Obscure Board Game Rules
Follow the rules or follow the fools...
- In Monopoly, when a player lands on an unsold property they do not wish to purchase, that property goes to auction.
- In Cluedo, when making an accusation (as opposed to a suggestion or guess), you do not have to be in the room you are accusing.
- A "Yahtzee" (which is when five dice show the same number) can be scored for full points in a section where it does not meet the requirements (such as a straight). However, the original "Yahtzee" box must already be filled, along with the entire top half of the scoring sheet.
- The winner in Jenga is the player whose turn was right before the tower fell.
- In The Game of Life, when you run out of tiles, you can take tiles from any player who has retired at Millionaire Estates.
- In Risk, you can move armies from one territory to another as long as both territories are under your control, and you can travel through the countries you have conquered.
- In Trivial Pursuit, a player who answers all questions correctly can start and finish the game in one turn, collecting all pieces along the way.
- In Cluedo, you cannot occupy the same space as another player, even temporarily while moving to another space.
- In Battleship, to speed up gameplay, players may call out multiple squares during each turn.
- In Monopoly, players can decide how long they want to play. The player with the most money when the set time expires is declared the winner.
- Slang is acceptable in Scrabble as long as the word appears in the Official Scrabble Dictionary.
- The person who built the Jenga tower gets the first turn to play.