No Dice Trivia Quiz

Answer: Scrabble

Scrabble is a game for 2-4 players and was first released in 1938. There are different Scrabble sets for different languages to reflect how common or uncommon letters are in that language. Players place tiles on the board to make words and try to score the most number of points each turn, the board has special squares which can double or triple the score of either the letter played or the whole word.

Answer: Chess

Chess is a very old board game which emerged in its modern form in the 15th century but has its roots in older games played in India. It is a game for two players who play with either the black or white pieces. Each type of piece has different rules about how it can move around the board and the aim of the game is to put the opponent's king in a position where it cannot move without being captured by the opponent, this scenario is called checkmate.

Answer: Labyrinth

Labyrinth is a game for 2-4 players. The board features a mixture of fixed tiles and movable tiles. Players move the tiles by pushing a tile from the edge of the board to move a row of tiles one tile up. The tiles have paths on them resembling a maze (hence the name Labyrinth) and players have to try to create a path to enable their playing piece to visit certain items printed on the board according to the card they are holding.

The winner is the first player who visits all their locations and then returns to their piece's starting location.

Answer: Upwords

Upwords is a game for 2-4 players. The game is similar to Scrabble as players have to make words from letter tiles on a board with a grid however in Upwords players can place their tiles on top of existing words to change them into new words. All the letters in Upwords have the same point value with more points being scored depending on how high the letter stack is.

Answer: Sorry!

Sorry! is one of many games based on the Indian game Pachisi. It is similar to Ludo but uses cards instead of a die to determine the movement of players' pieces. There are a number of ways to disrupt the progress of other players in Sorry!. Pieces can be 'bumped' back to the start if another player lands their piece in the same square, players drawing the '11' card can choose to switch their piece with an opponent's or a player can draw a 'Sorry!' card which enables them to take a piece from their starting area and move it to a space occupied by an opponent therefore 'bumping' that player back to the start.

Answer: Game of Life

The original Game of Life was called The Checkered Game of Life and was published in 1860 this game was based on a Checkers board and looks quite different to the modern game. The modern Game of Life (which is sometimes just called Life) was first released in 1960.

In the game players journey from going to college to retirement while passing other life milestones along the way such as getting a job, buying a house, marriage, having children etc. The playing pieces are small cars which have holes to allow for pegs to be added representing the player and any spouse / children they gain during the game. Rather than using dice to determine the number of spaces a player can move each turn the board incorporates a small spinner numbered 1 to 10 which players use to determine how far to move.

Answer: Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride was first released in 2004. The original game used a board featuring a stylised map of the USA and Canada but subsequent editions and expansions have featured maps including Europe, France, the UK and Ireland, Japan, Switzerland and many others.

The original game is for 2-5 players who must claim routes between cities on the board by playing sets of cards of the same colour and then marking their claimed routes with little railcar pieces. Players are given route cards which feature longer routes connecting further afield cities and score points at the end of the game for routes they have completed, while losing points for incomplete routes.

The game ends when one player gets down to 2 or fewer railcar pieces and the winning player is the one with the most points at the end of the game.

Answer: Candy Land

Candy Land was first released in 1949 and is a game for 2-4 players. The game is aimed at very young children as no counting is needed and there is no requirement to make strategic decisions with the game entirely based on chance. To play the game players take turns drawing a card and then must move their piece to the nearest coloured square that matches the colour of the card.

The winner of the game is the first player to land on or pass the final square.

Answer: Pandemic

Pandemic is a cooperative board game meaning players work together rather than in competition with each other. The original game is for 2-4 players. Players take on one of seven roles in the game: dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher, operations expert, contingency planner or quarantine specialist.

The goal is to find the cures for the disease before one of the conditions in which the game is lost is reached.

Answer: Diplomacy

Diplomacy is a game for 2-7 players and was first released in 1959. The game is set in Europe in the years before the First World War and players control one of the major European powers.
Unlike many games players in diplomacy do not take sequential turns, instead there is a negotiation phase in which players discuss strategies with each other (either publicly or privately) and can form alliances, however players are not bound by these agreements and can do something different in the movement phase if they wish. Following the negotiation phase is a movement phase. In the movement phase players write down secret orders for their pieces (according to the rules for this phase) and then all the movements are executed at once.
The winner is the player who controls more than half of the supply centres on the board, players not holding any supply centres are eliminated.