{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-board-games",
 "id": "fun-board-games",
 "title": "Board Games and How to Play",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Games",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Classic board games and what you do in them.",
 "tags": [
  "board games",
  "rules",
  "games"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Game",
 "backLabel": "Goal or rule",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Checkers (Draughts)",
   "Jump over opponent's pieces to capture; reach the far row to be crowned king"
  ],
  [
   "Chess",
   "Checkmate the other king"
  ],
  [
   "Monopoly",
   "Buy and trade properties and collect rent; the last player with money wins"
  ],
  [
   "Scrabble",
   "Make words on a board with letter tiles to score points"
  ],
  [
   "Clue",
   "Work out who did it, with what, and where"
  ],
  [
   "Risk",
   "Move armies to conquer the map"
  ],
  [
   "Candy Land",
   "Follow colored spaces to reach the Candy Castle"
  ],
  [
   "Chutes and Ladders",
   "Climb ladders and slide down chutes to reach 100"
  ],
  [
   "Connect Four",
   "Drop discs to line up four of your color in a row"
  ],
  [
   "Battleship",
   "Guess where the other player's ships are hiding on a grid"
  ],
  [
   "Sorry!",
   "Move your pawns around the board and send others back to start"
  ],
  [
   "Parcheesi",
   "Race four pawns around the board and home"
  ],
  [
   "Ludo",
   "A race game where you roll a die to bring tokens home"
  ],
  [
   "Backgammon",
   "Race checkers around the board using dice"
  ],
  [
   "Mancala",
   "Move stones around pits to capture more than your opponent"
  ],
  [
   "Go",
   "Surround more territory than your opponent with stones; it began in China over 2,500 years ago"
  ],
  [
   "Dominoes",
   "Match the dots on tiles end to end"
  ],
  [
   "Yahtzee",
   "Roll five dice to score combinations"
  ],
  [
   "Boggle",
   "Find words in a grid of letter cubes before time runs out"
  ],
  [
   "Jenga",
   "Pull blocks from a tower without making it fall"
  ],
  [
   "Operation",
   "Remove silly body parts without touching the sides"
  ],
  [
   "Twister",
   "Put your hands and feet on colored circles"
  ],
  [
   "Pictionary",
   "Draw clues so teammates can guess the word"
  ],
  [
   "Charades",
   "Act out words with no talking"
  ],
  [
   "Trivial Pursuit",
   "Answer questions of many kinds to collect wedges"
  ],
  [
   "Catan",
   "Trade resources and build roads and settlements"
  ],
  [
   "Ticket to Ride",
   "Collect train cards and claim railway routes"
  ],
  [
   "Carcassonne",
   "Place tiles to build roads, cities and fields"
  ],
  [
   "Guess Who?",
   "Ask yes or no questions to find the other player's character"
  ],
  [
   "Hungry Hungry Hippos",
   "Marbles race to be gobbled up by your hippo"
  ],
  [
   "Mouse Trap",
   "Build a silly contraption to catch the mouse"
  ],
  [
   "Othello (Reversi)",
   "Flip your opponent's discs by trapping them between yours"
  ],
  [
   "Tic-tac-toe",
   "Get three of your marks in a row"
  ],
  [
   "Hangman",
   "Guess letters to reveal a word before the drawing is done"
  ],
  [
   "Dots and Boxes",
   "Draw lines to complete boxes"
  ],
  [
   "Sudoku",
   "Fill a grid so each row, column and box has 1 to 9"
  ],
  [
   "Rubik's Cube",
   "Twist the faces until each side is one color"
  ],
  [
   "Tangram",
   "Arrange seven shapes to make a picture"
  ],
  [
   "Jigsaw puzzle",
   "Fit pieces together to make a picture"
  ],
  [
   "Stratego",
   "Capture the opponent's flag using hidden ranked pieces"
  ],
  [
   "Pente",
   "Get five stones in a row"
  ],
  [
   "Nine Men's Morris",
   "Make 'mills' of three in a row to capture"
  ],
  [
   "Senet",
   "An ancient Egyptian race game"
  ],
  [
   "Royal Game of Ur",
   "An ancient game from Mesopotamia, about 4,500 years old"
  ],
  [
   "Pachisi",
   "The ancient Indian game that Parcheesi and Ludo came from"
  ],
  [
   "Snakes and Ladders",
   "The Indian game that inspired Chutes and Ladders"
  ],
  [
   "Die",
   "One of a pair of dice; has six sides with 1 to 6 dots"
  ],
  [
   "Opposite sides of a standard die add to",
   "7"
  ],
  [
   "Pawn",
   "A small game piece that moves on the board"
  ],
  [
   "Turn",
   "Your chance to play"
  ],
  [
   "Fair play",
   "Following the rules and being kind whether you win or lose"
  ]
 ]
}