Intro
Toques & Beavers is a FREE online trivia game about Canada, from history to folklore to current events and everything in between.
The object of the game is to answer trivia questions correctly. By doing so you win Beaver Bucks, move through levels, win the game, and win offical Toques & Beavers prizes*.
Player Accounts
To play Toques & Beavers players must log in. Players can register using their Facebook account or create a new account. The T&B account is solely for the purpose of keeping your score, statistics, denoting eligibility for winnings, and contact information for prizes. Click here to read our privacy policy.
Upon setting up an account, players must disclose whether they live in Canada and are at least 18 years of age in order to be eligible for prizes.
Playing the Game
Pick a pawn to move around the board. All player pawns begin on the START spot. To start a turn, roll the dice by clicking on it. The pawn moves the number rolled and lands on a spot.
If the pawn lands on a blank or basic spot, a Toques card is drawn. If the pawn lands on a specific card spot, the corresponding card ( Yipee, Oops) is drawn. Landing on a Beaver spot gives you a tip to use later on a difficult question.
Below is a breakdown of the card types and their purposes:Toques Cards
These are the basic trivia cards and are mostly true/false, yes/no and simple two-answer multiple-choice questions. They have a time limit of 20 seconds to be answered.
Scoring: Answer correctly, win small amount. Answer incorrectly, lose small amount.
(+/-2,500 for Frugal Freddie, +/-5,000 for Value Victoria, +/-10,000 for Lavish Lilly)
Beaver Spots
Landing on a Beaver spot gains you tip points to use later. Your Beaver Tips are accumulated and the total is shown to the right of the game board in the Beaver Tips box. When answering a question card, the top right corner has an icon to either Use a Beaver, which will subtract one from your tip count, or Buy a Hint if you have no tips to use.
Scoring: No score is added to your Total Bucks or Monthly Bucks , but one tip is added to your Beaver Tips counter.
Yipee Cards
Yipee cards are bonus question cards. Answering a Yipee card will award points to the player. Answering incorrectly will result in not winning and not losing any points. These questions have 3 or 4 multiple choice options to make it more difficult and a time limit of 20 seconds.
Scoring: Answer the question correctly, win double the amount of Beaver Bucks usually given for each level. Answer incorrectly and no points will be gained or lost.
(+5,000 for Frugal Freddie, +10,000 for Value Victoria, +20,000 for Lavish Lilly)
Oops Cards
Oops cards are the negative cards. Answering an Oops card incorrectly can result in losing points. Answering correctly will save the player from losing any points, while maintaining their current score. These have similar questions (multiple choice with 3-4 options) and a time limit of 20 seconds.
Scoring: Answer the question correctly, no points will be gained or lost. Answer incorrectly, lose double the amount of Beaver Bucks usually given for each level.
(-5,000 for Frugal Freddie,-10,000 for Value Victoria, -20,000 for Lavish Lilly)
Upon Drawing a Card:
All cards load first with two category options (Tourism, Geography, etc). Players select the category of their choice, the question comes up and the player must answer within the alotted time.
Question cards also have buttons to “Use a Beaver Tip”. If a player selects “Use a Beaver Tip”, they use a beaver tip (pay a fee if they ran out of beaver tips) and receive a hint. This resets the timer to give another chance to consider the correct answer. Only one hint is available per question. (Buy a Hint fees are equal to half the amount of the card's dollar amount.)
Upon Answering a Question or Closing a Card:
The action after submitting an answer varies based on the type of card. A player will either win Beaver Bucks, lose Beaver Bucks, or have no change in Beaver Bucks. The card is then closed and discarded or, for Beaver cards, moved to the tips pile.
Scores are updated automatically. Now the player is ready to roll the dice again for another turn.
Question Submissions
Players are welcome to submit questions for any category and level of trivia. The more questions in our database, the more exciting the game and the more a player will want to play without getting bored.
Sample Question Categories:
Tourism (Where can you see a rodeo in Canada?)Geography (Which province is this shape?)
Landmarks (What is the tallest building in Canada?)
History (When did Canada gain its independence?)
Current Events (What middle eastern country does Canada have troops in?)
Politics (Who is the current PM?)
Entertainment (What Canadian helped write and direct the movie "Knocked Up"?)
Music (What Canadian band sings "How You Remind Me?")
Wildlife (What animal has a coin named after it?)
Food (Poutine is actually a meal of french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds. True/False)
Canadian-ism (definitions of words/phrases from Canada)(what is a chesterfield?)
Native Canada (what is an inukshuk?)
Miscellaneous (anything else you can think of..)
Beaver Bucks
Beaver Bucks are the scoring system for Toques & Beavers. Win or lose Beaver Bucks by answering questions correctly or incorrectly.
There are two measures of a players score in Beaver Bucks: Monthly Bucks and Total Bucks.
Total Beaver Bucks
Total Beaver Bucks are accumulated throughout the entire game, regardless of time. Total Bucks dictate the level of play, the end of the game, and Grand Bonus Prize winners. Answering questions can add or subtract Beaver Bucks to the Total Bucks. This score only resets after a player wins the game or, if playing for the Grand Bonus Prize, any eligible player reaches $1,000,000.
Monthly Beaver Bucks
Monthly Beaver Bucks are accumulated from the first to the last day of the month and reset every month. Monthly Bucks are basically a measure of correctly answered questions within one month. The player to earn the most Monthly Bucks in the least amount of time wins the monthly offical Toques & Beavers prize.
Answering questions correctly adds Beaver Bucks to the Monthly Bucks score, but unlike Total Bucks, incorrect answers do not take away Monthly Bucks, so this score reflects only the amount of questions correctly answered. The more difficult the question, the more bucks earned, the quicker a player can reach a high Monthly Bucks score.
Levels
Toques & Beavers has three levels of difficulty: Frugal Freddie, Value Victoria, and Lavish Lilly. These levels are based on the player's Total Beaver Bucks and determine the difficulty in trivia and points awarded or taken away.
Here is a breakdown of the levels:
Frugal Freddie
Total Beaver Bucks: $0 - $250,000
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Scoring: Toques & Beavers = +/- 2500, Yipee & Oops = +/- 5000
Everyone begins as a Frugal Freddie.
Value Victoria
Total Beaver Bucks: $250,000 - $750,000
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Scoring: Toques & Beavers = +/- 5000, Yipee & Oops = +/- 10000
This is the largest level.
Lavish Lilly
Total Beaver Bucks: $750,000 - $1,000,000
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Scoring: Toques & Beavers = +/- 10000, Yipee & Oops = +/- 20000
Win the game when you reach $1,000,000 Beaver Bucks!
Moving Through Levels:
All players start as Frugal Freddies. To move through the levels, players must answer questions correctly and win Beaver Bucks. The Total Beaver Bucks score determines the level of play. If a player moves up a level, but then loses points by answering questions incorrectly, the player’s level continues to reflect the score.
Example: You earned $750,000 to get to Lavish Lilly, but the questions are too hard and you keep losing money. Once you are back under $750,000, you are taken down to Value Victoria’s level and have to answer the Intermediate questions again to win more bucks and move back up. This continues throughout the game.
* Players can only win a monthly prize once every six months.Winning the Game!
Anybody can win T&B! Simply, earn $1,000,000 Total Beaver Bucks to win the game and become “Certified Canadian”!
As long as a player is eligible, they are automatically entered to compete for the monthly prize pack or the Grand Bonus prize.
Read more about each prize below:
Certified Canadian
Working their way up through the levels, once players reach $1,000,000 in Total Beaver Bucks they win the game and become "Certified Canadian"!
The prize is an awesome printable Toques & Beavers “Certified Canadian” diploma and an e-badge to post on social networks and/or blogs. All winners also get recognition on the T&B website and Facebook page, with an option to post a photo of themselves with their certificates!
Monthly Prize
There is one monthly prize of Toques & Beavers merchandise. This prize is given to the person who earns the most points the quickest in the duration of the month (from the first to the last day of the month). This score is reflected in the Monthly Beaver Bucks score.
This is not necessarily the highest score. It is technically the amount of points from questions answered correctly within the period of one month. All players start with $0 Monthly Beaver Bucks at the beginning of every month. Throughout the month, players answer as many questions correctly as possible so as to earn the most Monthly Beaver Bucks in the shortest amount of time**.
At the end of the month, the winner is named and everyone’s scores are reset to start the next month’s competition.
Grand Bonus Prize
If a player has chosen to compete for the Grand Bonus Price and reaches $1,000,000 in Beaver Bucks before all the other eligible players, that player wins the Grand Bonus Prize.
They also receive the “Certified Canadian” certificate, e-badge, recognition on the T&B website and Facebook page, and can choose to have their photo posted.
Once any player wins the Grand Bonus Prize, all the scores and games are reset of every competing player and the competition starts again. A player can only win the Grand Bonus Prize once every six months.
* Players can only win the Grand Bonus Prize once every 6 (six) months.
** Tiebreakers take into consideration how quickly a player gained the points (who reached the high score first), how often a player “Buys a Hint”, the average time a player takes to answer a question, and how many Beaver Tips a player uses.
Legalities
Here is a quick recap of our full Terms & Conditions. In order to participate in ToquesandBeavers.ca, you must follow these terms at all times. Thanks!
Age & Residency Requirements
To open an account and/or participate on ToquesandBeavers.ca, you must:
a) be designated title-holder of the e-mail address submitted on your account registration form.
b) at all times abide by these Terms and Conditions.
To win prizes offered by ToquesandBeavers.ca, you must:
a) be at least 18 years old.
b) be designated title-holder of the e-mail address submitted on your account registration form;
c) be a legal resident of Canada with a verifiable address and bank account for email fund transfers;
d) be physically located within Canada
e) be physically located in a province in which participation is unrestricted by law; and
f) at all times abide by these Terms and Conditions.
Prize Notification & Delivery
Monthly prize winners will be notified via email on the first day of the new month. Grand prize winners will be notified via email upon winning the game or shortly thereafter.
All material prizes will be shipped via Canada Post.
Participation in Grand Bonus Prize Competition
Grand Bonus prize participation is limited to Canadian residents 18 years or older. Users who select to participate in the competition compete against all other participants to reach 1,000,000 Total Beaver Bucks in the shortest amount of time.
Upon awarding the Grand Bonus Prize, all participants’ total game scores are reset to start at zero and level one. The Grand Bonus Prize is only awarded once a month, with each player only being able to win once every six months. Once the Grand Bonus Prize has been awarded for the month, the participants can still compete and scores will still reset if players win, but no monetary prize will be given.
Once notified of winning the Grand Bonus Prize, a player has the option to send us an appropriate photograph of themselves for Toques and Beavers’ to post on its site. We hold exclusive rights and privileges to any photographs, video, emails, interviews, etc. of the Grand Prize Winner in regards to the game and website.
Grand Bonus Prize has no effect on Monthly Winners.
Privacy Policy
ToquesandBeavers.ca will not intentionally disclose any personally identifying information about a player (including information submitted on the application form, e-mail address, information obtaine from cookies, and information regarding IP addresses) to third parties without consent except where ToquesandBeavers.ca, in good faith, believe such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law or other contractual provisions of ToquesandBeavers.ca or to enforce these Terms and Conditions or other rules of ToquesandBeavers.ca.
Acceptance of any prize from ToquesandBeavers.ca constitutes consent for ToquesandBeavers.ca’s disclosure of personal information. ToquesandBeavers.ca reserves the right to collect general demographic and other market information that does not personally identify any person without additional consent.
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