Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

I think this is kinda fun! Right off the top of my head: Monopoly, Chess, Sorry!, Backgammon, Clue, Life, Scrabble, Battleship, Trouble, Trivial Pursuit.

Hungry hungry hippos? LOL

Some I found by Googling: Ticket to Ride, Herd Mentality, Spot It!, Catan, Wingspan, Articulate!, Sushi Go!, 221B Baker Street, Rhino Hero, The Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise, Scythe, Mysterium, Monikers, Codenames, Descent, Hive, Oath, Splendor, Jumanji.

Edited to add:
Othello, Candyland, Snakes and Ladders ( A new on one me!), and then Chutes and Ladders because Snakes and Ladders reminded me of it! LOL
(Thank you, Poshpenny!)

Mousetrap--I spent hours playing this by myself as a kid!
(Thank you, Dixie!)

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Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World

The obvious:
Othello

It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Death By Scrabble

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

Fleishman Is in Trouble
Bad Luck and Trouble
The Trouble with Hating You
Toil & Trouble
David Gets in Trouble
A Good Kind of Trouble

Snakes and Ladders
Stories from Candyland: Confections from One of Hollywood's Most Famous Wives and Mothers

Life of Pi
The Secret Life of Bees
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
A Little Life
Life After Life
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Still Life
Get a Life, Chloe Brown

The Twelve Clues of Christmas
The Clue in the Crossword Cipher
The Unfinished Clue
A Clue for the Puzzle Lady

Chess Story
The Fact Checker's Bible: A Guide to Getting It Right

The Mousetrap

My shelves of board games is right behind me when I sit at my computer. A few more games I see that haven't been mentioned (and might show up in titles):
Dominion
Detective
Gobble It
Battleship
Sequence
Escape
Boggle
Camel Up (or maybe it's Camel Cup)
Small World
Mice & Mystics
Scotland Yard (great game, by the way!!)
Labyrinth

I'll add a few of mine that might work for titles:
Jamaica
Pandemic
Calico
Cascadia
Parks
Villanous

The 80s were crazy. If it was a TV show, especially if it was a kids cartoon, there was probably a board game to go with it. My husband had (and still has) an A-Team themed board game called "The Mr. T Game"

Mastermind
Cranium
Speak Out (This is the disturbing game where you have a plastic thing in your mouth stretching your lips and then you have say words and it's supposed to be funny)
Trivial Pursuit
Cribbage
Plague Inc.
Kerplop
Operation
Frustration
Hitchhiker
Taboo
Rummy-O
Phase 10
Careers
Scatagories
Guess Who
Snakes & Ladders
Cards Against Humanity
Elephants Never Forget
Hangman (it has a little skeleton you build/hang)
Steeplechase
Balderdash
Outburst
Tribond
Pictionary
Apples to Apples
I don't play board games at all. ;)

A couple others:
Go
Compatibility
Trumpet
Blurt
Rapid Recall

And now I'm not going to get any reading done because I'm going to be digging out my games....

Check out https://boardgamegeek.com/ for all things games!

Some board game titles that might work:
7 wonders
Santorini
Obsession
Pandemic
Santa Monica
Orleans
Seasons
Patchwork
Suburbia
Root

Lexi wrote: "I'll add a few of mine that might work for titles:
Jamaica
Pandemic
Calico
Cascadia
Parks
Villanous"


There's a game called Jamaica??? Nice! Maybe 2022 is the year I read Jamaica Inn!!!

Also to bear in mind - some books had board game adaptations. From Robinson Crusoe to The Lord of the Rings. I also note whilst there are several board game adaptations of Terry Pratchett books they don't necessarily synchronize to the title. Though ironically one is called The Witches...

I was just going to mention Robinson Crusoe :) There's also The Adventures of Robin Hood and Tales of the Arabian Nights (my favorite!). When Googling earlier, I found a game called Civility, so you could read Rules of Civility.

I'll be reading "Spoiler Alert" for the prompt.

The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni

I´ll strech this one and go with Kushiel's Dart

It´s been on my to-read list for a long time and its played on a (dart)board. ;-)

Rock Paper Scissors could loosely work. It is a game, though not a board game!

Jessica wrote: "Rock Paper Scissors could loosely work. It is a game, though not a board game!"

There was a Rock, Paper, Scissors board game in the late 60s!

Survivor the tv show apparently has a board game, so I'll read The Survivors by Jane Harper.

There's a board game called Shadow Hunters. If you wanted to read The Shadowhunters Chronicles, there you go.

Kristy wrote: "The 80s were crazy. If it was a TV show, especially if it was a kids cartoon, there was probably a board game to go with it. My husband had (and still has) an A-Team themed board game called "The Mr, T Game..."
That is hysterical!!

Nadine wrote: "Lexi wrote: "I'll add a few of mine that might work for titles:
Jamaica
Pandemic
Calico
Cascadia
Parks
Villanous"

There's a game called Jamaica??? Nice! Maybe 2022 is the year I read Jamaica Inn!!!"
Ooohhh...me, too!

Line wrote: "I´ll strech this one and go with Kushiel's Dart

It´s been on my to-read list for a long time and its played on a (dart)board. ;-)"
Very smart!

I've been playing a lot of Terraforming Mars and Castles of Burgundy recently so any books with Mars and Castle should work.

By the way, if anyone's interested in playing boardgame online there's this site that I like a lot:

https://boardgamearena.com/

For comics readers, there's always the manga Hikaru no Go, Vol. 1: Descent of the Go Master, which is about the board game Go.

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Out Now: Queer We Go Again! by Saundra Mitchell
The Deepest Roots by Miranda Asebedo

I'll always encourage a stretch to any word that features 'go' in it somewhere, but I think this prompt is relatively easy to hit without having to stretch!

Hi

Do you think the entire game title needs to be in the title of the book? I see Life being used a lot (Still Life or The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)but the full name of Life is The Game of Life. In the same vein would you count Connect Four the game as partly in the title The Four Winds? I realize the difference is people don’t call Connect Four… Four!
Thank you

For me the difference is I've never known anyone who actually called it The Game of Life to another person. It was always just Life. Hey do you want to play Life? As kids we even wondered why they bothered writing The Game of on the box. Yeah, we know it's a game, and it's called Life. Colloquial usage, I guess.

Alexandra wrote: "Hi

Do you think the entire game title needs to be in the title of the book? I see Life being used a lot (Still Life or The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)but the full name of Life is The Game of Li..."

I do have good news in that there is a boardgame just called Four: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1...

Thank you! I am on my phone and unable to see who left the comment about the game four! But thank you all the same.

I also dug more and in my library queue I have the book Monster in the Middle and then I found a game with the same title.

Thanks again.

Noughts and Crosses...does that count?!

I have The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

Would Summer in the Bluffs work here?

Sweet Valley High is definitely a board game, I owned it in the 90s. I also read pretty much all the books (that were available in the early to mid 90s). But if someone hasn't read them, there's that. There are many, many Sweet Valley books.

love it when classic SFF stories get board games based on their worlds. i'll be cracking into Dune for this one, which has a strategy board game based on the book. there is also an (out-of-print) lord of the rings book if anyone's trying to get some tolkien on their challenge lists.

Found a list here to help out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I'll be going through it to see if I have any books related to the subjects.

Red Rising is a book that also became a board game of the same name if anyone's keen to read that! :)

Apparently, there's a game called Aladdin's Dragon so what better book than The Wheel of Time book 3, The Dragon Reborn

There is also a board game entitled "Munchkin."
Goodreads has several titles with "Munchkin," but whether they are easy to find or not, I don't know.

I'm going to read Ye Game and Playe of Chesse & Other Stories for this prompt!

Labyrinth is a board game.

Labyrinth
Labyrinth Lost

Of course how could I forget the typical Dungeons & Dragons game. So that's my reference for the book challenge for The Dragon Reborn

So, I just saw this book is being released in January 2022. It doesn't have a title of a game in the title of the book, but I think it more than counts, if you're interested in learning about the history of 7 old-timey games. Seven Games: A Human History

If you enjoy playing Catan, there is a book called The Settlers of Catan that's based on the board game.

Rock, paper, scissors was aboard game in 1968, found it thru a google search. So I’ll be reading rock, paper, scissors by Alice Feeney Rock Paper Scissors

Any Harry Potter or Sherlock Holmes book would work as these have been turned into board games..

Throne of Glass would work too! The series does have a board game!

Othello by William Shakespeare
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Upon A Salty Ocean is another board game that could be useful

70s board games: “Which Witch, Happiness, and Charlie’s Angels.” There are Survivor and Star Wars board games, too.

I will most likely be reading The Survivors by Jane Harper, but there are lots of titles with the words star, wars, happiness, witches, and angels…