Beginning in 1960, Aggravation managed to bring young and old together around the board for a classic marble race. Each player’s task was to take…
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“B-11”. “nah!” “A-3” “D’oh . . . You sunk my battleship!”. In this “classic naval combat game” the open seas were cluttered with ships of…
Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history. Archaeological evidence has revealed such games dating back as far as 3100 BC.…
Imagine that the Brothers Grimm invented a board game. Now take out the witches. Welcome to Candy Land. Eleanor Abbott was recovering from polio when…
The inventor of this British board game was a Birmingham munitions worker named Anthony Pratt. For him, it was a way of passing the time…
Nothing to do with the TV show of the same name, “Mastermind” was actually an infuriating puzzle game where you had to crack the code…
Can anyone agree on a set of rules for playing Monopoly? The game of capitalist supremacy celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1975. Over 200 million games…
First released in 1963, this colourful, kooky trap game was complex, but a set of blueprints on the game board made sure even the youngest…
The board game ‘Mystery Date’ was conceived by Marvin Glass, created by Henry Stan and released by Milton Bradley in 1965. Marketed to girls aged 6…
Parker Brothers unveiled Risk in 1959. From the point of Argentina in South America to the tip of Kamchatka in northeast Asia, the world was…
Scrabble was invented in 1938 by unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts. Butts created the game as a variation of another word game he had invented,…
The game of Snakes and Ladders actually began as a game called Moksha-Patamu in ancient India, where it was used to teach Hindu children about…
For those of us who have hurled board games into the air after a humiliating, teeth-clenching defeat, it’s doubly embarrassing when Sorry! is the reason.…
Simpler than chess, quicker than a game of Risk, Milton Bradley’s Stratego was the strategy board game that young generals-in-training were weaned on. Even after…
Many popular TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s spawned board games linked (sometimes rather tenuously) to the show itself. The trend continued into the 70s…
Tiddlywinks originated in England during the late 1800s. The name comes from “tiddly wink” which is English slang for an unlicensed pub. Tiddlywinks became popular…
The one with the cheeses . . . or wedges . . . or little pieces of pie. Call them what you will. Trivial Pursuit…
Kohner’s game of Trouble was introduced in 1965, and back then, a wooden die came in the box. The players rolled the die and then…