Board Game Photo ID Quiz: How Many Of These Games Can You Recognize From A Single Picture Clue?

Monopoly

Interestingly, Monopoly's iconic tokens were not initially part of the game. Charles Darrow's original 1935 version contained no tokens at all — just a suggestion to use buttons or other household objects. A few years later, his niece's charm bracelet trinkets gave him the idea to include tokens. Three of the first tokens are still being used (the battleship, top hat, and racecar), while the rest have been retired over time (anyone remember the rocking horse?)

Tiddlywinks

For a seemingly simple game, tiddlywinks has an unusually complex history. No less than 80 patents have been approved since the game was first trademarked in 1889 (as "Tiddledy Winks"). Tiddlywinks's unique lexicon has persisted through the years: In addition to "squidger" (the disk used to shoot a wink), there's "scrunge" (to bounce out of the pot), "squop" (to direct your wink to land on another wink), and "crud" (a forceful shot meant to blast apart a wink pile).

Cribbage

Based on an older game called "noddy", cribbage dates all the way back to the 17th century. It's known to be a favorite pastime of sailors (especially submariners) and British pubgoers. And old folks.

Dungeons & Dragons

It may get the brunt of many, many jokes, but D&D devotees include some pretty impressive folks. Passionate players include Stephen Colbert, NBA star Tim Duncan, author Junot Díaz, and the late Robin Williams.

Sorry!

An enduring classic, Sorry! has been a favorite of kids and families since its first release in 1929. The game is based on the ancient Indian cross and circle game of pachisi — with one very important modern addition: the chance to yell "Sorry!" in the whiniest, most sarcastic voice possible when you've knocked an opponent's pawn back to Start.

Mastermind

Based on the vintage game Bulls and Cows, Mastermind is a two-player deduction game. It's up to the codebreaker to figure out the four-peg combo arranged by the code maker. Highly classified stuff.

Perfection

A 1970s mainstay, Perfection's tagline was "Get Rockin' before the pieces start Poppin'!" — advice that new players quickly come to understand. Whether you've got an overactive startle reflex or an aversion to cleaning up tiny pieces, it's in your interest to work fast.

Ticket to Ride

A family favorite, Ticket to Ride is a railroad-building competition. Players collect cards of various types of trains and then use them to claim the most railways across the oversized map/game board. In the original edition, the United States is the territory; later releases branched out across the globe, including Germany, Scandinavia, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

RoboRally

These poor robots. Working their fingers to the bone in a dingy factory, assembling race cars that they never get to see in action. When Saturday night finally comes around, you can bet these automatons are ready to rumble!

Carcassonne

In Carcassonne, players can mark their territory by placing one of these people-shaped pieces (known as "meeples" in the board game universe) on a newly placed tile. Depending on which part of the landscape is represented on the tile, the meeple becomes a specific character: a knight on a city tile, a robber on a road tile, a monk on a cloister tile, and a farmer on a grass tile.

Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers

That's right: Supremacy players have the chance to earn their very own nukes! As the name suggests, this is a Cold War-era game through and through. The game divides the world into six superpowers, some made up (Confederacy of South America) and some real (USSR).

Power Grid

Power Grid, like it sounds, is all about controlling the distribution of electricity. As the game progresses, players build their supply network by bidding against each other for power plants. A key part of the strategy is saving enough resources to afford newer technologies as they become available.

Caribbean

It's rum. Pirates LOVE rum. In the game Caribbean, the player who coughs up the most barrels of booze each round gets to move a pirate ship several spaces — perhaps to thwart a foe, or, even better, to deliver a treasure crate to one of the player's safe-havens.

Catan

Catan (fka "Settlers of Catan") has been a wildly popular board game since its first release in 1995. Players develop settlements on the island of Catan, earning points for building cities and other specific components. Success depends on strategic use and trading of resources such as sheep and wood, as well as good old-fashioned roll-of-the-dice luck.

Scythe

One of the most hyped games of 2016, Scythe was funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised an impressive $1.8 million from 18,000 backers.

Descent: Journeys in the Dark

In Descent: Journeys in the Dark, gameplay consists of one player acting as the evil overlord who attempts to thwart the other players' adventurer/hero characters as they explore underground complexes in search of treasure.

City of Horror

Science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft first introduced Cthulhu to the world in "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926), which contained this gruesome description: "A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."

Blokus

Blokus consists of a 400-square board and 84 translucent game pieces in four primary colors. Each turn, a player places one tile that must touch the corner of another tile of the same color. The winner is the person who ends the game with the most pieces on the board.

Agricola

A farmer's life is never easy, but the Middle Ages? Oof. In Agricola, players are farmers struggling to eke out a bare existence on hardscrabble patches of land. When times are good, you might add a farm animal or a kid for some extra labor. When they're not, it's cold gruel for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Again.

Blood Rage

In Blood Rage, Ragnarök has come: the end of the world. It's the final battle between the forces of good and evil and every player is a Viking vying for an eternal place in Valhalla at Odin's side. Despite the name, there is actually more to the game than slaughtering your enemies. The pathways to eternity include fulfilling quests and building your clan's stats (as well as crushing the enemy in a gory bloodbath).