Most Popular Board Games Quiz

Great quiz! I feel like I've played a version of Trivial Pursuit before 1979.

My parents owned the original "Genius Edition" which certainly felt like it was printed before 1979, since all the questions were about TV shows and movies that only the greatest generation has heard of. But I guess they wanted they probably just wanted the game to appeal to adults when they first made it, so, in 1979, that means asking questions about things that happened from 1940-1970 or so, giving it an older feel.

In the same way that many of the popular quizzes on this site are about the 1980s.. it makes the 20-35 year olds using the site feel nostalgic, even if some of the kids might be lost.

"Genus Edition", I think...

Really? Never realized... why the heck would they call it Genus Edition?

The reason its called the Genus edition is because it spans knowledge from a wide range of categories and subjects unlike other editions that were planned for release in the beginning of the game, such as sports and leisure, the Baby Boomer edition, etc. Genus - (Logic) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

I see. I think I've also played the Baby Boomer edition... and some edition aimed at younger people I forget what it was called... and the Star Wars version... and the Disney version...

Wow! Are there only adults on JetPunk? I thought more people were kids!

+1 I'm a kid, mate!

+1 Me too, y'all!

I’m a teenager, but the only people that don’t call teenagers ‘kids’ are teenagers that don’t want to be lumped in with the really young people and children that think there’s a difference between the two. Long story short: I’m a kid.

I’m a kid 😂

There is a picture of Chess! Geez, wow.

I can't believe I left out mancala! I love that game.

Loved that game

yeah I was thinking the same thing. Good game.. but it takes more time to set up the board than the average game of Monopoly runs start to finish, which itself is about 30 minutes longer than the average person wants to spend playing a board game.

Many times. I have a feeling my friends are better at playing board games than yours. :)

I started playing a game 2 days ago, don't know when it will end...

Also.. it's the unofficial "house" or family rules that typically make Monopoly games take *forever*... if you play by the actual standard rules the games go by much faster. And there are optional rules that you can choose to use that make them go faster, still. Unless you are brand new to the game, if using the standard rules, it really should not take more than a few hours maximum. And if you play it on a PC or video game console were all the banking and die rolls etc are automated you can breeze through a standard game in 15-20 minutes.

The standard rules that make Monopoly games go much faster if followed include: nobody ever gets any money for landing on Free Parking, if someone lands on an unsold property and doesn't buy it it must be publicly auctioned off, properties with improvements on them cannot be mortgaged, no player may lend any other player money, and you cannot take loans from the bank. All of these rules were added over the years by casual players and they all collectively make the game take forever.

great game, for some reason I always thought it was scattagories...

I spelled it scatergories and it didn't take. I own the game so I should of known how to spell it.

Go is from japan, not china

nah bro, Korea

I have a very nice backgammon set and there are no checkers included, just small discs; the clue is confusing. Also, Othello may well be Desdemona's husband but shouldn't the clue describe the game and not some other random piece of trivia?

Does Chinese game using stones not also describe Mahjong?

good quiz!

You need to add draughts instead of 'checkers' - for us Brits!

SCATTERGORIES IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never heard of Mancala but I've played every other game on this list.

Mancala is one of my favorites! You should learn how to play!

never heard of go in my entire life D:

Wow . . . the first "two player, vertical" game I though of was Jenga.

it can be more than 2

That's not what I thought of ;)

I think that's more commonly a horizontal game... and sometimes involves more than two players. ;-)

Yeah, according to Wikipedia the pen-and-paper version dates back to at least World War I.

Yahtzee isn't a board game really.

Yahtzee is as much a board game as Pictionary is.

No Mouse Trap?!?!

I spent a good part of last weekend playing Connect Four, even researching the mathematical solutions to Connect Four. And yet that was the only one I missed.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't exactly call that a board game. Maybe that's why you missed it.

I wonder where Cards Against Humanity ranks in relation to some of these in popularity by now...

Your point? Pictionary isn't a board game either.

Can you accept "Cluedo" for "Clue"? That's the British name.

Accepted by default, since you can't type Cluedo without typing Clue

Considering the relatively low score for Othello, perhaps a clue pertaining to the game itself, rather than Shakespeare, would be more appropriate. A person could play Othello every day of their life but if they've never read the play then the Desdemona clue would be totally meaningless. It's the only clue given here which is not related the actual game. Also, I have a very nice Backgammon set with not a checker in sight....just generic round discs. Took me a while to figure that one out. Backgammon is way too popular to have such a low score, perhaps due to the misleading checker reference. Not that it couldn't be played with checkers, but they're certainly not a requirement.

The clue for Othello is horrible. Doesn't have anything to do with the games. Clever enough, but it doesn't test your knowledge of the game but rather of Shakespeare. Please change it.

I'm surprised Cranium is on this list. I've played it but IMHO there are many other better games that I would have thought would have been more popular.

Last Night on Earth is a great one. And if Axis & Allies is on here it's hard to believe Settlers of Cataan is not. That game's way more accessible and I've seen copies of it at people's houses many more times than A&A.

Honestly, I question the veracity of the source used for this quiz. It cites no data and makes no attempt to define what is/isn't a board game. It's literally just a slideshow of the 20 games in this quiz.

Agreed. Source is dubious at best. The title of the quiz probably should be changed simply to "Popular Board Games" as opposed to "Most". I think that would be okay even given that some of these are technically tabletop games and not actually board games.

Lol, I made a quiz like this with the same answers and I am just now realizing that someone has already taken my idea!

What about 'Ludo' the granddaddy of them all?

Where's Catan? Yatzee? Would You Rather? Sequence? Quirkle?

Pictionary isn't a board game either.

Can you accept Snakes and Ladder for all the British people

I feel like half of these aren't really "board" games...

I would have thought diplomacy was on there

I didn't know that "Scattergories" was that old! You learn something new everyday!

I've only played the WWI edition of Axis and Allies. I still got it but would have though Diplomacy would have been more popular

But... they weren't called the Axis in WW1. Shouldn't it have been Central & Allies for a WW1 edition?

The game invented in 1883 is called Reversi. Othello is a trademark of Mattel, invented in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi#Modern_version

Similarly, the game invented in "?" was Snakes and Ladders, while Chutes and Ladders is the version published by Milton Bradley in 1943.

What is Axis and Allies?

It's a board game about World War 2.

Does anyone remember playing monopoly as a kid, and it always ending in tears...?

Yes, except as an adult.

Mancala? I only know Awalé (whose name has a large number of variants throughout Africa, like Oware, Awari, and so on).

I'd only ever heard of Mancala, but apparently that's more properly the name of a type of game that includes many different variations, including awalé. It's sort of like how poker is not one specific game, but is a group of related games that have similar mechanics (straight poker, seven-card stud, five-card draw, etc.)

Please accept Snake and Ladder also.

That was the really easy version with one snake and one ladder.

I don't think that The Game of Life goes back to 1860, though Art Linkletter probably does.

According to Wikipedia, the game of Life really was created in 1860, though the modern version that we all know was released 100 years later.

Did fairly well, but couldn't for the life of me remember "connect four" by name. Tried "four in a row", and a couple other stupid variations, but never quite got it. It is the correct name though.

Am I the only person who thought the last one was mario party?

Only missed stratego which ive never heard of

Cluedo is the correct term. Besides, what is mancala?

It's not the correct term. It's the British one. Not the same thing, contrary to popular opinion in Britain.

If I were then I'm sure we'd be on the same page.

As a kid, Stratego was my favorite. I never call them checkers in backgammon but wikipedia says it's so. Operation was a game I'm sure my parents immediately regretted buying for us kids lol -- do you remember that one?

Haha I was just playing Connect 4 and Monopoly after ages. Stratego and Cranium are fun but my favorite has gotta be Risk not cuz I care about the game itself but I just like messing around with all the troops and doing hypothetical world wars