Wow! A Potato! 🥔 Three NEW Chance Round Items in Trivia Tricks!

Hello Tricksters! Today's update adds three new items!

But first, if you'd like to support Trivia Tricks, then please consider leaving an honest Steam Review letting us know what you think about the game. This will help shape the direction of future updates and helps Trivia Tricks to find more quiz heads on Steam! Thank you!

Now, onto the items!


Use Double Down whenever you're certain you know the right answer to earn double points for that question! Get it wrong and you might look a little silly but it's worth a try!


The Royal Decree is a rare item that steals a percentage of points from any player of your choosing. It then divides that stolen money equally among the other players! If it looks like someone is pulling away with a lead then you know what to do...


If you're given the Hot Potato you better answer the question correctly to pass it on, otherwise it’ll explode and you'll lose points! Every time the Hot Potato is passed on, the heat will increase. The hotter it gets the more points it’ll take! Just how hot does it get? You'll have to find out for yourselves!

These new items were designed to nudge Trivia Tricks' game balance into rewarding skilful play and creating tighter games. We hope that after this update you'll notice the scoreboard will be much closer!


Finally, if you missed the news, we've been releasing updates that focus on QoL improvements and polish, with the intention to prepare Trivia Tricks for its graduation from Early Access! You can see the last two updates here and here. Today’s update includes even more polish, which you can find the details of below!

We're looking for inspiration on what to improve in the next patch, so if you want to shape the future of Trivia Tricks' development then consider joining the Discord and putting your suggestion forward!

Finally, to celebrate the Friend Pass Party Bundle the Worm from Last Train Outta’ Wormtown is now a free hat available to all Trivia Tricks players. Chomp!

Ok, without further delay, onto the full patch notes!

• The Double Down item has been added! Use this item to receive double points if you answer the current question correctly!
  
• The Royal Decree item has been added! This rare item allows you to steal a percentage of points from a player (percentage depends on player count) and distribute it between everybody else!
  
• The Hot Potato has been added! This item is immediately in-play, and you’ll need to answer correctly to pass it onto the next player and add to the heat. The more heat the Hot Potato has built up then the more points that will be lost after someone answers incorrectly, causing it to explode!
  
• Mr. Tricks likes potatoes and will sometimes talk about them!
  
• As always, these items are not included when Chance Round is set to ‘Tame’.
  

• Added the ‘Hungry Worm’ hat, featuring a guest appearance of the Worm from Last Train Outta’ Wormtown!
• After a question’s answer is revealed the next question’s category will be shown.
  
• Improved the appearance of some menu elements, particularly around the host’s lobby settings.
  
• The ‘streak’ bonus in the lobby menu is no longer harder to click than the other bonus options.
  
• Players that have deactivated the In-Game Chat in the Options Menu will now see a message in their chatbox informing them why they cannot see the chat.
  
• Players that have deactivated the In-Game Chat in the Options Menu will now see messages related to players joining/leaving games, or suggesting changes to the selected categories.
  
• Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
  

• Fixed a bug in the Character Creator where the description for the ‘Pilot Suit’ wasn’t showing.
  
• Fixed a bug where AI characters with identical outfits to a player character could be spawned.
  
• Fixed a bug where players would continue to play the Crystal Ball animation even after losing the item.
  
• Fixed a few issues related to Twitch connection timeouts.
  

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