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board game
noun
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▪ A family hooked on the board game Cluedo found Asha'a body in Somerset last week, 14 years after she vanished.
▪ Designed like a board game, your choices move a young writer through his career.
▪ Read in studio A new board game featuring the so-called rave culture has been condemned for promoting drug abuse.
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board game

n. Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves two or more opponents moving pieces and using dice or cards.

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board game

n. a game played on a specially designed board

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Board game

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Some games are based on pure strategy, but many contain an element of chance; and some are purely chance, with no element of skill.

Games usually have a goal that a player aims to achieve. Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most modern board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position, or accrual of points.

There are many varieties of board games. Their representation of real-life situations can range from having no inherent theme (e.g., checkers), to having a specific theme and narrative (e.g., Cluedo). Rules can range from the very simple (e.g., Tic-tac-toe), to those describing a game universe in great detail (e.g., Dungeons & Dragons) although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, serving to help visualize the game scenario.

The time required to learn to play or master a game varies greatly from game to game, but is not necessarily correlated with the number or complexity of rules; games like chess or go possess relatively simple rulesets, but have great strategic depth.

Usage examples of "board game".

The opponents are not always the humanity we know, any more than the games are always literally the chess we know, but a board game plays some essential part in each story, and in each some conflict beyond gaming is to be resolved.

I have suspected that chess, with its fascinating history and development, as played on Earth, may actually have derived from a common ancestor with the Gorean game, both of them perhaps tracing their lineage to some long-forgotten game, perhaps the draughts of Egypt or some primitive board game of India.

And we wanted to do a computer game of it and sell it but we don't know programming too good so we made up this board game.

It was the first chance I had had to study it, and I saw now that it was not like any board game I had even encountered before.

Throughout the entire Second World War, he spent his time studying a board game?

General Kuo had discovered wei qi, the board game of master strategy, at an early age.

Infiltration into Greystoke was akin to a game of wei qi, the ancient Chinese board game of strategy.

I hate Monopoly, but even a capitalist board game was welcome relief from the more strenuous activities my cousins subjected me to-and Hester was either in a rare mood to be calm, or else I rarely saw her without the company of Noah and Simon, around whom it was impossible to remain calm.