Classic Board Games

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1.How many intersections does a standard Go board have?
- A. 400
- B. 324
- C. 289
- D. 361
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361
Did you know? Nineteen lines each way give the Go board 361 intersections.
2.Which classic board game tangles players across a spotted mat at the command of a spinner?
- A. Checkers
- B. Twister
- C. Operation
- D. Othello
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Twister
Did you know? Twister was originally marketed under the name Pretzel.
3.How many pieces does each side start with in American checkers?
- A. 8
- B. 12
- C. 20
- D. 16
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12
Did you know? American checkers opens with twelve pieces on each side's dark squares.
4.Which classic board game races checkers around twenty-four triangular points using dice?
- A. Chinese Checkers
- B. Pachisi
- C. Blokus
- D. Backgammon
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Backgammon
Did you know? Backgammon is among the oldest known board games still widely played.
5.How many tiles are in a full mahjong set?
- A. 144
- B. 108
- C. 136
- D. 152
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144
Did you know? A full mahjong set holds 144 tiles, including flowers and seasons.
6.Which classic board game sends rivals back to start with slides, swaps, and bumps?
- A. Axis & Allies
- B. Sorry!
- C. Go
- D. Pachisi
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Sorry!
Did you know? Sorry! is a race game closely related to Parcheesi.
7.About how many years old is Go, per its commonly cited origin?
- A. 800
- B. 2,500
- C. 1,500
- D. 4,000
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2,500
Did you know? Go's origin is commonly placed more than 2,500 years ago in ancient China.
8.Which classic board game races four pawns from start to home across a cross-shaped board?
- A. Parcheesi
- B. Battleship
- C. The Game of Life
- D. Diplomacy
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Parcheesi
Did you know? Parcheesi is the American adaptation of India's ancient game Pachisi.
9.In which country did Go originate?
- A. India
- B. Japan
- C. China
- D. Korea
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China
Did you know? Go arose in China more than 2,500 years ago.
10.Which classic board game claims space with polyomino pieces that may only touch at corners?
- A. Parcheesi
- B. Diplomacy
- C. Backgammon
- D. Blokus
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Blokus
Did you know? In Blokus, each player starts with twenty-one pieces of a single shape family.
11.Which classic board game tests a steady hand lifting ailments without touching the metal edges?
- A. Operation
- B. Gomoku
- C. Scrabble
- D. Candy Land
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Operation
Did you know? In Operation, a slip sets off a buzzer and lights the patient's red nose.
12.Which classic board game lets captured pieces switch sides and return to play under new command?
- A. Clue
- B. L'Attaque
- C. Checkers
- D. Shogi
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Shogi
Did you know? Shogi is Japanese chess, played on a nine-by-nine board with pointed pieces.
13.Which classic board game moves players along a winding road through careers, marriage, and retirement?
- A. Othello
- B. Mancala
- C. Nine Men's Morris
- D. The Game of Life
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The Game of Life
Did you know? Milton Bradley launched The Game of Life in 1860 as his first game.
14.Which classic board game scores words built from letter tiles on a fifteen-by-fifteen grid?
- A. Peg Solitaire
- B. Trivial Pursuit
- C. Scrabble
- D. Guess Who?
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Scrabble
Did you know? Architect Alfred Butts studied letter frequencies when designing Scrabble.
15.Which classic board game commands generals, horses, and cannons across a river on a nine-by-ten board?
- A. Gomoku
- B. Xiangqi
- C. Battleship
- D. Chinese Checkers
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Xiangqi
Did you know? Xiangqi is Chinese chess, and its pieces are flat discs placed on line intersections.
16.Which classic board game captures by jumping over pieces on the dark squares of an eight-by-eight board?
- A. Checkers
- B. Jenga
- C. Twister
- D. Candy Land
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Checkers
Did you know? Checkers is called draughts outside North America and starts with twelve pieces a side.
17.Which classic board game flanks opposing discs to flip them to your color?
- A. Jenga
- B. Scrabble
- C. Othello
- D. Guess Who?
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Othello
Did you know? Othello is a modern adaptation of the older game Reversi, launched in the 1970s.
18.Which classic board game follows a rainbow path of colors with no reading and no counting?
- A. Mahjong
- B. Blokus
- C. Candy Land
- D. L'Attaque
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Candy Land
Did you know? Candy Land was created in 1949 by Eleanor Abbott while recovering from polio.
19.Which classic board game asks players to deduce the suspect, weapon, and room of a mansion murder?
- A. Clue
- B. Dots and Boxes
- C. Hex
- D. Mensch ärgere dich nicht
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Clue
Did you know? Clue is known as Cluedo outside North America and was patented in the 1940s.
20.Which classic board game draws and discards tiles to assemble sets of winds, dragons, and suits?
- A. Trivial Pursuit
- B. Mahjong
- C. Checkers
- D. Pente
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Mahjong
Did you know? A full mahjong set holds 144 tiles and is played by four players.
21.Which classic board game narrows a crowd of faces with yes-or-no questions?
- A. The Game of Life
- B. Oware
- C. Guess Who?
- D. Battleship
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Guess Who?
Did you know? Guess Who? debuted in 1979 with cartoon characters fixed to flip-down frames.
22.Which classic board game sows counters from pit to pit across a board of carved hollows?
- A. the Royal Game of Ur
- B. Go
- C. Mancala
- D. Guess Who?
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Mancala
Did you know? Mancala names a family of sowing and counting games played across Africa and Asia.
23.Which classic board game surrounds territory with black and white stones on a nineteen-line grid?
- A. Peg Solitaire
- B. Go
- C. Clue
- D. Twister
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Go
Did you know? Go originated in China and is considered one of the oldest board games in the world.
24.Which classic board game tests players with thousands of trivia questions sorted by category colors?
- A. Trivial Pursuit
- B. Pente
- C. Mastermind
- D. Dominoes
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Trivial Pursuit
Did you know? Trivial Pursuit was created by Canadians in 1979 and became a 1980s phenomenon.
25.Which classic board game lines up three marks in a row on a nine-square grid?
- A. Blokus
- B. Tic-tac-toe
- C. Xiangqi
- D. Hex
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Tic-tac-toe
Did you know? Tic-tac-toe always ends in a draw when both players play perfectly.
26.Which classic board game drops discs into a vertical grid to line up four in a row?
- A. the Royal Game of Ur
- B. Connect Four
- C. Hex
- D. Checkers
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Connect Four
Did you know? Connect Four is mathematically solved: the first player wins with perfect play.
27.Which classic board game hunts a hidden fleet by calling coordinates on a grid?
- A. Tic-tac-toe
- B. Parcheesi
- C. Battleship
- D. Jenga
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Battleship
Did you know? Battleship existed as a pencil-and-paper game long before its 1967 plastic edition.
28.Which classic board game takes its name from the economic term for total control of a market?
- A. Mastermind
- B. Go
- C. Monopoly
- D. Mouse Trap
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Monopoly
Did you know? Monopoly grew out of Elizabeth Magie's 1904 game The Landlord's Game.
29.Which classic board game pulls blocks from a wooden tower and stacks them on top until it falls?
- A. Jenga
- B. the Royal Game of Ur
- C. Twister
- D. Blokus
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Jenga
Did you know? Jenga's name comes from a Swahili verb meaning "to build."

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