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Why not use your cranium and try a board game to keep you from getting bored?

 

Board games were extremely popular when I was growing up ... oh oh, that's probably given away my age!  But, I'm not confirming that little detail in this lens or any of my other lens.  We had the original Monopoly board game, along with Scrabble -- the one that doesn't stack!  And, I still play Scrabble today! 

This lens takes a good look at what cool board games you might want to consider in case your batteries run out this year!

What's a board game? 

Do you ever get bored with your board games ?

A board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface, usually specific to that game). Like any other form of entertainment, board games can represent nearly any subject. However, most well-known mass-market board games are generally simple all ages family entertainment. Most celebrated board games, such as chess, go/weiqi, xiangqi, shogi, or oware, have been classics for centuries, and are considered to have intense strategic depth.

There are many different types of board games. As the term denotes a type or form of game, rather than a genre, there is a wide range of different styles of board games. At the most basic level, they can be broken down by games that have no inherent theme (but could still be 'about' something) and those with a definite subject, or even story; compare checkers with Cluedo/Clue. Otherwise, games are often broken down by an arbitrary mix of game mechanics and subject matter.

Cranium Insanium video 

Cranium Insanium!

This killer board game is called "Cranium." Go buy it now and play until you're hoarse from all of the bouts of boisterous laughter. Featuring various forms of cherrades.

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Cranium FAQs 

Cranium is a party board game. Based on Ludo (board game), Whit Alexander and Richard Tait created Cranium in 1998. Trade marked Cranium is manufactured by Hasbro subsidiary Cranium, Inc. Cranium is billed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain." Unlike many other party games, Cranium includes a wide variety of activities.

Dave Edelstein of Foundation Design created the packaging and brand identity for the game, and Gary Baseman, creator of the animated series Teacher's Pet'', did the art.

The buzz on Cranium 

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Which of these classic board games is your fav? 

#1

Scrabble: Classic Edition

Scrabble: Classic Edition

Everyone starts out with 7 tiles. The object of th more...8 points

#2

Clue

Clue

3 points

#3

Monopoly

Monopoly

Monopoly Game - Buy real estate, collect rent, bui more...2 points

#4

Yahtzee

Yahtzee

It's America's all-time number one dice game! Sinc more...2 points

#5

Trivial Pursuit Greatest Hits

Trivial Pursuit Greatest Hits

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Backgammon Board Games 

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Backgammon FAQs 

Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing piecesBackgammon playing pieces are known variously as stones, men, counters, pawns, checkers, or chips. are moved according to the roll of dice. A player wins by removing all of his checkers from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.

Although luck plays an important role, there is a large scope for strategy. With each roll of the dice a player must choose from numerous options for moving his checkers and anticipate possible counter-moves by the opponent. Players may raise the stakes during the game. There is an established repertory of common tactics and occurrences.

Like chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists. Owing to this research, backgammon software has been developed capable of beating world-class human players.

How to Play Backgammon, the Board Game 

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How To Play Backgammon

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How to Play Backgammon: Free O...

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How to Play Backgammon: Free O...

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How to Play Backgammon : Beari...

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How to Play Backgammon : Rolli...

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How to play Backgammon

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How to Play Backgammon : Gammo...

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Monopoly FAQs 

Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, renting, and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. The object of the game is to bankrupt the other players. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.

According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it "the most played (commercial) board game in the world."In the instruction booklet that comes with the 70th Anniversary (US) Edition of Monopoly, Hasbro cites a statistic that over 750 million people have played Monopoly. Presumably even higher numbers have played traditional games, such as chess and Go. The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly.Guinness World Records page for Monopoly's (disputed) world record of Most Played Game Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame web page

Tips on How to Win at Monopoly, the Board Game 

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Board Game Show - SOLD! w/ des...

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Board Game Show, Through the D...

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Board Game Show, Mystery Rummy...

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Board Game Show - PEZ w/ desig...

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How to Play Monopoly : Auction...

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Pictionary FAQs 

If you were looking for the game shows of the same name see Pictionary (1989 game show) and Pictionary (1997 game show).

If you were looking for the video game, see Pictionary (video game).

Pictionary is a guessing word game published in 1985. The game is played with teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings.

Pictionary video 

The Game

Three girls play a competitive game of pictionary.

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Stratego FAQs 

Stratego is a board game featuring a 10 × 10 square board and two players with 40 pieces each. Pieces represent individual officers and soldiers in an army. The object of the game is to find and capture the opponent's Flag, or to capture so many pieces that the opponent cannot move at all. Players cannot see the ranks of each others' pieces, so misinformation and discovery are important parts of the game.

Stratego Strategy Session 

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Linkin Park- Session

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DIVINE HERESY Jam Session

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Trivial Pursuit FAQs 

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. The game was created in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press, and Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game.The History of Trivial Pursuit With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.Trivial Pursuit History

In North America, the game's popularity peaked in 1984, a year in which over 20 million games were sold. The rights to the game were licensed to Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US$80 million.Trivial Pursuit sells for a non-trivial sum: $80 million US As of 2004, nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Northern Plastics of Elroy, Wisconsin produced 30,000,000 games between 1983 and 1985.

Dozens of question sets have been released for the game. The question cards are organized into themes; for instance, in the standard Genus question set, questions in green deal with science and nature. Some question sets have been designed for younger players, and others for a specific time period or as promotional tie-ins (such as Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, and The Lord of the Rings movies).

Trivial Pursuit videos 


Trivial Pursuit: Bring on the 90's

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A trivial pursuit part one

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A trivial pursuit part two

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Sick, Jenni, sick!

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A lil competative, are we?

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Competitive Trivial Pursuit

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Drop me a line ... 

What was your favorite board game growing up? How about today? Do you still play any board games?

Grasshoppa

Chess, hands down. Stratego was great too.

Posted March 24, 2008

Senora_M

Cool site! I like to play Apples to Apples! It's pretty fun!

Posted December 25, 2007

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