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Roll the Dice on Our Family Game Night Quiz

Warning: There are no ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ cards in this challenge


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We all have cherished memories of those evenings (and rainy afternoons) gathered around the kitchen table playing games with our friends and families. In honor of National Family Day on Sept. 23, you can put your gamesmanship to the test with our quiz about faves like Monopoly, Candyland, Clue and more. It’s your move!

Question 1 of 10

What color are the most expensive properties on the classic Monopoly board?

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Lizzie Magie obtained a patent in 1904 for The Landlord’s Game, a real estate–focused board game whose gridded playing space will look familiar to Monopoly fans everywhere. Charles Darrow was introduced to the game via a Quaker community in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that had adapted a version of Magie’s game to include local landmarks like Boardwalk and Mediterranean and Baltic avenues. In 1935, he sold his version to Parker Brothers — which quietly bought up Magie’s patent and credited Darrow as the game’s inventor.

Question 2 of 10

True or false: The inventor of the strategic board game Risk was an Oscar-winning filmmaker.

A year before he created a board game about world domination (which he first called The Conquest of the World), French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for The Red Balloon, a 34-minute film about a boy who rescues a red balloon with a mind of its own.

Question 3 of 10

What do the tokens used in Candy Land resemble?

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Retired teacher Eleanor Abbott created Candy Land in 1948 while recovering in a San Diego hospital’s polio wing. She made the game, with tokens that resemble gingerbread men, as a distraction for other patients.

Question 4 of 10

Which of these games has NOT been adapted into a feature-length Hollywood film?

Clue was adapted into a 1985 comedy that bombed at the box office but became a cult hit on home video, especially for its multiple endings. Battleship inspired a widely panned action thriller that snagged costar Rihanna a Razzie Award. And Dungeons & Dragons has inspired two films, a 2000 fantasy starring Jeremy Irons as an evil mage and a lighter 2023 comedic action movie with Chris Pine leading a band of questing adventurers.

Question 5 of 10

What is a Charades player signaling when he or she points to or tugs on their ear?

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Charades is a centuries-old parlor game that has popped up in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and even boosted careers. In the 1990s, Arsene Wegner won the job as manager of North London’s famed Arsenal soccer team after dazzling the squad’s vice chairman at a dinner party by acting out A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Question 6 of 10

Which classic board game’s playing pieces are little cars?

In 1960, radio and TV host Art Linkletter became the official spokesman for the Milton Bradley game — and also appeared on the $100,000 bills. Playing pieces are small plastic cars with six holes in the top. Throughout the game, players add blue or pink pegs to their cars to symbolize people added to their families when they get married or have children.

Question 7 of 10

True or false: Twister was deemed “too risqué” by Sears and other retailers when it was first introduced in 1966.

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Some objected to the idea of players of both sexes getting so close to each other. Milton Bradley paid to place the game on The Tonight Show — where actress Eva Gabor persuaded Johnny Carson to play. In the year after Carson’s on-air plug, the game sold 3 million copies.

Question 8 of 10

What creativity-flexing game became a hit in 1998 when it bypassed toy stores to become the first game sold in Starbucks?

The Seattle-based creators of Cranium were two former Microsoft employees who realized their game’s target audience was less toy store shoppers than the young-adult crowd hanging out in coffee shops. And they persuaded Starbucks’ then-CEO, Howard Schultz, to stock the game in its 1,500 cafes. The result: 100,000 units sold in its first year, most from Starbucks.

Question 9 of 10

Which of these is not a card in Uno?

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An Ohio barber named Merle Robbins invented the popular card game Uno, a variation on crazy eights, with his family in the early 1970s.

Question 10 of 10

True or false: The patient in the game Operation does not have a name.

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The patient in Operation is named Cavity Sam. The game was developed in the early 1960s by a college design student named John Spinello, who sold it to a toy design company for $500.

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