9 In 10 People Can't Name Every Single Board Game In This Quiz. Can You?

Many of us have fond memories of playing board games as kids, as much for what they represented as for the actual enjoyment of playing them, that being family, friendship and camaraderie. Perhaps that's why board games maintain a special place in our hearts into adulthood, as we pass the joy of playing them onto the next generation, or simply revel in the nostalgia of the experience with other adults.

As video games, smartphones, and other electronic distractions pull us apart from each other, it's no wonder why board games remain so popular, as they bring us together and give us something enduring to interact with. In a world where touching our smartphone screens has become the bulk of how we interact with the world, there is something incredibly liberating about the simple act of picking up a cheap plastic game piece and moving it around a board. It's real and tangible, and there's a magic in it that can't be found inside a $1,000 gadget.

Or maybe we just have some serious nostalgia-tinted glasses on.

Whatever the case may be, board games are great, and because we love them so much, we've devised a special quiz to see just how knowledgeable you are when it comes to some of our favorites. Can you be one of the few board game gurus to name every classic game? Take the quiz and find out!

Question 1

Can You Name This Board Game?

One of the most popular board games in the world, yet one that people rarely finish. That's because games can last for hours, as endless turns must pass before players can buy and build up their properties enough to the point where they can eliminate another player. Even then, other players may luck out and avoid the dangerous location indefinitely. Countless themed variations of the main game have been released, based on everything from English Premier League teams to numerous video games and movies.

Question 2

Can You Name This Board Game?

This board game was immortalized on an episode of Seinfeld, during which Kramer and Newman engaged in a spirited playing of it, complete with Newman trying to cheat (of course). The match was brought to an end on a subway car of all places, when a passenger smashes their board. 2-4 players compete in this game of global conquest, with the goal of the game being to occupy every territory on the board and destroy the other players. This game can be quite lengthy, taking hours or even days to complete, as players are given reinforcements every turn.

Question 3

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game tasks players with solving a crime, with the winner being the one who can correctly identify the culprit, the weapon that was used, and where the crime took place, the facts of which are sealed away in an envelope. Players accomplish this by traveling around the board, which depicts the various rooms in a mansion, and piecing together the details by making suggestions, which forces other players to show one of their cards when the suggestion involves a card they are holding (which of course can't also be in the envelope). Once a player has gathered enough evidence through process of elimination, they can attempt to solve the case and win the game.

Question 4

Can You Name This Board Game?

This is a classic board game for up to 4 players that is simple to play, yet also allows for some strategy in how the player advances their pieces. Each player must move their four pieces from a starting area to an ending one, and can move whichever piece they want with their chosen card, save for pieces in the starting area, which can only be taken out with a 1 or 2 card. By landing on the same space as an opponent's piece, they send it back to its start area, wiping out all of its progress.

Question 5

Can You Name This Board Game?

The most respected board game in the world, people still intently study the playing of this game and marvel at new ways of playing it. This 2-player game pits two equal sides of 16 pieces against each other on an 8x8 board. Any piece can capture any other, though each has a specific method by which it can move. More recently, the playing of this game at its highest levels has begun to involve powerful computers, with IBM's Deep Blue becoming the first computer to defeat a reigning world champion in 1997.

Question 6

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game takes place on 10x10 grids, with players placing their pieces in any configuration they like on the grid. The other player must then try to locate those pieces by choosing coordinates to fire upon. When every one of the coordinates that a piece was on are struck, that piece is destroyed, with the winner being the first to destroy all of their opponent's pieces. One of this game's biggest downfalls is that it is very easy for players to cheat. They can simply refuse to acknowledge when one of their pieces has been struck and surreptitiously move it somewhere else, to a location where their opponent hasn't fired yet.

Question 7

Can You Name This Board Game?

This colorful board game is an ideal first game for young kids, with simple gameplay and fun imagery. Players guide their gingerbread man pieces through various delicious locales, in a race to be the first to reach the finish line. Cards (or in newer versions of the game, a spinner) determine to which spaces the player advances on their turn. The original versions of the game were essentially predetermined by the shuffle of the cards, which is partly what prompted a change to the more random gameplay of the spinner.

Question 8

Can You Name This Board Game?

This classic board game is a favorite of players young and old. Each player begins the game with 12 pieces, arrayed on the first 3 rows of dark squares on their side of the board. Pieces can only be moved diagonally, so that the light squares of the game board are never used. Players may capture opponents' pieces by jumping over there if there is an empty space on the other side of the jump. The game is won when all of a player's pieces have been captured, or a player has no move left.

Question 9

Can You Name This Board Game?

Dubbed the hardest board game in the world, this game is very popular in Asia, where it's been played for thousands of years. Players alternate placing white or black stones on the game's 19x19 board, with the objective being to surround and capture the opponent's stones and to surround the largest area of the board. Most games end in one player resigning, as there are no set ending conditions short of both players agreeing to stop placing stones. AI has started to become extremely proficient at playing this game, including defeating 18-time world champion Lee Sedol, a feat which some people believed AI could never accomplish due to the game's abstract nature.

Question 10

Can You Name This Board Game?

This board game is based on a popular fantasy book series, which has since spawned a wildly popular television series as well. The player chooses one of the world's main Houses to play as and attempts to conquer the land by winning the support of other nobles and destroying the other Houses. To avoid matches being too excessive in length, the game lasts for a maximum of 10 turns if no one has yet won the game, with the winner at that point being the player who has conquered more of the world than any other player.

Question 11

Can You Name This Board Game?

Like many board games involving dice rolls, this game offers the perfect blend of strategy and random chance. Players must move all of their pieces around the board and then off to win the game, with their pieces starting in various positions on the board. However, a player cannot land on a space occupied by two or more of the opponent's pieces, which allows for players to set up nearly impassable barriers with skillful maneuvering of their pieces. On the other hand, when just one piece is on a space, it can be captured by the other player if they can land a piece directly on that space.

Question 12

Can You Name This Board Game?

This is a classic party game, which can make for great fun for kids and adults alike. The playing area is laid out on the floor, which consists of a number of different colored spaces. Players then use a spinner, which tells them on which color they must put one of their four limbs. In 2-player games, only unoccupied spaces can be used, while it's permitted that players can use the same spaces in larger games, due to the limited number of spaces. When a player falls over or has one of their knees or elbows touch the ground, they're eliminated.

Question 13

Can You Name This Board Game?

This board game remains one of the most distinctive games ever created, thanks to its colorful board, three-dimensional objects, and built-in spinner. Players must traverse the board on a journey from childhood to retirement, embarking on different careers and family lives and amassing wealth. In the end, the player with the most money is deemed the winner (a somewhat materialistic viewpoint, but as determining a winner by some other means would be challenging, it can be forgiven). The one small knock against this game is that it's largely luck-based, with player decisions having little impact on the outcome.

Question 14

Can You Name This Board Game?

This word game is known for making players want to say every swear word they can think of when they're stuck with a tray full of vowels. Each player has 7 letters with which they can make words, in addition to having to build off of a word already on the board (after the first word has been placed in the middle). Each letter has a designated point value and the board also contains special letter and word multipliers when words are played on them. The player with the most points after all tiles have been played wins the game.

Question 15

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game is a skill-based game of conquest and resource management. Games take place on an island where various factions have arrived to stake a claim. Players are awarded resources each turn if they own land adjacent to the number that was rolled that turn, which they can spend to build their settlements and play cards. Players are awarded victory points for accomplishing various actions and tasks within the game, with the first player to 10 victory points being the victor.

Question 16

Can You Name This Board Game?

While many in the West are more familiar with the single-player tile-matching game of the same name, there is also a multi-player game for 3-4 players that uses the same tiles. In it, players attempt to score points by creating various combinations of tiles and building a winning hand, which is accomplished by pulling a tile from the center area and discarding a tile in the player's hand each turn. Scoring is further impacted by the position the player was in during that turn in relation to the dealer.

Question 17

Can You Name This Board Game?

This dice-scoring game is elegantly simple yet deceptively tactical. Each turn, players have three chances to roll five dice in an effort to get the best combination of numbers possible. The strategy comes in after the first roll, when players may hold any of the dice and only roll the others, allowing them to aim for a specific scoring combination. There are 13 categories in all, as well as bonus points available depending on scoring. The player with the most points after all categories are filled in wins the match.

Question 18

Can You Name This Board Game?

Being a game of general (or not) knowledge, this one is better suited to older players who are moderately well-read, lest they get crushed by their better informed competitors, though there are versions of the game that are more geared towards younger players. Players move around the board trying to be the first to correctly answer one question in each category. Once that's accomplished, they'll be challenged to one final question by the other player(s) upon returning to the center of the board, with a correct response resulting in the game being won.

Question 19

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game takes place on a 10x10 field, with each player having 40 pieces. Unlike many games, which have predetermined setups, players are allowed to position their many different pieces however they like within their 4 starting rows. Another unique aspect of this game is that the identity of pieces are initially hidden from the other player, only being visible from one side. With simple gameplay that nonetheless offers the possibility of devising special setups and strategies, this game is perfect for players of all ages.

Question 20

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game, which was inspired by charades, requires a minimum of 4 players, consisting of two teams of 2 players each. Teams take turns trying to guess words or phrases, with one teammate drawing clues while the other teammate tries to guess what the answer is based on the drawn clues. Like charades, this game has also been played on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, boosting its popularity, with celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld, Megan Fox, Wiz Khalifa, and Jennifer Aniston having played it on the show.

Question 21

Can You Name This Board Game?

This is a simple game that was popularized thanks to great design. Players drop their own colored chips down into the vertical-standing 6x7 game board with the goal of being the first to have four of their chips lined up in a row either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Matches often turn into stalemates in certain key positions, where neither player is willing to place a chip as it will allow their opponent to either block or complete a potential 4-in-a-row. However, one player is invariably forced to make this move once all other moves have been used up by the players.

Question 22

Can You Name This Board Game?

Another war board game, this one is set amidst the backdrop of World War II. There are 5 playable countries, including the United States, Germany, and Japan, with the game being playable for up to 5 players. Players must fight on their historically accurate sides, so Japan and Germany's players fight against the other 3 players in a 5-player game. This game features a wide variety of different units and structures with unique attributes and abilities, making for deep gameplay that has made it popular among serious gamers.

Question 23

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game is a variation of Halma, in which up to six players race across a central area to try and be the first to move all of their pieces to the other side of the board. The key element of the game is the ability for pieces to jump not only opposing pieces, but their fellow pieces as well. While simple at its core, gameplay can become quite strategic near the match's midpoint, as players focus not only on building lanes to ferry their pieces across the board quickly, but also to block and stymie their opponent's attempts to do the same.

Question 24

Can You Name This Board Game?

This is another game that may or may not be a board game, depending on the strictness of your definition, but regardless, it's a popular tile-based game which has spawned many variations. The game's tiles are essentially two dice faces connected together, with the exception being that zero is also included as a number. The main variants of the game include blocking and scoring games, which award points differently, though the core of the games remain the same: to match the end of a tile in play with one of the ends of one of your own tiles.

Question 25

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game is a popular amalgamation of several different game types, allowing for a wide variety of play with a single game. Among the activities are Data Head, which features trivia questions, Word Worm, which has a number of different tasks related to spelling or figuring out words, and Star Performer, in which players may be tasked with whistling songs, acting out clues, or impersonating celebrities. The team to reach the central area first and complete a final challenge is the winner.

Question 26

Can You Name This Board Game?

This fun word game challenges players to think up as many unique words as they can within a certain category and using only a specific starting letter, which is rolled on before the round starts. As players only score points for answers that no one else gets, it rewards players by thinking up the most unique answers that they can. Chaos often ensues, with players deliberating over which answers are even legitimate, as players try to push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

Question 27

Can You Name This Board Game?

This popular game was initially funded courtesy of a Kickstarter campaign, through which it raised $15,000. It was estimated that the game had raked in million in sales within a few years. The game was heavily influenced by another party game called Apples to Apples, with gameplay being nearly identical and only the theme being different. In this game's case, the goal is to complete a phrase with one of ten possible endings from cards in your hand, in an effort to create the funniest and/or most insensitive result. It's billed as a party game for horrible people.

Question 28

Can You Name This Board Game?

This 2-player game challenges players to occupy as much of the 8x8 board at the end of the game as they can. Each player starts out with two pieces in the center of the board and then adds one of their pieces on each of their turns. A piece can only be placed if it sandwiches one of the opponent's pieces between their own, which results in that piece being flipped over to their color. The game is largely about capturing the 4 corner positions, which are impossible to retake and give players a hugely advantageous position to work from.

Question 29

Can You Name This Board Game?

This is a word game with a twist. Players must get their teammate to say a specific word by giving them verbal clues. However, they are forbidden from using certain words or variations of those words, losing points and forfeiting that clue if they do. Teams are given an allotted amount of time to name as many of the words as possible, gaining points for each correct word. A game show based on this game came out in 2003, lasting for 44 episodes.

Question 30

Can You Name This Board Game?

This is another classic children's game that is perfect for young players. The player does not make any decisions during the game, they simply roll the dice or spin the spinner and move the corresponding number of spaces as they try to be the first to reach the top of the board. The only other wrinkles to the gameplay are the presence of ladders, which transport the player to a higher location if landed on with the exact number, and snakes, which send them sliding down.

Question 31

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game remains one of the most original ever created, being an intriguing mashup of American football and Warhammer (think Dungeons and Dragons if you don't know Warhammer). Players control a team of fantasy creatures such as orcs and goblins, and guide them around a field in an attempt to score points on their opponent. However, the game's extensive league play separates it from just about any other board game, imbuing RPG elements of character growth and perks into the game, which are honed over many matches.

Question 32

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game will put players' nerves to the test, as they are put in the shoes of a doctor tasked with performing a delicate procedure. A patient who's in all sorts of bad shape must have various items removed from his many cavities, which are sunk into the electrified game board. The player must remove these items without touching the sides of the game board or they fail the task. The game was inspired by the electrified wire loop game, which is still popular at carnivals.

Question 33

Can You Name This Board Game?

While this game could be classified as a card game, as it's played entirely with cards, it's generally considered a board game as well, due to the fact that it doesn't use standard playing cards, but its own special cards. The object of the game is to be the first to score 500 points, with points being awarded to the winner of each round based on the amount and types of cards left in the other players' hands. A round is won by being the first player to play every card in their hand.

Question 34

Can You Name This Board Game?

This game of resource management and military conquest is one of the most critically acclaimed in the world, having won a host of awards since its 2010 release. Each player is given their own game board and must use various cards to collect resources and build structures. In an interesting twist, players pass their hand of cards to another player after each turn. The goal of the game is to attain as many victory points as possible, which are gained through numerous methods. Despite its depth, games can easily be finished in under an hour.

Question 35

Can You Name This Board Game?

This simple game is played using a contraption that contains 32 blocks jammed together. In the middle of four of them sits a piece which is the central object of the game. Players take turns dislodging one (or possibly more) of the blocks while trying to avoid causing the main piece to fall. While there is a small amount of strategy and physical skill required, it's generally a simple game that is well-suited to younger players, with games being resolved quickly.

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