Colourbrain

The original boxset (called simply Colourbrain) has the most questions at 300 but is catering for all age groups so some …
Colourbrain Junior (120 questions) and Disney Colourbrain (250 questions) are primarily pitched at kids, with Colourbrain mini (120 questions) a self-contained travel edition or question expansion to the original.

Of the four versions I’d not recommend the original for two reasons:
Despite being the edition with the most questions, the three subsequent editions usefully added the number of colours required for the answer on the question side, the original doesn’t have this.

So, if the question was “What colours are the Olympic rings?” the newer editions would tell you that you need to answer 5 colours, the older edition wouldn’t provide this useful clue. It’s a minor niggle but it’s a valued design addition to the sequels.

The second reason I would steer away from the original box is that of the 300 questions, I would expect only 60-70 that a 10 year might possibly know (literally just went through them all). Noted that the age on the box is 12+, and this is the rare case of a games publisher probably pitching it about right – although do be aware even 14 or 15 year olds won’t get a lot of the cultural, cinematic or musical references on the question cards.

If you’re planning on playing with younger pip-squeaks just be aware they won’t have a clue what the answer is for 75%-80% of the questions or understand the question – largely because a lot of the questions require some prior cultural, historic, geographic, musical or cinematic knowledge.
, so it’ll just be guesswork. so they’ll need to team up with an adult (appreciate that’s no guarantee that will help!) or you can skip the question card and pick another.
Admittedly some of the questions are deliberately guesswork and destined to gnaw away at you – “Cripes, what IS the colour of the entertainment wedge in the original Trivial Pursuit? Damn my failing memory..”

For all of the above reasons, unless you’re playing with adults or teaming younger players with adults my recommendation would be to go for the Junior or Disney versions – it’ll be more of a level playing field (or possibly weighted in their favour!).

Irrespective of which version you settle on, there really are minimal components which makes it perfect for holidays or when in transit (on rail, ferry or flight). To travel light, you could  do away with the box, pop a pile of question cards in an elastic band along with the colour cards and hey presto – low fi Colourbrain holiday version.

If I was going to be picky – once you start playing Colourbrain – it’s such an incredibly moreish game that it’s hard not to rattle through all the question card decks in a few sittings.  If you play frequently with the same group (ie your immediate family) this could well impact the longevity, but the same argument can be levelled at any trivia/question based game.

With 300 question cards in the base game it shouldn’t present too much of a problem, in theory it should only take 10-20 questions to elicit a winner. It’s just so darned compelling. I promise you, you’ll play several games back-to-back before you know it. 

One of the less hectic family party games out there, and in these COVID dominated times, it’s great that it can easily be played remotely over video call (link to instruction tweaks below).