English > board game: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A game played on a specially designed board. |
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| Category of | promote | Be changed for a superior / superior chess or checker piece |
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| Narrower | Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers | A board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point / point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point / point |
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| Mah-Jongg, mahjong | Chinese game / game played by 4 people with 144 tiles |
| Monopoly | A board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die |
| Scrabble | A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle |
| backgammon | A board game for two players |
| checkers, draughts | A checkerboard game / game for two players who each have 12 pieces |
| chess, chess game | A board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules |
| darts | A game / game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard |
| go, go game | A board game for two players who place counters on a grid |
| halma | A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases |
| lotto, bingo, beano, keno | A game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards |
| ludo | A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice |
| pachisi, parchesi, parchisi | An ancient board game resembling backgammon |
| shovel board, shove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny | A game / game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark |
| snakes and ladders | A board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes |
| ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tick-tack-toe, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe, noughts and crosses | A game / game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces |
| Broader | parlor game, parlour game | A game / game suitable for playing in a parlor |
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| Spanish | juego de mesa |
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| Catalan | joc de taula |
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