Answer: Monopoly
Roll the dice and here we go! The winner of "Monopoly" has to buy all the property of all the other players on the board, forcing them to go bankrupt. Any player who lands on an unclaimed space can buy the property but if they land on someone else's space, they have to pay rent. If they run out of money they lose the game.
"Monopoly" gained its popularity during a time of United State's history known as the Great Depression. It was created by an engineer named Charles B. Darrow, who had lost his job and property. He sold the game to the Parker Brothers company in 1935, who made it one of the most well known games in the market. Many people at the time were losing jobs and their homes due to closing banks. The game helped make light of a bad situation for many people.
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Answer: Animals, real and mythological
The cards include elephants, gorillas, pandas, turtles, foxes and more. There are dragons and unicorns too! Two of each of the 21 real or mythological animals.
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Answer: Chess
Chess is believed to date back as far as the 6th century B.C. in India. At that time it was a game that was known as "chaturanga". From there it spread to various other places in the world like China, Japan, and the Arab world. Chess as we know it today changed during the 1400s in Europe when the bishop and queen pieces became stronger components in the game, allowing you to checkmate your opponent in an easier fashion. Chess makes you to think ahead to your next move and teaches you logic skills. For many, this is a game that takes many years to master.
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Answer: Monopoly
In Monopoly each player is given a certain amount of colorful money. However, watch out! As you move around the board, some spaces will require a payment. . If you cross someone else's territory you pay them rent. If you go bankrupt you lose. The last player standing wins.
Monopoly has been remade into many editions themed around movies, animals, and adventures. My brother's favorite version is the Muppets. I love the Disney Villian version.
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Answer: To checkmate your opponent
Checkmating is when the king piece can't move without being attacked. If the king's square isn't under attack, but every square around it is, then it's a stalemate. When a stalemate happens, it's a draw.
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Answer: Scrabble
In Scrabble, people take turns making words out of tiles. They try to get the biggest word to make the most points. Playing all the tiles in one word is called a Bingo.
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Answer: Candyland
Draw the card and jump the spaces. We will race around the gumdrop mountain and through the candystick trees, with winding paths, and sugary surprises to find the castle. However, watch out for the cherry pitfalls and swamps or we will be stuck. The first one to make it to the rainbow castle square is the winner!
A school teacher, named Eleanor Abbott, made the game "Candyland" for sick children in a polio hospital during the 1940s. Many of the children had to stay in coffin-like, heavy machinery, known as iron lungs. The disease paralyzed many and caused breathing problems. The candy game was a distraction from pain, medicine and treatment. When the game was published, the game brought a smile to thousands of children in the United States that were affected by the disease or had to stay in the house due to fear of the virus. Vaccines appeared by the 1950s and the disease began to disappear. "Candyland" continued to be a popular game for years.
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Answer: Four, one at each of the four corners
Like in the adult version of Sequence, each of the four corner spaces is a free space, which can be used by any player for their Sequence.
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Answer: Monopoly
In 1903, a game known as "The Landlord's Game" is what has been believed to be the inspiration for the game Monopoly. Monopoly is a property owning game in which the first person to own the most properties without going bankrupt is the winner. There are many versions of the game that have been mass produced over the years including Monopoly Junior, Monopoly Here and Now, Monopoly World Edition and more. Monopoly has grown to include versions of popular themes such as Pixar film versions, Nintendo game versions, and various world and city editions.
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Answer: Scrabble
In Scrabble, tiles of letters are used to build on other players' words. The result is a crossword puzzle. Harder letters like Q, X, and Z are worth a lot of points if you happen to get them. The game ends when one person has no tiles left (and there are no more in the pool to draw from) and the winner is the person with the most points.
Things get pretty intense when my brother and I get down to the last spaces. He likes to challenge many of my words with a dictionary and use big words himself. I like making three or four letter words, but if I place them right, I can get a lot of points.
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Answer: Twister
Twister was first released by Milton Bradley in 1966. This was one of the first games where the people playing were the game pieces.
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Answer: The Game Of Life
This is a fun family game! You can choose a college, a career, get married, start a family, buy a house, and eventually retire. It's basically your everyday life!
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Answer: Clue / Cluedo
Is it the revolver, dagger, lead pipe, rope, candlestick, or the wrench? Mrs. Peacock, Colonel Mustard, Reverend Green, Professor Plum, Mrs. Scarlet, and Mrs. White, are not going to tell who did it or where it happened. It's up to you and your fellow suspicious friends to find the killer. Find them fast! You are all trapped in the house until the good detective or villain wins.
This game was invented by a musician named Anthony Pratt, who was trapped in his home during the air raids (or bombings) in Britain during World War II. Many British had to hide in fear for their safety while the British fought the German Nazis in their own country. Pratt remembered detective games he used to play with his friends before the war, and turned it into a board game to play with his wife while they were hiding. When the war was over, he sold his game to Waddington's game company in 1947.
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Answer: Four up, down, across or diagonal spaces in a row with a chip
A player puts a chip on an animal which corresponds with the card they play on their turn. Any series of four or more chips (up, down, across or diagonal) is a sequence. The first player to get a sequence is the winner.
Note, the sequence required in the "for kids" version of the game is one less than the five needed in the adult game.
From Quiz: Sequence for kids
Answer: Mouse Trap
Mouse Trap is a fun game for all children and quite possibly the most fun thing for children is the fact that they get to build a Rube Goldberg style trap on the board. Players roll and move their pieces on the spaces of the board and try to collect cheese that they can use to activate the trap. When they land on build spaces, they may build parts of the trap. If a player lands on a "turn crank" space, they may turn the crank on the trap. If an opposing player is on the cheese wheel when this happens and it works successfully, they are out of the game. The last player left on the board without being trapped is the winner.
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Answer: Horse
The knight chess piece has an unusual movement system, in that it can only move in an L shape. It hops over any other pieces on its way, only capturing the piece on the square it moves. There is a mathematical problem about the knight, named the Knight's Tour. The problem is about finding a sequence of moves in which the knight can visit every square on a chess board once.
From Quiz: White Kingdom vs. Black Kingdom
Answer: Risk
The game Risk was invented by Albert Lamorisse in the early 1950s. In the game you have "armies" and attack the other players. The winner is the person who has armies in all of the countries around the world.
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Answer: Dragon cards allow a player to remove a chip from the board
There are two Dragon cards in the deck, Dorothy the Dragon. When played, these cards allow a player to remove a chip of another player from the board. It is best to play these cards to stop a player from completing a sequence.
From Quiz: Sequence for kids
Answer: Cranium
Cranium is a team game, where each turn involves a different activity as teams race around the board. The colors on the board tell which activity must be picked from the cards. When the team lands on a purple square, they can choose any category they want.
Creative Cat involves drawing or making something from the play dough. Data head involves data and facts. Word Worm involves words or spelling. Star Performer involves acting out or singing to get the team to guess the person, character or song.
I'm a good Creative Cat or Star Performer. My brother is good at Data Head or Word Worm because he is great with spelling and trivia.
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Answer: Diagonally
Bishops are very good for surprising your opponent. Just make sure you're prepared if your opponent tries to get you with it.
From Quiz: White Kingdom vs. Black Kingdom
Answer: $15, 140
The first Monopoly game was started in the early 1900s. There are many special editions of Monopoly also. Some say that there are 905 different versions of this game and they are still making more.
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Answer: Jenga
This game becomes harder and harder the longer it lasts. Eventually someome makes a wrong move, and CRASH, down it all comes!
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Answer: Scrabble
Each player is given seven tiles at a time with letters. The tiles A, E, I, O, and U are highly prized vowels because they are needed in almost every word. Consonants are all non-vowel letters and are not as valuable. However consonants like X and Z are worth more points because they are harder to put in a word. My game's giant crossword board has many colored squares with bonus points. If you make a word on one that has double points or triple points, it can put you ahead of the game. The player with the most points at the end wins.
"Scrabble" was invented in 1938 during the Great Depression, by an American architect named Alfred Mosher Butts. Games were becoming very popular pastime (or distraction) for many people, because the Depression was a time where many banks had closed and people were losing jobs. Alfred noticed crosswords were not as popular as poker, bingo, or other social games; they didn't have multiple players and they didn't have competition. He took wood chips and made alphabet tiles. He combined rules of bingo, poker, and other popular games to his wooden crossword board. The game was born.
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Answer: Unicorn cards are wild cards
There are two Unicorn cards in the deck, Ulysses the Unicorn. When played, these cards allow a player to place a chip on any open space on the board. These cards can be used to stop a player from completing a sequence or to complete one of your own.
From Quiz: Sequence for kids
Answer: Telestrations
Telephone is a game in which one person whispers something into the ear of the person beside them and once the message gets passed along the line of people; the final message at the end typically has changed. Telestrations is essentially a board game version of this using drawings. An initial word is given, each player draws a pictures to represent this word, and then the notepad gets passed around. Other players use words and pictures to continue the drawings. In the end, the original word that was supposed to have been drawn has been transformed into something completely different.
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Answer: Checkers
Checker games can be different colors, but always have two different colors. The most common is red and black. A player wins by capturing all the other player's pieces. When a checker makes it to the other side of the board, they get crowned with a second checker. A common saying players usually say is "King Me".
I tend to get really excited when I outsmart my brother at this game.
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Answer: Scrabble
Scrabble is a board game for two to four players. It comes with many small pieces (called tiles) with letters on them.
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Answer: The playing chips are a choking hazard for kids under 3 years old
There is a warning on the box and on the instructions that the game is not for children under 3 years old due to a choking hazard. This is in addition to the game being marketed as being for children 3 and up.
From Quiz: Sequence for kids
Answer: Apples to Apples
Apples to Apples is a fun card game to play with friends and family. Each round one person is selected to be a judge. The judge chooses a green adjective card that they put onto the middle of the table. The other players choose a noun that they feel best represents the adjective. Some players will take it seriously while others will play funny answers. At the end of the round, the judge chooses the card they felt was the best (or funniest) answer. The first person to collect five green cards is the winner!
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Answer: Chess
In chess, each player has one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The winner has to capture the other player's king, resulting in a "check mate". Each piece has different abilities and moves. Some can only move in certain ways or certain squares, which can make the game hard.
This game can be very complicated, but many people enjoy it. My brother enjoys playing it with his brainy college friends. I get confused, so it's not a good game for me.
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Answer: Trouble
In this game you must try to race your opponent around the game board to safety. The game ends when one player has successfully made all four pieces home.
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Answer: Chess
Chess has a board with 64 squares with light and dark colored squares. It can be very tricky to play because many of the pieces have different rules and moves. A pawn can only move forward. The queen, the most valuable, can move in any direction. The object of the chess game is to conquer or win over the other player's army by win, loss, or draw.
Chess is one of the oldest games in the world. Chess-like games have been found in India that are as old as the 6th century. Older war-like games have been found in China, Russia, Pakistan, and other places in Asia. The game has grown over many years.
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Answer: Three
This is less than the five in the adult sequence game. Also, a player does not need to remember to draw a card. The rules state that they must draw one, so other players can and should remind them. The animal cards are all given a nickname, such as Wally the Whale, Percy the Penguin, Olga the Ostrich, Henry the Hippopotamus, etc.
From Quiz: Sequence for kids
Answer: Queen
The queen is good for capturing and checkmating. If you only have a rook and a queen, you can do the technique previously talked about in the info for the rook. If you were wondering what the answer bellatrix meant, bellatrix is a word in Latin for a female warrior.
From Quiz: White Kingdom vs. Black Kingdom
Answer: Red Rover
In Red Rover, there is two teams holding hands and one team says, "Red Rover, Red Rover, send (whoever they want to send) right over." Then that person runs and tries to break through the other team's arms. If they do then they get to pick one person to come back to their team. If they don't break through then that person stays with the other team.
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Answer: Scene It
Scene It has many versions. Versions include Disney, Nick, Junior, Movies, TV Shows, and Music.
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Answer: Chinese checkers
My game has six colored triangles surrounding a circle. Each triangle has colored marbles that the player has to move to the opposite side. If they get all of their marbles in the triangle before their opponent, they win. Things can get confusing because I can have up to six players in one game.
The name "Chinese Checkers" sounds as if it comes from Asia, but it is actually a game that was invented in Germany. The Germans invented it based on an American game named "Halma", that involved moving marbles across a square checkerboard. In 1928, two Americans named Bill and Jack Pressman, changed the game to a round circle to include more players. They called the game "Chinese" checkers, because there were many people interesting in buying Chinese games at the time.
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Answer: Tiddlywinks
In a game of tiddlywinks, players try to flick their plastic discs using a "squidger". The objective is to try and score points by getting your plastic pieces known as "winks" into a cup in the center of the playing area. The game finally ends once all of the winks of one colour have been potted into the cup or a set time limit has ended. The player to score the most winks is the winner.
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Answer: Connect Four
This game was first sold by Milton Bradley in 1974. Some other names that this game is known by are Plot Four and Four Up.
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Answer: Clue (Cluedo)
The classic has been a family favorite for over 50 years. Want to feel like a famous detective? Play Clue (which is also known as Cluedo in some countries)!
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