General Board Game Trivia

  1. What classic board game involves purchasing and trading properties?
    Answer: Monopoly

  2. In chess, which piece can only move diagonally?
    Answer: Bishop

  3. Which board game is known as “Cluedo” in the UK?
    Answer: Clue

  4. What game involves removing blocks from a tower without knocking it over?
    Answer: Jenga

  5. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter “Q” worth?
    Answer: 10 points

  6. Which game uses a spinner and involves choosing a career path?
    Answer: The Game of Life

  7. What color are the four houses in the game “Candy Land”?
    Answer: Red, blue, yellow, and green

  8. In Risk, what is the goal of the game?
    Answer: To conquer the world by defeating all opponents

  9. Which board game features a detective solving the murder of Mr. Boddy?
    Answer: Clue (Cluedo)

  10. What board game involves placing tiles to build cities, roads, and farms in a medieval landscape?
    Answer: Carcassonne

  11. In which game do players try to “sink” their opponent’s ships?
    Answer: Battleship

  12. What is the highest possible score from a single play in Scrabble?
    Answer: 1778 points (using the word “oxyphenbutazone” across multiple triple word scores)

  13. Which game involves trading resources such as wood, brick, and sheep?
    Answer: Settlers of Catan

  14. What board game involves trying to guess your opponent’s secret identity as a spy?
    Answer: Codenames

  15. Which game features a board with ladders and snakes?
    Answer: Snakes and Ladders

  16. In Monopoly, what is the name of the most expensive property?
    Answer: Boardwalk

  17. What game is played on a hexagonal board where players compete to control territory?
    Answer: Hive

  18. What is the object of the game “Sorry!”?
    Answer: To get all four of your pawns from start to home

  19. In the game “Ticket to Ride,” what are players collecting to complete routes?
    Answer: Train cards

  20. In which game do players use letter tiles to create words on a grid?
    Answer: Scrabble

Chess and Strategy Games

  1. Which chess piece can move in an L-shape?
    Answer: Knight

  2. What is the name of the strategy game where players control armies on a map of the world?
    Answer: Risk

  3. In chess, what is the term for a move that places the opponent’s king in immediate danger?
    Answer: Check

  4. Which piece in chess is known as the “rook” in English?
    Answer: Castle

  5. What strategy game involves placing stones on a grid to capture territory?
    Answer: Go

  6. In Risk, how many continents are on the standard game board?
    Answer: Six

  7. Which chess piece starts the game on the corners of the board?
    Answer: Rook

  8. In chess, which piece can move any number of squares along a rank, file, or diagonal?
    Answer: Queen

  9. In Go, what is the maximum number of players?
    Answer: Two

  10. What is the term for a stalemate in chess?
    Answer: Draw

Word Games

  1. In Scrabble, what letter is worth 10 points besides “Q”?
    Answer: Z

  2. What is the maximum number of players in Boggle?
    Answer: Any number

  3. What is the minimum word length allowed in Boggle?
    Answer: Three letters

  4. In Scrabble, what is the maximum number of tiles a player can have at one time?
    Answer: Seven

  5. What word game uses dice to create a grid of letters for players to find words?
    Answer: Boggle

  6. In Scrabble, which letter has the highest frequency of tiles?
    Answer: E

  7. In Scrabble, which word is the highest scoring valid word?
    Answer: Oxyphenbutazone

  8. In Boggle, how much time do players have to find words?
    Answer: Three minutes

  9. What is the objective of the game “Upwords”?
    Answer: To score points by building words vertically and horizontally

  10. What is the name of the game where players guess words based on a series of hangman-like clues?
    Answer: Hangman

Classic Games

  1. Which ancient board game is played on a 64-square grid and involves two players?
    Answer: Chess

  2. What game involves moving pieces in a circular path to get them “home”?
    Answer: Parcheesi

  3. What is the goal in Backgammon?
    Answer: To move all your checkers off the board

  4. In which game do players race around a track by rolling dice?
    Answer: Trouble

  5. What board game is based on the TV show “Jeopardy!”?
    Answer: Jeopardy! The Board Game

  6. What game involves drawing cards and moving a gingerbread man along a rainbow-colored path?
    Answer: Candy Land

  7. What is the objective of the game “Checkers”?
    Answer: To capture all of the opponent’s pieces

  8. What game has players trading, auctioning, and developing properties?
    Answer: Monopoly

  9. What game involves capturing the opponent’s flag in a military-themed strategy?
    Answer: Stratego

  10. What classic game involves drawing and guessing words or phrases?
    Answer: Pictionary

  1. What game involves trading resources and building settlements on an island?
    Answer: Settlers of Catan

  2. In “Ticket to Ride,” what is the longest continuous path of railroads called?
    Answer: Longest Route

  3. What cooperative board game involves fighting off disease outbreaks around the world?
    Answer: Pandemic

  4. In “Codenames,” what role does the Spymaster play?
    Answer: Giving one-word clues to their team to identify the correct words

  5. What game has players trying to identify and collect cards with matching symbols?
    Answer: Spot It!

  6. What game is played with hexagonal tiles and involves controlling territory?
    Answer: Hive

  7. Which card game involves building up a kingdom with gold, silver, and action cards?
    Answer: Dominion

  8. In “Carcassonne,” what do you score points for building?
    Answer: Cities, roads, cloisters, and farms

  9. What game involves collecting bird species and habitats?
    Answer: Wingspan

  10. What game has players trying to avoid placing the final piece that causes the structure to collapse?
    Answer: Jenga

Fantasy and Adventure Games

  1. What board game is based on the “Lord of the Rings” universe?
    Answer: Lord of the Rings: The Board Game

  2. In “Gloomhaven,” how many players can cooperate in a campaign?
    Answer: Up to four players

  3. What fantasy game involves adventurers delving into a dungeon to find treasure?
    Answer: Dungeon!

  4. Which game involves controlling a powerful faction in a fantasy setting?
    Answer: Small World

  5. In “Talisman,” what is the ultimate goal?
    Answer: To reach the Crown of Command

  6. What game features battles between fleets of spaceships in a sci-fi universe?

    Answer: Twilight Imperium

  7. In “Betrayal at House on the Hill,” what event triggers the “Haunt”?
    Answer: Rolling less than the number of Omens collected

  8. What is the objective of “Descent: Journeys in the Dark”?
    Answer: To complete quests and defeat the Overlord

  9. In “Scythe,” what is the main objective of the game?
    Answer: To build a powerful faction and control territories

  10. What board game is set in the “Warhammer 40,000” universe?
    Answer: Warhammer 40,000: Conquest

Party Games

  1. In “Codenames,” what are the two teams trying to identify?
    Answer: Their own spies

  2. What game involves drawing and guessing the phrase on a card?
    Answer: Pictionary

  3. What game involves answering questions truthfully or completing a dare?
    Answer: Truth or Dare

  4. What game involves creating humorous phrases from cards?
    Answer: Cards Against Humanity

  5. In “Taboo,” what is the main challenge?
    Answer: Describing a word without using certain forbidden words

  6. In “Charades,” how do players communicate the answer?
    Answer: By acting it out without speaking

  7. What game involves guessing a secret word based on one-word clues?
    Answer: Just One

  8. In “Telestrations,” what happens after each player draws their interpretation of a word?
    Answer: The next player guesses the drawing, continuing the sequence

  9. What game involves voting on the most likely answer to a question?
    Answer: Apples to Apples

  10. In “Werewolf,” what role do players secretly take on?
    Answer: Villagers or Werewolves

Trivia and Knowledge Games

  1. In “Trivial Pursuit,” what are the six categories?
    Answer: Geography, Entertainment, History, Arts & Literature, Science & Nature, Sports & Leisure

  2. What game involves answering questions to collect pieces of pie?
    Answer: Trivial Pursuit

  3. In “Scene It?”, what type of questions do players answer?
    Answer: Movie and TV trivia

  4. What game has players answering questions based on images shown on a DVD?
    Answer: Scene It?

  5. What game is played with a deck of cards that each feature a different trivia question?
    Answer: Wit’s End

  6. In “Jeopardy! The Board Game,” what must players do to score points?
    Answer: Answer questions correctly in the form of a question

  7. What trivia game involves multiple-choice questions on a variety of topics?
    Answer: Bezzerwizzer

  8. In “Quiz Show,” what happens when a player answers incorrectly?
    Answer: They lose points or are eliminated from that round

  9. What game involves answering trivia questions to advance on a game board?
    Answer: Trivial Pursuit

  10. In “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, what are the lifelines available?
    Answer: 50:50, Phone a Friend, Ask the Audience

Historical and War Games

  1. What war game simulates the Napoleonic Wars?
    Answer: Napoleon: The Waterloo Campaign

  2. In “Axis & Allies,” what are the two main alliances?
    Answer: The Axis and the Allies

  3. What game simulates World War II on a global scale?
    Answer: Axis & Allies

  4. In “Memoir ‘44,” what historical event does the game recreate?
    Answer: D-Day and other battles from World War II

  5. What game is set during the American Revolution?
    Answer: 1775: Rebellion

  6. In “Twilight Struggle,” what conflict does the game focus on?
    Answer: The Cold War

  7. What game involves players taking the role of military commanders during World War I?
    Answer: The Grizzled

  8. In “Civilization,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To build and expand a civilization from ancient times to modern day

  9. What game simulates the battle between the Union and Confederate armies?
    Answer: Battle Cry

  10. In “War of the Ring,” what is the main focus of the game?
    Answer: The conflict in Middle-earth during the War of the Ring

Family and Kids’ Games

  1. In “Chutes and Ladders,” what happens when you land on a ladder?
    Answer: You move up the board

  2. What game involves balancing penguins on a wobbly iceberg?
    Answer: Don’t Break the Ice

  3. What game involves a plastic hippo eating marbles?
    Answer: Hungry Hungry Hippos

  4. What game involves removing a plastic piece from a patient’s body without touching the edges?
    Answer: Operation

  5. In “Candy Land,” what is the final destination?
    Answer: Candy Castle

  6. What game has players popping dice inside a plastic bubble?
    Answer: Trouble

  7. In “Guess Who?”, what are players trying to identify?
    Answer: The character their opponent has chosen

  8. What game involves spinning a wheel and picking up colored pieces of paper with a plastic fishing rod?
    Answer: Let’s Go Fishing

  9. What game involves players placing various shaped pieces into a board before time runs out?
    Answer: Perfection

  10. What game involves a race to assemble a Mr. Potato Head?
    Answer: Mr. Potato Head Game

Classic Card Games

  1. What is the objective of “Uno”?
    Answer: To be the first player to get rid of all their cards

  2. In “Rummy,” how many cards make up a valid “run”?
    Answer: Three or more cards in sequence

  3. What is the name of the card game where the objective is to capture cards that add up to 15?
    Answer: Cribbage

  4. What card game involves betting and trying to make the best five-card hand?
    Answer: Poker

  5. In “Hearts,” what card should players try to avoid?
    Answer: The Queen of Spades

  6. What card game involves creating “books” of four cards of the same rank?
    Answer: Go Fish

  7. In “Spades,” what suit is always trump?
    Answer: Spades

  8. What is the objective of “Old Maid”?
    Answer: To avoid being the player left holding the Old Maid card

  9. In “Crazy Eights,” what card can change the current suit being played?
    Answer: An 8

  10. What game involves laying down cards to match either the number or suit of the previous card played?
    Answer: Crazy Eights

Dice and Number Games

  1. In “Yahtzee,” what is the highest possible score in a single roll?
    Answer: 50 points for a Yahtzee

  2. What dice game involves rolling five dice to achieve specific combinations?
    Answer: Yahtzee

  3. In “Farkle,” what is the minimum score needed to get on the board?
    Answer: 500 points

  4. What is the name of the game where players roll dice and try to complete poker hands?
    Answer: Poker Dice

  5. In “Backgammon,” what is the goal of rolling doubles?
    Answer: To move twice the number of pips shown on the dice

  6. What dice game is also known as “Ship, Captain, and Crew”?
    Answer: Liar’s Dice

  7. In “Tenzi,” what do players need to do to win?
    Answer: Roll ten matching dice

  8. What is the objective of “Shut the Box”?
    Answer: To close all the

numbered tiles by rolling dice

  1. In “Bunco,” what is the target number that players are trying to roll?
    Answer: The round number (e.g., roll threes in round 3)

  2. In “Left, Center, Right,” what do the dice determine?
    Answer: Whether you pass a chip to the left, center, or right, or keep it

Abstract and Puzzle Games

  1. What game involves fitting polyomino pieces onto a board to score points?
    Answer: Blokus

  2. In “Qwirkle,” how do players score points?
    Answer: By matching tiles with the same color or shape

  3. What is the objective of “Tetris”?
    Answer: To clear lines by fitting falling blocks together

  4. What game involves solving a 3D puzzle by aligning colors on all sides?
    Answer: Rubik’s Cube

  5. In “Azul,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To build a mosaic by drafting and placing tiles

  6. What game involves placing pieces to control the most squares on a grid?
    Answer: Othello

  7. In “Patchwork,” what is the goal?
    Answer: To create the most complete and valuable quilt

  8. What game involves connecting lines to form boxes on a grid?
    Answer: Dots and Boxes

  9. In “Tantrix,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To create the longest line or loop with their tiles

  10. What game involves removing all pieces except one on a board?
    Answer: Peg Solitaire

Cooperative Games

  1. What cooperative game involves stopping the spread of global pandemics?
    Answer: Pandemic

  2. In “Forbidden Island,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To collect treasures and escape the island before it sinks

  3. What is the goal in “Flash Point: Fire Rescue”?
    Answer: To rescue people from a burning building

  4. In “Ghost Stories,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To defend a village from attacking ghosts

  5. In “Elder Sign,” what do players cooperate to prevent?
    Answer: The awakening of an ancient evil

  6. In “Mysterium,” what role does one player take on?
    Answer: The ghost providing clues to the investigators

  7. What is the main objective of “Arkham Horror”?
    Answer: To stop ancient beings from invading the world

  8. In “Forbidden Desert,” what do players search for?
    Answer: Parts of a flying machine to escape the desert

  9. What cooperative game is set in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos?
    Answer: Mansions of Madness

  10. What game involves players working together to build a space rocket?
    Answer: Space Alert

Science Fiction and Space Games

  1. What game is set in a dystopian future where corporations control everything?
    Answer: Netrunner

  2. In “Terraforming Mars,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To make Mars habitable by raising temperature, oxygen, and ocean levels

  3. What space-themed game involves mining resources and building spaceships?
    Answer: XIA: Legends of a Drift System

  4. In “Twilight Imperium,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To control the galaxy through diplomacy, warfare, and trade

  5. What game involves exploring space and fighting alien races?
    Answer: Eclipse

  6. In “Galaxy Trucker,” what do players build?
    Answer: Space ships from scrap parts

  7. What game has players cooperating to complete missions in space?
    Answer: The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine

  8. In “Race for the Galaxy,” what are players competing to do?
    Answer: To build the most powerful galactic civilization

  9. What game is set on a spaceship where players try to survive attacks from an alien?
    Answer: Nemesis

  10. What game involves controlling fleets of starships in a tactical battle?
    Answer: Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game

Economic and Trading Games

  1. In “Power Grid,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To supply power to the most cities by building power plants and managing resources

  2. What game involves trading and building settlements on an island?
    Answer: Settlers of Catan

  3. In “Puerto Rico,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To manage plantations and shipping goods for victory points

  4. What game involves buying, selling, and trading stocks to become the richest player?
    Answer: Acquire

  5. In “Brass: Birmingham,” what are players trying to build?
    Answer: An industrial network in 19th-century England

  6. What game involves creating the most successful theme park?
    Answer: Steam Park

  7. In “Power Grid,” what determines the order of play each round?
    Answer: The number of cities each player is connected to

  8. What game involves trading spices in the Mediterranean?
    Answer: Century: Spice Road

  9. In “Keyflower,” what is the main goal?
    Answer: To develop the most prosperous village

  10. What game involves managing a vineyard and producing wine?
    Answer: Viticulture

Deck-Building Games

  1. In “Dominion,” what is the main mechanic of the game?
    Answer: Deck-building

  2. What game involves creating a deck of superheroes and supervillains?
    Answer: DC Deck-Building Game

  3. In “Star Realms,” what is the goal?
    Answer: To reduce your opponent’s authority to zero

  4. What deck-building game is set in a fantasy universe with monsters and dungeons?
    Answer: Ascension

  5. In “Clank!,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To steal treasure from a dragon without getting caught

  6. What game involves recruiting heroes and fighting epic battles in the Marvel universe?
    Answer: Marvel Champions

  7. In “Thunderstone,” what do players build their deck to do?
    Answer: To defeat monsters and earn victory points

  8. What deck-building game is based on the “Harry Potter” universe?
    Answer: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

  9. In “Legendary,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To build a team of heroes to defeat a mastermind

  10. What game combines deck-building with territory control?
    Answer: Tyrants of the Underdark

Party and Social Deduction Games

  1. In “The Resistance,” what are players trying to identify?
    Answer: Spies within the group

  2. What game involves villagers trying to find werewolves among them?
    Answer: Werewolf

  3. In “Spyfall,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To identify the spy among the players

  4. What game involves bluffing to avoid being caught as a liar?
    Answer: Coup

  5. In “Deception: Murder in Hong Kong,” what role does the forensic scientist play?
    Answer: Providing clues to help solve the murder

  6. What game involves players trying to assassinate each other with hidden identities?
    Answer: Love Letter

  7. In “Secret Hitler,” what are players trying to prevent?
    Answer: The fascists from passing policies and electing Hitler

  8. In “Bang!,” what role does the Sheriff play?
    Answer: Trying to eliminate outlaws and renegades

  9. In “Two Rooms and a Boom,” what are the two main factions?
    Answer: The Blue Team and the Red Team

  10. In “Avalon,” what role does Merlin play?
    Answer: Knowing the identities of the traitors but needing to stay hidden

Adventure Games

  1. What solo board game involves surviving on a deserted island?
    Answer: Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island

  2. In “Mage Knight,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To explore and conquer cities in a fantasy world

  3. What cooperative game involves players surviving in a post-apocalyptic world?
    Answer: This War of Mine

  4. In “7th Continent,” what are players trying to do?
    Answer: To lift a curse by exploring a mysterious continent

  5. What game involves a crew of astronauts trying to fix their spaceship?
    Answer: Deep Space D-6

  6. In “Arkham Horror: The Card Game,” what is the main goal?
    Answer: To investigate and solve mysteries while battling Lovecraftian horrors

  7. What game has players exploring a haunted house and encountering supernatural events?
    Answer: Mansions of Madness

  8. In “Elder Sign,” what is the main mechanic used to resolve actions?
    Answer: Rolling dice

  9. What solo game involves managing a farm and raising animals?
    Answer: Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small

  10. In “Friday,” what is the main objective?
    Answer: To help Robinson Crusoe survive and escape the island