In this Spanish Difficult Review quiz we will be checking out some very popular games and their Spanish names. Who doesn’t love to play games? Board games are especially fun and they do get you away from a computer. Computers are great but the old fashioned board games and card games is where you really can show your competitiveness and learn strategy! You also interact with people and not electronic signatures of people.
In addition to the board games, there are those street games and playground games. You probably have played several of these games yourself so they should be familiar to you. Now how would you like to be able to play them in Spanish? That would be double the competitiveness and double the strategy! But before you can double up – you need to know the Spanish names of these games so let’s take a look!
ENGLISH | SPANISH |
---|---|
battleship | acorazado [m] |
bingo | bingo [m] |
cards | tarjetas [f] (note that the J sounds like an H) |
charade | charada [f] |
checkers | damas [f] |
chess | ajedrez [m] |
clue | pista [f] |
hide and seek | escondidas [f] |
kick the can | patear la lata [f] |
monopoly | monopolio [m] |
mousetrap | ratonera [f] |
poker | póker [m] |
red rover | rover rojo [m] |
risk | riesgo [m] |
scrabble | escarbar [m] |
tic-tac-toe | tres en raya [f] (means noughts and crosses) |
twister | tornado [m] |
Are you familiar with any of these games? Great, because for this quiz you will be given the concept of the game and you will have to then match the game to the concept. Naturally the game names will appear in Spanish. Are you up for the game challenge? Then it is – GAME ON!