CZ:Core Articles/Games

Game: A structured or semi-structured contrived activity, primarily undertaken for enjoyment or, sometimes, practice. [e] (10)  Board game: A game that involves moving playing pieces around a board. [e] (10)  Card game: A game that relies mostly on playing cards. [e] (10)  Word game: A game that uses words, letters, sentences or other parts of a language as the basis or an integral part of the game, such as Scrabble. [e] (10) Play (activity): Add brief definition or description (10) Educational game: Add brief definition or description (5) Guessing game: Add brief definition or description (5) Party game: Add brief definition or description (5) Playground game: Add brief definition or description (5) Puzzle: Add brief definition or description (5) Maze: Add brief definition or description (5) Strategy game: Add brief definition or description (5)  Quiz: A game or contest in which the players try to answer questions correctly. [e] (5) Game studies: Add brief definition or description (5)  Recreation: Activities intended to take place during leisure time, for pleasure or amusement, including sports, hobbies or games, especially when not done as part of serious competition or for exercise. [e] (5) Alternate reality game: Add brief definition or description (2) Browser game: Add brief definition or description (2)  Casino game: Add brief definition or description (2) Collectible card game: A card game which requires each player to collect and customise their own deck of cards from a large quantity of game specific cards. [e] (2)  Drinking game: A game whose goal is to force participants to drink alcoholic beverages and become intoxicated. [e] (2) Jigsaw: Add brief definition or description (2) Lawn game: Add brief definition or description (2) Riddle: A puzzling statement or question or story which beguiles the mind and causes people to try to solve it by proposing an explanation that makes sense. There is usually a hidden meaning or twist or play upon word meanings which allows a person to decipher the puzzle. The best riddles are simple and when the answer is given, it produces an aha experience described in psychology. [e] (2) Simulation game: Add brief definition or description (2) Wargame: Add brief definition or description (2)  Crossword: A word game involving inserting words into a grid. [e] (2) Computer and video game genres: Add brief definition or description (2)  Dice: Small polyhedral object, usually cubic, used for generating random numbers or other symbols. [e] (2) Playing card: Add brief definition or description (2)  Chess opening: The critical first moves in a game of chess that set the stage for the rest of the game. [e] (2) Endgame: Add brief definition or description (2)  Gameplay: Comprises the challenges a game presents to players and the actions that players may take in response. [e] (2)  Leisure: A period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. [e] (2) Board games Backgammon: Add brief definition or description Carcassonne (board game): Add brief definition or description  Cluedo: A popular mid-Century board game. [e]  Diplomacy (board game): A board game involving 7 players, each controlling one of the major European powers just before World War I: England, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Turkey, or Austria. [e] Draughts: Add brief definition or description (a.k.a. checkers) Gomoku: Add brief definition or description Mancala: Add brief definition or description  Monopoly (board game): Add brief definition or description Nine Men's Morris: Add brief definition or description Pacheesi: Add brief definition or description Risk (board game): Add brief definition or description Scrabble: Add brief definition or description Senet: Add brief definition or description Shogi: Add brief definition or description Sorry!: Add brief definition or description Stratego: Add brief definition or description Trivial Pursuit: Add brief definition or description Card games Canasta: Add brief definition or description Hearts: Add brief definition or description Pinochle: Add brief definition or description  Poker: Add brief definition or description Rummy: Add brief definition or description Solitaire: Add brief definition or description Spades: Add brief definition or description Uno: Add brief definition or description Whist: Add brief definition or description Chess Chess variants: Add brief definition or description Computer and video games Asheron's Call: Add brief definition or description City of Heroes: Add brief definition or description Civilization (computer game): Add brief definition or description Colossal Cave: Add brief definition or description Dance Dance Revolution: Add brief definition or description  Donkey Kong: Add brief definition or description

Elite (computer game): Add brief definition or description Everquest: Add brief definition or description  Grand Theft Auto (series): Add brief definition or description Half-Life: Add brief definition or description Myst: Add brief definition or description Pong: Add brief definition or description  Pac-Man: Add brief definition or description Pokémon video game series: Add brief definition or description Populous: Add brief definition or description Quake: Add brief definition or description  SimCity: Add brief definition or description  Space Invaders: Add brief definition or description  Street Fighter (video game): Add brief definition or description Super Mario Bros.: Add brief definition or description Spacewar!: Add brief definition or description StarCraft: Add brief definition or description  Tetris: Add brief definition or description The Sims: Add brief definition or description Tomb Raider: Add brief definition or description Ultima Online: Add brief definition or description  Zork: Add brief definition or description Lawn games  Bowls: Add brief definition or description  Croquet: Add brief definition or description Horseshoes: Add brief definition or description Pétanque: Add brief definition or description Skittles: Add brief definition or description Party games Blind man's bluff (game): Add brief definition or description Charades: Add brief definition or description Musical chairs: Add brief definition or description Pass the parcel: Add brief definition or description Puzzles Cryptic crossword: Add brief definition or description Logic puzzle: Add brief definition or description Rubik's Cube: Add brief definition or description Soma cube: Add brief definition or description Tangram: Add brief definition or description Playground games Hopscotch: Add brief definition or description Jacks: Add brief definition or description Jump rope: Add brief definition or description  Marbles: Add brief definition or description Tag (game): Add brief definition or description Role-playing games Assassin (game): Add brief definition or description  Dungeons & Dragons: Add brief definition or description Hero System: Add brief definition or description Traveller (role-playing game): Add brief definition or description Vampire: the Masquerade: Add brief definition or description Toys Action figure: Add brief definition or description Doll: Add brief definition or description Educational toy: Add brief definition or description Flying disc: Add brief definition or description a.k.a. Frisbee Lego: Add brief definition or description Meccano: Add brief definition or description Mechanical toy: Add brief definition or description Spinning top: Add brief definition or description Stuffed animal: Add brief definition or description Teddy bear: Add brief definition or description Yo-yo: Add brief definition or description Wargames  Warhammer (game): Add brief definition or description Warhammer 40,000: Add brief definition or description Other games Acquire: Add brief definition or description Air hockey: Add brief definition or description  Axis & Allies: Add brief definition or description Bingo: Add brief definition or description Blackjack: Add brief definition or description Hangman (game): Add brief definition or description I Spy: Add brief definition or description Kakuro: Add brief definition or description Mahjong: Add brief definition or description Pit (game): Add brief definition or description Roulette: Add brief definition or description Settlers of Catan: Add brief definition or description Slot machine: Add brief definition or description Snakes and ladders: Add brief definition or description  Sudoku: Add brief definition or description Table football: Add brief definition or description Tic-tac-toe: Add brief definition or description Truth or Dare: Add brief definition or description Meta-topics Game complexity: Add brief definition or description Game design: Add brief definition or description Game mechanic: Add brief definition or description  Video game controversy: Add brief definition or description