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!
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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!
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The game in which you have to act out a name, place, activity or just about anything without speaking until the players can guess what it is – is called charade. The Spanish word for charade is charada.
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The game in which you spin a wheel and then put a hand or a food on a colored dot on a mat is called Twister. The more people who play it, the more your body gets twisted trying to find the colored spot to get your body on. The Spanish word for Twister is tornado.
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If you like having lots of money, properties, houses and hotels and hope to not go to jail, then you are playing the game of Monopoly. The Spanish word for Monopoly is monopolio.
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The game in which you have a card with numbers in a grid and when you get 5 numbers in a row that have been called, you yell out the name of the game is called bingo. It is spelled the same way in both English and Spanish.
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The game in which you have pawns that must protect your king and you must avoid a checkmate is called chess. Chess in Spanish is ajedrez.
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When you look for a place to go to where you won’t be found by the person who is 'it' you are playing the game of hide and seek. The Spanish word for hide and seek is escondidas.
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When you have a grid of nine squares and there are two players with one player using Os and one player using Xs and they have to get three in a row you are playing the game of tic-tac-toe. The words for tic-tac-toe in Spanish are tres en raya.
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The game of tiles with letters on them and you try to land on a double the letters square or a triple the letters square is called Scrabble. Scrabble in Spanish is escarbar.
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Solitaire, Old Maid, Uno, Whisk, Crazy Eights, Spaces, Pinochle and Gin Rummy are all different kinds of card games. Card in Spanish is tarjeta.
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The game where you have a board with squares in two different colors and disks in two different colors with one player having red disks and one player has black disks and the object is to jump over your opponent’s disk to remove it is called checkers. The Spanish word for checkers is damas.
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