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How to Develop a Winning Stratagy for Settlers of Catan

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Settlers of Catan is an exciting strategy game that's easy to play and fun for everyone. But how do win, or rather how can you win consistently. Luck plays a part, your diplomacy (or relationship to other players can come in to play)also can ... more »

How to Find Board Game Replacement Pieces

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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... more »

How to Make a Board Game

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With a little creative thinking and the materials in your own house, you could make your own board games. Just follow these steps... more »

How to Play Candyland

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Candyland is a fun, simple board game for children designed to help with color recognition. It's a racing game in which those who play Candyland are sent from one space to another by drawing colored cards from the deck. The new version has ... more »

How to Play Mancala

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Mancala is an ancient game that originated in Africa. It's played on a rectangular board with two rows of six pits and two large pits at each end. In ancient times, wealthy players may have used expensive gems instead of stones. Many versions of ... more »

How to Play Parcheesi

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Parcheesi is a game many people recognize, but few have played. Parcheesi utilizes a crossed board with 68 squares, including 16 that have special marks. Four groups of four differently colored pieces are used. Each player chooses a color and ... more »

How to Play Pictionary

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Ready? Set? Draw! This is a great word-guessing game with pictures you draw as the clues for your team partners. You don't need to be an artist to draw in this game, where the originality of the players creates a lot of fun. You will need at ... more »

How to Play Risk

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With over 40 years under its belt, Risk is one of the oldest and most popular strategy board games available today. The game itself is easy to learn, but some of the world's best players will tell you that it takes lots of practice and experience ... more »

How to Play Sorry

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Sorry is a classic board game first popularized in the United States in 1934. It is descended from the many Pachisi variants (like Parcheesi), and involves moving four colored tokens from the start to the finish box at the end of the board. ... more »

How to Play Trivial Pursuit

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Compared to what is this trivial? Life in the fast lane? We say it's more fun. A little less boisterous than Pictionary, Scattergories or Taboo, this game gets your competitive juices flowing with questions and answers in six different ... more »

How to Play Uno Spin

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This great new version of the classic card game makes for an interesting night with the family!.. more »

How to Set Up a Backgammon Board

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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... more »

How to Win at Clue Almost Every Time

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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.".. more »

How to Find Board Game Instructions

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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... more »

How to Play Cranium

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Cranium is one of the most interactive and entertaining party games available. Cranium combines the frenetic pace of charades and Pictionary with mind-bending puzzles meant to make you exercise your brain. Teams of two or more battle it out to ... more »

How to Play Go to the Head of the Class

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Before Trivial Pursuit, there was Go to the Head of the Class, the first board game to test the knowledge of its players. Created by Milton Bradley in 1936, it comes with 3 levels of questions pits participants in a battle of brains. Here's how ... more »

How to Play the Game of Life

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The Game of Life has been around since the early '60s, and is meant for 2 to 6 players, although variants exist for up to 10. The original version of the game was developed as early as 1860. Choices you make in the game can change how rich you ... more »

How to Win at Backgammon

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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... more »

How to Win at Scrabble

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Learn what turns a beginner into an intermediate player and an intermediate player into an expert... more »

How to buy Wordfare!

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If you are looking for this great new hard to find game that combines the word making of Scrabble, strategy and a little chance, here is how to find it!.. more »

How to Make a Chinese Checker Game Board

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Homemade gifts are all the rage. If you would like to make your own gifts, a Chinese Checker game board is a good choice for the board game enthusiast in your life. Chinese Checkers is played on a board that has a six sided star. Two to six ... more »

How to Make Your Own Board Game Prototype

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Are you a budding board game designer? Do you think that your original game is the next “Trivial Pursuit” or “Scrabble”? Or do you just plain enjoy creating board games for your friends and family to play on rainy Saturday nights? For the sake ... more »

How to Play Battle of the Sexes

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Battle of the Sexes pits men against women to see who knows more about the opposite sex. The outrageous questions are sure to spark a friendly civil war at your party. This game is designed for two or more players or teams of people 12 years old ... more »

How to Build a Backyard Checkers Game

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Playing backyard checkers, or lawn checkers, is a great activity to pass some time outside with family or friends. Building a backyard checkers game can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish to make it. By following a few simple steps, you can ... more »

How to Clean Board Games

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Young children can damage their board games if they're not careful. You can restore a soiled game board by washing it and cleaning the pieces... more »

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