A Bunch of Board Games Trivia Quiz

Answer: Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders date back to the 1890s. It was created in India. The game is a race between players to get to the finishing square on the board. They throw a die and move their counter the number of squares that the die throw amounts to. Depending on luck, they may land on a snake and have to slide down it or on a ladder that they climb to take them higher up the board towards the end square of the game. Whoever gets to the top first wins.

In the UK, the game has chutes (like a playground slide) instead of snakes, and is called Chutes and Ladders.

Answer: Ludo

The board game Ludo can be played by two to four people. Players must race their tokens in a clockwise direction around the board from the beginning of the game to the finish, which involves rollings of the die. The player who brings all of their tokens home first is the winner of the game. The game, originally called Pachisi, was created in the sixth century in India.

Answer: Checkers

The strategy board game Checkers, which is called draughts in Britain, involves two players who play against each other using different coloured pieces. One of them has black pieces and the other has either red or white pieces. The object of the game is to capture the opposing player's pieces. It is played on a checkered board. First played in Mesopotamia, it dates back to 1400 B.C.

Answer: Monopoly

Designed by Charles Darrow and first published in 1935, Monopoly can be played by multiple players. The game requires two dice and tokens. It involves the buying, trading, renting and developing of various properties. The players collect money from their opponents. The aim of this board game is to become the richest of the players through those methods.

Answer: Hungry Hungry Hippos

Hungry Hungry Hippos is played by two to four players. It consists of four hippopotamuses of different colours, which are operated by levers on their backs, and marbles which are used to feed them. Players press these levers which makes their hippo's head move down, enabling it to eat the marbles.

The player who collects the most marbles wins the game. It was first produced in 1978 by Fred Kroll, an inventor of toys.

Answer: Connect Four

Published by Milton Bradley Hasbro, the game Connect Four was first introduced in 1974. When playing, each player selects a token of the colour they have chosen and drops it into a vertical grid. These pieces fall down into the grid and occupy the lowest space in the column. Players take turns dropping their discs.

The aim of the game is to be the first player to use their tokens to form a line consisting of four of these, which can be diagonal, vertical or horizontal.

Answer: Candy Land

The Candy Land board game was first published in 1949 by Million Bradley Hasbro. It was invented by Eleanor Abbott, in California, U.S. She created it during her recovery from polio. The object of the game is to be the first player to reach the multi-coloured space at the finish of the game, which is called the candy castle.

It entails the use of pieces of different colours which are shaped like gingerbread men. To play it, you need a special deck of cards, a spinner and one gingerbread man for each player.

Answer: Guess Who

Guess Who is played by two players, in which the players have to guess the identity of their opponent's chosen character. It involves the use of various cartoon images and cards. Players choose one of these cards from a stack of 24, which contain the same images. Players ask their opponent various questions, such as, 'Is your person a female?', to discover the identity of the card they chose.

The winner is the first player who guesses the other player's character correctly. The game was first published in 1979 by Milton Bradley.

Answer: Princess and the Pea

This game is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale 'The Princess and the Pea.' The gameplay involves the rolling of a die, after which each player moves their bed forward corresponding with the number shown on the die. The object of the game is to add mattresses to the first player reaches the crown space at the end of the board.

It was first published in 2003. It is, however, no longer in production.

Answer: Mouse Trap

The Mouse Trap game was first published by Hasbro in 1963 and it was invented by Marvin Glass and Associates. It can be played by two to four players. It is played on a board and involves the use of four plastic mouse pieces, two marbles, 52 cheese pieces, trap-building parts and a rubber band.

The aim is to capture the other players' mice. The winner of the game is the player whose mouse is the last one left on the board.