A children’s game played on a special board with pictures of snakes and ladders on it. Players move their pieces up the ladders to go forward and down the snakes to go back.

A game in which playing cards are used.

A board game in which players have to pretend to buy and sell land and houses, using pieces of paper that look like money.

A small flat block, often made of wood, with two groups of dots (= small round marks) representing numbers on one side, used for playing games.

A simple game in which two players take turns to write Os or Xs in a set of nine squares. The first player to complete a row of three Os or three Xs is the winner.

A game for two people played with cues (= long sticks) and three balls on a long table covered with green cloth. Players try to hit the balls against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table.

A game in which you wrap string around the fingers of both hands to make different patterns.

A children’s game where two people throw a ball to each other over the head of another person who tries to catch it.

A children’s game in which people follow the person in front of them in a line, going wherever they go and copying whatever they do.

A brightly decorated figure, filled with toys and sweets, which children try to hit with a stick with their eyes covered in order to break it open, as a party game.

A game for two people played on a board marked with long thin triangles. Players throw dice and move pieces around the board.