Dice, Word & Family Games

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1.Which children's board game chomps marbles faster than three rival hippos?
- A. Perfection
- B. Hungry Hungry Hippos
- C. Don't Break the Ice
- D. Cootie
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
Did you know? Hungry Hungry Hippos is a four-lever marble race.
2.Which dice game scores five dice across thirteen rounds of combinations?
- A. Craps
- B. Liar's Dice
- C. Yahtzee
- D. Bunco
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Yahtzee
Did you know? Yahtzee was marketed nationally by toyman E.S. Lowe in the 1950s.
3.Which tile game runs tile-based rummy with numbered sets on racks?
- A. Qwirkle
- B. Rummikub
- C. Triominos
- D. Tsuro
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Rummikub
Did you know? Rummikub was created by Israeli toymaker Ephraim Hertzano.
4.Which word game reads the same forward and backward, like "racecar"?
- A. Mad Libs
- B. Boggle
- C. the crossword puzzle
- D. a palindrome
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a palindrome
Did you know? Palindromes are prized both as wordplay and as game material.
5.Which word game guesses a word one letter at a time under a drawing's threat?
- A. Hangman
- B. Boggle
- C. Mad Libs
- D. a rebus
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Hangman
Did you know? Hangman descends from Victorian-era parlor guessing games.
6.Which word game fills a grid of clues across and down?
- A. the word ladder
- B. the crossword puzzle
- C. Boggle
- D. the word search
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the crossword puzzle
Did you know? Arthur Wynne printed the first modern crossword in 1913 in the New York World.
7.Which word game races tiles into intersecting words from a banana pouch?
- A. an acrostic
- B. an anagram
- C. a palindrome
- D. Bananagrams
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Bananagrams
Did you know? Bananagrams needs no board, paper, or scoring at all.
8.Which word game rearranges one word's letters into another?
- A. Boggle
- B. an anagram
- C. word chain
- D. Hangman
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an anagram
Did you know? Anagramming was a favorite parlor pastime long before board games.
9.Which word game shakes letter dice into a tray for timed word hunting?
- A. Boggle
- B. an anagram
- C. a palindrome
- D. Bananagrams
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Boggle
Did you know? Boggle's sixteen letter dice settle into a four-by-four grid.
10.Which children's board game taps ice blocks loose without toppling the skater?
- A. Animal Upon Animal
- B. Cootie
- C. Perfection
- D. Don't Break the Ice
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Don't Break the Ice
Did you know? Don't Break the Ice ends when the frame's blocks give way.
11.Which dice game scores the Scandinavian cousin of Yahtzee?
- A. Qwixx
- B. Left Center Right
- C. Bunco
- D. Yatzy
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Yatzy
Did you know? Yatzy rules differ from Yahtzee most in straight and full-house scoring.
12.Which tile game branches domino chains off a central double?
- A. Tantrix
- B. Mexican Train
- C. Rummikub
- D. Okey
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Mexican Train
Did you know? Mexican Train lets every player build a personal train.
13.Which word game stacks letters to turn one word into another?
- A. a rebus
- B. a pangram
- C. Mad Libs
- D. Upwords
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Upwords
Did you know? In Upwords, tiles may stack up to five letters high.
14.Which children's board game balances beans on a pot that flips under the load?
- A. Don't Spill the Beans
- B. Kerplunk
- C. Cootie
- D. Hungry Hungry Hippos
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Don't Spill the Beans
Did you know? Don't Spill the Beans turns the pot-tipping player into the loser.
15.Which dice game bets on whether two dice sum to odd or even?
- A. Kismet
- B. Qwixx
- C. Chō-Han
- D. Yatzy
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Chō-Han
Did you know? Chō-Han was a staple of Edo-period Japanese gambling tales.
16.Which tile game scores domino multiples of five against open ends?
- A. Tsuro
- B. Rummikub
- C. Ingenious
- D. Muggins
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Muggins
Did you know? Muggins is the scoring branch of the domino family.
17.Which word game uses every letter of the alphabet at least once?
- A. word chain
- B. a palindrome
- C. a pangram
- D. the word ladder
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a pangram
Did you know? "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is English's classic pangram.
18.Which children's board game stacks wooden animals into a wobbling menagerie?
- A. Kerplunk
- B. Don't Break the Ice
- C. Pop-up Pirate
- D. Animal Upon Animal
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Animal Upon Animal
Did you know? Animal Upon Animal is a HABA dexterity classic for young children.
19.Which dice game eats brains from a cup of thirteen custom dice?
- A. Farkle
- B. Yahtzee
- C. Zombie Dice
- D. Liar's Dice
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Zombie Dice
Did you know? Zombie Dice (2010) is a Steve Jackson push-your-luck game.
20.Which tile game matches pips across triangular tiles?
- A. Rummikub
- B. Muggins
- C. Triominos
- D. Qwirkle
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Triominos
Did you know? Triominos tiles carry corner pips instead of domino ends.
21.Which word game climbs from one word to another by changing one letter at a time?
- A. Mad Libs
- B. Upwords
- C. Boggle
- D. the word ladder
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the word ladder
Did you know? Lewis Carroll popularized word ladders with puzzles he called Doublets.
22.Which children's board game plunges swords into a barrel until the pirate springs?
- A. Don't Spill the Beans
- B. Perfection
- C. Hi Ho! Cherry-O
- D. Pop-up Pirate
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Pop-up Pirate
Did you know? Pop-up Pirate is a Tomy barrel game of random luck.
23.Which dice game crosses colored number rows from everyone's shared dice?
- A. Qwixx
- B. Farkle
- C. Craps
- D. Dudo
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Qwixx
Did you know? Qwixx was nominated for the Spiel des Jahres in 2013.
24.Which tile game lays path tiles to steer stones across the board?
- A. Qwirkle
- B. Tsuro
- C. Mexican Train
- D. Ingenious
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Tsuro
Did you know? In Tsuro, a stone pushed off the board is out of the game.

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