The Classic Board Games Quiz

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The Classic Board Games Quiz
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About This Quiz

Most of us have spent a lot of quality time with classic board games, but how long has it been since you played Risk or Parcheesi? This quiz will test your knowledge of the board games of your youth.
This game involves black-and-white discs and a green grid for a board.
Othello
Go
Connect Four
In this game, you can be a dispatcher, medic, scientist, operations expert or researcher.
Operation
Risk
Pandemic
This is a "Eurogame" in which players build a medieval landscape.
Settlers of Catan
Carcassonne
Risk

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This game was immortalized in "When Harry Met Sally ..."
Scattergories
Monopoly
Pictionary
In this game, players try to get all four of their pieces around a board and to "home."
Life
Sorry!
Chutes and Ladders
This game is now set in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Monopoly
Casino
Life

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Which game features a "Pop-O-Matic" for rolling dice?
Risk
Apples to Apples
Trouble
Which game features Miss Peacock?
Clue
Uncle Wiggily
Domaine
This game was originally called Lexico, then Crisscross Words.
Buzzword
Scrabble
Boggle

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"Grandmasters" have reached the highest level of achievement in this classic game.
Parcheesi
chess
Dungeons & Dragons
Which classic game is known as "draughts" in England?
checkers
Chinese checkers
chess
In this game, players try to establish and grow colonies.
Carcassonne
Settlers of Catan
Risk

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This game, created by two Canadians in 1979, had $20 million in sales in 1984.
Cranium
Pictionary
Trivial Pursuit
This is a two-player war game in which players try to capture each other's soldiers.
Stratego
Risk
Battleship
This is a two-player game with dice.
Parcheesi
backgammon
mancala

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In 1860, Milton Bradley introduced this game, in which players spin a numbered wheel in the middle of the board.
Blokus
Masterpiece
Life
In this game, players draw cards that have colored squares on them.
Candy Land
Risk
Uncle Wiggily
In this board game, players are "rewarded" and "punished" for certain behaviors - but it's really just a spin of the wheel.
Chutes and Ladders
Life
Figure It Out

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This game involves colored marbles and a star-shaped board.
Parcheesi
Chinese checkers
mancala
This is an extremely classic board game - it originated in India as early as 500 C.E.
cribbage
Parcheesi
backgammon
This game involves pads of paper, an hourglass timer and a 20-sided letter die.
Scattergories
Pictionary
Cranium

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This ancient Chinese game has black and white "stones" and is played on a grid.
Go
Othello
Chinese Checkers
In which game do players pretend they're railroad magnates?
Railways & Robber Barons
Ticket to Ride
Monopoly
In this game, players hold cards with adjectives on them.
Hi Ho! Cherry-O
Uno
Apples to Apples

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There are 11 different games in this war strategy series.
Carcassonne
Risk
Axis & Allies
In which game do you drop checkerlike discs into a vertical grid?
Connect Four
Othello
Uno
Which originated as a pencil-and-paper game around World War I?
Stratego
Jenga
Battleship

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In this game, you might have to draw, act out clues or make a sculpture.
Scattergories
Cranium
Pictionary
You might get a shock playing this game.
Operation
mancala
Boggle
In this game, players have to get their partner to guess a given word without using a list of forbidden words.
Balderdash
Taboo
Scattergories

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