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The February 2022 "Do You Have Game?" Quiz by Fran Joyce

With some of the coldest temperatures and worst weather of the year still around, many of us will be staying indoors trying to beat the winter blues.

Did you grow up playing board games or card games with your family, holding video game tournaments with your friends, or competing for neighborhood bragging rights for football, hockey, basketball, soccer, or baseball?

Maybe you played along as Alex Trebek tested your knowledge of all things on Jeopardy or tried to solve the puzzle before Wheel of Fortune’s Vanna White turned all the letters to reveal the answer. This month we’re celebrating the games people play. Test your gaming knowledge by matching the name of the game to its description.

Answers to this month’s quiz can be found in the last article of this month. Here is the link, https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2022/2/8/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-march-2022.

 

Tic Tac Toe                       Dominoes                        Pac-Man

Candyland                        Old Maid                           Madden NFL

Go Fish                              Halo                                   Snakes/Chutes & Ladders

Scrabble                            Poker                                 Forza

Monopoly                        Yahtzee                              Grand Theft Auto

Risk                                    Gin Rummy                      Dungeons and Dragons

Trivial Pursuit                   Chess                                 Call of Duty

Trouble                              Checkers                           Mass Effect

Charades                          Where’s Waldo               The Legend of Zelda

Sudoku                              Solitaire                            Super Mario

Bingo                                 UNO                                   Minecraft

Jeopardy                           Match Game                    Wheel of Fortune

Family Feud                      Pyramid                            Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

 

1.       This game uses lifelines to allow contestants to come to their final answer. ______________________________

2.       This game uses 28 rectangular tiles. Each player draws 7 tiles at the start of play. ______________________________

3.       Players compete to be the first to send four pieces all the way around the board by clicking a plastic bubble on the board containing dice and moving their pieces according to the dice. Players can send other players back to start by landing on their game pieces. ______________________________

4.       This game played by locating a hidden figure on a page of objects is a fun and easy way to occupy kids and help them become more observant. ______________________________

5.       This Japanese video game debuted in arcades in 1980. This franchise has evolved to include arcade games, home console, handheld console, and PC games. ______________________________

6.       Players receive a card with letter and number combinations in rows. Players win by filling in a diagonal, horizontal, or vertical row on their card by matching the letter/number combinations to the combinations selected at random. ______________________________

7.       Players group the 10 cards in their hand to make minimum combinations of three cards of the same rank or runs of the same suit. ______________________________

8.       X’s and O’s make this simple game of strategy totally addictive and hours of fun! ______________________________

9.       Players use letter tiles of varying values to create words on a board. ______________________________

10.   This Japanese high fantasy video game franchise centers on the various incarnations of Link and a princess. ______________________________

11.   Two families compete to guess the most popular responses to survey questions. ______________________________

12.   In this action-adventure game, players complete missions in a story by driving, shooting, role playing and stealth. ______________________________

13.   A card game you play all by yourself. ______________________________

14.   This game requires no reading as players select cards (color-coded or with images) to advance their game piece trying to be the first to get to the Candy Castle. It’s one of the first games children learn to play. ______________________________

15.   Players win the most books of cards in this simple card game. Books are any four of a kind such as four 4s, four Jacks, or four Aces. Players ask other players for cards and if they have the requested cards, they must turn them over. Got any 3s? ______________________________

16.   Players must phrase their answer in the form of a question in this popular trivia game. ______________________________

17.   Players use a special deck of cards. The winner of this games is the first player to score 500 points by playing all their own cards and scoring points for the cards still held by other players. ______________________________

18.   This popular video franchise from EA Sports is named after a famous coach and commentator. ______________________________

19.   Players move black or white game pieces on a square board of eight rows and eight columns. The object of this game of strategy is to put your opponent’s King in check. ______________________________

20.   This video game series usually features two brothers out to rescue a princess in the Mushroom Kingdom. ______________________________

21.   In this popular card game, one card is removed before play begins, so one card in the deck will be left with no match. Players discard any pairs of cards they have face up then take a card from the player on their left to see if they have any more matching pairs. Play continues until no more matches can be made. The player stuck with the card that can’t be matched loses. ______________________________

22.   Players take turns acting out the titles of books, movies, or phrases without saying words in this classic word guessing game. ______________________________

23.   In this popular TV game show, a panel of celebrities hears a phrase/sentence with a word left out. Each celebrity writes down the missing word. Contestants try to choose the word most answered by the panel. ______________________________

24.   Players role dice to advance up the board trying to be the first to reach the top spot while avoiding pitfalls that slide them down the board. ______________________________

25.   This military science fiction media franchise is set in a distant future where humans and several alien cultures have colonized the Milky Way galaxy using technology left behind by an advanced precursor civilization. ______________________________

26.   Popular real estate board game. ______________________________

27.   In this popular TV game show, players are paired with a celebrity & try to guess a series of words or phrases based on descriptions given to them by their teammate. Winners compete in a bonus round known as the Winner’s Circle where they win money for each match made. If all six blocks are matched, they win a large sum of money. ______________________________

28.   This card game can be played for money, candy, clothing, or matchsticks. Players wager over the best hand. ______________________________

29.   Players explore a blocky, procedurally generated 3D world with virtually infinite terrain. They discover and extract raw materials, make tools and other items, build structures and simple machines. ______________________________

30.   A game of strategy consisting of diplomacy, conflict, conquest, and world domination. ______________________________

31.   This fantasy tabletop role-playing game originated in 1974, It is a series of miniature war games. A DM serves as referee and storyteller. ______________________________

32.   Players answer general knowledge and popular culture questions to advance their game piece around a board. Each correct answer allows the player to continue their turn. ______________________________

33.   Players spin for money as they guess consonants and buy vowels trying to solve a word puzzle to win the game. ______________________________

34.   Players move their pieces diagonally trying to jump over their opponents pieces and claim them. ______________________________

35.   Simulation racing games that emulate the performance and handling characteristics of racing cars and production-modified real-life cars. ______________________________

36.   The object of this dice game is to score points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. ______________________________

37.   First-person shooter video game franchise which originally focused on games set during World War II. ______________________________

38.   In this logic-based number-replacement puzzle game, the objective is to fill a 9x9 grid with digits so that each row and column and each of the nine 3x3 sub grids contain all the digits from 1 to 9. ______________________________

39.   This military science fiction media franchise was originally centered on an interstellar war between humanity and an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. ______________________________

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