Memorize these and you could recognize 28.4% of all Games clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monopoly | 14 | The Pennsylvania, the Short Line, the B&O & the Reading |
| 2 | Scrabble | 13 | "Alfred's Other Game" is a sort of solitary version of this, his world famous crossword game |
| 3 | a Slinky | 11 | Invented in 1943, this toy was flung over tree branches by soldiers in Vietnam & used as a makeshift radio antenna |
| 4 | Twister | 10 | On May 5, 1984, 1036 Colgate students repositioned themselves for 3 1/2 hours playing this Milton Bradley game |
| 5 | Barbie | 9 | In a new video game featuring her, you drive her downtown to go shopping for a date with Ken |
| 6 | backgammon | 9 | This ancient game, played with “stones”, is called trictrac in French |
| 7 | poker | 9 | Type of poker in which the 1st & often the last cards are dealt face down & the others face up |
| 8 | Play-Doh | 8 | Kenner makes Crinklers Shape Shooters especially for molding this modeling compound |
| 9 | dice | 7 | They were pyramidal, pentahedral, & octahedral before being standardized as cubes |
| 10 | checkers | 7 | Nixon's controversial cocker spaniel |
| 11 | blackjack | 7 | Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985 |
| 12 | bingo | 7 | Edwin S. Lowe, the man who developed this game, lived to age 75, the highest number on its cards |
| 13 | Lego | 6 | The name of this construction set comes from the Danish "leg godt" meaning "play well" |
| 14 | G.I. Joe | 6 | Corporal Dave Breger gave this name to a soldier in a comic strip he did for "Yank" in 1942 |
| 15 | a View-Master | 6 | This stereoscopic toy with 3-D reels made its debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair |
| 16 | Mr. Potato Head | 5 | Aptly, this toy got 4 write-in votes in Boise, Idaho's 1985 mayoral election |
| 17 | Mahjong | 5 | The 3 suits in this game are bamboos, characters & dots |
| 18 | dominoes | 5 | The name of this game is from the Latin for “the Lord” |
| 19 | charades | 5 | Parlor game for 2 groups of players taking turns as "actors" & "audience" |
| 20 | baccarat | 5 | In many Nevada casinos, this game related to chemin de fer is played in a roped-off section |
| 21 | Trivial Pursuit | 4 | In March 1987, 8000 packs of 6000 questions for this game were stolen from a storeroom in England |
| 22 | Silly Putty | 4 | By 1969, over 100 million plastic eggshells were sold containing this |
| 23 | roulette | 4 | In a casino this game is operated by a croupier |
| 24 | Raggedy Ann | 4 | This doll first came out way back in 1915; Andy soon followed |
| 25 | Lionel | 4 | This toy train was created in 1901 as an animated ad for a toy store window display |
| 26 | Jacks | 4 | Benny, Lord & Klugman |
| 27 | croquet | 4 | To play this, you need wickets, mallets and wooden balls |
| 28 | Cootie | 4 | To win this game, your bug must have 1 body, 1 head, 2 antennae, 2 eyes, 1 tongue & 6 legs |
| 29 | Candy Land | 4 | Gingerbread men make their way through Peppermint Stick Forest in this board game |
| 30 | a royal flush | 4 | Odds against getting this poker hand on any deal are about 649,740 to 1 |
| 31 | 12 | 4 | When playing checkers, each player starts out with this many checkers |
| 32 | Nerf | 4 | Parker Bros, has made balls, boomerangs & ping pong paddles out of this soft material |
| 33 | Etch A Sketch | 4 | The Telecran, a drawing toy with a joystick, glass & aluminum powder was the basis for this classic toy |
| 34 | a slot machine | 4 | In 1895 Charles Fey of San Francisco invented this machine that has a lot of pull in Vegas |
| 35 | the Rubik's Cube | 4 | The National Toy Hall of fame calls this, created in 1974, the "most popular puzzle in history" |
| 36 | Tonka | 3 | The second half of a place name in Minnesota is the source of the name of this toy truck brand |
| 37 | the Magic 8 Ball | 3 | Will you identify this item, originally called the Syco-Seer?Signs point to yes |
| 38 | the king | 3 | This chess piece can move in any direction but only 1 square at a time |
| 39 | Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots | 3 | [Toy that's a "knockout"] |
| 40 | Operation | 3 | A game by Milton Bradley in which clumsy "surgeons" set off an alarm |
| 41 | green | 3 | Color of the 0 and 00 spaces on an American roulette wheel |
| 42 | Frisbee | 3 | When this toy was introduced in 1957, it was called a "Pluto Platter" or "Flying Saucer" |
| 43 | darts | 3 | Game that originated when archers began throwing weighted arrows in battle |
| 44 | craps | 3 | Stickmen, boxmen & dealers run this game in a casino |
| 45 | Clue | 3 | The "Master Detective" version of this game has more suspects, more weapons & more rooms |
| 46 | = | 3 | = |
| 47 | 6 | 3 | The maximum number of players in Chinese checkers |
| 48 | 5 | 3 | To "enter upon" in Parcheesi, you need this number in any combination to come up on the dice |
| 49 | Pong | 3 | Regulation size for this piece of equipment is 9' x 5', 2'6" high, with a 6" high net |
| 50 | Marco Polo | 3 | 13th century Italian explorer who lent his name to a children's swimming pool game |