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1. You are standing on a square at the corner of a board. Inside it are big red letters spelling "GO" over a red arrow. The arrow points toward a smaller rectangle with a purple stripe atop it. Two small green plastic pieces rest on this purple stripe. What game is this (American original version)?

Answer: Monopoly

That "Monopoly" was created by Charles Darrow is a myth. Monopoly evolved from a game created in 1904 by Lizzie Phillips. It originally was meant to instruct its players of the pitfalls of an economy consisting of several real monopolies. Phillips' game was originally called "The Landlord's Game" and was published for commercial purposes in 1924. Parker Brothers' trademark is currently on the game, but this subsidiary of Hasbro had to fight a court battle to be able to put its name on the game.

2. You now find yourself in a large square in one corner of a board. The interior of this rectangle is made to look like a comfortable room with many plants and windows, and there is one door in the perimeter of the rectangle. Most interesting is a notice about a "secret passageway to the lounge". What game are you now trapped in (American classic edition)?

Answer: Clue

An Englishman named Anthony E. Pratt is often given credit with the creation of "Clue" or "Cluedo". As the story goes, he thought up the game as a pastime to relieve boredom while he and others waited in bunkers during World War II air raids. His original name for the game was "Murder!" and he initially planned for there to be nine weapons, ten characters, and eleven rooms.

Some of the original weapons included a syringe, a bomb, an axe, and a shillelagh or walking stick. In 1949, Parker Brothers published its version of the game in the United States.

3. Suddenly, you find yourself in a square with "Wednesday" posted above it and "24" in the upper right corner. Inside the square is a mailbox whose red door has an orange "2" written on it. Beyond this square is another one with "Thursday" above it and "25" in the upper right corner. Here you see a moustached man shouting "Deal" while holding another man wearing glasses. What game are you in now (American 1970's editions)?

Answer: Pay Day

Paul J. Gruen created "Pay Day", and Parker Brothers marketed it for the first time in 1975. That year "Pay Day" remarkably outsold even "Monopoly". In this game, the players would move their tokens through the days of a calendar to get to "pay day" at the end of the month. Along the way, they would have to read silly letters and advertisements from mailboxes as well as budget for bills they were mailed.

They would also buy and sell outlandish "deals" for extra income.

4. You are now standing in a rectangle with two somewhat rounded sides, top and bottom. Inside is an orange wedge in the shape of a pie piece held by a couple of cherubim. To the left is a green rectangle with a woman holding a mirror, to the top is a green rectangle with a butterfly, and to the right is a green rectangle with a man on a bicycle. In what game do you find yourself now (American original edition published in the 1980's)?

Answer: Trivial Pursuit

In 1979, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott created "Trivial Pursuit". Haney was a photo editor for "The Gazette", a newspaper in Montreal, Canada, and Abbott was a sports editor for "The Canadian Press". In 1984, Fred Worth attempted to sue Haney and Abbott for copyright infringement.

He proved successfully that Haney and Abbott had copied information word-for-word from his trivia collection books; however, a judge ruled in Haney and Abbott's favor, claiming that one cannot plagiarize facts. In 1994, Haney and Abbott were again victims of a lawsuit when David Wall attempted to prove they had stolen his idea after they had picked him up when he was hitchhiking one day; Wall never proved his case. Since the "Genus I" edition, "Trivial Pursuit" has been republished in several different editions: for example, the "Genus II", the "1980's", the "Twentieth Anniversary", the "Lord of the Rings", the "Star Wars", the "Book Lover's", the "Silver Screen", and the "Beatles".

5. Now you look around and notice that you are standing on a green and brown piece of land that looks like Norway. There is a black dot on the piece of land. Across a dark borderline is Sweden with a red plastic star-shaped cylinder on it. Behind you to the northwest is the Norwegian Sea with a yellow plastic three-dimensional anchor resting on it. What game are you stuck in now (America's 1976 Avalon Hill version)?

Answer: Diplomacy

Allan B. Calhamer thought up "Diplomacy" in 1954, and it was published for the public's enjoyment in 1959. Unlike "Risk", "Diplomacy" does not use dice and relies purely on strategy and diplomatic, if not manipulative, verbal skills. Players are attempting to set up military and economic advantages to set the stage for Europe prior to The Great War (WWI). Famous lovers of the game include Henry Kissinger, John F. Kennedy, and Walter Cronkite.

6. At this point, you are standing on a blue corner square. In the black border of the square are "Censor" and "Always Answers No". In the blue square is a photograph of an elderly woman with silver hair and pursed lips. She holds the corner of her spectacles with her thumb and index finger. On either side are two gold squares with a "Detective" in one and a "Judge" in the other. What game is this (American 1976 version)?

Answer: Whosit?

Parker Brothers published "Whosit?" in 1976. The game is somewhat based on a "Twenty Questions" theme. Players take turns asking one another questions to determine which of the twenty identities on the board belongs to which player. Identities consist of cinema roles, such as "Singer", "Cowboy", "Vampire", "Waiter", and "Football Player".

Some of the identities require different strategies to play and guess. The "Gangster" and "Spy" must always answer falsely, the "Censor" must always answer "no", and the "Director" has the freedom to lie or tell the truth as he wishes.

7. Here you are standing on a small light-blue trapezoid with the words "Broom! go back 2" written in it and a drawing of a sweeping broom beside it. As you look to the left of the path you're on, you notice some red plastic rickety stairs with a yellow plastic bucket at the top. A blue plastic boot appears ready to kick over the bucket. Which game are you lost in now (American 1970 Ideal version)?

Answer: Mouse Trap

Ideal Toy Company first released "Mouse Trap" in 1963. Players are given tokens that look like little mice, and they progress around a board building a Rube Goldberg-styled mouse trap--piece by piece. Then each player attempts to use the "mouse trap" to capture his or her opponents before he or she is captured. Controversy eventually surrounded the game as it resembled one of Rube Goldberg's own ideas; however, Goldberg never seriously pursued any legal action against Marvin Glass, the board game's designer.

In the 2000's, "Mouse Trap" occurred as a game show on the the British children's program "Motormouth". Besides Ideal, "Mouse Trap" has been published by Milton Bradley and Hasbro.

8. Now you're standing in an orange square with a point in the middle of one side of it that extends outward to create somewhat of an arrow pointing into a green square. The orange square contains four pencils arranged in a pinwheel formation. The green square has a pencil in the process of drawing a question mark. What game are you stuck in now (American 1985 edition)?

Answer: Pictionary

"Pictionary" was first published by Seattle Games in 1985 and was created by Robert Angel. Since then many editions have been published, and there have even been television game shows based on the "Pictionary" board game--one in 1989 and another in 1997. Of course, there was also the "Win, Lose, or Draw" television game show in 1987.

9. You are whisked away to a white square with a blue triangle in it. The triangle's apex is at the base of a blue line with the word "Slide" written within it. To the left of you is a large black circle surrounding a yellow six-pointed star with the word "Home" written in it. Where are you now (American 1972 version)?

Answer: Sorry!

"Sorry!" is supposedly based on the ancient game of Pachisi or Parcheesi. In May of 1929 William Henry Storey of England patented "Sorry!" It was then bought by Waddingtons and sold by this British maker of games for several years. Parker Brothers began selling its version in 1934, and the game was eventually bought out by Milton Bradley and then Hasbro. An interesting version of "Sorry!" called "Bump 'Em" now exists with Hoyle Computer Games. Players use cars for tokens and move around paths that look like a freeway.

However, the game is still played with mostly the same rules as those of "Sorry!"

10. Here you are standing on a dark green narrow strip of land with the word "Kamchatka" written on it. A hyphenated line stretches from here across part of an ocean to the outer limits of the board. Another hyphenated line extends from the "Kamchatka" spot to another dark green piece of land that looks like an island with the word "Japan" written on it. What game are you stuck in now (American 1975 version)?

Answer: Risk

"Risk" was originally called "La Conqu�te du Monde (The Conquest of the World)". It was invented by Albert Lamorisse of France in 1957. The game was picked up by Parker Brothers and then later Hasbro. There are many variations of the game, including "Castle Risk", using a map of Europe and requiring that opponents try to capture one another's castle, and "Risk: The Lord of the Rings", which uses a map of Middle Earth.

Source: Author alaspooryoric

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You're Trapped in a Board Game! Quiz

You have been shrunk to the size of a game token and are being forced to walk the boards of various games. Each time you guess the game you are in, you are transported to another board until you have guessed the tenth one.

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