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Adeptly Competing in Trivia Board Games
Adeptly Competing in Trivia Board Games

Wide readers and knowledgeable folks love to show off their familiarity in many things by playing interesting trivia board games. Trivia board games do not follow a particular order in playing and depends on the questions being asked. It is often a collection of knowledge from different genres and subjects. 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 can be played by up to 24 players which includes a board, question cards, playing pieces with small plastic wedges to fit into them, and a box. 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.

Action Filled War Board Games

War board game is a classification of board games that depict either a non-fictional or fictional military operation. These games requiring strategy have different complexity level which could be simple or high level. The first known war board game published by Charles Robert in 1954 is the Tactics which has two editions, 25th Anniversary Edition and Tactics II, and its game mechanics became the forerunner of all other war board games mechanics. The Axis and Allies game, themed after World War II, can be played by two to five players and depends also in strategy. Players can play as Axis or as Allies depending upon players preference. The game consists of chips, dice, 299 detailed playing pieces, IPC, and markers. Its revisions are Axis and Allies Guadalcanal, Axis and Allies Battle of the Bulge, Axis and Allies Revised, and Allies D-Day. The game known as the Risk involves great effort to rule 42 territories. Alternative picks for war board games are Memoir 44, War on Terror, Advance Squad Leader, Stratego, and A House Divided.

Brain Busting Word Board Games

Several board games that revolve around words including word search types, crossword puzzle types, bluff word games, and others belong to the word board games genre. Among the many board games, Scrabble is the most amusing and played by many from different parts of the globe. Twenty nine different language versions of this game had been created and are sold in 121 countries. Each 2-4 players are given letter tiles which have values and are used to form words across and down similar to crossword puzzle on a game board with 15-by-15 grid of cells which only holds one tile. Players draw individual tile and the one who gets the letter closest to the letter A goes first and moves along in the same order all throughout the game. The words formed should be the acceptable ones that appear in a standard dictionary of any language. The player with the most number of points is deemed the winner. Word board game choices are Acronymble, Alfabet, The Da Vinci Code, and Mumble Jumble.

Board Games in Social Gatherings

Known 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 abilities. In 1998, Whit Alexander and Richard Tait created and published the game. The game is played by dividing the players from two to four teams where each team has a mover which is initially set-up on the Planet Cranium start space and the order of the game starts with the player whose birthday is coming up and goes around to the next team in a counterclockwise manner. Players are challenged in four aspects: creative cat where a player provides the clue by drawing or sculpting it in clay; Word Worm where players guess words, unscramble words, define, and spell words; Data Head where trivia questions are asked; and Start performer where players act out clues, hum a song or impersonating personalities. It is the fun and exciting games with all these categories in one enjoyable game.

by: Jesse Temes




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