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We'll take a hilariously wrong answer for $1000, Alex.

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It took Eva Gabor and Johnny Carson only a few minutes to sell 3 million boxes of the game.

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At one point, Milton Bradley's image graced all the denominations.

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In the tightly corseted Victorian era, parlor games helped relax strict rules of courtship.

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Perfect your blackjack skills with a little arithmetic.

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The first player to discard their whole hand wins. Right? Wrong.

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It was no mystery to movie-goers when this 1985 movie about a board game flopped at the box office. But time has been kind to “Clue,” and you can discover more fun facts about the cult classic here.

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Whether you're a pinhead or prone to panic flips, make sure you know what you're talking about during your next turn at the pinball machine.

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John Koza decided to reinvent the lottery—from scratch.

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Most humans make moves that are, to some degree, predictable.

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Make a game pad out of Play-Doh, bananas, or your own hand.

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The show didn't have the budget to let too many kids win.

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Some of these have been around for over 4000 years—which is about the length of the average Monopoly game.

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In the 1930s, Five of a Kind was a distinct possibility.

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Send your 'snownations' to help make it happen.

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By typing “@fbchess play” into the chat window, users can challenge any of their Facebook friends to a game of digital chess.

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The only winning move is not to play (because the game is rigged).

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Here are 14 fun facts about the Milton Bradley Company to break out at your next board game night.

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You were not hallucinating: There was an episode that guest-starred E.T.

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Who needs a Game Boy when you could have a remote-controlled vaccuum?

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Over the centuries, an English parlor game gradually transformed into a global sport.

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Look, it's Super Mario Bros. 3 running on a PC in 1990! Sort of.

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Competitors rely on audio cues to play.