Board Games
Draughts involves diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. The name derives from the verb to draw or to move.
What is Checker?
If you live in a colder area but flee south for warm weather in the winter, locals have a name for you: snowbirds.
What is Florida?
In Ancient Chinese philosophy this concept of dualism, describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world.
What is Yin and Yang?
Austria's capital is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations, OPEC and the OSCE. The city is located in the eastern part of this country and is close to the border of the Czech Republic.
What is Vienna?
Google negotiated its 2006 landmark acquisition of YouTube’s over this famous American snack. That place turned out to be a Denny’s in Palo Alto, Calif. where these cheesy delights were nibbled, and hands were shaken.
What are Mozzarella Sticks?
Created in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy should reward wealth creation. The game is named after the economic concept of the domination of a market by a single entity.
What is Monopoly?
Natives of this state call themselves “sourdoughs.” No, it doesn’t mean they have not-so-sweet personalities. Because the state is so isolated, it had to use sourdough instead of shipping in yeast and baking powder to leaven bread.
What is Alaska?
The act of betraying your nation & one who serves it as a states representatives.
What is Treason & Senator?
A U.S. travel advisory was issued on this South American capital due to crime, civil unrest, kidnapping, and arbitrary arrest and detention of U.S. citizens. In 2019, the U.S. Department of State announced the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from this U.S. Embassy.
What is Caracas?
In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborated on a pioneering “web crawler” concept that shares its name with this type of massage. The search engine relied on backlinks to estimate the importance of sites.
What is BackRub?
The name of this game is a trademark of Mattel in most of the world, except in the United States and Canada, where it is a trademark of Hasbro. The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in 29 languages.
What is Scrabble?
Anyone familiar with University's sports teams will know “bear down” means to “go get ‘em.”
What is Arizona?
While (blank) is considered a contronym in writing, it doesn’t work if you say the word out loud. The word means ‘to quit,’ is spelled the same as (blank) which means ‘to sign up again.’ The only catch? The words have two different pronunciations.
What is Resign & Resign?
Dhaka, the capital of this country, is best known for: Traffic and Crowd. It must be why this famous hip hop producer chose the name.
What is Bangladesh?
One of Google's earliest employees was a friendly Leonberger from (blank) named Yoshka, who came to work with his owner, Google’s senior vice president of operations Urs Hoelzle.
What is Germany?
In this game each player records all the words they find by writing on a private sheet of paper. After three minutes have elapsed, all players must immediately stop writing and the game enters the scoring phase.
What is Boggle?
Not all people of this state use this, but around this, you might think there are an uncanny number of people named John. Nope—people just use the word “jawn” as a slang catchall, like “thing.”
What is Pennsylvania?
What is Philly?
Being (blank) for something means you are moving towards it. But being (blank) by something means your actions are restrained or limited.
What is Bound?
In the Finnish capital, you can sense the proximity of the sea everywhere, as the city has over a hundred kilometers of shoreline and around 300 islands in its archipelago. But you don't need a bald-man to tell you about it.
What is Helsinki?
Google's first workspace was in Susan Wojcicki’s garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif. Wojcicki, sister of Anne Wojcicki, who is the founder of this DNA company that is a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service.
What is 23andMe?
This game is based on the ancient Indian cross and circle game Pachisi. Each players pawns are normally moved in a clockwise direction but can be moved backward if directed.
What is Sorry?
When people of this state are parched, they’ll ask where the bubbler is. Hopefully, the water won’t be carbonated though; it’s just slang for “water fountain.”
What is Wisconsin?
One extra letter turns an evil person into a good buddy.
What is a Fiend & Friend?
This South American North city is culturally connected to the English-speaking Caribbean region and home to British colonial architecture, including the tall, Gothic-style St. George's Anglican Cathedral.
What is Georgetown?
The inaugural doodle was an out-of-the-office message that Page and Brin created in August of 1998 to let people know they’d shipped off to this famous festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
What is the Burning Man?