| board game n. A game of strategy, such as chess or backgammon, played by moving pieces on a board and sometimes involving dice. |
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| Noun | 1. |  board game - a game played on a specially designed boardparlor game, parlour game - a game suitable for playing in a parlor Scrabble - a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game backgammon - a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice checkers, draughts - a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces chess game, chess - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers - a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point darts - a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard go game, go - a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters halma - a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases beano, bingo, keno, lotto - a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards ludo - a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice Monopoly - a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die pachisi, parchesi, parchisi - an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board shove-ha'penny, shove-halfpenny, shovel board - a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark snakes and ladders - a board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe - a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does promote - be changed for a superior chess or checker piece |
board game
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Board Games
acey-deucy, backgammon, bagatelle, chequers, chess, Chinese chequers, Cluedo (trademark), draughts, fox and geese, go or I-go, halma, kriegspiel, lightning chess, ludo, Monopoly (trademark), nine men's morris, Parcheesi (trademark), reversi, shove-halfpenny, snakes and ladders, solitaire, speed chess Translations
board game
n → Brettspiel nt
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