The box contains one game board, eight pawns, a VHS cassette, and booklet with the rules and questions. After each player chooses a pawn, they roll the dice with the greatest number rolled getting a three space starting advantage on the game board and the role of video operator. The video operator poses the questions in the booklet and operates the remote for the VHS player.
To play, the video operator reads aloud the next question in the booklet. Each player offers an answer starting with the video operator and going clockwise. Players must offer a different guess than one already offered by a previous player or pass one’s turn. When everyone has made a guess or passed, then the video operator plays the VHS tape which reveals the proper response. If a player has given the correct answer then that player rolls the die and advances that many spaces on the game board toward the finish. The first player to reach in the finish is the winner.
The Video Trivialities game contains 258 questions. There is at least one expansion with a question booklet and another VHS cassette.