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Culminating Activities: Chess
Culminating Activities: Chess
Chess.
a board game of strategic skill for two players, played on a checkered board. Each player begins
the game with sixteen pieces that are moved and used to capture opposing pieces according to
precise rules. The object is to put the opponent's king under a direct attack from which escape is
impossible
Monopoly.
a board game in which players engage in simulated property and financial dealings using imitation
money. It was invented in the US and the name was coined by Charles Darrow
Scrabble.
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single
letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that,
in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a
standard dictionary or lexicon.
Risk.
Risk is a strategy board game of diplomacy, conflict and conquest for two to six players. ... Turn rotates
among players who control armies of playing pieces with which they attempt to capture territories from other
players, with results determined by dice rolls.
Settlers of Catan.
Clue.
Clue (board game) ... You move around the game board (a mansion), as of one of the game's six
suspects (or, collecting clues from which to deduce which suspect murdered the game's perpetual
victim: Mr. Boddy (Dr. Black, outside of U.S.), and with which weapon and in what room.