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How to play Candy Land by Hasbro’s rules: setup, what single colours, double colours and Sweet Treats do, split paths and shortcuts, the team game against the Gummy Twins, the older card edition and how to win.
How to play Sorry! by Hasbro’s classic rules: setup, starting pawns with a 1 or 2, what each card does, slides, the safety zone, exact count to HOME, the backward shortcut, team rules and the points game for adults.
How to play Trouble by Hasbro’s rules: setup, who goes first, popping a 6 to leave HOME, extra turns, sending pegs back HOME, getting into FINISH without an exact count, what a 1 does, and the newer power die edition.
How to play Battleship by Hasbro’s official rules: the five ships and their sizes, placement rules, how a turn works, whether a hit gives you another shot, sinking ships, the Salvo variation and simple strategy tips.
How to play Jenga by the official rules: setup, who goes first, which blocks you can take (and why not from the top), the one-hand and touching rules, the 10-second rule, how to win, and solo play.
How to play Connect 4 by Hasbro’s official rules: setup, who goes first, how a turn works, the three ways to win, what happens in a draw, the best first move, and why the first player can always win with perfect play.
How to play Guess Who? by Hasbro’s official rules: setup, who goes first, one yes-or-no question per turn, when you can guess and what happens if you’re wrong, the five-game championship, and tips for better questions.
How to play Yahtzee by the official Hasbro rules: turns and rolls, every scoring box, the 35-point upper bonus, the 100-point Yahtzee bonus, the Joker rule for extra Yahtzees, and the highest possible score.
How to play Monopoly by the official Hasbro rules: setup and starting money, turns and doubles, buying and auctions, rent, houses and hotels, Jail, Free Parking, mortgages, bankruptcy, and the popular house rules that are not official.
How to play UNO by the official Mattel rules: setup, matching, every action card, the Wild Draw Four challenge, the UNO call penalty, whether you can stack, scoring to 500 and two-player rules, with changes between the 2001, 2009 and 2025 instruction sheets.
Bard names for D&D and fantasy: male, female and gender-neutral names, musical last names, names with real musical meanings, funny puns, the real Welsh bards behind the class, and a simple naming formula.
Algebraic chess notation names every square with a letter and a number and writes each move as the piece letter plus the square it moves to, like Nf3. Piece letters, captures, check, castling, promotion, the FIDE rules and a full game read move by move.
About Gaming
Worth saying at the top, because the category name is misleading: this is a board games section, not a video games one. If you came looking for console or PC coverage, it is not here.
What is here is a reference project – board games catalogued alphabetically, a list for every letter, including the awkward ones. Games beginning with X and U are short lists by necessity; S and T run long. Each entry says what the game is and who tends to enjoy it, rather than scoring it.
The point of doing it alphabetically is recall. Most people arrive half-remembering a name, and an A-to-Z is the fastest way back to it. The lists are also useful when choosing something for a particular group – a family, a pair, a table of six who do not all want the same evening.
For video games and the wider culture around them, the site does not currently have a home; Tech is the nearest thing.
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