Rich Auntie Trivia ™ Card Game Highlights Black Women

Rich Auntie Trivia™ co-founders Britney Robbins, Sharris Wilson, Taylor Justin and Monique Fletcher. Photo provided by Rich Auntie Trivia ™
Rich Auntie Trivia™ co-founders Britney Robbins, Sharris Wilson, Taylor Justin and Monique Fletcher. Photo provided by Rich Auntie Trivia ™

Rich Auntie Trivia ™ Card Game Highlights Black Women

By Tia Carol Jones

A trivia game recently launched, aimed at celebrating the brilliance of Black women and is meant to enhance historical and cultural knowledge, while creating conversation and building community.

Britney Robbins, Sharris Wilson, Taylor Justin and Monique Fletcher are the co-founders of Rich Auntie Trivia ™. At a gathering for Robbins’ 35th birthday, Wilson shared a game she created called Rich Auntie trivia that the women played.

There are five categories within the game: Center Stage, Ladies First, Like A Boss, HERstory and Rich Facts. Wilson said while four of the categories focus on Black women, Rich Facts, features little known facts about things that are luxury or might be considered bougie, as well as financial knowledge and generational or Black wealth.

She said that there is a range of different questions, with fun sprinkled in. She said Like A Boss focuses on entrepreneurship and businesswomen; HERstory focuses on history; Center Stage focuses on arts and entertainment; and Ladies First focuses on women who broke barriers or were the first in their industry.

Wilson said that while people can play one-on-one, the goal is for the game to be community building, so the ideal set-up is for players to split into teams and have a host read the questions. She said the object of the game is that the first team to get to a stack, or 1,000 points, wins the game. She said multiple choice answers are 25 points, single answers are 50 points and rich facts answers are 100 points.

She said there are alternative ways to play that people will find on the box, as a way to switch it up. There are also Genuine Emotional Moments (GEMS) that are built into the game, which are attached to certain questions throughout the game. While these GEMS aren’t worth any points, they are conversation starters.

Justin said they have been working on the trivia game for two and a half years. She called it a labor of love. She said they started off trying to find and bring questions that were basic Black history facts, highlighting women, then expanding out into pop culture, arts, entertainment and history. She said there was a lot of research and verification of information that went into the question and answer gathering process. She said the co-founders also dug into their individual passion points.

Justin said that while there are more than 100 questions in the game, there are so many more they didn’t add. She said they hope to include more in future packs. She said there is potential to expand in different ways. She said there has been a lot of interest in expanding to possibly including a Black Men, Uncles, version of the game or even focus on cultural centers. Robbins agreed that the game can spin off in different ways, including a pack with just GEMS as a way to talk about history, culture and stories.

“The entire premise of the game is to share our history and keep our stories alive; to make sure  that the women, men, whoever we’re speaking about, the institutions, that we’re memorializing, our culture as we’re in this day and age where Black history is being taken out of books and schools and really trying to be silenced. I think this is a way for us to, in a very culturally relevant, fun and engaging and approachable way, to peek our head up and say we’re still here,” Robbins said.

Fletcher said some of the early purchasers played the game during the holidays. She said it gave people an opportunity to share history through stories, much in the way Black history is shared by Black people with other Black people, through stories. She said sharing history through stories is an important way to facilitate intergenerational exchanges. Wilson said that the game is meant to be educational, but a way for people to have fun.

 She said they were intentional to include women who existed in the same time period as the woman who was the primary answer to the question. She said the hope is that people would want to learn more about those women, too. She added that she hopes the game sparks a natural connection.

Robbins said that people are learning from playing the trivia game. She said it opens up a lane of storytelling that wouldn’t happen in normal conversation. She said people are having fun playing the game. She said people are feeling the intentionality behind the design and questions in the game. She said people also said that it is a fun gift to give people. She said there has been demand to do citywide trivia events.

For more information about Rich Auntie Trivia ™, visit www.richauntietrivia.com. For updates on pop-up events, community events and future releases, follow Rich Auntie Trivia ™ @richauntietrivia on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

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