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The Challenging Game of Chess
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. Each player has a set of eight pawns, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, one king, and one queen a total of 16 pieces for every player. Both players take turns in moving a piece in accordance with the game rules but not during castling where two pieces are allowed to move. Usually the player with the light colored pieces go first and the piece can land on an empty square or one which is occupied by an opponents piece but will be captured and removed from the game. The World Chess Federation has the task of maintaining the games rules and regulations.

Intelligent Deduction Board Games

Board games that require a player to make use of ones intellectual ability to make logical judgment based on a particular premise fall under the category of deductive board games. A central mechanic of these games would include deductive reasoning to win the game. The two expansive categories of deduction board games are investigation deductive game, a themed game and the abstract deductive game, a non-themed game. The mastermind, an abstract deductive game, is played by two which one makes the code while the other breaks it. The code maker pins up pegs on the game board in a specific pattern and the objective of the game is for the code breaker to guess the pattern of the colored pegs. The Cluedo is a definite example of an investigation deductive game with a murder scene setting where players get the role of a certain character and use logical reasoning to identify the person responsible for the crime. Other deduction board games include the Mystery Mansion, Coda and Black Box.

Board Games for Get-together Activities

The 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. It is created by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait and published in 1998. 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. In order to win the game, the players must perform well in the following four sections of the game namely: Word Worm asking players to define, spell out words, guess words, and unscramble words; creative cat asks players to draw or sculpt the clues using clay; trivia questions are asked in Data Head; and Start performer where players hum a song, impersonating personalities or act out clues.

Aiding 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 centers winning, losing, and performing as a team in contrast to individual pursuit. As the game progresses, events come randomly making it more difficult for the players to win. The Arkham The Scotland Yard, released in the 1980s, is a good example of these games. 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. Arkham Horror, another game in the 1980s is about players who act as investigators who works together to protect H. P. Lovecraft's Massachusetts town of Arkham against aliens and monsters to enter through the gates and eventually close these portals. Choices of other cooperative board games are Pandemic, Lord of the Rings, and Shadow Over Camelot.

by: Jesse Temes




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