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Board and Card Games by Clues

Can you guess these games based on a series of three short clues?
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Last updated: December 4, 2019
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First submittedJuly 9, 2011
Times taken77,315
Average score50.0%
Rating4.35
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Terminology
Game
Pawn, Queen, Checkmate
Chess
Triple Word Score, Bingo, Tiles
Scrabble
Professor Plum, Wrench, Conservatory
Clue
Stone, Kyu, Seki
Go
Straight Flush, Full House, Bluff
Poker
Boardwalk, Reading Railroad, Top Hat
Monopoly
Writer's Cramp, Spare Rib, Specialist
Operation
Victory Point, Settlement, Wheat
The Settlers of
Catan
Spinner, Left Hand Red,
Right Foot Blue
Twister
Doubling Cube, Acey-Deucey,
Home Board
Backgammon
Trump, Shoot the Moon,
Queen of Spades
Hearts
Terminology
Game
Marshal, Bomb, Flag
Stratego
Wedge, Genus, Roll Again
Trivial Pursuit
Queen Frostine, Lord Licorice, Gloppy
Candyland
Small Straight, Chance, Four-of-a-Kind
Yahtzee
Pay Day, College Route, Wheel Spin
The Game of Life
Hit, Double Down, Soft 17
Blackjack
Rube Goldberg, Cheese Wheel, Build
Mouse Trap
Rubber, Contract, Penalty Double
Bridge
Right Bower, Go Alone,
Screw the Dealer
Euchre
20-sided Dice, Hit Point,
Dungeon Master
Dungeons &
Dragons
Kamchatka, World Conquest,
Continent Bonus
Risk
+11
Level 62
Jun 29, 2011
hell yeah euchre
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Level 31
Jan 1, 2014
Couldn't spell it right. Wrote 'euker' then assumed it must be a different card game.
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Level 65
Mar 5, 2018
My favorite card game, no question.
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Level 14
Aug 31, 2018
since when was cludo called just clue
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Level 90
Jun 29, 2011
I've never even heard of the Settlers of Catan.
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Level 5
Apr 22, 2013
you have never lived.
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Level 90
May 12, 2014
Revisiting this game 3 years later, I have now heard of (and played) Catan, and it's pretty fun. I don't feel like "I hadn't lived" until I played it though.
+2
Level 72
Feb 29, 2016
or maybe he's just taking an offhand comment about how the game is fun way too literally
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Level 63
Jan 17, 2022
Catan is basically a gateway boardgame, there are much better games out there but it's a good way of getting people only familiar with games like Monopoly into more involved games because it's pretty easy to learn but it shares a lot of mechanics like resource management with more complex boardgames out there like Agricola.
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Level 33
Jun 29, 2011
love that settlers and euchre are the 2 lowest hahah
+1
Level 50
Jul 9, 2011
Chess 99% lol almost 100
+1
Level 36
Aug 10, 2016
I am from the future. It is 100% now.
+5
Level 64
Aug 12, 2011
What we need is a Spiel des Jahres winners quiz...
+1
Level 28
Aug 13, 2011
20/20
+1
Level 38
Oct 1, 2011
13/20 Not too bad

Never heard of the bottom 3..almost blanked on risk too :P

+1
Level 37
Nov 5, 2011
Hearts is evil!!
+1
Level 44
Feb 27, 2012
Accept 21 for blackjack?
+1
Level ∞
Feb 27, 2012
Okay.
+5
Level 57
Apr 17, 2012
Is anyone else confused by "bingo" in scrabble?
+3
Level 23
Apr 17, 2012
Yes, High Fidelity. Bingo in Scrabble? I don't get it.
+1
Level 92
Jul 11, 2012
In Scrabble, Bingo is slang for using all 7 tiles in the same play, gaining the player an extra 50 points. Not sure it's an official term or not, but very commonly used. Similarly, a Blackout is sometimes used when scoring a Bingo across a triple word score (rarely happens, by the by).
+1
Level 59
May 10, 2014
Yes, it's an official term.
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Level 16
May 8, 2012
I couldn't figure out how to spell yahtzee!
+1
Level 23
May 25, 2012
I love shooting the moon in hearts XD!
+1
Level 68
May 10, 2014
Whenever I try to do it, I always miss just one card. Happens every time.
+1
Level 33
Dec 25, 2012
An alternative name for blackjack is pontoon.
+1
Level 83
May 10, 2014
Second this. Pontoon is what I learned it as, then later blackjack.
+1
Level 71
Oct 21, 2014
agree or 21
+1
Level 59
May 8, 2013
Never heard of Go or Settlers of Catan, I was thinking oregon trail
+1
Level 57
Oct 1, 2013
Got them all except for Settlers of Catan. WTF is that??? How can someone not know Euchre?
+14
Level 84
May 10, 2014
So you are p*ssed that you didn't know Settlers, but at the same time are SHOCKED that someone didn't know euchre? Not everyone is you, dude.
+2
Level 69
Mar 29, 2022
I've played Settlers probably fifty times. I've never even heard of Euchre.

People have different experiences.

+3
Level 31
Oct 1, 2013
Clue is the nickname, but Cluedo is the full name. Would be nice to see the proper name in there as everything else seems to have the full name. Also, traditional Monopoly doesn't have "Boardwalk" or "Reading Railroad". I'm not sure what version of Monopoly they're from, though.
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Level 92
Apr 29, 2014
I'm guessing you're British, or perhaps from the Commonwealth. Cluedo is indeed the original name, but in the States and Canada, the game is named simply Clue. Also, Boardwalk and Reading Railroad were both on the 1934 gameboard which is the generally accepted 'traditional' setup. The UK/Commonwealth version wasn't produced until 1936.
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Level 7
Dec 22, 2013
It's called Cludo not Clue.
+6
Level 84
May 10, 2014
Depends on where you are from, mate.
+5
Level 83
Oct 29, 2015
It's called Cluedo not Cludo.
+1
Level 45
Mar 14, 2014
Yea, this quiz brought me to Level 23.
+2
Level 68
May 10, 2014
20, missed two I completely forgot. And, Catan is one of the best games in history, folks. Get it NOW.
+1
Level 77
May 11, 2014
Duh for Operation. I knew exactly what game it was about, but had no clue what it was called in English. I think it was "Dr. Blubber" or something similar-ish when I saw it. Never had it myself though.
+1
Level 66
Jun 7, 2019
Dr bibber perhaps? (shaky doctor)
+1
Level 59
May 13, 2014
Never heard of Settlers of Catan or Go. But I'm suddenly in the mood for a game night!
+1
Level 35
May 28, 2014
You should accept "Pitch" as well on the clue for "Hearts". All of those terms are used in Pitch games.
+1
Level 33
May 28, 2014
It saddens me nobody has heard of Catan.... That game is fantastic. I love strategic board games like Carcassonne, Risk, Catan, China, Doge, Vienna, etc. Go look them up if you never heard of them and go try them out!
+3
Level 38
Sep 26, 2014
Hearts doesn't have any trump.
+1
Level 71
Oct 21, 2014
Has anyone ever known Hearts to be called Rickety Kate?
+1
Level 77
Jun 4, 2018
No. Is that an Australian name for it? It has various other synomyns. I grew up in UK knowing it as Slippery Ann or Black Maria and never heard the name "Hearts" until the advent of the computer. I suggest that quizmaster should accept many alternative names for this game!
+2
Level 66
Dec 2, 2014
Great quiz! I appreciate you accepting D&D for Dungeons & Dragons, although it's really not a board or card game (so its inclusion in the quiz is a bit odd).
+1
Level 56
Nov 14, 2015
Ah, disadvantaged by my nationality again! In the UK, I'm pretty sure we don't have many of these, and even Monopoly is different here.
+1
Level 66
Jun 7, 2019
Im not from the us either ( or even a english speaking country, uk and us usually have most things in common) but we have all of them besides candyland and euchre. Many have different names though (8 out of the 20, even more I think, but in those cases the english way is used atleast as much)
+1
Level 63
Aug 26, 2016
13/22

i feel accomplished right now

+1
Level 58
Nov 4, 2016
Must have misspelled yahtzee because it didn't take.
+2
Level 27
Apr 20, 2017
Am I the only one confused by Stratego? It sounds like Minesweeper to me.
+1
Level 71
Oct 6, 2017
It used to be 'Battleships'
+6
Level 75
Jul 31, 2018
Battleship and Stratego are two totally different games in the US.
+2
Level 55
Jul 31, 2017
I'm surprised euchre is so low. My parents had me playing at age 12 and everyone I know at school plays
+12
Level 28
Oct 6, 2017
"DND" should be an acceptable answer for dungeons and dragons.
+2
Level 67
May 8, 2018
Hearts doesn't have trump. That word doesn't apply.
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Level 82
May 29, 2018
Got all of these (gamer cred established?) but never even heard of Euchre before.
+5
Level 75
Jul 31, 2018
You got euchre and you'd never heard of it before? That is some impressive guessing. :)
+2
Level 82
Sep 4, 2020
I don't remember but maybe because it's mentioned in the first comment
+2
Level 53
Jul 31, 2018
Is there really a "trump" in hearts? I find that hard to believe considering the goal is to not take tricks.
+1
Level 48
Apr 19, 2019
Got em all but Euchre.
+1
Level 84
Apr 30, 2019
We always called Hearts "Find The Lady" in my family. Did a quick search and found it called that along with Black Lady, Chase the Lady and Black Maria.
+1
Level 64
Sep 4, 2020
In Catan, isn't the wheat officially called "grain"?
+1
Level 52
Dec 28, 2020
My mind went completely blank with Scrabble
+3
Level 49
Nov 13, 2021
I wrote DnD for Dungeons and Dragons, but it didn't count so I assumed it was a different game. Could you pls accept DnD as an answer?
+1
Level 50
Nov 22, 2021
I have never even heard of 7 of these
+3
Level 88
Feb 4, 2022
Please accept "DnD" for dungeons and dragons
+1
Level 59
Jan 21, 2024
Agreed. It's one of the more common abbreviations in DnD circles
+1
Level 68
Feb 7, 2022
Whooo euchre! More people should know about it, such a fun card game.
+1
Level 40
Apr 7, 2022
good quiz!
+1
Level 76
Apr 21, 2022
"Screw-the-dealer" is euchre's equivalent to rummy-in-the-deck and placing money under Free Parking--"house" rules. Fun quiz.
+1
Level 49
Apr 25, 2022
Good quiz! I'm not sure that D&D would qualify as a board or card game. TTRPG's would be a different category.
+1
Level 73
Aug 11, 2022
Maybe accept Yatzy? As far as I can see all the same clues apply as well and it is almost the same game.
+1
Level 28
Nov 20, 2022
I miss board games!
+1
Level 52
May 7, 2023
Stratego is a goated game
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Level 51
May 19, 2023
can you accept "DND" for dungeons and dragons?