Classic Board Games

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1.Which classic board game sends armies to conquer territories on a world map by dice rolls?
- A. Diplomacy
- B. Battleship
- C. Sorry!
- D. Risk
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Risk
Did you know? Risk was created in the 1950s by French film director Albert Lamorisse.
2.Which classic board game matches pip-counted tiles end to end toward an empty hand?
- A. Clue
- B. Scrabble
- C. Snakes and Ladders
- D. Dominoes
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Dominoes
Did you know? The standard double-six domino set contains twenty-eight tiles.
3.Which classic board game climbs ladders and slides down snakes on a numbered path?
- A. Snakes and Ladders
- B. Ludo
- C. Dots and Boxes
- D. Xiangqi
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Snakes and Ladders
Did you know? Snakes and Ladders descends from the Indian game Moksha Patam, tied to lessons about fate.
4.Which classic board game cracks a hidden color code with black and white key pegs?
- A. Trouble
- B. Mastermind
- C. Gomoku
- D. Stratego
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Mastermind
Did you know? Mastermind was invented by Israeli postmaster Mordecai Meirowitz in 1970.
5.Which classic board game hops marbles across a six-pointed star into the opposite camp?
- A. Pente
- B. Diplomacy
- C. Peg Solitaire
- D. Chinese Checkers
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Chinese Checkers
Did you know? Despite its name, Chinese Checkers was developed in Germany as a variant of Halma.
6.Which classic board game moves four tokens around a cross-and-circle track toward home?
- A. Ludo
- B. Nine Men's Morris
- C. Tic-tac-toe
- D. Mensch ärgere dich nicht
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Ludo
Did you know? Ludo was patented in England in 1896 as an adaptation of Pachisi.
7.How many checkers does each backgammon player start with?
- A. 24
- B. 15
- C. 20
- D. 12
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15
Did you know? Backgammon players race fifteen checkers around the board.
8.Which classic board game refights World War II with industry purchases and dice on a world map?
- A. Parcheesi
- B. Monopoly
- C. Axis & Allies
- D. Jenga
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Axis & Allies
Did you know? Axis & Allies debuted in 1981 and became a flagship of the wargame shelf.
9.Which classic board game is the French military game that foreshadowed Stratego's hidden ranks?
- A. Peg Solitaire
- B. Mastermind
- C. Guess Who?
- D. L'Attaque
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L'Attaque
Did you know? L'Attaque appeared in France before World War II and descended from Chinese Junqi.
10.Which classic board game connects your two opposite sides with an unbroken chain of stones?
- A. Jungle
- B. Hex
- C. Checkers
- D. Mancala
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Hex
Did you know? Hex was invented independently by Piet Hein and John Nash in the 1940s.
11.Which classic board game races pieces along a rosette-marked track from ancient Mesopotamia?
- A. Sequence
- B. Twister
- C. the Royal Game of Ur
- D. Go
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the Royal Game of Ur
Did you know? Boards for the Royal Game of Ur date to about 2600 BC in present-day Iraq.
12.Which classic board game hunts a fleeing king in the Viking family of tafl games?
- A. Jenga
- B. Diplomacy
- C. Mensch ärgere dich nicht
- D. Hnefatafl
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Hnefatafl
Did you know? Hnefatafl sets have been recovered from Viking burials and ship finds.
13.Which classic board game sows and captures seeds in the best-known member of the mancala family?
- A. Go
- B. Parcheesi
- C. Sequence
- D. Oware
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Oware
Did you know? Oware boards commonly hold two rows of six pits plus a scored store at each end.
14.Which classic board game ranks animals from elephant to rat in China's "animal chess"?
- A. Jungle
- B. Clue
- C. Guess Who?
- D. Ludo
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Jungle
Did you know? In Jungle (Dou Shou Qi), only the rat may slip under the elephant.
15.Which classic board game lines up three counters in a row to remove an opponent's pieces?
- A. Nine Men's Morris
- B. Snakes and Ladders
- C. Peg Solitaire
- D. Go
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Nine Men's Morris
Did you know? Nine Men's Morris was a favorite of medieval Europe and appears in Shakespeare's plays.
16.Which classic board game seeks five stones in a row on the intersections of a Go board?
- A. Pachisi
- B. Jenga
- C. Gomoku
- D. Shogi
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Gomoku
Did you know? Gomoku is a traditional East Asian line game older than its written records.
17.What was the final score when AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in 2016?
- A. 4–2
- B. 5–0
- C. 4–1
- D. 3–2
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4–1
Did you know? AlphaGo won the 2016 Seoul match four games to one.
18.Which classic board game draws lines between dots to claim completed boxes?
- A. Stratego
- B. Twister
- C. Dots and Boxes
- D. Jenga
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Dots and Boxes
Did you know? Dots and Boxes needs only pencil and paper and rewards the last move as often as the first.
19.Which classic board game races tokens around a loop beneath a Pop-o-Matic bubble die?
- A. Risk
- B. Trouble
- C. Axis & Allies
- D. Hnefatafl
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Trouble
Did you know? Trouble's Pop-o-Matic dome keeps the die from rolling off the board.
20.Which classic board game is the Indian cross-and-circle race game traditionally played with cowrie shells?
- A. Mancala
- B. Pachisi
- C. Risk
- D. Hnefatafl
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Pachisi
Did you know? Pachisi's cross-shaped courts have been found carved in Indian palace grounds.
21.Which classic board game plays cards to place chips in rows over a board of card faces?
- A. Hex
- B. Othello
- C. Mouse Trap
- D. Sequence
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Sequence
Did you know? Sequence uses two standard decks and a board printed with every card twice.
22.Which classic board game jumps pegs over neighbors into empty holes to leave a single peg?
- A. Backgammon
- B. Sequence
- C. Monopoly
- D. Peg Solitaire
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Peg Solitaire
Did you know? Peg Solitaire appears in a 1697 engraving by Claude Audran with a lady at play.
23.Which classic board game hides the rank of every piece until battle reveals it?
- A. Scrabble
- B. The Game of Life
- C. Stratego
- D. Mensch ärgere dich nicht
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Stratego
Did you know? In Stratego, bombs and a hidden flag anchor each side's camp.
24.Which classic board game hops pieces across a square board with no captures at all?
- A. Connect Four
- B. Halma
- C. Battleship
- D. Mensch ärgere dich nicht
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Halma
Did you know? Halma was invented in the United States in the 1880s by physician George Howard Monks.
25.Which classic board game triggers a Rube Goldberg chain of gadgets that ends in a cage?
- A. Dominoes
- B. Dots and Boxes
- C. Mastermind
- D. Mouse Trap
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Mouse Trap
Did you know? Mouse Trap (1963) popularized elaborate chain-reaction boards in family games.
26.Which classic board game resolves secret written moves with no dice and no random luck?
- A. Peg Solitaire
- B. Ludo
- C. Sequence
- D. Diplomacy
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Diplomacy
Did you know? Diplomacy was designed by Allan B. Calhamer and first published commercially in 1959.
27.Which classic board game pairs five-in-a-row goals with a capture rule on a Go-style board?
- A. Pente
- B. Hnefatafl
- C. Mastermind
- D. Mancala
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Pente
Did you know? Pente was invented in the United States in 1977 by Gary Gabrel.
28.Which classic board game is the German race classic whose title means "don't get angry"?
- A. Mensch ärgere dich nicht
- B. Diplomacy
- C. Pachisi
- D. Sorry!
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Mensch ärgere dich nicht
Did you know? Mensch ärgere dich nicht was created in 1907 and is a Ludo-style race.

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