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Straight Up Trivia #15: Best Selling Board Games

15th in a series of themed trivia quizzes. Answer these questions inspired by the best-selling board games of all time, in terms of units sold. Source: https://www.fun.com/best-selling-board-games-all-time.html
Quizzes in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
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Last updated: April 17, 2025
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Chess, countless billions. What chess piece is named Springer in German?
Knight
Checkers, 50 billion. A game of checkers will always end in a draw if both players always make the optimal move. What is the term for such a game? The term is used more generally for any game with a known ending from any point in the game if players use an optimal strategy.
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Monopoly, more than 275 million. What company was ordered by a judge in 2000 to split in two because of monopolistic behavior against the Netscape browser? The decision was reversed due to judicial malfeasance and eventually settled without breaking up the company.
Microsoft
Scrabble, more than 150 million. What is the shortest legal word in Scrabble that uses both of the highest scoring letters?
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Clue, more than 150 million. The 1985 movie Clue was famous for having three alternative endings. What actor played Professor Plum? He is perhaps best known for his important role in the Back to the Future trilogy.
Christopher Lloyd
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Battleship, more than 100 million. What is the name for the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century, known for having an "all-big-gun" armament scheme and steam turbine propulsion? The name means "fear nothing".
Dreadnought
Trivial Pursuit, more than 100 million. In the original version of Trivial Pursuit, what category is represented by the pink wedge?
Entertainment
Backgammon, more than 88 million of the modern version. What is the term for any three-dimensional figure with 6 flat faces, straight edges, and sharp vertices? The dice used in backgammon are cubes, which is one form of this type of figure.
Hexahedron
Candy Land, more than 50 million. What candy was supposedly created after mothers complained about their kids getting messy from eating Pixy Stix?
SweeTarts
Rummikub, more than 50 million. Rummikub is the only game in this list to win the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year award. What won a special prize for Best Solitaire Game the same year, 1980, the only time that award was ever given?
Rubik's Cube
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