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A physical item included in the game. E.g. the box itself, the board, the cards, the tokens, zipper-lock bags, inserts, rule books, etc. See also equipment. counter. See piece. currency. A scoring mechanic used by some games to determine the winner, e.g. money ( Monopoly) or counters ( Zohn Ahl ).
Irish, Nard. Origin: = 17th-century England. Descended from: Irish. Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia.
scrabble.hasbro.com. Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon .
The name Go is a short form of the Japanese word igo (囲碁; いご), which derives from earlier wigo (ゐご), in turn from Middle Chinese ɦʉi gi (圍棋, Mandarin: wéiqí, lit. ' encirclement board game ' or ' board game of surrounding ').
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]
Mastermind (board game) Mastermind. (board game) Mastermind or Master Mind ( Hebrew: בול פגיעה, romanized : bul pgi'a) is a code -breaking game for two players invented in Israel. [1] [2] It resembles an earlier pencil and paper game called Bulls and Cows that may date back a century.
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.
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