Card Games
Each player turns up one card face down and one card face up. The player with the higher cards takes both piles (six cards)
What is War?
Played on a 64 square board, this game involves jumping red or black tokens over your opponent's tokens.
What is Checkers?
A game played on a flat felt mat with sets of small discs called "winks", a pot, which is the target, and a collection of squidgers, which are also discs.
What is Tiddlywinks?
What are Darts?
Named for this character and his sibling, Luigi, this Nintendo franchise is one of the most popular ever made.
What is Super Mario Bros?
Some variants of this game use the river, flop, and turn.
What is Poker?
Named for climbing and gliding implements, this game has its ups and downs.
What is Chutes and Ladders?
Sometimes known as guard the block, 40 40, and pom pom, this game consists of striking an object before seeking to tag members of the opposing team.
What is Kick the Can?
Using numbers 1-15, this variation of billiards requires sequentially sinking each ball before attempting the name of the game.
What is 8-ball?
A console made by Nintendo, it adopted motion controls for games like bowling, boxing, and even darts.
What is the Nintendo Wii?
A trick taking game with a trump, played by four players in teams of two
What is Euchre?
Named for a series of desserts, this game is sure to appeal to children with a sweet tooth.
What is Candyland?
A game where the person who is 'it' seeks to make contact with someone else, thus making them the new 'it' person.
What is Tag?
A tower-building game where players alternate moving blocks from the lower levels up to the top of the tower. The player who knocks the tower over loses.
What is Tetris?
A game consisting of players grouping the 10 cards in their hand to make minimum combinations of three cards of the same rank or runs of the same suit.
What is Gin Rummy?
Though this concept is technically illegal in the USA, this board game has people attempting to edge out the competition and buy all the land in a fictional version of Atlantic City, NJ.
Similar to baseball, this is a common street game in the Northeastern United States. Common tools include broom handles and rubber balls instead of bats and baseballs.
What is Stick Ball?
A billiards variety played on a special table with cushioned obstacles.
What is Bumper Pool?
A video-game forerunner, these games allowed players three attempts to earn high scores by knocking metal spheres around a game board using flippers and other obstacles.
What is Pinball?
Played alone, hence the name, this game involves arranging alternating black and white cards in columns.
What is Solitaire?
A board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king
What is Chess?
What is Capture the Flag?
This newcomer sees players tossing beanbags onto tilted platforms, aiming for the hole in the board to score the most points.
What is Corn Toss/Hole?
Technically the first video game, this game consisted of two paddles knocking a ball back and forth in a rough approximation of table tennis.
What is Pong?