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A1) Candy Land. Locations like Molasses Swamp and Gumdrop Mountains were in the original game in 1949, but the characters were added later.
A2) Chutes and Ladders (or Snakes and Ladders). The current Milton Bradley game actually replaces the die with a spinner. Presumably, it's too easy to lose the die, but our spinner broke, so we're using a die from another game anyway.
A3) Trouble. Each player has four plastic peg pieces that they move around the board, sending opponents back to the start square by landing on them. The game is also known as Frustration and Kimble, with variations called Headache and Double Trouble.
A4) Stay Alive. Milton Bradley introduced this game in 1971 and spiked its popularity with the television ad featuring the quote in the description seven years later.
A5) Battleship. In addition to the namesake ship (four units long), each player has an aircraft carrier (5), a submarine (3), a cruiser (3), and a destroyer (2). Finding the destroyer is usually the key to winning.
A6) Easy Money. My friend Nelson dubbed this Milton Bradley game "Measly Money". We liked it more than Monopoly because it didn't take nearly as long to play. Confusingly, Milton Bradley released an unrelated game called Easy Money in 1988.
A7) The Game of Life. This Milton Bradley game dates all the way back to an 1861 version called The Checkered Game of Life featuring a spinning top and a checkerboard playing field. The game was redesigned into essentially its modern form on its 100th anniversary.
A8) Masterpiece. This 1970 Parker Brothers game could have helped me learn about some famous paintings (St. John the Baptist, Still Life, and American Gothic are among its two dozen pictures), but I'm sure it didn't.
A9) Risk. French movie director Albert Lamorisse, who won the 1957 Best Director Oscar for Le Ballon rouge, introduced this war game as La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World) in the same year.
A10) Connect Four. Both quotes are from Milton Bradley's late 1970s television commercial showing a brother and sister playing two games.
A11) Stratego. The lower-numbered piece wins when a battle takes place (both are removed if they're equal), except that the Spy defeats the Marshal if it attacks first. The highest piece, the Scout, has the special ability to travel multiple spaces in one turn. Besides the flag, each side also has bombs which can only be defused by the Miners.
A12) Othello (also called Reversi). Mattel named its version of the game for the Shakespeare character and marketed it with the catchphrase in the description.