Do You Know the True Wacky Origin of Board Games?
Do You Know the True Wacky Origin of Board Games?
In this quiz, game night is getting a whole new meaning.
In this quiz, game night is getting a whole new meaning.
There are two categories of people when it comes to board games – those who love them and are always ready for game night and those who would rather do just about anything else. To ace this quiz, you have to be in the former camp. But even if you are, we bet anything this will be a real eye-opener for you. Don’t believe us? Just sign up for this challenge and see.
Board games were played by the pharaohs in Egypt, and this was one of the most popular ones.
The ancient board game ‘Mehen’ was also called the ____ in honor of the deity it represented.
This board game is one of the longest played…
‘Ludus duodecim scriptorum’ was a popular board game during the time of the Roman Empire. What does the name translate to?
Who is known as ‘The Father of Modern Backgammon’?
____ was the first board game to be developed by the Eastern world.
This ancient Indian game was later turned into the European variant called chess.
This 1903 American board game called ‘The Landlords Game’ was invented by Lizzie Magie, who later sold her patent, and it was turned into the modern day…
The Spiel des Jahres the most prestigious award for board and card games, is awarded annually by a jury of ____ game critics.
In this award-winning 1995 board game, players compete to establish the most successful colony on a fictional island. What was the original name of this game?
A version of Snakes and Ladders is known to go back as far as 200 BC as an _____ that teaches about mortality and the difference between good and evil.
Historians believe that Dominoes was invented in ___ around 1100 AD.
The first checkers world championship was played in…
The Japanese version of Chess that popped up in the 19th century was called…
To win at this board game, a player must form four sets and one pair. When you know you have a winning hand, you can shout ____.
Initially, called ‘Murder’, this board game is a murder mystery challenge where players move from room to room in a mansion to solve the mystery of: who done it, with what, and where?
This uber popular board game that involves trying to figure out where your opponent’s ships are and then hit them was originally called Salvo. We know it as…
Scrabble was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed…
The game was especially popular in medieval Europe and even earned a mention in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In Patolli, a gambling game invented by the early inhabitants of Mesoamerica, players raced to move ____ from one end of a cross-shaped track to the other.
Later called Go, this board game was a staple of Chinese culture and was included as one of the four arts Chinese scholar-gentlemen were required to master.
The ancient board game of Mancala was derived from the Arabic word naqala, meaning…
Do you like having one week night as 'board game night'?
Do you like having one week night as 'board game night'?