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Codenames is a 2015 party card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team.
Halma. Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning "jump") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854. [1] The gameboard is checkered and divided into 16×16 squares.
This is a list of board games. See the article on game classification for other alternatives, or see Category:Board games for a list of board game articles. Board games are games with rules, a playing surface, and tokens that enable interaction between or among players as players look down at the playing surface and face each other. [ 1 ]
In the base game, one to four players try to get the highest score. There is also a "plus" version of the game, which, like the original Catan board game, is a race to be the first player to score 10 victory points. [30] In addition to the Catan Card Game above, two additional card game spinoffs have been published.
Sorry! is a board game that is based on the ancient Indian cross and circle game Pachisi. Players move their three or four pieces around the board, attempting to get all of their pieces "home" before any other player. Originally manufactured by W.H. Storey & Co in England and now by Hasbro, Sorry! is marketed for two to four players, ages 6 and ...
Hop Ching checkers. Tiaoqi ("jump chess") Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK) [ 1] is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. [ 2] The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma. [ 3]
Careers (board game) Careers is a board game first manufactured by Parker Brothers in 1955 for $2.97 US; [ 1] it was most recently produced by Winning Moves Games. It was devised by the sociologist James Cooke Brown. [ 2] Victory conditions (a secret "Success Formula") consist of a minimum amount of fame, happiness and money (designated as ...
Shut the box (also called ACKPOT, [1] batten down the hatches [1] or trick-track [2]) is a game of dice for one or more players, commonly played in a group of two to four for stakes. Traditionally, a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each can be covered with a hinged or sliding mechanism, though the game can be played with ...