| 单词 | board game |
| 释义 | board game (once / 37522 pages) n A board game is a type of game — like Monopoly — played on a specific board. Chess is another famous board game. As you would guess, board games are played on boards, but not any type of board. Most games have a specific board that's designed for that game. You can play chess and checkers on the same board, but games such as Risk, Clue, Operation, and Trivial Pursuit each have their own specially designed board. Some board games are aimed at very young children while others are far more complex. There's probably a board game for everyone. WORD FAMILYboard game: board games USAGE EXAMPLESThe family often picnics at Central Park and plays board games around their new table. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Play a board game with my kids, do not rush. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Retailers still regularly report a boom in board game sales over the festive period, saying people still look for a more traditional form of entertainment. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) n a game played on a specially designed board Hypo|Hyper Scrabble a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game backgammona board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice checkers, draughtsa checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces chess, chess gamea board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king Chinese checkers, Chinese chequersa board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point dartsa game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard go, go gamea board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters halmaa board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases beano, bingo, keno, lottoa game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards ludoa simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice Mah-Jongg, mahjongChinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles Monopolya board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die pachisi, parchesi, parchisian ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board shove-ha'penny, shove-halfpenny, shovel boarda game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark snakes and laddersa board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toea game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does Parcheesia modern board game based on pachisi shogia form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces parlor game, parlour game a game suitable for playing in a parlor |
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