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Board Games · Clues from Past Puzzles
Skim the opening clue - the hard, oblique one worth the most - from every Board Games puzzle that has already run. Spot one you like and jump in to play the whole thing. The answers are not shown here; that is what the puzzle is for. Come back to play the latest.
- Board Game #1 The board is a single calendar month, and you walk it one day at a time collecting bills, mail and deals until you reach the end and settle up. Then you do the month again.
- Board Game #2 No board, no turns, no scoring pad. Everyone builds their own crossword grid at once from face-down tiles, and any player who runs out forces every other player to take another tile.
- Board Game #3 Medieval Spain, and a wooden tower you drop cubes into that spits some of them back out at scoring time. Your knights come from a court that must be refilled, so committing to a region always costs you future flexibility.
- Board Game #1 Armies are stacked on a world map divided into forty-two territories, dice decide every fight, and holding an entire continent pays a bonus that is almost never worth what it costs to keep. A game can outlast the evening and frequently does.
- Board Game #2 A trivia game for people who know nothing: every answer is a number, all guesses are laid out in order on a betting mat, and you then wager on whose guess is closest without going over.
- Board Game #3 Nineteenth-century Afghan chieftains playing three empires against one another, in a game where you hold no fixed loyalty - you back whichever coalition is winning and betray it when the scoring approaches.