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Ludus Anglicorum, also called the English Game, is an historical English tables game for two players using a board similar to that used today for Backgammon and other games. It is a "strategic game for serious game-players" and was well known in the Middle Ages. [1] At one time it was considered the most popular tables game in England. [2]
English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, [note 1] is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side.
English-language Scrabble is the original version of the popular word-based board game invented in 1938 by US architect Alfred Mosher Butts, who based the game on English letter distribution in The New York Times. The Scrabble variant most popular in English is standard match play, where two players compete over a series of games.
A child playing tag.. This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder ...
The game originated in the moors of Yorkshire, in England, but then spread throughout the north of England. [2] It can be traced back to the beginning of the 14th century. [citation needed] It was especially popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but was virtually unknown by the 21st century, [3] though there was a local revival in the 1970s. [4]
Halma (from Greek: ἅλμα, romanized: hálma, meaning “leap" [1]) is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854. [2] The gameboard is checkered and divided into 16×16 squares.
Word games are spoken, board, card or video games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties. Word games are generally used as a source of entertainment , but can additionally serve an educational purpose.
Lingo is a British game show based on the Dutch programme of the same name. The original iteration of the programme was made by Thames Television and Action Time for ITV, running for a single series with host Martin Daniels from 12 May to 14 July 1988.