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Medium (5–6 dice, cards) Age range. 10+. Skills. Strategy, tactics, negotiation. Risk is a strategy board game of diplomacy, conflict and conquest [ 1] for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the world, divided into 42 territories, which are grouped into six continents.
This name derives from the shape of the marks in the game (i.e the X and O); "nought" is an older name for the number zero, while "cross" refers to the X shape. While the term "nought" is now less commonly used, the name "noughts and crosses" is still preferred over the American name "tic-tac-toe" in these countries.
Checkers[ note 1] ( American English ), also known as draughts ( / drɑːfts, dræfts /; British English ), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. [ 1]
Ludo ( / ˈljuːdoʊ /; from Latin ludo ' [I] play') is a strategy board game for two to four [ a] players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from Bharat, the Indian game Pachisi. [ 1] The game and its variations are popular ...
Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro ). It was first marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956. The game is a development of earlier dice games such as Poker Dice, Yacht and Generala. It is also similar to Yatzy, which is popular in ...
International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light colours, of which only the 50 dark squares are used. Each player has 20 pieces, light for one player and dark for the other ...
Othello, a modern variation of Reversi. A semi-transparent hand indicates a possible move by the player with the black pieces. Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a fixed initial setup of the board, was patented in 1971.
Uno ( / ˈuːnoʊ /; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Games Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992. [ 3]