Every wedge is the green one
You know the feeling when the green wedge comes up and you sit forward a little. Slice of Science is a deck where that happens on every roll: blue, pink, yellow, brown, green, purple, all of them science.
Fourteen subjects to draw from, six on the board at a time. The structure of the atom, the plumbing of the deep ocean, what killed the dinosaurs, what the Voyagers are doing now. Whichever color somebody lands on, it is a question you want to hear the answer to.
You choose the six
The colors are yours to hand out, and that is most of the fun. Astronomy and Dinosaurs & Fossils for a table with a nine-year-old at it. Weather & Climate for the friend who checks three forecasts before leaving the house. The Periodic Table for the chemist, so everyone can watch them earn it.
Swap a subject out in the middle of a game if the table wants something else. It takes a few seconds, and it changes who wins.
What it is
Slice of Science is a web page that hands you one question at a time, built for the kind of board game where you collect six colored wedges by answering a question in each category: Trivial Pursuit, and the many games shaped like it. One phone or tablet sits in the middle of the table and goes to whoever is answering.
It is a question deck, not a game. There is no board and it keeps no score. You play by the rules you already use, with your own pieces, on your own board.
How to play
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Put your subjects on the colors
Open Categories and drag a subject onto one of the six wedge colors. Each one sits on a single color, so every wedge on the board is a different subject.
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Tap the color they landed on
A question comes up from whatever subject is sitting on that color, and you will not be asked the same one twice in an evening.
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Reveal the answer
Let them answer, then tap Reveal Answer and settle it. Tap Done, and the phone goes to the next player.
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Keep the deck sharp
A question the table judges unfair can be flagged, and it will not come back.
The fourteen subjects
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Blunders & Breakthroughs
- Chemistry
- Dinosaurs & Fossils
- Earth Science
- Environmental Science
- Measurement & Scale
- Oceans & Marine Life
- Physics
- Space Missions
- The Human Body
- The Periodic Table
- Weather & Climate
Blunders & Breakthroughs is the history of science getting it spectacularly wrong and then right, and it is usually the one people ask to keep on the board.
Common questions
Does it work with my copy of Trivial Pursuit?
Yes, and with any other game built around collecting colored wedges or scoring a category at a time. It replaces the cards and leaves everything else alone, so you play by whatever rules your table already uses. It is not made by Hasbro and is not part of the game you bought.
Can I use it with the Genus or Master editions?
Yes. Any edition works, because nothing here depends on the board: six colors, six subjects, one question at a time. The subjects are the 14 listed above, and you choose which six are in play.
Is it only for scientists?
No. The questions are written for an interested adult, not for a seminar. You need curiosity rather than a degree, and a physicist will still lose points on marine biology.
Will we run out of questions?
There are more than thirteen thousand of them across the fourteen subjects, so a weekly game has a very long way to go.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no login. Your layout and the questions you have seen stay in your own browser.
Does it cost anything?
Nothing. There are no ads and nothing to buy.
Where do the questions come from?
They were written for this app. Each one notes the source its answer rests on, shown underneath the answer, which is there for the arguments.