If you've read my previous post, you'll know that, while my Wednesday night games club, Isleworth Board Gamers was on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of our members posted quizzes and such on our BoardGameGeek forum. You might even have had a go at solving the crossword in that blog post. Along with that crossword, on BGG, I posted a quiz entitled "Look At The Dice, Name The Game." I thought I'd repost it here so a wider audience can have a go at it.
Some of the games are well known, some fairly obscure. Nonetheless, if you guess the game from the picture alone, you get 2 points but if you need to use the clue (looking things up on-line or on BoardGameGeek at this point is fine), you get 1 point. There are a total of 24 points on offer. I've put all the clues after all the pictures so that you can have a good look at all the dice before you resort to the clues (if indeed you need them). The answers are at the very bottom of this post. Good luck!
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CLUES.
1. Board-based World War Two wargame from Days Of Wonder.
2. Co-operative adventure game from Themeborne Ltd, inspired by Fighting Fantasy Books.
3. Gladiatorial combat with pre-painted, metal miniatures from em4miniatures.
4. Word Game by Reiner Knizia from Big Potato Games.
5. World War Two air combat game from Warlord Games.
6. Fantasy Flight's hugely successful space combat game that uses the Flightpath System.
7. Wizkids' less successful space combat game that uses the Flightpath System.
8. Board-based sci-fi wargame from Braincrack Games.
9. Steam-powered robots play sport in Privateer Press' Warmachine setting.
10. Dice-drafting superhero game from Wizkids.
11. Discontinued fantasy wargame from Fantasy Flight.
12. Egyptian-themed abstract strategy game from Yay Games.
ANSWERS.
1. Memoir '44.
2. Escape The Dark Castle.
3. Ludus Gladatorius.
4. Clickbait.
5. Blood Red Skies: Battle Of Britain.
6. Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game.
7. Star Trek: Attack Wing.
8. Farsight.
9. Grind.
10. Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers Vs X-Men.
11. Runewars Miniatures Game.
12. Ominoes.
