Board Games From My Childhood Trivia Quiz

Answer: Doctor Orange

The object of the game was to move your piece around the floor plan house, finding clues as to the identity of a murderer, the weapon they used and where the crime was committed.

The game includes cards, murder weapons, and various clues that help the play to find who the murderer was.

The game was first developed by Anthony Pratt in 1940, and originally entitled, "Murder!" It was not until when the games official release in 1949, that it got the name Cluedo. At the same time, the game was released in America as, "Clue", with only some slight changes to the characters names featured in the game.

Answer: Admirals

Released in 1972, Admirals was a two-player bases strategy game designed by Max Gerchambaeau.

The basis of this game was that two players had opposing fleets of ships, each with their own capabilities, along with a series of minefields.

Minefields could sink any ship apart from you opponent's minesweepers.
Submarines could sink any ship apart from destroyers.
Destroyers would sink either minesweepers or submarines.
Cruisers could sink minesweepers and destroyers.
Battleships could sink cruisers, destroyers and minesweepers.
Aircraft carriers could sink battleships, cruisers, destroyers and minesweepers.

Players would take turns moving their pieces - numbered to represent each class of ship (apart from minefields). When they came across the opponent's piece they would challenge the opponent by stating, what type of ship they had. If their ship had the capability to sink their opponent, their opponent then lost that piece. The reverse happened though if your opponent could destroy the piece representing your ship.

The board itself represented a map of the sea with two islands, and ended once the admiral's ship (the aircraft carrier) was sunk.

Answer: Mouse Trap

Mouse Trap was a game that involved two to four players, moving their pieces in the shape of mice around the board, and in doing so constructing a mousetrap from various pieces. The game finished when all your opponents pieces were captured when landing on a certain spot.

The Ideal Toy Company first released Mouse Trap, in 1963. Then in the 1970s, it was re-designed by Sid Sackson.

In 2006, a new version appeared in the UK with three mousetraps included in the game.

Answer: No

Since its launch, Monopoly has gone on to be one of the worlds most popular board games with many special editions made - based on the original game - including sport, specific places, TV and film versions that include "Star Wars" and "Sponge Bob Square Pants". There are over 100 different versions of Monopoly.

The game of Monopoly itself can trace its origins back to 1903, when Elizabeth Magie which was used to explain the single tax theory to Henry George. , called "The Landlord's Game". By 1934, the game of Monopoly itself came into use. Then in 1936, Parker Brothers licensed the game to be sold outside the USA. In the UK, John Waddington Ltd created a special version for prisoners of war containing escape equipment such as maps, compasses and real money.

The game itself involved players rolling a pair of dice and moving their pieces around a board. On this board are various properties, train stations and utilities that the player can buy if unoccupied. In addition, there are spaces marked, "Chance" and, "Community Chest" where players pick a card and either gain money, pay money, move forwards on the board or are sent to jail, or pick up a, "Get out Of Jail" card. In addition, there are spaces marked taxes for which a player must pay the bank tax and a, "Go to Jail" spot.

Money can be accrued by getting others to pay rent when they land on you property, by passing go, or via the, "Community Chest / Chance" cards. When you have a complete set of properties of one colour, then house and hotels can be purchased, thus increasing the money earned form other players. The winner of the game is the one who has managed to bankrupt all the other players.

Answer: Omicron Five

Omicron Five is a totally fictional board game name I have made up.
Settlers of Catan and Risk are both strategy board games, whilst Omega Virus is an electronic board game.

Answer: qi

With a minimum score of 11, qi is the highest scoring word from the words I have listed. The word qi (pronounced chi) is a Chinese word that roughly translates s meaning "Life Force", "Natural Energy" or "Energy Flow". The word is quite often in association with Chinese medicine or the martial arts.

Scrabble itself first developed by Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938 from an earlier game he had invented called, "Lexiko". The game was fundamentally the same as Scrabble, played on a board where letters were places to make words, with points scored for each letter used.

It was in 1948 that James Burnot brought the rights to the game, and gave it the name, "Scrabble". Burnot though made some changes to the game in the way words are scored, increasing the values on certain spaces that doubled or tripled individual letters or complete words.

Answer: Escape From Colditz

Released at the time of a BBC drama called, "Colditz", former POW Pat Reid created Escape from Colditz - based of the real attempts of prisoners of war trying to escape from the infamous Coldtiz Castle where Reid himself was held prisoner.

The game involved players trying to get their pieces out of the castle, evading the guards and fleeing to safety at a point outside the castle. However if caught the escaping prisoner was sent back to the start. To do this a player must form and escape kit by collecting various cards. This was done by visiting various rooms in the castle, and could be kept

The player, playing the role of the guard also gains various cards aiding them in the capture of escaped prisoners. These were returned once used.

The game usually ended when a player manages to get a certain amount of his pieces outside the castle in a fixed time.

Answer: chutes

Snakes and Ladders, (or Chutes and Ladders as it is known in America) is a game where players try to reach the finish, either by taking short cuts climbing a ladder, or slipping back but sliding down a snake (or chute).

The games itself can trace it origins back to India where the game found it's way back to England, which at the time controlled India as part of the British Empire. In 1943, games manufacturer Milton Bradley brought the rights to the game, renaming it, "Chutes and Ladders".

The game involved players rolling a single die, moving their piece along the board. If they reach a "Ladder", the player advances up the ladder. If the comes to a "Snake/Chute" the slide down it.

The game ends by the player having to roll an exact number to reach the finishing point.

Answer: A Question of Sport

Based on the long running TV quiz show, "A Question of Sport", the game itself was first released in 1986, taking some of the various aspects of the TV programme as part of its game play. Although not a board game as such, it did involve dice and was a trivia game based on sport in which players had to answer questions, as well as find the identities of various sports stars in a picture board round.

The game itself had its flaws, as the questions could quickly become outdated, as various sporting records were broken. As a result, additional packs could be purchased to update the game.

Answer: checkers

Draughts or Checkers is a two-player game played only on one color squares (usually the dark ones) of a chequered board. The game involves player moving their pieces diagonally, taking their opponents pieces by jumping over them into the unoccupied space behind their opponent's piece. This can be done a number of times in one move if there are enough spaces for a player to jump into to take their opponents piece.

In some variations of a game, the player can only move forwards or sideways in a zigzag pattern until their piece reaches the other side of the board. There is becomes a King and can move in any direction diagonally on the board.

The game ends when you have captured all your opponent's pieces.