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What is printed on each Scrabble tile?

• Nothing
• Picture
• Color
• Letter

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.

Source: Wikipedia

What classic arcade game features a yellow character eating dots?

• Donkey Kong
• Space Invaders
• Frogger
• Pac-Man

Pac-Man is a classic arcade game that was first released in 1980. It was created by Toru Iwatani and published by Namco. The game features a yellow, circular character named Pac-Man who must navigate through a maze, eating dots and avoiding ghosts. The objective is to clear each level by eating all the dots while avoiding being caught by the ghosts. Pac-Man can also eat power pellets, which temporarily allow him to turn the tables and eat the ghosts. The game became incredibly popular and is considered one of the most iconic video games of all time. It has since been released on numerous platforms and has spawned sequels and spin-offs.

Source: Teacher Bot

Which of these is a genre of card games intended for single players?

• Bridge
• Poker
• Solitaire
• Whist

Patience (Europe), card solitaire, or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are also "excellent games of patience for two or more players".

Source: Wikipedia

Which of these games was invented by a family playing with wooden blocks?

• Scrabble
• Risk
• Jenga
• Ludo

Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, based on a game that evolved within her family in the early 1970s using children's wooden building blocks the family purchased from a sawmill in Takoradi, Ghana. The name Jenga is derived from kujenga, a Swahili word that means "to build". A British national, Scott was born in Tanganyika, now Tanzania, where she was raised speaking English and Swahili, before moving to live in Ghana, West Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

Which of these board games is recognized as a sport?

• Chess
• Monopoly
• Scrabble
• Clue

Chess players do not compete based on athletic prowess, but elite chess players need to be in excellent physical shape. Games between elite players often last 7, 8, or even 9 hours. The International Olympic Committee has recognized chess as a sport. While this acknowledgment falls shy of recognition as an "Olympic Sport" which would merit inclusion in the Games, it is an acknowledgment of the sport-like properties inherent in chess.

Source: Chess.com

What type of game is a crossword?

• Card game
• Word puzzle
• Strategy game
• Luck-based game

A crossword puzzle is a popular form of word puzzle. It consists of a diagram, usually rectangular, divided into blank (white) and canceled (black, shaded, or crosshatched) squares. This diagram is accompanied by two lists of numbered definitions or clues, one for the horizontal and the other for the vertical words, the numbers corresponding to identical numbers on the diagram. Into each blank square of the diagram, a certain letter of the alphabet will be inserted, forming the words fitting the numbered definitions or clues. The words cross each other, or interlock, which gives the puzzle its name.

Source: Britannica

What brand developed the Game Boy?

• Sega
• Atari
• Coleco
• Nintendo

The Game Boy is an 8-bit fourth-generation handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. It was designed by the same team that developed the Game & Watch series of handheld electronic games and several Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games: Satoru Okada, Gunpei Yokoi, and Nintendo Research & Development 1.

Source: Wikipedia

In which of these games do players bet on the roll of a pair of dice?

• Blackjack
• Craps
• Poker
• Baccarat

Craps is a dice game in which players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice. Players can wager money against each other (playing "street craps") or against a bank ("casino craps"). Because it requires little equipment, "street craps" can be played in informal settings. While shooting craps, players may use slang terminology to place bets and actions.

Source: Wikipedia

In which board game do players try to sink each other's ships?

• Checkers
• Battleship
• Trivial Pursuit
• Risk

Battleship (also known as Battleships or Sea Battle) is a strategy-type guessing game for two players. It is played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each player's fleet of warships are marked. The locations of the fleets are concealed from the other player. Players alternate turns calling "shots" at the other player's ships, and the objective of the game is to destroy the opposing player's fleet. Battleship is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game that dates from World War I. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s and was released as a plastic board game by Milton Bradley in 1967.

Source: Wikipedia

In which game show do players phrase their answers as questions?

• Jeopardy!
• Family Feud
• Wheel of Fortune
• Deal or No Deal

Griffin wanted to launch a game show but found that networks were hesitant after the 1950s quiz show scandals. He landed on the idea of Jeopardy! during a conversation with his wife when she asked him, “Why don’t you give [the contestants] the answers? And make people come up with the questions?” Thus, Jeopardy!, in which a team of writers makes up clues given to contestants who must deliver responses in the form of questions, was born.

Source: Britannica

Which popular video game drew inspiration from table tennis?

• Pong
• Minecraft
• Fortnite
• Super Mario Bros.

Pong is a table tennis-themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game. Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console. In response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement.

Source: Wikipedia

Which board game includes 30 pieces and a board drawn with triangles?

• Scrabble
• Chess
• Checkers
• Backgammon

Backgammon is a game played by moving counters on a board or table, the object of the game being a race to a goal, with the movement of the counters being controlled by the throw of two dice. Backgammon is played by two people. The board comprises four sections, or tables, each marked with six narrow triangles in two alternating colors. There are 30 pieces: 15 white and 15 black, often called stones.

Source: Britannica

What is the area in a mall where people usually play video games called?

• Pier
• Arcade
• Plaza
• Court

An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade, is a venue where people play arcade games. Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during the golden age of arcade video games, the early 1980s. The rise of the fighting game genre led to a brief resurgence in the popularity of video arcades, with new locations opening in shopping malls and strip malls throughout the country in the early 90s.

Source: Wikipedia

Which of these is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces?

• Dominoes
• Ludo
• Checkers
• Go

Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with several spots (also called pips or dots) or is blank. The backs of the tiles in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. The gaming pieces make up a domino set, sometimes called a deck or pack.

Source: Wikipedia

Which of the following is not a card game?

• Poker
• Octopush
• Rummy
• Canasta

Underwater hockey (UWH), (also known as Octopush in the United Kingdom) is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two teams compete to maneuver a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal by propelling it with a hockey stick (or pusher). A key challenge of the game is that players are not able to use breathing devices such as scuba gear whilst playing, they must hold their breath.

Source: Wikipedia

In Scrabble, which letters are worth the most points?

• Q and Z
• W and Y
• X and P
• H and F

The values of the letters in Scrabble were assigned according to the front page of a US newspaper in the 1930s. Q and Z are the highest-scoring tiles; you can get 10 points for each in the English language version of the game. But after many years of Scrabble, some argue that the current tile values are out of date as certain letters have become more common than they used to be. "The dictionary of legal words in Scrabble has changed," says Joshua Lewis, researcher and creator of a software program that allocates new, up-to-date values to Scrabble tiles.

Source: BBC

What popular board game gained popularity during The Great Depression?

• Catan
• Trivial Pursuit
• Monopoly
• Boggle

Monopoly, which is the best-selling privately patented board game in history, gained popularity in the United States during the Great Depression when Charles B. Darrow, an unemployed heating engineer, sold the concept to Parker Brothers in 1935. Before then, homemade versions of a similar game had circulated in many parts of the United States.

Source: Britannica

In which of these games do players attempt to answer questions correctly?

• Scrabble
• Chess
• Quiz
• Boggle

A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which players attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several specific topics. Quizzes can be used as a brief assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and skills, or simply as a hobby. They can also be televised for entertainment purposes, often in a game show format.

Source: Wikipedia