Dice, Word & Family Games

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1.Which word game spells toward a word whose last letter dooms the speaker?
- A. the word search
- B. Ghost
- C. Boggle
- D. a rebus
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Ghost
Did you know? In Ghost, completing a word, or naming a word that does not exist, earns a letter.
2.Which children's board game pulls sticks while marbles wait to fall?
- A. Pop-up Pirate
- B. Don't Spill the Beans
- C. Animal Upon Animal
- D. Kerplunk
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Kerplunk
Did you know? Kerplunk's loser is the player who lets the most marbles drop.
3.Which dice game rolls three dice for the number of the round at party tables?
- A. Bunco
- B. Dudo
- C. Left Center Right
- D. Shut the Box
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Bunco
Did you know? Bunco nights gather neighborhood players into rotating groups of four.
4.Which tile game plays Turkish tile rummy on wooden racks?
- A. Tantrix
- B. Okey
- C. Qwirkle
- D. Triominos
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Okey
Did you know? Okey is a best-loved Turkish pastime descended from rummy tile sets.
5.Which word game fills a story's blanks with words chosen for laughs?
- A. Mad Libs
- B. the word ladder
- C. a rebus
- D. the word search
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Mad Libs
Did you know? Mad Libs was created in the 1950s by Roger Price and Leonard Stern.
6.Which dice game banks six-dice points or risks busting the whole turn?
- A. Kismet
- B. Dudo
- C. Farkle
- D. Chō-Han
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Farkle
Did you know? Farkle's scoring rolls include three pairs and three-of-a-kind runs.
7.Which tile game lines six-symbol tiles that match in color or shape?
- A. Triominos
- B. Mexican Train
- C. Qwirkle
- D. Rummikub
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Qwirkle
Did you know? Qwirkle won the Spiel des Jahres in 2011.
8.Which children's board game builds a bug body part by part on dice rolls?
- A. Don't Spill the Beans
- B. Cootie
- C. Don't Break the Ice
- D. Pop-up Pirate
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Cootie
Did you know? Cootie was created by William Schaper in 1949.
9.Which dice game dares one-die rolls against losing the turn's points?
- A. Pig
- B. Bunco
- C. Yahtzee
- D. Dudo
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Pig
Did you know? In Pig, rolling a one wipes out the turn's banked points.
10.Which tile game weaves path lines across New Zealand's hex tiles?
- A. Tsuro
- B. Okey
- C. Tantrix
- D. Mexican Train
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Tantrix
Did you know? Tantrix tiles carry three path lines in three colors.
11.Which word game starts each new word with the previous word's last letter?
- A. a rebus
- B. an anagram
- C. the crossword puzzle
- D. word chain
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word chain
Did you know? Japanese children play the same game as shiritori.
12.Which children's board game dumps shaped pieces that must beat a sixty-second timer?
- A. Perfection
- B. Animal Upon Animal
- C. Hungry Hungry Hippos
- D. Cootie
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Perfection
Did you know? When Perfection's timer runs out, the board springs the pieces out.
13.Which dice game claims dice totals under cups in a South American classic?
- A. Craps
- B. Dudo
- C. Zombie Dice
- D. Chō-Han
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Dudo
Did you know? Dudo is commonly cited as an ancestor of liar's dice.
14.Which tile game scores six-symbol lines across Knizia's hex board?
- A. Ingenious
- B. Muggins
- C. Rummikub
- D. Triominos
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Ingenious
Did you know? Ingenious scores your weakest color, not your strongest.
15.Which word game hides a message in the first letters of lines?
- A. the word ladder
- B. Ghost
- C. an anagram
- D. an acrostic
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an acrostic
Did you know? Acrostics appear in poems, inscriptions, and puzzle books.
16.Which children's board game spins to pick cherries from a tree into a basket?
- A. Kerplunk
- B. Cootie
- C. Hi Ho! Cherry-O
- D. Don't Break the Ice
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Hi Ho! Cherry-O
Did you know? Hi Ho! Cherry-O teaches counting to preschool players.
17.Which dice game bluffs about hidden dice under every cup?
- A. Shut the Box
- B. Liar's Dice
- C. Chuck-a-luck
- D. Left Center Right
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Liar's Dice
Did you know? In Liar's Dice, a caught liar loses a die.
18.Which word game puzzles with pictures and letters standing in for words?
- A. Ghost
- B. an acrostic
- C. a palindrome
- D. a rebus
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a rebus
Did you know? Rebus puzzles turn "head" plus a picture of a table into a riddle answer.
19.Which dice game colors its dice faces to add poker-hand scoring?
- A. Kismet
- B. Dudo
- C. Chō-Han
- D. Craps
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Kismet
Did you know? Kismet (1964) rolls three dice with colored pips.
20.Which word game hides words across a letter grid in eight directions?
- A. a palindrome
- B. the word search
- C. the crossword puzzle
- D. Hangman
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the word search
Did you know? Word search grids bury their answers diagonally as well as straight.
21.Which dice game passes chips to neighbors until one player holds them all?
- A. Settlers of Catan
- B. Betrayal at House on the Hill
- C. Left Center Right
- D. Ticket to Ride
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Left Center Right
Did you know? Left Center Right uses three dice marked L, C, and R.
22.Which dice game flips numbered wooden tiles to match a two-dice roll?
- A. Chuck-a-luck
- B. Farkle
- C. Zombie Dice
- D. Shut the Box
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Shut the Box
Did you know? Shut the Box is a pub classic from northern France.
23.Which dice game tumbles three dice in a wire cage for number bets?
- A. Kismet
- B. Shut the Box
- C. Chuck-a-luck
- D. Left Center Right
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Chuck-a-luck
Did you know? Chuck-a-luck's cage earned the game the nickname "birdcage".
24.Which dice game shoots two dice for the round's established point?
- A. Liar's Dice
- B. Zombie Dice
- C. Bunco
- D. Craps
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Craps
Did you know? In craps, the first roll of a round is called the come-out.

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