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The World According To Ubi

“I was buried, not praised…”

Great Caesar’s ghost! Beware the Ides of March, because my Tabletop Simulator mod for March 2017 is Horn Abbot’s follow-up to TRIVIAL PURSUIT, that brutal game of geography trivia: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO UBI… considered by many to be the most difficult trivia board game ever devised!

What makes it so hard? Well, first, every question is a geography quiz in the form of a riddle that begins with the word “Ubi” (which is Latin for “where”). For example:

Ubi EPCOT’s big ball be?

So maybe you’ve figured out that the question is asking you where EPCOT Center’s Spaceship Earth is. You know that it’s in Orlando, Florida. But that’s not the answer to the question… in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO UBI, answers are given in the form of a coordinate on the world map! You need to use the map on the game board and the included Rubicon Reticle to find the answer: “266” if you’ve rolled for hexagonal precision, and “266-R” if you’ve rolled for triangular precision!

And then there’s the fact that peppered throughout the cards are the occasional trick question. “Ubi Hitler bomb Brazil?” Well, that never happened, so the correct answer is, “That’s a red herring!”

Also scattered throughout the cards is the voice of Caesar’s ghost. “Beware the Ides of March!” If you hear these words, you lose all of your wedges and you have to start over “from scratch!”

And if all that wasn’t difficult enough, now consider this: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO UBI was published in 1986, so the Cold War-era map is now three decades out of date! There may be questions about the Soviet Union, East and West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Burma, Kampuchea, Yugoslavia, Zaire… there have been all sorts of changes to the geography of the world in the last 30 years. And the questions might also reference pre-1990’s pop culture… good luck remembering “Ubi Krystle and Alexis claw like cats!” (The answer, incidentally, is “243-R.”)

If you somehow think that sounds too easy, feel free to take it to the next level by using the extra-detailed maps of the United States and Europe included at the bottom of the world map.

Good luck… you’re going to need it! Veni, vidi, vici!

This mod contains:
• the game box (a TTS bag object)
• the world map (a TTS custom table)
• A bag containing three dice and four game pieces (these pieces are Unity AssetBundles; right-click on the objects to use the Trigger Actions to insert or remove wedges)
• 750 standard-def question cards in two card boxes (shake to randomize cards; each box has an equal number of red herrings and Ides of Marches)
• three pages of rules (also transcribed into the notebook)
• and--of course--the Rubicon Reticle, in its own pouch (you will have best results moving the Reticle around the board if you set your Lift Height in TTS to its minimum setting)