Free quiz · 8 questions · Warm-up to Boss
Board games quiz
How well do you really know Board games? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Board games questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
At game night, what do you roll in many classic board games, and what does the result help your pieces do?
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- Players roll one or more dice
- The result determines how many spaces pieces move
- Warm-up
In Monopoly, what do players buy, and what can they collect when rivals land there?
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- Players buy properties, such as streets
- They collect rent from other players who land on their properties
- Warm-up
When you make a word in Scrabble, what do the letter tiles add to your score, and what can premium squares change?
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- Each letter tile has a point value.
- Add the values of the letters in the word.
- Premium squares can multiply a letter’s value or the whole word’s score.
- Easy
At the start of chess, how many pieces does each player have, and where are they set up?
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- Each player has 16 pieces
- Pieces are set up on the two rows nearest each player
- Easy
In The Game of Life, what milestone are players heading toward, and what decides who wins at the finish?
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- Players travel through life toward retirement.
- The winner is the player with the most money at the end.
- Easy
In classic Risk, what must your armies control, and what is the ultimate goal of gaining that control?
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- Armies fight to control territories.
- The classic objective is to conquer the world by controlling all territories.
- Players may also describe the goal as defeating the other players.
- Easy
In Ticket to Ride, what cards do players gather, and how must they use them to claim a railway route?
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- Players collect train cards
- They spend a set of cards to claim a route
- The set usually matches the route’s color and length; gray routes accept a set of any one color
- Boss
Surveying a standard Settlers of Catan board, what shape are its terrain spaces, how many are there, and what shape do they form together?
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- The terrain spaces are hexagons.
- There are 19 terrain spaces.
- They form a larger hexagonal arrangement.
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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