Legendary Legacies
The French card game Poque, which came from a German word meaning "to brag" or "to bluff" would later become known as this, becoming a staple game across families, as well as a game often played for cash.
What is Poker?
The name of a website where board gamers, many of whom favour Eurogames gather, BGG stands for this:
What is Board Game Geek?
What is twilight imperium?
Bearing a dark blue colour in the standard game, these two properties are the most expensive, and have the potential to have the highest rent out of any properties.
What are Park Place and Board Walk?
What is Stranger Things?
This computer was the first to beat a chess world champion in 1997.
What is Deep Blue?
This game currently rests as the top game in the BGG top 100.
What is Brass Birmingham?
There are currently this many 4x games within the BGG top 100.
What is three?
Not including non-coloured tiles, there are this many colours of tiles in the base game of monopoly.
What is eight?
What is Go?
At least 4500 years old, some believe that this game from ancient Mesopotamia eventually became what we today know as Backgammon.
What is the royal game of UR?
A set of awards voted for by the BGG community, these awards are given to board games in a variety of categories, such as Game of the Year and many more!
What are the Geek Awards?
The four "X"s referred to by the name of the genre refer to these four attributes of 4X games.
What are Explore, Expand, Exploit, & Exterminate?
Patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie, the mechanics of this game would be foundational in inspiring the systems behind Monopoly.
What is the landlord's game?
This book by Lewis Caroll involves a world representing a giant chessboard.
What is through the looking glass?
AlphaGo, developed by this company, defeated Lee Sedol in 2016.
What is Google's Deepmind?
The game which held the #1 spot on BGG before the game which currently took that spot took the spot, this game even retook the #1 spot for two days, before relinquishing the spot to the current holder of the #1 title.
What is gloomhaven?
Published in 2023, the second-longest 4x strategy game in the BGG top 100, this game uses a board made of hexagonal tiles
What is voidfall?
Originally published in this year, the grand rapids edition of monopoly received a second edition 21 years later.
When was 2004?
This game, from a 1981 book of the same title, is known for causing the events that occur within it to occur within the real world.
What is Jumanji?
The oldest surviving book on GO, this book is over 1450 years old.
What is Dunhuang Go Manual?
(Classic of Go and Qijing are also accepted answers)
DAILY DOUBLE
This person currently owns BGG
This video game by Roger Keating was the inspiration for the 4x genre.
What is Reach for the Stars?
Having won in 2015, this person is the most recent winner of the Monopoly World Championships.
Who is Nicolò Falcone?
In the TV show Parks and Recreation, this character invented the game Cones of Dunshire.
Who is Ben Wyatt?