"Boredom Busting Facts About Board Games" RD 22-24

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  1. 4. another name for Scrabble
  2. 5. the creation of this game started a legal battle (2 words)
  3. 9. Ajax and Achilles can be seen playing board games on hundreds of pieces of this
  4. 13. according to the article, people have been playing board games this long
  5. 16. the first commercially sold board game came out here in the 1800s
  6. 17. this modern-American murder-mystery board game is an iteration of a game that originated in ancient India
  7. 18. Parcheesi is a popular racing game which originates from ___
  8. 19. chess, checkers, backgammon, and Go are board games with origins in the ____ world
  9. 21. this toy manufacturer rebranded Mansion of Happiness as the Checkered Game of Life (2 words)
  10. 22. a board game created by the Ashanti people of Ghana
  11. 24. the creator of Scrabble
  12. 25. this game's world champion wins $20,580
  13. 27. board games began to be sold commercially in this century
  14. 28. some board games (like Clue, Dungeons and Dragons, Battleship, and Ouija) have been made into ___
  15. 29. this person held a paten for a game very similar to Monopoly called The Landlord's Game
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  1. 1. a famous filmmaker who created a board game
  2. 2. version of Clue are played around the world in ___, Chile, France, Spain, and Switzerland
  3. 3. the person who sold the rights to Monopoly to Parker Brothers in the 1930s
  4. 6. during WWII, sets of Monopoly were used to help these people escape
  5. 7. "pachisi" is the Hindu word for this
  6. 8. this German phrase means "game of the year" and is the most prestigious award in the world of board games (3 words)
  7. 10. the world Scrabble champion wins ___ thousand dollars
  8. 11. the American version of the game La Conquete de Monde is produced by Parker Brothers
  9. 12. King Tut was buried with multiple sets of this Egyptian game
  10. 13. another name for the board game created by the Ashanti people of Ghana
  11. 14. In Mansion of Happiness the "mansion" was this place
  12. 15. a game created for children to play while in quarantine during the Polio epidemic (2 words)
  13. 17. Monopoly was banned in this country
  14. 20. La Conquete de Monde is a game that is being adapted for this entertainment platform
  15. 23. what people in Britain call Parcheesi
  16. 26. a cooperative game created in response to the 2003 SARS outbreak