I Have No Time For Games Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boggle

Mixing sixteen letter-faced dice in a cube to make a 4x4 grid, you use adjacent letters one at a time to create three letter words or longer. The longer the word, the more valuable to your score. "Big Boggle" came around seven years after the original, and had a 5x5 grid of 25 dice. The other choices are all crossword-style word games.

Answer: Scattergories

The 20-sided die (or icosahedron) had 20 different letters on it (excluding Q, U, V, X, Y, and Z), players would roll one letter for each to come up with an item relating to twelve designated categories that begins with the letter rolled. The more exotic item you wrote down, the better, as all players that have an item the same as any other player would not get a point. Players get bonus points for alliterative answers.

Answer: Perfection

Perfection had a 5x5 grid of holes with plastic shapes you fit in the holes. The plastic shapes had appropriate names like Trapezoid, The X, Plus Sign, and Inverted S.

Answer: 5 Second Rule

Swiping its name from the common interjection spoken when you drop your food on the floor, this game seems simple, but the ability to name three things in five seconds when the staring eyes of your opponent burn a hole in your skull can be intimidating. It got a boost from the "Ellen" show, where Ellen DeGeneres would play a variant of it with celebrities.

Answer: Pictionary

Pictionary is actually the sire to the other three games, all of which debuted at least 16 years after Pictionary. The three all have the same concept as Pictionary, but have an added rule variation.

Pictionary inspired a game show, Win, Lose or Draw. Produced by Burt Reynolds, he brought in his celebrity cronies to draw random things to win contestants money. The show did not deviate much from the rules of Pictionary, other than Pictionary not having $5,000 in the box you could win.

Answer: Quicksand

Quicksand has an unusual pace in that both players want to keep gaining progress, but as they play their turn quickly, it only allows their opponent to work fast also. There have been more games released under the name Quicksand, but the 1981 version is the only one that uses a timer, let alone eight of them.

Answer: Bamboozle

Bamboozle had a unique aspect on a timer in that the time limit was determined by one of the teams. It improved your speed in scribbling words down, as the faster you wrote, the less time you allowed your opponents.

Answer: Heads Up

Heads Up gained exponential traction when Ellen DeGeneres (again) played the app on her show with hilarious results. The app came first, but the board game popped up within six months. Many copies have sold of the board game, but not as many as the 25 million downloads at 99 cents a pop of the phone app.

Answer: Taboo

Buzzword is similar to Taboo, but there aren't "Taboo" words you're not allowed to say in Buzzword. Taboo was fun in the anxiety-inducing problem of having five words you're not allowed to say in the description of seemingly innocuous words. For instance, if you're not allowed to say Red, Fruit, Pie, Tree, or Teacher, how do you describe an apple?

Answer: Catch Phrase

There are multiple versions of Time Bomb and Hot Potato, but none are at all similar to the game Catch Phrase. With the electronic version, it enabled any group with the game to play, wherever, without a table, all you needed was a method of getting in a circle to allow the ability to pass the game.

The electronic version would display the item to be guessed at random. The board game required players to pick up cards from the pile to guess, so it looks more cumbersome now compared to the electronic version.