How familiar are you with current board games? This interactive quiz will test your knowledge and reveal how much you know.
In which game do you try to supply most cities with electricity and buy the necessary resources to power them?
Terraforming Mars
Agricola
Avalon
Power Grid
Power Grid
In Power Grid, your goal is to be able to power the most cities at the game’s conclusion. You’ll be placing bids on various power plants and the commodities needed to power them throughout the game against your rivals.
What is the name of the card-drafting game focused on food, where the goal is to put together the best food combinations for the most points?
Carcassonne
Resistance
Sushi Go!
Bananagrams
Sushi Go!
There are several different food item cards you can use to play, and each has another way to score points. Each of you will pick a card from your deck, which you will then pass to the following player. The objective is to attempt to assemble a set of sushi cards that will give you the most points in each round.
What is the board game’s name that focuses on birds and allows you to collect bird cards that can only be used in the appropriate habitat spaces?
Wingspan
Trivial Pursuit
Carcassonne
Splendor
Wingspan
In the game Wingspan, you take on the role of a bird enthusiast who wants to stock their wildlife preserves with the best birds. You can get various bonuses for capturing birds in your habitats, including gathering more food, laying more eggs, or attracting more birds. The player with the most points after four rounds wins.
It’s time for an oldie. What is the name of the game where you and five other guests try to determine who killed the host, what they used, and where they did it?
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Clue
Guess Who
13 Dead End Drive
Clue
It would be best to determine which of the six house guests—of which you might be one—killed the host in the board game Clue. You will make some accusations to identify the murderer, the weapon used, and the location of the crime.
Which game would require you to decide whether or not to play one of your meeples after placing a tile with any combination of a city, road, cloister, or grassland on it?
Ticket to Ride
Dominion
Carcassonne
Life
Carcassonne
You try to group similar tiles in Carcassonne and fill them with your meeple for points. The game is over when the last tile has been played, and the player with the most points wins.
What is the name of the deck-building game in which you take the role of a significant ancient city?
Splendor
Settlers of Catan
Magic: The Gathering
7 Wonders
7 Wonders
You will each take on the role of one of the seven cities that hosted an Ancient Wonder in the game 7 Wonders. The game is divided into three ages, and during each period, you must choose between, for example, building an army, gathering resources, or developing your Wonder.
What is the name of the cooperative board game in which players band together to find cures while preventing four viruses from causing epidemics?
Settlers of Catan
Pandemic
Operation
Dead Of Winter
Pandemic
In the board game Pandemic, two to four players each choose a character with a unique ability and attempt to find treatments for four different viruses before it’s too late. Before too much time has passed or the disease spreads beyond what can be treated, players win by curing all four conditions. A linear campaign is included in the game’s Legacy edition.
Building railways between cities in this game allows players to complete mission routes and score points. What is the name of this well-liked train game?
Power Grid
Ticket to Ride
Settlers of Catan
Chutes and Ladders
Ticket to Ride
In the game Ticket to Ride, participants draw train cards to construct railway routes between cities to earn points. Players can also complete missions on mission cards that contain specific ways for bonus points.
What is the game’s name where players place one green description card and one red card on each card, and then one player chooses which red card best matches the green description card?
Sushi Go!
Battle of the Sexes
Bananagrams
Apples to Apples
Apples to Apples
In Apples to Apples, the player who draws the green description card is active. Then, each player selects a red card from their hand containing the word or phrase most closely fitting that description. The player who played the red card that matches the green card the best after the active player makes that decision wins that round.
What is the game name where you use letter-shaped tiles to form words, draw a new tile once all of your current tiles have been used up, and shout the name of the game once all center tiles have been used up?
Bananagrams
Scrabble
Candy Land
Fruitgrams
Bananagrams
A spelling game called Bananagrams is played with tiles with various letters printed on the alphabet. The game’s goal is to use all available tiles to spell words while connecting them to words you’ve already used by a shared letter. It would help if you rearranged your words after using all of your tiles to draw another tile and continue until you have used them once more.
What is the game’s name where players gather gem tokens to purchase gem cards that can grant them victory points?
Monopoly
Wingspan
Splendor
Saboteur
Splendor
You try to gather various colored gems in Splendor to gain victory points. You can collect gem tokens, purchase a card, or reserve a card on your turn.
What is the name of the game typically played to 10 victory points and involves the placement of settlements, roads, and occasionally ports on hexagonal resource spaces?
Risk
Settlers of Catan
Terraforming Mars
Puerto Rico
Settlers of Catan
In the board game Settlers of Catan, you will build towns and roads on hexagonal pieces representing resources you can gather. You might need to trade with other players or ports to get the help you’ll need to win and earn up to 10 points.
Which video game allows you to control a company that is building infrastructure and establishing human life in an unnatural location while keeping an eye on the temperature, oxygen levels, and ocean coverage?
Gloomhaven
Axis and Allies
Twilight Imperium
Terraforming Mars
Terraforming Mars
Playing as a corporation in the game Terraforming Mars, your goal is to terraform Mars into a habitable planet. You can influence the planet’s temperature, oxygen content, and ocean coverage through various projects.
Which game would you divide into two teams, each with a spymaster who could provide a team with a one-word hint to help them guess the words on the board?
Dominion
Ticket to Ride
Codenames
Guess Who
Codenames
The players in Codenames will be divided into two teams, each with a spymaster. Each spymaster’s couple passes around one-word clues that match multiple words on the board. You win the game if you correctly guess every word from your team’s color before the opposing team does, but without choosing the assassin.
What game features quick rounds where players must decide which town member to murder after taking on secret roles and sleeping through the night?
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
13 Dead End Drive
Dead Of Winter
Ultimate Werewolf
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Each player in One Night Ultimate Werewolf will have a secret role, and some parts will have tasks they must complete before turning in for the night. Choose carefully because you’ll lose the game if you kill a townie. In the morning, you’ll all have to decide who you believe was a werewolf and kill that character.
You and your teammates will take on the roles of various adventurers, each with their unique abilities, in this game. What is the name of the game where your team has to clear dungeons while deciding between two options every time something happens?
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Connect Four
Gloomhaven
Sequence
Gloomhaven
You and your group will each take the role of an adventurer in Gloomhaven, each with unique abilities. Together, you will finish dungeons, open up new characters, and, with any luck, decipher the mysteries of Gloomhaven.
In this game, players journey together through an enigmatic haunted mansion until “the haunt” takes place. What is the name of the game where you won’t know whether you are a villain or not until the haunt?
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Pay Day
Blokus
Mysterium
Betrayal at House on the Hill
In Betrayal at House on the Hill, you and a friend will first explore a haunted house while gradually expanding it using randomly generated floor tiles. Once “the haunt” occurs, one of your group members will probably discover that they are villain, and one of 50 different ending scenarios begins with its own set of rules.
What is the name of the board game where players send two people to town to expand their farms and feed their families while each player has a separate farm board?
Azul
Agricola
Small World
Senet
Agricola
In Agricola, each player receives a board to construct their farm. To expand the farm and feed the family, players send their people into town every turn to gather resources or food. Points are earned by balancing your farm’s diversification and specialization efforts.
Players in this game begin with small decks of cards, but if they can afford it, they can expand their decks by buying cards from one of ten Kingdom cards. What is the name of the game where you can spend six victory points to purchase a Province card?
Scythe
Crokinole
Dominion
Dixit
Dominion
In the game Dominion, players take on the role of monarchs with modest kingdoms who wish to grow and establish sizable dominions. Players build their decks by purchasing cards from one of ten sets of Kingdom cards and start with the same small deck of cards. Upon exhaustion of all three Kingdom card decks, the player with the most victory points is declared the winner!
You will each take control of a small group of survivors in this cooperative game fighting for their lives after most of humanity has been consumed by zombies. What is the name of this game where you each have a personal goal to achieve in addition to a group goal?
Forbidden Island
Trouble
Twilight Struggle
Dead Of Winter
Dead Of Winter
Each player will control a small band of survivors in the zombie apocalypse in Dead Of Winter. Every player will have a shared objective to win the game, but each player will also have a separate, additional purpose they must complete to win.
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