Classic Board Games

Each Monopoly player starts with $1,500, divided into denominations of $500, $100, $50, $20, $10, $5, and $1 bills.

The Cellar is in the center of the classic Clue board. Players cannot enter it during normal gameplay — it's used for the envelope holding the solution cards.

A standard Scrabble set contains exactly 100 letter tiles, including 2 blank tiles that can represent any letter.

Risk was first published in 1957 in France under the name 'La Conquête du Monde' (The Conquest of the World) by director Albert Lamorisse.

The bishop is the only chess piece restricted to diagonal movement. Each player starts with two bishops — one on light squares and one on dark squares.

The most expensive properties on the standard US Monopoly board are Park Place and Boardwalk, which belong to the dark blue color group.

Trivial Pursuit was invented in December 1979 by Canadian journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in Montreal, Quebec.

The Game of Life uses a numbered wheel (spinner) instead of dice. Players flick the spinner and move that number of spaces along the track.

Jenga, created by Leslie Scott and first sold in 1983, challenges players to remove one wooden block at a time from a stacked tower without making it fall.

Both Q and Z are worth 10 points each in Scrabble, making them the highest-scoring individual letter tiles in the game.

Players race to reach King Kandy's Candy Castle at the end of the rainbow trail in this classic children's board game, first published in 1949.

The original Clue has 6 suspects: Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, and Professor Plum.

When a checker piece reaches the far end of the board, it is 'kinged' — a captured piece is stacked on top, and it gains the ability to move backward.

Monopoly was first published by Parker Brothers in 1935. Despite the economic hardship of the Depression, the game about buying property became an instant bestseller.

The Aircraft Carrier is the largest ship in Battleship, taking up 5 holes on the grid. The other ships are the Battleship (4), Submarine (3), Destroyer (3), and Patrol Boat (2).

Taboo, published by Hasbro in 1989, gives players a word to describe while listing several related 'taboo' words they cannot say. A buzzer is sounded for violations.

The patient in Operation is named 'Cavity Sam.' Players use tweezers to remove funny ailments like a 'broken heart' and 'butterflies in stomach' without touching the edges.

Trivial Pursuit features 6 categories: Geography (blue), Entertainment (pink), History (yellow), Art & Literature (brown), Science & Nature (green), and Sports & Leisure (orange).

Tiddlywinks is a classic game where players use a larger disc (the 'squidger') to flip smaller plastic discs ('winks') into a cup in the center of a mat.

As the name suggests, you need four pieces in a row — horizontally, vertically, or diagonally — to win Connect Four, first sold by Milton Bradley in 1974.