I'm ready, Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
The very first board game that Milton Bradley created, the
very first board game that Builton that Builton Bradley, that
Milton Bradley made, was it Backgammon, the checkered edition of
the Game of Life or Chess, which was the first
game that Milton Bradley made. Back Ammon, the checkered version

(05:53):
of the Game of Life or Chess.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Question No, An, I guess.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Guys, she's Jill happy that he's on on the board
yet zero to zero.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
The answer, And he guesses, I would say Monopoly. And
what were you going to say? Andrew Life?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was the checkered version of the Game of Life.
It was created in eighteen sixty to have a worsome vite.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Okay, Jill, Jill, this is for you. In Monopoly.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
If you do not pass go, you do not collect
one hundred dollars two hundred dollars or three hundred dollars
in monopoly, if you do not pass go, you do
not collect one hundred, two hundred or three hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
That would be two dollars.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
She's on the board. All right, Dan, Are you ready
for your question?

Speaker 6 (06:45):
Yep, far away?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
In trivial pursuit? What color is the arts and Leisure card?
In trivial pursuit pursuit? What color is the arts and
Leisure card? Is it brown, yellow or pink? Yelling no, no, pink,
Yeah it is pink.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's not leisure to ask guy?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
All right, Jill, are you ready? You're ready for your
next question?

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, okay?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Name this game shoots and blank shoots the ladder?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
All right, Dan, you need this one to stay alive.
Are you ready? In the Game of life? What do
you move from space to space?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
In the Game of Life? What do you move from
space to face? Space to space? You each get one
your little game pieces in the Game of Life.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
You got it car?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
He said, yeah, oh, I didn't hear him.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
That is crit So what's one?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I did that exactly for you because of cars.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, if she gets if Jill gets us, it's.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's that's six quiest So that's it, Jill. You are
the champion.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
But let me ask you guys all listening the people
on the airwaves, Dan, Jill, Andrew.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Chris Boots, name this game.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'm going to describe it like this. Who will be
the first one to name this game? What game am
I describing? If I say miss Scarlett in the conservatory
with the rope? Dudes?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Got so Dan?

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Thanks for playing along, Jill. This is your fourth win
in a row.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
You took Dan down, that's a record.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
Yeah, she was usually won and Doney center shirt last
time she kicked butt? So what side shirt you wear?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Dan?

Speaker 6 (08:44):
Before?

Speaker 5 (08:45):
I'm good man?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Xcel?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
How about that?

Speaker 4 (08:47):
All right?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
What were you going to say, Joe?

Speaker 7 (08:49):
Before we hang up, we just want to give a
shout out to our veterans.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
We appreciate and thanks thank.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Them for everything from the American League and post to
eighty three and pickering nice.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm so glad you guys called in from there. Give
everybody our best. In fact, we save the very last
segment to talk about Veterans Day, which is on Tuesday,
because Boots just had an incredible honor flight.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
And we got another one.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's Thursday, so that up.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
Tell your vet, tell your vets at your what We're
American American Legion to come Thursday night if the weather's good,
and we'll probably be an hour late like last time,
but but they'll land between eight thirty nine thirty and
we probably have seventy five vets and I'm looking forward
to It's my last one of the year, which saddens me.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
But I'll fire them up again comes spring. So appreciate
you guys, thanks for saying that you that's a good topic.
So Jill and Dan have fun this evening and.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
We'll talk to you guys whenever.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Rob Many Boots.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
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