subject: A Apprentice Useful Manual In Studying And Playing Various Popular Board Games [print this page] The Stimulating Monopoly Board Game The Stimulating Monopoly Board Game
The most commercially successful among board games is Monopoly which has been played by over 500 million people in the United States and worldwide. Charles Darrow in 1935 patented the game and having Mr. Monopoly or Rich Uncle Penny bags as the mascot. The theme of the game is real estate and players win by becoming the wealthiest among the other players through building, buying and selling out properties like lots, hotels and houses as well as collecting rents and bankrupting the opponents. The game consists of 2-8 players and includes $15,140. 00 worth of money, 22 property title deed cards, 16 community chest cards, 16 chance cards, 32 houses, 12 hotels, 11 Monopoly tokens, 2 dice, and a game board. With every roll of the dice, each player moves accordingly on the game board. Let your luck turn the game on you and wipe out your opponents as early as possible before they do otherwise.
Participating in Two Player Board Games
Some 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. The Abalone is a strategy board game played by each player having two sets of fourteen marbles each in a hexagonal game board with 61 spaces. The goal of the game is to push the opponents marbles out of the hexagonal boards edges. 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. A game set on an 8 by 8 game board, the Othello, aims to preserve the most number of pieces in the entire game and the player with the most number of pieces left is deemed winner. Other board games that can be played by only two players are Checkers, Suguroku, Kamisado, Stratego, Plateau, Obsession, Backgammon, Cross and Circle, and Downfall.
The Challenging Game of Chess
One of the ancient board games that rely on strategy and can only be played by two is the Chess. The objective of the game is to eliminate the opponents king piece where it has no chance of moving or subduing an enemy piece without getting eliminated. The game includes a checkered chessboard with 64 squares in an 8 by 8 grid. It has 2 sets of 16 playing pieces one for each player composed of one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The players take alternate turns in moving their pieces and it should be noted that only one piece can be moved at a time with an exception on castling where movements of two pieces are allowed. The player with light colored pieces usually white moves first and can land in an empty square or capture an enemy piece on an occupied square and would mean its removal from the game. The rules and regulations of the game chess is maintained by the World Chess Federation.
Helping out in Cooperative Board Games
When players work together to achieve a certain goal against the game or against one or two players, they are playing cooperative board games. These games emphasizes on team cooperation, which means winning or losing as a team, rather than individual competition. The events in the game come at random when the game advances making it more challenging for the players. The Scotland Yard was one of the first games to be released back in the 1980s. Players that mimic as detectives team up to look for another player also mimicking as a criminal and everything is set to the streets of London. Another game produced in the 1980s is the Arkham Horror where players are depicted as investigators cooperating to defend the town of Arkham from monsters and aliens who enter through the gates and also to shut the gates. Choices of other cooperative board games are Pandemic, Lord of the Rings, and Shadow Over Camelot.
