The story behind All Rounder – Let's Get Quizzical

All Rounder! – Let’s Get Quizzical – is a general knowledge team game for four or more players, which its developer Chris Stanton describes as “all round fun and all round banter”.

Stanton, the general manager at the Pitlochry Hydro, told The National it took him three years to bring the idea to fruition.

He said: “A few of years ago I came up with a challenge to my pals that I could make a board game after a friend didn’t know who the prime minister was – she thought it was Nick Clegg.

“I set myself a challenge and thought I’d see it right through.

“It started from that woman who didn’t know who the prime minister was and I took it from there, making it playable, getting friends playing it and it simply developed from there.

“I began thinking about how some people know some things and others don’t, so I built the game around that feature, which is a ‘do they know’ segment where we sit as a team and decide whether or not the person in front will know the answer. Often they don’t.”

Stanton said there is no hanging about waiting for your turn and players are involved all the time.

“On each category, true or false for instance, your team-mates help you decide. If there were six people playing on that particular segment four of you are doing something. On the next segment everyone’s involved.”

One section of the game allows “nearest to” answers, such as, “how many steps go up the Eiffel Tower”, or “how many spines are on a porcupine’s back”.

With players split into teams of three or four, everyone takes a turn at asking questions.

Stanton added: “The other clever part is that you decide when it ends before it starts – you can set an alarm on your phone or whatever.”

And he had one other reason for developing the game: “My children are lovely girls but like too many people, they are on the phone all the time. This was also a way of getting people off their phones.”