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A gameboard with no pieces, or one piece, in play. Typically for demonstration or instruction. See direction of play. A horizontal (straight left or right) or vertical (straight forward or backward) direction a piece moves on a gameboard. A piece not active on the main board, it might be in hand or in a staging area.
Balderdash is a board game variant of a classic parlour game known as Fictionary or the Dictionary Game. It was created by Laura Robinson and Paul Toyne of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The game was first released in 1984 under Canada Games. It was later picked up by a U.S company, The Games Gang, and eventually became the property of Hasbro and ...
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. Single-player board games [ edit ]
The board game Monopoly is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages. [1] Board games are tabletop games that typically use pieces. These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked game board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well.
Shogi. Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈʃoʊɡi /, [1] Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general's ( shō 将) board ...
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [1]
Ludo. Ludo ( / ˈljuːdoʊ /; from Latin ludo ' [I] play') is a strategy board game for two to four [a] players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi. [1]
Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge, Hearts, Poker or Rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac