Words and Trivia
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- The Da Vinci Game
- Features sample clues, a description and photo, and a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
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- BoardGameGeek: Facts in Five
- Database entry includes description, gameplay, photographs, and collector's information
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- Game Pile Review
- A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Facts in Five (1967). Five cards are drawn. Each card contains a "class" and a list of "categories". A category is selected for each class and the players and five letter tiles are drawn. The players have 5 minutes to come up with an example that begins with each letter for each class/category.
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- Game Pile Review
- A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Foil (1967). a word game. Players are dealt cards, each of which has a letter on it. Without showing their cards to the other players each player attempts to form their cards into as many words as possible. Each player, in turn, draws additional cards and discards cards until one player is able to form all of the cards in their hand into words.
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- Foqus
- Guess what the different images represents. The smaller holes, the more points. Some squares give an extra guess or infinitive guesses next turn. The winner is the one who comes around the board first.
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- Go For Launch Board Game
- Nasa trivia pursuit game involving question about space history, nasa, astronuats, and cosmonauts.
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- The Game Pile Review
- A review of the 3M Bookshelf Game Image (1972). Another trivia game, the object of Image is to identify famous people by their "personality profiles". Each player is dealt a hand of five cards. The cards are of five types; Place, Time, Activity (sports, religion, and music), Status (dead, and fictional) and Letter. In each turn, players start or extend "images" by playing cards on a track on the playing field.
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- Insight
- In a basic game you should first get 21 points. Then starts the end-game towards the finish. The winner is the first one who first gains a better insight, ie come to the middle of the game board. Very difficult questions.
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- BoardGameGeek: Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
- Database of game information including photographs of box and game pieces.
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- NCSE Review
- Review by Carrie Sager of the National Center for Science Education. "It combines young-earth biblical literalism with generic anti-evolutionism with a touch of proselytizing, all wrapped up in a package that is aesthetically pleasing but scientifically bankrupt." (November 01, 2006)
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- Mind Trap
- An unusual good trivia game for those who like logical cunning problems. Bad that there isn't a real game board with counters, but on the other hand is the small format handy as a travel game.
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- Online
- Write words, so they hook into each other; ie the last letter in a word should be the start of the next word. During 30 seconds you write as many words as possible in the category you randomly has pointed at on the subject sheet. Next time you pick a new subject. The one who first fills his sheet with a long chain of words is the winner.