As proof that Monopoly is truly an American game, Hasbro, Inc. added a new game token this year: a money sack. It beat out the piggy bank and biplane. The 11 tokens now used in the classic...
The object of the game is to be the first to get all your checkers off the board.
Collect three consecutive tiles from the same mah jongg suit to form a chow.
Form a three-of-a-kind set to make a mah jongg pung.
Build a kong in mah jongg with four of a kind.
Now you're getting the hang of the game. How do you know who wins? Keeping score in Mah Jongg is tricky.
Backgammon is one of the oldest games in the world and requires strategy and luck. Here are a few easy steps to help you set up a backgammon board so that each player moves in the opposite direction.
The movement of the checkers can be somewhat confusing in the beginning. Just remember that each player moves in the opposite direction from his or her opponent.
You gammon, or backgammon, your opponent when you bear off some or all of your checkers respectively before your opponent gets even one of his checkers off the board.
Think you're clever? Grab up to three friends and see just how smart you really are. The idea is to form interlocking words on the board using lettered tiles.
There's no monopoly on the variety of games from which to choose.
Imagine playing Monopoly for 1,680 hours - straight. That's the longest recorded game ever. Some people agree on a time limit for their games.
NFL Monopoly gives a new twist to the popular game. Instead of real estate, players buy, build and trade football teams.
Learn what turns a beginner into an intermediate player and an intermediate player into an expert.
So you think you're good, huh? Then join a club and play against some real competition. But beware, it could be combative, cutthroat, grueling, Olympian, adversarial ...
Fed up with making it up as you go along? If the rules to your board game disappeared long ago, send for new ones and get with the program.
It's tough to play a game without all of the pieces. But don't throw the game out yet - first try to find replacements.
So you lost your little red hotels or your favorite top hat? Don't be dismayed. Here's how to get new ones.
Clue is a classic 50-year-old detective game. You can get the upper hand by quickly eliminating some of the 324 possible combinations of "whodunit with what and where."
Use your brilliant deductive skills to figure out which suspicious character killed Mr. Body and how and where the murder was committed.
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