Modern Board Games

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1.Which modern board game ships coffee, sugar, and tobacco from a colonial island economy?
- A. Exploding Kittens
- B. Love Letter
- C. Puerto Rico
- D. Lords of Waterdeep
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Puerto Rico
Did you know? In Puerto Rico, each player picks a role that every player may use.
2.Which modern board game places habitat tiles to score wildlife patterns in the Pacific Northwest?
- A. Carcassonne
- B. 6 nimmt!
- C. Cascadia
- D. Exploding Kittens
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Cascadia
Did you know? Cascadia won the Spiel des Jahres in 2022.
3.Which modern board game has a farming couple plowing fields and raising a family?
- A. Viticulture
- B. Agricola
- C. Spirit Island
- D. Lost Cities
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Agricola
Did you know? Agricola was designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 2007.
4.Which modern board game gives each faction asymmetric powers in a woodland war?
- A. Viticulture
- B. Sagrada
- C. Concept
- D. Root
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Root
Did you know? In Root, birds, cats, lizards, and woodland alliances all play by different rules.
5.Which modern board game fills palace walls with patterned ceramic tiles?
- A. Azul
- B. Everdell
- C. Wingspan
- D. Through the Ages
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Azul
Did you know? Azul draws on Portuguese azulejo tiles and Moorish palace decor.
6.Which modern board game builds canals, rails, and industry in England's second city?
- A. Just One
- B. Love Letter
- C. Kingdomino
- D. Brass: Birmingham
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Brass: Birmingham
Did you know? Brass: Birmingham (2018) refines Martin Wallace's 2007 game Brass.
7.Which modern board game plays numbered cards in order with no talking allowed?
- A. Catan
- B. Pandemic
- C. The Mind
- D. Samurai
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The Mind
Did you know? The Mind deals every player a different number of cards by round.
8.Which modern board game passes around cards that may blow up your turn at any moment?
- A. Terraforming Mars
- B. Exploding Kittens
- C. Just One
- D. Skull
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Exploding Kittens
Did you know? Exploding Kittens set crowdfunding records on Kickstarter in 2015.
9.Which modern board game stitches a quilt from odd-shaped cloth pieces bought with buttons?
- A. Dead of Winter
- B. Patchwork
- C. 7 Wonders
- D. Agricola
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Patchwork
Did you know? Patchwork is a two-player quilting game by Uwe Rosenberg.
10.Which modern board game grows civilizations between two rivers and triggers their conflicts?
- A. Puerto Rico
- B. Sagrada
- C. 7 Wonders
- D. Tigris & Euphrates
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Tigris & Euphrates
Did you know? Tigris & Euphrates is a Reiner Knizia design set in ancient Mesopotamia.
11.Which modern board game chains card combos to trade and harvest spices?
- A. Century: Spice Road
- B. Caverna
- C. Codenames
- D. Betrayal at House on the Hill
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Century: Spice Road
Did you know? Century: Spice Road's goods are represented by chunky translucent cubes.
12.Which modern board game runs a campaign of dungeon crawls through a scenario book?
- A. Stone Age
- B. Gloomhaven
- C. Ra
- D. Agricola
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Gloomhaven
Did you know? Gloomhaven's campaign spans dozens of linked scenarios with persistent characters.
13.Which board game award hands the German games prize to hobby players' favorites?
- A. the As d'Or
- B. the Deutscher Spiele Preis
- C. the Spiel des Jahres
- D. the Origins Award
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the Deutscher Spiele Preis
Did you know? The Deutscher Spiele Preis has run since 1990.
14.Which modern board game sends woodland creatures to found a city in a river valley?
- A. 7 Wonders
- B. Pandemic
- C. Coloretto
- D. Everdell
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Everdell
Did you know? Everdell's table features a sculpted tree that holds the game's cards.
15.Which board game award polls international journalists and retailers for the best strategy games?
- A. the International Gamers Award
- B. the Kinderspiel des Jahres
- C. the Spiel des Jahres
- D. the Deutscher Spiele Preis
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the International Gamers Award
Did you know? The International Gamers Award began in 2000.
16.Which modern board game defends an island from colonizing invaders as nature spirits?
- A. Spirit Island
- B. Coup
- C. Twilight Struggle
- D. The Mind
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Spirit Island
Did you know? Spirit Island inverts the usual colonial-era board game premise.
17.Which modern board game communicates a secret word only through icons on a board?
- A. Concept
- B. Sagrada
- C. Century: Spice Road
- D. Gloomhaven
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Concept
Did you know? Concept won the Spiel des Jahres in 2014.
18.Which modern board game writes one-word clues that duplicates erase before guessing?
- A. Just One
- B. Splendor
- C. Tigris & Euphrates
- D. The Crew
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Just One
Did you know? Just One won the Spiel des Jahres in 2019.
19.Which modern board game bluffs about court influences that may not really be in hand?
- A. Scythe
- B. Everdell
- C. Ra
- D. Coup
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Coup
Did you know? In Coup, a wrong accusation against a real card costs you a life.
20.Which modern board game builds a Spanish palace from tiles bought with four currencies?
- A. Viticulture
- B. Power Grid
- C. Galaxy Trucker
- D. Alhambra
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Alhambra
Did you know? Alhambra won the Spiel des Jahres in 2003.
21.Which modern board game grows a civilization from antiquity to the modern era without a map?
- A. Dominion
- B. Coup
- C. Century: Spice Road
- D. Through the Ages
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Through the Ages
Did you know? Through the Ages is Vlaada Chvátil's civilization-building game.
22.Which modern board game sends two-player expeditions to five mysterious destinations?
- A. Terraforming Mars
- B. Lost Cities
- C. My City
- D. Werewolf
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Lost Cities
Did you know? Lost Cities is a two-player Reiner Knizia card game first published in 1999.
23.Which modern board game auctions Egyptian tiles with bidding tokens over three epochs?
- A. Splendor
- B. Ra
- C. Alhambra
- D. Kingdom Builder
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Ra
Did you know? Ra is a Reiner Knizia auction game named after the Egyptian sun god.
24.Which modern board game expands an electrical network city by city in auction markets?
- A. Through the Ages
- B. Splendor
- C. Lords of Waterdeep
- D. Power Grid
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Power Grid
Did you know? In Power Grid, the leading player feeds the fewest cities each round.
25.Which modern board game carves a cave dwelling and furnishes a farm for a dwarf family?
- A. Betrayal at House on the Hill
- B. Cascadia
- C. Sagrada
- D. Caverna
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Caverna
Did you know? Caverna is Uwe Rosenberg's 2013 follow-up to Agricola.
26.Which modern board game hides a skull among flower coasters to bluff the table?
- A. Skull
- B. Patchwork
- C. Exploding Kittens
- D. Tigris & Euphrates
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Skull
Did you know? In Skull, bidding too high may force you to find your own disc blind.

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