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gamed121683

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"Blockbusters" Board Game
« on: December 21, 2013, 12:21:52 PM »
Not sure if should page Mr. Ottinger to the white phone for this question, but I\'ll open it to everybody. This might be a longshot (Row 6, $350), but I was wondering if anyone had a PDF of the \"Blockbusters\" question booklet that came with the home game. Outside of being a trivia reference book junkie, I\'m curious to know if the questions were actually new questions written for the home version or they were just a bunch of recycled questions from the actual series.


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DoorNumberFour

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"Blockbusters" Board Game
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2013, 12:54:24 PM »


Not sure if should page Mr. Ottinger to the white phone for this question, but I\'ll open it to everybody. This might be a longshot (Row 6, $350), but I was wondering if anyone had a PDF of the \"Blockbusters\" question booklet that came with the home game. Outside of being a trivia reference book junkie, I\'m curious to know if the questions were actually new questions written for the home version or they were just a bunch of recycled questions from the actual series.


Thanks in advance!




 


What a total coincidence...I found a Blockbusters game at the thrift yesterday, but it\'s missing the question booklet. 

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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2013, 01:32:44 PM »


 




Not sure if should page Mr. Ottinger to the white phone for this question, but I\'ll open it to everybody. This might be a longshot (Row 6, $350), but I was wondering if anyone had a PDF of the \"Blockbusters\" question booklet that came with the home game. Outside of being a trivia reference book junkie, I\'m curious to know if the questions were actually new questions written for the home version or they were just a bunch of recycled questions from the actual series.


Thanks in advance!




 


What a total coincidence...I found a Blockbusters game at the thrift yesterday, but it\'s missing the question booklet. 


 




And even more coincidental, I decided to pull out one of my copies and get a further look at it after the recent addition of Blockbusters to GSN\'s lineup.


The book is small and on the thick side--80 pages long, from cover to cover.


 


The questions are nowhere near TV show-caliber.  For the most part, they have one part and are very straight-forward, sometimes almost too straight-forward.  (What F is where frankfurters originated?)


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Re: "Blockbusters" Board Game
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 06:08:07 PM »
The benefit of lots and lots of snow days:

http://userdata.acd.net/ottinger/Blockbusters002.pdf

and if any of you need the rules, which were printed separately:

http://userdata.acd.net/ottinger/BlockbustersInstructions.pdf
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Re: "Blockbusters" Board Game
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2014, 06:16:58 PM »
The questions aren't High Rollers bad, but they're a far cry from those as seen on the program (and yet still better than the zingers that Bill Rafferty would pitch in 1987.)

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