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Free Board Game quiz: 87 trivia questions and answers — chess, Monopoly & Scrabble. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
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From chess to Go, from Monopoly to Scrabble, from the Game of the Goose to Catan, this quiz covers classic and modern board games: rules, origins, inventors and fun facts. Perfect to warm up before your next family or friends' game night.
This quiz currently has 87 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 17 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: 64. A chessboard is an 8 × 8 board of alternating light and dark squares. Each player has a light square in the right-hand corner.
Answer: China. Called 'weiqi' in China, Go later spread to Korea and Japan, where it took the name by which it is known in the West.
Answer: The Settlers of Catan. Designed by Klaus Teuber, 'The Settlers of Catan' (now simply 'Catan') has sold over 40 million copies and made German-style games famous worldwide.
Answer: Guess Who?. In 'Guess Who?', each player flips down the faces they rule out until they find the other player's mystery character.
Answer: The assassin. Spymasters give a one-word clue and a number to lead their team to their agents. Touching the assassin ends the game: that team loses at once.
Answer: Dominoes. In Kingdomino (Bruno Cathala, 2016), you connect landscape dominoes around your castle to form a 5 × 5 kingdom. Spiel des Jahres 2017.
Answer: A wooden totem. Created in France in 1997, this observation and reflex game regularly causes squashed hands and fits of laughter. One variant even makes you grab the totem… without using your hands.
Answer: Pictionary. Rob Angel played at getting friends to guess words with a dictionary and a pencil. He made the first boxes in his flat; the game went on to sell tens of millions of copies.
Answer: China. It appeared in the 19th century and became very popular in the West in the 1920s. It is usually played by four.
Answer: Black. Black always starts. To compensate for this advantage, White receives extra points called 'komi'.
Answer: 6. The six suspects are Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlett, Mrs Peacock, Professor Plum, Mrs White and Reverend Green. The game was invented in England by Anthony Pratt in the 1940s.
Answer: 100. International draughts is played on a 10 × 10 board with 20 pieces per player. English draughts (checkers), however, is played on 64 squares.
Answer: They win the game immediately. Gathering all 4 mermaids is an instant win, whatever the score. Otherwise, each mermaid scores points based on the most common colour in your hand.
Answer: Temperature, oxygen and oceans. Players run corporations terraforming Mars: the game ends once temperature, oxygen level and number of oceans have all reached their maximum.
Answer: North America's Pacific Northwest. Cascadia is named after the Cascades region (Oregon, Washington, British Columbia). Players combine habitats and place bears, elk, salmon, hawks and foxes.
Answer: The Excuse. It is one of the three 'bouts', along with the Petit (1 of trumps) and the 21. The more of them in your tricks, the fewer points you need to win.
Answer: 15. The aim is to move all 15 checkers round the board and bear them off before your opponent. The game descends from games played in Mesopotamia nearly 5,000 years ago.
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