Board Game Identification Quiz

Do you think you know your board games? Try your hand at figuring out which pieces belong to which games! Inspired by @doyoulikethissong-poll and @dyktvideogamesfx .

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Board Game Identification Quiz master post:

Hello! If you have found this little blog, that means you are lost, or you might like board games! The premise to this blog is simple: every few days, a new picture is posted, showing some part of a board game. You reply with whether you think you can identify the board game in question based on the piece or board or card or component shown. After the poll has expired, a post will be made that gives an overview of said game, and how whatever is pictured fit into it. Pretty easy, right? Don’t worry if your knowledge of board games doesn’t extend much past chess or monopoly, because its just for fun anyhow! Unless it’s a joke like April Fool’s Day, only unique components to games will generally be posted, so one really doesn’t have to try and figure out what specific game this one coloured wooden cube comes from, for instance.

If you have a board game or piece you want shown, feel free to suggest it in the ask-box! Currently, asks are open for this purpose!

Do not post spoilers to the game in question in the comments or reblogs!

Currently-active quizzes can be found tagged with #open polls, or found here:

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Completed quizzes can be found tagged with #complete polls, or found here:

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TO-DO: make archival list of revealed board games. Make said archive sorted by best-guessed entry. Make list sorted by quiz type. Update older posts with #complete poll tag. Find way to make post with all past quizzes that does not surpass limit on hyperlinks.

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THE PIECE? #21

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Voting ended onApr 13

Obverse and reverse of piece shown

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #20

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Voting ended onApr 10

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #19

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Voting ended onApr 8

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #18

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Voting ended onApr 4

Front and side of piece shown.

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #17

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Voting ended onApr 4

Name of game is struck through in white.

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #13

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Voting ended onMar 15

Spot it!, or Dobble, is a party matching game, released in 2009 by French designer Denis Blanchot, based on the prior work of Jacques Cottereau. The players aim to be the first to identify the matching symbol present between two cards, where amongst all the cards, only one symbol will ever match between any two given cards.

…yeah that’s pretty much it. It’s a quick party game that’s not very complicated. So instead, let me try to give a maths/history lesson as to how that works, noting I am not a maths person: Cotterau devised the original design of the game in 1976 on the Kirkman’s Schoolgirl Problem, and made a deck of 31 cards that featured insects instead of assorted objects like in Dobble. Blanchot would later find copies of these cards, and from there develop Dobble.

The maths of how to determine how many cards and symbols are needed can be thought of using some geometry: if we have a triangle, and we put a point at each corner of the triangle, then the points would represent the different symbols on each card, and the lines connecting the symbols would be the cards needed. In this case, we would end up with a very simplified version with 3 cards, and 2 symbols on each card. If we wanted to add more symbols onto each card, then the diagram goes from looking like a triangle, to a grid of labeled points on a hypothetical finite plane. We still want to draw a line between all those points, and we can use the equation (n²-n+1) to tell us how many cards and objects we’ll need, with n being the amount of points/objects. In the case of Dobble, there are 8 objects per card, so the equation looks like (8²-8+1), which comes out to 57 cards. In Dobble’s case, however, there are actually 55 cards, not 57, as 55 is the amount of cards standard decks of cards are printed with.

Spot it!

Quick! Which symbol is on both cards? Race others to gather or dump your cards.

Dobble - Wikipedia

Dobble - Wikipedia

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #9

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Voting ended onMar 1

Obverse and reverse of piece shown.

Machi Koro is a card drafting game for 2-4 players, initially-released in 2012 by Japanese designer Masao Suganuma (菅沼 正夫). Players take on the role of mayors of competing small cities, with the objective of being the first to sufficiently-develop the infrastructure of their small cities crowned the winner.

Machi Koro has five suits of cards, which all have different buildings on them: green, blue, red, purple, and some with a gray side and an orange side. All the cards have different timing based on when dice are rolled. When a player rolls the dice, if there are cards in play that have that result printed at the top, those cards will activate. Green cards activate on one’s turn, and typically grant that player coins (like the 5 coin, shown above). Blue cards active on anyone’s turn, and grant anyone coin who has that card. Red cards activate on one’s opponent’s turn, and steal coins from the current turn’s player, before other cards pay out. Purple cards only activate on one’s turn, but have varied effects and are generally very powerful. The gray/orange cards are the “landmarks”, which start in play for every player with the gray-side up.

After cards activate and money is distributed, players may then buy cards from the market. Buying multiple of the same building means the effect will activate multiple times when that number is rolled. Players can also pay to flip their gray landmark cards to the orange-side, activating their effect for that player. Being the first to build all four landmarks by flipping them to orange wins one the game, and the distinction of best mayor!

A variation in the setup has the market divided into 3 decks instead of every card being available at all times: cards with an activation number of 1-6, cards with an activation number of 7-12, and the purple cards. Players then build the market by drawing 5 unique cards from the 1-6 deck, 5 unique from the 7-12, and 2 from the purple. The market is replenished with a unique card from the corresponding stack when one is purchased. This variation leads to more interesting card selection, and aims to prevent players from only buying certain cards.

Machi Koro

As a newly elected mayor, develop a city and populate it with impressive landmarks.

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Sorry everyone, time passed without me noticing, and I didn’t realize I had forgot to cue more posts. Will have more up soon!

Also I accidentally deleted a post, so if anyone knows how to recover it, and could let me know, that would be very kind. 😅

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE GAME BOARD GAME FROM THIS BOARD? #5

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Voting ended onMar 30

Name of game printed on board hidden by white foam block.

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #16

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Voting ended onMar 27

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #15

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Voting ended onMar 24

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #14

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Voting ended onMar 21

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #11

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Voting ended onMar 10

Sagrada is a dice-drafting puzzle game, released in 2017 by designers Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews. The game was nominated for a handful of awards in 2017 and the following years. In Sagrada, players take on the role of glaziers and designers building stained glass windows for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona.

The game starts by players selecting a set of restrictions that are slotted into their player boards, followed by a player taking two dice per player from the bag, rolling them, and putting them in the display to be chosen from for that round. Then that player chooses one die, places it on their board following the slotted restrictions, with orthogonally-adjacent dice of the same number or colour being illegal. The next player than chooses a die to take from the display, and so forth, until the last player’s time to choose. That player then gets to pick two of the dice to place, and the selection order reverses, with that round’s starting player being the last to choose a die as well. Play continues until each player has chosen 20 dice, and slotted them according to their restrictions, the public objectives, and their private objectives. Points are tallied on the scoreboard (pictured above), with most points winning.

Sagrada

Craft the best stained-glass windows by carefully placing colorful translucent dice.

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #10

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Voting ended onMar 4

Bohnanza is a set collection and trading game released in 1997 by German designer Uwe Rosenberg. Bohnanza was recommended for the 1997 Spiel De Jahres, and won the 1997 Meeples Choice and 1997 Fairplay À la carte. Players are been farmers who are trying to maximize their profits by planting multiple of the same kinds of beans in their fields at the same time, yet are always confronted with a random selection of beans that must be planted.

The central gimmick to Bohnanza is that players are prevented from changing the order of cards in their hands, and the oldest cards must always be played on one’s turn. Players can play a card onto a stack containing the same beans, or into an empty field (pictured above). If forced to play a card that doesn’t match anything in their field, they must harvest a pile of bean cards, and gain “bean dollars” equivalent to the size of the stack as shown on a card.

Don’t fret, however, as after the mandatory planting, a bartering phase comes up. That turn’s player can offer cards from the top of the deck and from their hand in exchange for cards other players hold, allowing one to rid themselves of cards that would ruin their strategy. Most bean dollars at the end of the game wins.

Bohnanza

Farm beans, harvest crops and trade your way to fortune in this card game classic.

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #13

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Voting ended onMar 15

Spot it!, or Dobble, is a party matching game, released in 2009 by French designer Denis Blanchot, based on the prior work of Jacques Cottereau. The players aim to be the first to identify the matching symbol present between two cards, where amongst all the cards, only one symbol will ever match between any two given cards.

…yeah that’s pretty much it. It’s a quick party game that’s not very complicated. So instead, let me try to give a maths/history lesson as to how that works, noting I am not a maths person: Cotterau devised the original design of the game in 1976 on the Kirkman’s Schoolgirl Problem, and made a deck of 31 cards that featured insects instead of assorted objects like in Dobble. Blanchot would later find copies of these cards, and from there develop Dobble.

The maths of how to determine how many cards and symbols are needed can be thought of using some geometry: if we have a triangle, and we put a point at each corner of the triangle, then the points would represent the different symbols on each card, and the lines connecting the symbols would be the cards needed. In this case, we would end up with a very simplified version with 3 cards, and 2 symbols on each card. If we wanted to add more symbols onto each card, then the diagram goes from looking like a triangle, to a grid of labeled points on a hypothetical finite plane. We still want to draw a line between all those points, and we can use the equation (n²-n+1) to tell us how many cards and objects we’ll need, with n being the amount of points/objects. In the case of Dobble, there are 8 objects per card, so the equation looks like (8²-8+1), which comes out to 57 cards. In Dobble’s case, however, there are actually 55 cards, not 57, as 55 is the amount of cards standard decks of cards are printed with.

Spot it!

Quick! Which symbol is on both cards? Race others to gather or dump your cards.

Dobble - Wikipedia

Dobble - Wikipedia

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE BOARD GAME FROM THIS PIECE? #11

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Voting ended onMar 14

Whoops, this one is piece #12