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.
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...
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.
How is it possible Axis & Allies is that popular? I owned it and loved it but I've never met anyone else who even heard of it. I thought it was just for nerds who liked games with 100 page instruction manuals...
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.
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?
It also threw me off - I have always heard them called "stones", not checkers. Checkers are usually lightweight and have ridges to make them easily stackable.
Mahjong would be described as a "Chinese tile-matching game" or something similar. The tiles don't look like stones, although they could be made from stone, I suppose. But the bottom line with this quiz is that Mahjong is not one of the 20 most popular games.....
"Battleship" may not have been manufactured as a board game until 1967, but my dad taught it to me sometime in the 1950s, using graph paper and pencils.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.