Let’s face it, regardless of what new console video game system comes along next, we will always love our board games. There is just something about a low-tech approach to family fun that people can’t resist. And no matter you’re your favourite board game, whether it’s Battleship or Scrabble, we can all relate when it comes to the sound the boxes make when we grab a couple of our favourite board games out of the closet.

With that in mind, we are going to share some fun and interesting facts about many of the world’s favourite board games:

Battleship

Original paper versions of Battleship included land areas in addition to the water.

Battleship was one of the first games to be made into a computer game in 1979.

Boggle

To prevent Boggle players from using a certain swear word, the letters F and K only appear once on the same cube.

Candy Land

Candy Land was invented by a retired schoolteacher while she was recovering from polio.

Connect Four

The player who goes first in Connect Four can win 100% of the time.

A traditional Connect Four board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.

Cranium

The inventor of Cranium came up with the idea for the game after he and his wife lost horribly in Scrabble but won in Pictionary.

Cranium was the first non-coffee product to be sold at Starbucks and the first game to be sold on Amazon.

Jenga

The name Jenga is based on the Swahili word meaning “to build.”

The tallest Jenga tower ever was 40 levels tall plus two additional blocks on top.

Monopoly

The longest Monopoly game ever went on for 70 straight days.

The most expensive Monopoly set in the world is worth £2 million. It was crafted with 23-karat gold, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.

In World War II, the Allies smuggled maps, compasses, and files to POWs by hiding them in Monopoly sets.

Scrabble

Assuming you get the right triple word and double letter tiles, the highest possible scoring words are netzahualcoyotl and czechoslovakian.

Using all of your letters in one turn is called a Bingo.

Scrabble is an official sport in several African countries, including Senegal and Mali.

Settlers of Catan

The first 5,000 copies of Settlers of Catan sold out so fast that inventor Klaus Teuber doesn’t have a copy of the first edition.

Yahtzee

Yahtzee was invented by a wealthy Canadian couple who liked to play the game on their Yacht.

The probability of rolling a Yahtzee in one roll is 1 in 1296.

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