Chess originated in this subcontinent around 280-550AD.
What is India?
100
This colorful challenge was created by accident by a professor of architecture.
What is The Rubiks Cube?
100
One of the first board games to be reconfigured as video game in 1979, this was a hit and definitely not a miss.
What is Battleship?
100
Pat & Vanna
What is Wheel of Fortune?
100
This alliterative NAME game is played in schoolyards the world over.
What is Red Rover?
200
The original pieces (infantry, cavalry, elephants and chariotry) eventually became these modern equivalents.
What are pawns, knights, bishops and rooks?
200
According to Hasbro, this dicey game was invented by a wealthy Canadian couple who liked to play the game on their luxury boat.
What is Yahtzee?
200
Famous Gamemaker Milton Bradley created board games like LIFE, but eventually switched gears to patent games like croquet and this BOX of "tools" used by colorful school children.
What are crayons?
200
Alex Trebek
What is Jeopardy?
200
This black-clad lady had silver buttons all down her back.
Who is Miss Mary Mack?
300
This action is not permitted during a game of Chess. It's not required to announce "check", only "checkmate".
What is talking?
300
The player who goes first in this quad linking game can win 100% of the time.
What is Connect Four?
300
Although the number has changed since its inception in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the currently recognized standard checker board has this many squares.
What is 64?
300
Steve Harvey
What is Family Feud?
300
The object of this playground game is to toss an object and bounce to victory!
What is Hopscotch?
400
If a player is in a truly hopeless position, it's proper chess etiquette to simply do this as opposed to drawing the game out.
What is resign?
400
The name of this game is based on the Swahili word meaning "to build".
What is Jenga?
400
It was Mr. Green, in the conservatory, with the lead pipe!
What is Clue?
400
Michael Strahan
What is $100,000 Pyramid?
400
This rope jumping game got its name because of its two pieces of equipment and because it was actually brought to New Amsterdam by its founders.
What is Double Dutch?
500
Deep Blue was the first one of these to win a World Chess Championship.
What is a computer?
500
This popular board game was sent to Allied prisoners of war by the British government in order to hide real banknotes, compasses, metal files and folded maps.
What is Monopoly?
500
Commonly found in gifted classrooms, the first count-and-capture board games ever played date back to 3500 BC.
What is Mancala?
500
Drew Carey
What is Price is Right?
500
This catchphrase is often used at the end of playground games like hide-and-go-seek and capture the flag to let players know that the game is over.