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Level up your trivia game with our Games & Puzzles quiz collection. Covering board games, video games, card games, puzzles, and the history of play, these quizzes are built for gamers, puzzle enthusiasts, and anyone who loves a good brain teaser. From classic childhood games to modern gaming culture, it's all here.
Questions span the history of video game franchises, iconic board game rules and origins, sports and strategy games, and the wider world of competitive and recreational play. Whether you know your chess openings or your Pokémon generations, these quick quizzes are a fun way to test your gaming knowledge for free.
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The top 22 of these fortune-telling cards are known as the major arcana
Answer: Tarot Cards
In the board game Risk, what continent has the most territories for a player to occupy?
Answer: Asia
At the end of this classic children's game, whoever holds the odd queen loses
Answer: Old Maid
The name of this word search game with lettered cubes means "bewilder".
Answer: Boggle
In other words, this summer camp game could be called "Seize Your Enemy's Banner".
Answer: Capture the Flag
One story credits 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal with the invention of this ball-&-wheel game.
Answer: Roulette
Which video game series features the characters Master Chief and Cortana?
Answer: Halo
Thanks to a ban on 100-watt incandescent light bulbs, what classic children’s toy was redesigned in 2011?
Answer: Easy-bake Oven
A popular game on many college campuses, beer pong is typically played with a ball from what sport?
Answer: Table Tennis
In Scrabble, which letter has the highest point value?
Answer: Q
On this show Chandler invents the card game cups so he can give money to Joey without Joey losing his pride.
Answer: Friends
In castling, you move the king & this piece (aka a castle) simultaneously
Answer: The Rook
In one version of this game, 108 tiles are grouped into 3 suits: dots, bams & craks.
Answer: Mah Jongg
The special edition of this Guitar Hero competitor comes with guitar, mic & drum kit peripherals.
Answer: Rock Band
How many squares are there on a checkerboard?
Answer: 64
It's "the game that ties you up in knots".
Answer: Twister
In the original edition of "Trivial Pursuit," what category is represented by the color yellow?
Answer: History
It's Horde vs. Alliance in this Blizzard game that allows you to go head-to-head vs. others online in Azeroth.
Answer: World of Warcraft
Where's this character? He's "Exploring Geography" & "At The Circus" in 2 Warner Active games.
Answer: Waldo
How many numbers are on a dartboard?
Answer: 20
What poker hand is known as "Dead Man’s Hand?"
Answer: Two Aces and Two Eights
Get your aces up top & try to unlock the deck in the Klondike version of this single-player game
Answer: Solitaire
Children's game where you can put your hands on your head only if this person "says" that you can.
Answer: Simon
In what arcade game did the player attempt to avoid vehicle traffic and crocodiles?
Answer: Frogger
A broomstick & a Spaldeen were all you needed for this street game; Willie Mays was famous for joining in.
Answer: Stickball
In blackjack, if you want the dealer to give you another card, you ask him to do this to you -- ouch!
Answer: Hit me
In the game of 9-ball, the pool balls are initially placed in a grouping of what shape?
Answer: Diamond
This game is sort of an upright version of Tic-Tac-Toe, using checkers dropped into a grid.
Answer: Connect Four
Among this company's games are Boggle, Risk & Sorry.
Answer: Parker Brothers
Before starting out in this game, "It" usually shouts "Ready or not, here I come".
Answer: Hide and Seek
Quidditch & Wizard Chess are 2 games from this book series.
Answer: Harry Potter
Eight years of studying medicine have prepared me to perform delicate surgery on Cavity Sam in this game--scalpel!
Answer: Operation
In which of the following games is "spinning the rods" an illegal move?
Answer: Foosball
In 2007 Robstown, near Corpus Christi, was recognized as the birthplace of this game, now played online too.
Answer: Texas Hold 'Em
Each year millions of people participate in this indoor game using special shoes & Brunswick equipment.
Answer: Bowling
In Vegas casinos, the 8 decks used to play baccarat are held in & dealt from a really big one of these
Answer: Shoe
Uno is a version of this wacky-sounding card game called huit americain in France.
Answer: Crazy Eights
Whose 3 dimensional cube became a 70s & 80s craze?
Answer: Rubiks cube
In a poker game without wild cards, it's the highest hand you can draw.
Answer: A Royal Flush
Like The New York Times, most newspapers run their hardest crossword puzzle on what day?
Answer: Saturday
What piece on a chess board can only move on one color?
Answer: Bishop
Playing the pass line in craps, it's the winning number on the opening roll other than 7.
Answer: 11
Piece of equipment you need to participate in a double dutch tournament.
Answer: Jump Rope
This is a game of guessing words or phrases acted out, sometimes syllable by syllable.
Answer: Charades
Which classic video game asks players to eat pellets while avoiding ghosts?
Answer: Pac-Man
Which video game franchise stars a plumber named Mario?
Answer: Super Mario
Battledore & shuttlecock was the forerunner of this racket game.
Answer: Badminton
In blackjack you can only make an insurance bet if the dealer's up card is one of these.
Answer: Ace
What is the name of the wooden block stacking game invented by Leslie Scott?
Answer: Jenga
Which board game asks players to solve the murder of Mr. Boddy?
Answer: Clue