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Interesting facts about six endlessly popular games

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Prepared by Zhukovina
Arina,Tishkin Dima and Kobzeva
Liza

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Interesting facts about
six endlessly popular
games

monopoly
In a nutshell: Monopoly is a hugely
popular board game played all over the
world. The aim of the game is to buy, sell
and trade properties around the board
(which is pictured above) to try to
Invented: American Charles Darrow was
given a patent, or official licence, to
make and sell the game of Monopoly in
1935.
makers, the toy company Hasbro,
introduced an official Cheaters Edition,
in which players are encouraged to
steal from the bank, lie and break the
rules!

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snakes and
ladders
In a nutshell: Snakes and Ladders is
a game of luck in which players aim to
reach the top of the board by rolling
dice. Landing on a ladder advances you
further up the board. Landing on a
snake sends you in the opposite
direction!
Invented: 2nd century CE.
Did you know? The origins of the game
stretch back to ancient India, where
it was called Moksha Patam or
thought to have been inspired by the
modern version.

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Cluedo
In a nutshell: Cluedo is a murder mystery
board game in which the players race to
solve a murder in a country house by
correctly identifying which character
committed the murder, the weapon
they used and the scene of the crime.
Invented: 1948.
of the word clue, which players will need
to solve the murder, and a 19th-century
English board game called Ludo that
known, the game was renamed Clue

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Battleship
In a nutshell: Battleship is a
strategy game in which players
attempt to guess the location
and then sink!
fleet of battleships.
launched: battleship was first
released as a plastic board game in
1967, but versions of it were played
far earlier with pen and pencil.
Did you know? It is mathematically
possible to win a game of Battleship
in just 17 moves. But you would have
to be extraordinarily lucky to do it!
DUNGEONS AND
In a nutshell: Dungeons and Dragons is
DRAGONS
a co-operative
role-playing board game
in which you work together with other
players to go on adventures and
complete
quests in a magical world. It is mostly
played with paper, pencils and dice.
Invented: 1974.
Did you know? Dungeons and Dragons
players roll various differently
shaped dice to decide what happens
next in the game.
The most commonly used are 4-sided,
6-sided, 8-sided, 10-sided, 12-sided
and even 20-sided dice!

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Did you know? According to the World
Scrabble Championships, the
highestscoring word is benzoxycamphors,
which
is the plural name of a chemical used as
a drug in medicine. Placed in the ideal
position on the board and connected to
other words, this word could win you
In a nutshell: Scrabble is a word game in
1,790 points! However, you would have
which players place letter tiles on a
to be almost impossibly lucky to play
board
this combination of letters in an actual
to form words that interlock, much as in
game. The highest-scoring word played
a crossword puzzle. They place letters
in a real game of Scrabble is thought
on
to be caziques. (A cazique is a name
squares to take maximum advantage of
the
for an indigenous tribal chief in Latin
points value of each letter plus the
America and parts of the Caribbean.)
higher
Caziques was played by Dr Karl
Khoshnaw in a Scrabble contest
squares.
in 1982, earning him 392 points.
Invented: 1931.
scrabble

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ches
About the game: Chess is a game of
strategy in whichs
two opposing players
move 16 pieces (white versus black)
around a chequered board. The aim is to
trap your op
g in a position
from which it is impossible to escape.
the opponents: IMB Deep Blue vs
chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
what happened? Deep Blue, a giant
chess-playing computer developed by the
technology company IBM, became the
first computer to defeat a current chess
world champion under normal playing
conditions when it beat the great
Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov in
a game in February 1996. Unfortunately
for Deep Blue, however, Kasparov hit
back and ultimately won the match
four games to two.

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vocabular
y
Backgammon -
|ˈbækɡæmən| To Benefit - |ˈbenɪfɪt| Decisive
|dɪˈsaɪsɪv|
backgammon
About the game: Backgammon is an
ancient board game requiring both skill
and luck in which two players race to a
goal. During a game, the throwing of dice
the opponents: 9.8 vs backgammon
world champion Luigi Villa.
what happened? In June 1979, BKG 9.8
became the first backgammon-playing
computer program to defeat a human
champion, winning a $5,000 prize in
the process. The 7-1 scoreline seemed
decisive, but players who watched the
contest said BKG 9.8 had benefited
from several lucky rolls of the dice.
The
disappointed human champion agreed.

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checkers
About the game: Checkers is played, like
chess, on a black and white chequered
board. The aim is to jump over and
the opponents: world champion Marion
Tinsley.
what happened? Tinsley was certainly
a great champion: he only lost five
games
in more than 40 years. In 1994, however,
after several draws, he finally
conceded
to Chinook, thereby handing victory to
the computer program. Today, the best
checkers computers are unbeatable.
vocabulary
Checkers - |ˈtʃekəz| Capture
|ˈkæptʃə|
Draw
|drɔː|
Concede
|kənˈsiːd|
Thereby
|ðeəˈbaɪ|

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tetris
Tetris is a puzzlebased game in which
different shapes
drop from the top of
the screen. The aim is
to rotate
the shapes so that
they form
neat lines, which
then disappear.
If there are gaps in
the line,
the pieces quickly
pile up, and
if they reach the top
you lose!
Super Mario Bros.
is a long-running family of platform
games in which the plumber Super
Mario,
pictured right, and his friends walk,
run and jump across different
levels.
evading obstacles and battling
enemies.
save
a princess from the evil Bowser.

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About the game: ROBLOX is not a
single video game but rather an online
collection of more than 50 million
different games .all created by its
community of hundreds of millions of
active users. The most popular games
on the platform can be played by more
than 100,000 people at the same time!

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minecraft
About the game: Minecraft is played in
a vast three-dimensional world in which
players can discover and extract raw
materials from the ground, build things
and go on adventures. It is sometimes
described as a sandbox game, which is
a type of video game in which you can
create things in almost any way you
want. In Minecraft this includes simple
objects such as containers and weapons,
as well as larger, more complex
structures including machines, houses,
and even entire cities. Minecraft is
estimated to be the biggest-selling
video
game of all time, with more than 230
three copies for every person in the UK!
vocabulary
Vast - |vɑːst| To extract - |ɪkˈstrækt| Weapon - |ˈwep(ə)n| -

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Pokémon GO is one of
a popular gaming series that
also led to a spin-off trading
card game
The game uses the GPS map
function on
characters appear in the real
world
around them as they look
aim is to find and
can.
Spin off - |ˈspɪnɒf| -

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UNO is a multiplayer
card game played with a
specially
designed pack of cards. The aim is
for
players to get rid of all of
their cards.
When a player has just one card
left
in their hand they are supposed
one in Spanish and Italian.
vocabulary
to get rid of - |ɡet| |rɪd|
To suppose - |səˈpəʊz| -

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vocabular
Pattern - |ˈpæt(ə)n|
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hopscotc
Hopscotch ish
a playground
game in
which players throw a small
object onto a pattern of
rectangles drawn on the
ground. The player then hops
or jumps across the
rectangles to retrieve the
object.
Retrieve - |rɪˈtriːv| To take turns - |teɪk| |tɜːnz|
Collapse |kəˈlæps|
jenga
Jenga is played using a
tower built from 54
rectangular wooden
blocks. Players take turns to
remove one
block at a time. If the tower
collapses
the game!

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dominos
Dominos is played
with tiles that have
combinations of dots
that you must match. The aim of
the
game is to use up all your
dominos
before your oppponent uses
theirs.
leg
LEGO is one ofo
the most
instantly recognisable and
vocabular
Domino Tile - |taɪl| y
Instantly - |ˈɪnst(ə)ntlɪ| Brick - |brɪk| To conquer - |ˈkɒŋkə| -
popular toys ever invented.
This is the amazing true
story of how billions of
colourful plastic bricks

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solve a crossword
puzzle

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across:
1. This is a word game in which players place
letter tiles on a board to form words that
interlock, much as in a crossword puzzle
4. In this game you need to build a tower with
wooden bricks
7. In this game you must match combinations
of dots
9. In this game you must fill the missing
numbers so every row and column includes
the numbers 1-4, 1-5 or 1-6
10. This game is a collection of 50 million
different games
12. One of the most popular and recognisable
toys ever
16. It is played, like a chess, on a black and
white board, but with round figures
17. A card game with 52 cards
down:
2. Kind of activity to have a lot of fun
3. This is an ancient board game requiring
both skills and luck in which two players
race to a goal
5. Card game with a special design
6. This game uses the GPS map function
8. It is a strategy game in which players
attempt to guess the location opponent`s
ships
11. This game is about different shapes
which drop from the top pf the screen
13. In this game you must fill the empty
squares with numbers
14. The aim of the game is to buy, sell and
trade cards around the board
15. It is a computer game about codes
17. It is played on a black and white board

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