Board games and puzzles quiz
Checked on 4 November 2026
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How many squares are there on a standard chessboard?
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The answer is 64.
A chessboard is a square board of 64 squares arranged in an 8 by 8 grid.
Discover
In North America, the game known in Britain as draughts is usually called what?
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The answer is Checkers.
The same game is called checkers in North American English and draughts in British English.
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In a classic sudoku, every row, column and 3 by 3 box must contain which digits?
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The answer is 1 to 9.
A classic sudoku is a 9 by 9 grid where each row, column and box holds every digit from 1 to 9.
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How many different colours are on the faces of a classic Rubik's Cube?
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The answer is 6.
Each face of the classic cube is one of six solid colours: white, red, blue, orange, green and yellow.
Practise
A standard Go board is a grid of how many lines by how many?
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The answer is 19 by 19.
The standard Go board has a 19 by 19 grid of lines, giving 361 points where stones can be placed.
Practise
How many tiles are in a traditional double-six set of dominoes?
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The answer is 28.
The traditional European domino set has 28 tiles, one for each pairing of end values from zero to six.
Practise
What are the seven flat pieces of a tangram puzzle called?
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The answer is Tans.
A tangram is made of seven flat shapes called tans, which are arranged to form pictures and figures.
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Under what name was the puzzle we now call sudoku first published by Dell Magazines in 1979?
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The answer is Number Place.
The modern form, most likely designed by Howard Garns, first appeared in Dell Magazines in 1979 as Number Place.
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Arthur Wynne's 1913 "word-cross", often called the first crossword, appeared in which newspaper?
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The answer is New York World.
On 21 December 1913, Liverpool-born journalist Arthur Wynne published a word-cross puzzle in the New York World.
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Around 1760, London engraver John Spilsbury made early jigsaw puzzles by cutting up what?
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The answer is Maps.
Spilsbury's early puzzles, called dissected maps, were made by mounting maps on wood and cutting them up to teach geography.