Assisting in Cooperative Board Games Cooperative board games enable players to work for a certain objective that could either be against another set of players or against the game. These games centers winning, losing, and performing as a team in contrast to individual pursuit. To make it more challenging, events in the game do not come in succession but at random as the game goes on. In the 1980s Scotland Yard was among the first games...more
The Stirring Dungeon Board GameAdventure board games is more of a role playing game that enables players to represent a certain character that can have its prowess and skills boosted as wells as obtain some equipments as the game progresses. The very first adventure board game was Dungeon released in 1975 and was designed by Steve Winter, S. Schwab, David R. Megarry, and Gary Gygax. The game designed for two to four players consists of a...more
Proficiently Playing in Trivia Board GamesA person who loves to read books would find it interesting and amusing to play trivia board games. It is all based upon the questions posed and follows no particular order. Questions are compiled which are taken from different fields of study and areas of interest. The very first trivial board game is the Trivia Pursuit released in 1981 although started in 1975 by creators Scott Abbot and Chris Haney. The game, designed for 2 to 24 players, comprises of question cards. Box, board, and playing pieces with wedges made of plastic that fits the board. There are six different categories with corresponding colors namely: brown for Art and Literature, pink for Entertainment, blue for Geography, yellow for History, green for Science and Nature, and orange for Sports and Leisure. The first player to go back to the hexagonal hub following a round trail and acquiring the colored wedges by giving out the correct answers wins the game. There have been many editions that followed the original Trivial Pursuit Genus I like the Pursuit Genus IV, Genus V, and Genus VI, Warner Brothers Edition, and Trivial Pursuit Junior are a few. Prevailing in...more
The Haste of Race Board GamesOne of the earliest board game created is the race board games which players contend to be the first to reach the goal. Moving the pieces on the board under certain rules until the player succeeds in bringing the pieces at the end of the goal or finish line is the game mechanic. Famous of all is Backgammon, a game...more
Action Filled War Board GamesWar board game is a type of board game that portrays either a real or imaginative military operation. Strategy is required for these games and they have difficulty level from simple to high level. First to be released in 1954 was the Tactics by Charles Robert which had two editions, Tactics II and 25th Anniversary,...more
Participating in Two Player Board GamesSome board games are designed entirely for only two players to enjoy and can never be played by more than two people. These sorts of board games can be appropriate for playing with your wife, friend, companion or buddy. One of these games is the Abalone, which is a strategy game played using fourteen marbles for each player and set in a hexagonal board with 61 spaces. The games objective is to shove the opponents marbles out of the board. Another game is the Chinese Checker with a goal of moving the pieces to the opposite side where the player started, and is played on a six-pointed star shaped board. The Othello is a game played on an 8 row and 8 column board also with two sets of pieces and its goal of retaining the most number of pieces at the end of the game. Alternatives of games that can be played by two players are Suguroku, Stratego, Kamisado, Obsession, Backgammon, Plateau, Cross and Circle, Downfall, and Checkers. Board Games for Get-together ActivitiesKnown as The Game for the Whole Brain, Cranium is a party board game of 4-16 people. This game is comprised of several activities and needs a player to have quite a few...more
Golf club memberships used to be regarded as something that rich men had and spent many afternoons on the course or in the clubhouse bar but in recent years the golf club has become a more welcoming place with not only more of a relaxed...more
The Defying Monopoly Board GameOver 500 million people in the United States and all over the globe play Monopoly making it the most successful commercially sold among board games. The game was published in 1935 originally patented by Charles Darrow...more
Expertly Engaging in Trivia Board GamesA person who loves to read books would find it interesting and amusing to play trivia board games. It is all based upon the questions posed and follows no particular order. Trivia questions used are extracted...more
Party Board GamesThe Game for the Whole Brain as others would love to call it; Cranium is composed of 4-16 players. This game is comprised of several activities and needs a player to have quite a few abilities. Published and made known to the...more
Hailing Victorious in Multi-player Elimination Board GamesThe very objective of multi-player elimination board games is to remove the other players off the game before it ends. With quite a few players, these types of games help or enhance ones...more
Taking Part in Two Player Board GamesSome board games are designed entirely for only two players to enjoy and can never be played by more than two people. These board games are suitably created for playing together with your wife, friend, or...more