Modern Board Games

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1.Which board game award honors games for experienced players since 2011?
- A. the Kennerspiel des Jahres
- B. the International Gamers Award
- C. the As d'Or
- D. the Origins Award
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the Kennerspiel des Jahres
Did you know? Kennerspiel means "connoisseur's game" in German.
2.Which modern board game hides a princess's letter behind a hand of sixteen cards?
- A. Dead of Winter
- B. Love Letter
- C. Root
- D. MicroMacro: Crime City
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Love Letter
Did you know? Love Letter was designed by Seiji Kanai and released in 2012.
3.Which board game award crowns German family games with the red pawn since 1978?
- A. the Spiel des Jahres
- B. the Kennerspiel des Jahres
- C. the As d'Or
- D. the Kinderspiel des Jahres
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the Spiel des Jahres
Did you know? The Spiel des Jahres is Germany's game-of-the-year award, founded in 1978.
4.Which modern board game sends trains across a map to claim railway routes between cities?
- A. El Grande
- B. Ticket to Ride
- C. Exploding Kittens
- D. Sushi Go!
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Ticket to Ride
Did you know? Ticket to Ride was designed by Alan R. Moon and first released in 2004.
5.Which modern board game drafts cards to raise an ancient wonder in three quick ages?
- A. Hanabi
- B. El Grande
- C. 7 Wonders
- D. Wingspan
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7 Wonders
Did you know? In 7 Wonders, each player leads one ancient city such as Rhodes or Babylon.
6.Which modern board game places domino-style terrain tiles to build a royal realm?
- A. Kingdom Builder
- B. Kingdomino
- C. Ticket to Ride
- D. Twilight Struggle
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Kingdomino
Did you know? Kingdomino, by Bruno Cathala, won the Spiel des Jahres in 2017.
7.Which modern board game raises oxygen, oceans, and temperature to make Mars livable?
- A. Betrayal at House on the Hill
- B. Terraforming Mars
- C. Just One
- D. Ra
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Terraforming Mars
Did you know? In Terraforming Mars, players take the roles of rival corporations.
8.Which modern board game solves crimes on a giant black-and-white city map?
- A. Dominion
- B. Patchwork
- C. Betrayal at House on the Hill
- D. MicroMacro: Crime City
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MicroMacro: Crime City
Did you know? MicroMacro: Crime City won the Spiel des Jahres in 2021.
9.Which modern board game passes hands of sushi cards to score sets each round?
- A. The Mind
- B. Sushi Go!
- C. Codenames
- D. Twilight Struggle
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Sushi Go!
Did you know? Sushi Go! is a quick card-drafting game by Phil Walker-Harding.
10.Which modern board game asks spymasters to link words on a grid with one-word clues?
- A. Codenames
- B. Gloomhaven
- C. Century: Spice Road
- D. MicroMacro: Crime City
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Codenames
Did you know? Codenames was designed by Vlaada Chvátil and first appeared in 2015.
11.Which modern board game pairs dreamlike cards with short descriptions players must match?
- A. Kingdom Builder
- B. Love Letter
- C. Dixit
- D. Just One
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Dixit
Did you know? Dixit was created by Jean-Louis Roubira and won the Spiel des Jahres in 2010.
12.Which modern board game has a ghost pass dream-card clues to psychic investigators?
- A. Dead of Winter
- B. Quarto
- C. Terraforming Mars
- D. Mysterium
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Mysterium
Did you know? Mysterium is a cooperative deduction game set in a 1920s Scottish manor.
13.Which modern board game plays cooperative trick-taking missions on an underwater quest?
- A. Azul
- B. The Crew
- C. Samurai
- D. Terraforming Mars
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The Crew
Did you know? The Crew won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2020.
14.Which modern board game has players cooperating as a disease-fighting team around a world map?
- A. Pandemic
- B. Catan
- C. Terraforming Mars
- D. Werewolf
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Pandemic
Did you know? In Pandemic, all players win or lose together against the board.
15.Which modern board game has settlers trading brick, wood, wheat, ore, and sheep on an island?
- A. Catan
- B. Scythe
- C. Quarto
- D. Tigris & Euphrates
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Catan
Did you know? Catan, created by Klaus Teuber, was first published in Germany in 1995.
16.Which modern board game collects gem chips to buy mines, transport, and artisans?
- A. Splendor
- B. Ra
- C. Lords of Waterdeep
- D. Lost Cities
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Splendor
Did you know? In Splendor, cards you buy become permanent gem-production discounts.
17.Which modern board game hides secret wolves among villagers who vote by day?
- A. Samurai
- B. Dominion
- C. Kingdom Builder
- D. Werewolf
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Werewolf
Did you know? Werewolf grew out of Dmitry Davidoff's 1986 classroom game Mafia.
18.Which modern board game builds a French landscape tile by tile with farmers, knights, and roads?
- A. Everdell
- B. Sushi Go!
- C. Exploding Kittens
- D. Carcassonne
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Carcassonne
Did you know? Carcassonne is named after the walled French city of Carcassonne.
19.Which modern board game attracts birds to a wildlife preserve with food and habitat cards?
- A. Dominion
- B. Twilight Struggle
- C. Kingdom Builder
- D. Wingspan
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Wingspan
Did you know? Wingspan was designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and released in 2019.
20.Which modern board game plays fireworks cards while holding your hand backwards?
- A. Viticulture
- B. Through the Ages
- C. Hanabi
- D. Dead of Winter
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Hanabi
Did you know? In Hanabi, you see everyone's cards except your own.
21.Which modern board game positions mechs and farmers in an alternate-history 1920s Eastern Europe?
- A. 7 Wonders
- B. Hanabi
- C. Scythe
- D. Coup
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Scythe
Did you know? Scythe was designed by Jamey Stegmaier and published in 2016.
22.Which modern board game grows your deck with action cards bought turn by turn?
- A. Century: Spice Road
- B. Dominion
- C. The Mind
- D. Azul
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Dominion
Did you know? Dominion (2008) launched the deck-building genre in board games.
23.Which board game award awards France's golden ace for the year's game?
- A. the Kinderspiel des Jahres
- B. the As d'Or
- C. the Deutscher Spiele Preis
- D. the Origins Award
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the As d'Or
Did you know? The As d'Or was created in 1988 and is now awarded at the Cannes festival.
24.Which modern board game adds polyomino buildings across a legacy-style campaign?
- A. 7 Wonders
- B. My City
- C. Hanabi
- D. Root
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My City
Did you know? My City is a Reiner Knizia legacy game that won the Spiel des Jahres in 2020.
25.Which board game award names the year's best children's game since 2001?
- A. the Kinderspiel des Jahres
- B. the Deutscher Spiele Preis
- C. the Origins Award
- D. the Spiel des Jahres
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the Kinderspiel des Jahres
Did you know? Kinderspiel des Jahres means "children's game of the year".
26.Which modern board game builds stained-glass windows from dice of five colors?
- A. 7 Wonders
- B. Sagrada
- C. Brass: Birmingham
- D. Scythe
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Sagrada
Did you know? In Sagrada, same-color or same-value dice may never touch.
27.Which board game award honors American game design at the Origins fair?
- A. the International Gamers Award
- B. the Origins Award
- C. the Kennerspiel des Jahres
- D. the Kinderspiel des Jahres
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the Origins Award
Did you know? The Origins Awards are presented at the Origins Game Fair in Ohio.
28.Which modern board game bolts a spaceship together from tiles, then flies the gauntlet?
- A. Galaxy Trucker
- B. Caverna
- C. Power Grid
- D. Scythe
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Galaxy Trucker
Did you know? In Galaxy Trucker, rough flights reveal every flaw in your hastily built ship.
29.Which modern board game dumps cards into four ascending rows without taking the sixth place?
- A. 6 nimmt!
- B. Quarto
- C. Terraforming Mars
- D. 7 Wonders
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6 nimmt!
Did you know? 6 nimmt! is a Wolfgang Kramer card game whose German name means "take six!".
30.Which modern board game competes for helmet, rice, and Buddha tiles across Japan?
- A. Samurai
- B. The Crew
- C. Splendor
- D. Pandemic
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Samurai
Did you know? In Samurai, influence tiles decide who claims each honor tile.
31.Which modern board game settles villages on terrain where your skills score best?
- A. Through the Ages
- B. Kingdom Builder
- C. Dixit
- D. Ra
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Kingdom Builder
Did you know? Kingdom Builder, by Donald X. Vaccarino, won the Spiel des Jahres in 2012.
32.Which modern board game replays the Cold War as a card-driven contest for global influence?
- A. Century: Spice Road
- B. Twilight Struggle
- C. Terraforming Mars
- D. Ticket to Ride
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Twilight Struggle
Did you know? Twilight Struggle (2005) models the entire Cold War from 1945 to 1989.
33.Which modern board game explores a haunted house until one player turns on the rest?
- A. Lost Cities
- B. El Grande
- C. Betrayal at House on the Hill
- D. Gloomhaven
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Betrayal at House on the Hill
Did you know? In Betrayal at House on the Hill, the "haunt" reveals the traitor's scenario.
34.Which modern board game moves caballeros across regional Spain to hold majorities?
- A. El Grande
- B. Puerto Rico
- C. Love Letter
- D. My City
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El Grande
Did you know? El Grande, by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich, won the Spiel des Jahres in 1996.
35.Which modern board game places tribe members to gather wood, gold, and huts?
- A. Stone Age
- B. Samurai
- C. Everdell
- D. Ticket to Ride
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Stone Age
Did you know? Stone Age is a worker-placement game first published in 2008.
36.Which modern board game grows card rows like chameleons changing colors?
- A. Carcassonne
- B. MicroMacro: Crime City
- C. Coloretto
- D. 7 Wonders
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Coloretto
Did you know? In Coloretto, taking a row too early or too late can cost the game.
37.Which modern board game hires adventurers to complete quests in a fantasy port?
- A. Skull
- B. Concept
- C. Lords of Waterdeep
- D. Root
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Lords of Waterdeep
Did you know? Lords of Waterdeep is set in the Forgotten Realms setting.
38.Which modern board game gives your opponent the piece they must place on the board?
- A. Agricola
- B. Caverna
- C. Quarto
- D. Lost Cities
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Quarto
Did you know? In Quarto, pieces vary in height, color, shape, and hollowness.
39.Which modern board game hides a possible traitor in a colony surviving a zombie winter?
- A. Brass: Birmingham
- B. Dead of Winter
- C. Century: Spice Road
- D. The Crew
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Dead of Winter
Did you know? In Dead of Winter, a secret objective may mark one player as a betrayer.
40.Which modern board game plants vines and hires workers to run an Italian winery?
- A. Spirit Island
- B. The Crew
- C. Viticulture
- D. Tigris & Euphrates
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Viticulture
Did you know? Viticulture was the first game published by Stonemaier Games.

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