Board Games
Colonel Mustard in the library or Miss Scarlett in the kitchen? Was it a candlestick or a revolver?
What is Clue?
Clue was invented during the UK air raids of World War II. Colonel Mustard was originally named Colonel Yellow but an executive at the game's manufacturer was wary of using the word yellow because it was military slang for cowardly.
The naughty variation of this card game requires the removal of items of clothing.
What is poker?
Poker was originally played with 20 cards. The 52 card deck came about so that more people could play. The longest ever continuous poker game lasted for eight years, five months, and three days at the Birdcage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881.
The leader of the video game market from 1975 to the early 1980s, its most successful game was Pong - a table tennis–themed video game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics.
What is Atari?
The word atari means “to hit a target” in Japanese and is associated with good fortune.
.....with my little eye, something that is....
What is I Spy?
About Parenting notes, "I Spy is one of the first games that most children learn to play", and recommends the game for doctor's offices, restaurants and other places where you sometimes have to wait with kids.
Come on down! For a chance to play Plinko, Hole in One, Puncha-bowl and shot at the Showcase Showdown.
What is The Price is Right?
It's the longest running game show in TV history. The show premiered in 1956 and ran for almost ten years, taking a brief hiatus before coming back in 1972 . All together, there's been a grand total of over 11,000 episodes with nosigns of stopping.
A player needn't "apologize" if they get all of their pieces home before the other players.
What is Sorry!?
A board game that is based on Pachisi - a cross and circle board game that originated in Ancient India.
Each hand is designated by a point on the compass so North–South are partners against East–West.
What is Bridge?
Omar Sharif (1932-2015) was the first Middle Eastern actor to break into Hollywood. Quite apart from his acting talent, Sharif was also one of the world's best bridge players and bridge evangelists.
This round, yellow fellow has to eat all of the dots in an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts to get to the next level.
What is Pac-Man?
Pac-Man is considered by many to be one of the most influential video games of all time.
Ready or not - here I come!
What is Hide and Go Seek?
Hide-and-seek appears to be equivalent to the game apodidraskinda, described by the 2nd-century Greek writer Julius Pollux. In modern Greece hide-and-seek is called kryfto. The game is played throughout the world.
Survey says...Richard Dawson, Ray Combs and Steve Harvey are the top three answers for favorite hosts of this game show.
What is Family Feud?
A polling firm phones random people to complete the surveys. The surveyors don’t disclose that the questions are for Family Feud. A typical phone survey includes 30 or 40 questions, culled from 100 submitted to the executive-producer.
Originally called The Landlord's Game, players collect rent from their opponents and aim to drive them into bankruptcy.
What is Monopoly?
It was created in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy that rewards individuals is better than one where monopolies hold all the wealth and to promote the economic theories of Henry George—in particular, his ideas about taxation.
You might be playing this until dawn if you're counting flowers on the wall.
What is solitaire?
May 22nd is National Solitaire Day.
In this game you fling furious feathered flyers to save their eggs from green-colored pigs.
What is Angry Birds?
Angry Birds was the first mobile game to hit one billion downloads. It was even downloaded in the remotest areas of Antarctica and was the first mobile game to be played in space at the International Space Station (ISS).
A group of players sits in a circle, facing inward, while another player, who is "it", walks around tapping each player in turn, calling each a "quack" until finally calling one a "honk", which designates the chosen player as the chaser.
What is Duck, Duck, Goose?
However ducks and geese generally get along well together; both species are social animals who do not like living alone.
Paul Lynde held the "center" panel from 1968 to 1981 on this game show involving celebrity tic-tac-toe.
What is Hollywood Squares?
Though Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers (commonly called "zingers" by the production staff), often given by the stars prior to their real answer.
It's black and white - a strategy game with no hidden information played on a board of squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.
What is chess?
The longest official game of chess took place in 1989 that went on for 20 hours and included 269 moves.
In this game if your pegs do not a certain line cross, it could be a stinky loss.
What is cribbage?
A 19-point hand or Crib is impossible. When someone says they have 19 points, they actually have zero.
True or false - one of Nintendo's original and most popular products were playing cards.
What is true?
Nintendo is the world’s largest video game company by revenue. What started out as a manufacturer of card games in 1889 is now one of the most influential video game companies with a market value of over $85 billion!
A popular playground game in which players toss a small object into a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then jump through the spaces and retrieve the object.
What is Hopscotch?
It is attested that an ancient form of hopscotch was played by Roman children and soldiers and in prehistoric India. The first recorded references to the game in the English-speaking world date to the late seventeenth century.
Originally called Shoppers Bazaar, players SPIN to win while trying to solve a 'hangman' type puzzle first.
What is Wheel of Fortune?
There is a screen off-camera that tells Pat Sajak how many times a chosen letter appears in the puzzle. In the early days of the show, someone from production sat off-camera and held up their fingers to signal to Pat. They were known as “finger boys.”
The word 'clabbers' is an anagram for this game and would score a Bingo if laid on the board.
What is Scrabble?
Clabbers is a variation of Scrabble where the letters of acceptable words do not need to be placed in the correct order.
Clabbers is also sour milk that has thickened or curdled.
A family card game similar to poker for 2 to 8 people that requires a board of the same name, a deck of playing cards, and chips or coins to play.
What is Rummoli?
This Canadian card/board game was first marketed in 1940 in Toronto by the Copp Clark Publishing Company.
An amusement center having coin-operated video games, usually in a mall.
What is an arcade?
A variant of tag in which the player who is "It" is blindfolded.
What is Blind Man's Bluff?
A version of the game was played in Ancient Greece where it was called 'copper mosquito' and in Bangladesh where it is known as 'blind fly'. There are references to its recreation by Henry VIII's courtiers. It was also a popular parlor game in the Victorian era.
A Canadian academic quiz competition for high school students first aired on CBC in 1961.
What is Reach for the Top?
Alex Trebek hosted the Toronto version for until 1973.