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Consequences is an old parlour game in a similar vein to Mad Libs and the surrealist game exquisite corpse. [1]Each player is given a sheet of paper, and all are told to write down a word or phrase to fit a description ("an animal"), optionally with some extra words to make the story.
Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on broadcast television, [citation needed] airing as a one-time experiment on the first day of New York station WNBT's commercial program schedule on July 1, 1941. However, the series did not appear on TV again until 1950, when the medium had caught on commercially. [7]
The first patent drawing for Lizzie Magie's board game, dated January 5, 1904. In 1902 to 1903, Magie designed the game [2] and playtested it in Arden, Delaware. [3] The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences".
U.S. patent 748,626 – Patent for the first version of The Landlord's Game, Issued on Jan 5, 1904; U.S. patent 1,509,312 – Patent for the second version of The Landlord's Game, Issued on Sep 23, 1924; U.S. patent 2,026,082 – Patent awarded to C.B. Darrow for Monopoly on December 31, 1935; The History of The Landlord's Game and Monopoly.
Rifle & Saber: Tactical Combat 1850–1900 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publiucations Inc. (SPI) in 1973 that simulates at a tactical level various battles and skirmishes from the mid-19th century to the dawn of the 20th century. Although popular for a time due to its simple rules and many scenarios, it did not receive critical ...
Games and sports introduced in 1909 (1 C) B. Board games introduced in the 1900s (4 C, 1 P) C. Card games introduced in the 1900s (3 C, 1 P) This page was last ...
In North America, the game has also been called cowboy checkers, and its board is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards. Nine men's morris is a solved game, that is, a game whose optimal strategy has been calculated. It has been shown that with perfect play from both players, the game results in a draw. [3]
A game of "Questions and Commands" depicted by James Gillray, 1788. The game has existed for hundreds of years, with at least one variant, "questions and commands", being attested as early as 1712: A Christmas game, in which the commander bids their subjects to answer a question which is asked. If the subject refuses or fails to satisfy the ...