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A History of Games

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    A History of Games
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  • What do you call the ancient Egyptian game which appeared in about 3100 BC?
    Senet
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  • When did playing cards first arrive in Europe?
    1300s
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  • In what game do players build villages and roads across a board?
    Settlers / Settlers of Catan
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  • In what game do players roll a dice to move their pieces, and the winner is the first person to take all their pieces off the board?
    Backgammon
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  • Where did playing cards come from?
    China
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  • Who found many Senet boards in Egyptian tombs?
    archaeologists
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  • In which game the winner will be the person who has got the most counters on the board at the end?
    Go
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  • Who introduced Monopoly to the USA?
    Parker Brothers
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  • When did the Settlers of Catan first appear?
    in 1995
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  • The modern board game was finally born in what year?
    1935
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  • Senet appeared in about _________.
    3100 BC
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  • There isn't any direct _________ between players and nobody is eliminated.
    competition
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  • How many players are there in Backgammon and Go?
    2 players
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  • The game Go came from which country?
    China
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  • In Go, the board is empty at the beginning and the players don't ____________.
    roll a dice
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  • ________ appeared about 100 years after playing cards.
    Chess
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