Games & Gaming

This category is everything that distracts you from your inevitable mortal demise… Puzzles to Board Games to Video Games and Gambling! Yup, you’re all going to die (some of you not soon enough but hey ho!)

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

Play a game of Monopoly

Play Space Invaders (Original 1978)

Play on an original Pinball machine

Own a Nintendo Gameboy

Play The SIMS

Win a game of ‘Plunder’ on Call of Duty Warzone

Visit a casino

Learn how to play Texas hold ’em Poker

Place a bet on a horse race

Do a crossword puzzle

Complete a jigsaw puzzle

Board Games

Play these for real (On a real board)

Chess

Checkers

Backgammon

Scrabble

Risk

Cluedo/Clue

Othello

Battleship

Connect 4

Jenga

Trivial Pursuit

Twister

Operation

Yahtzee

Mousetrap

Snakes & Ladders

Kerplunk

Pictionary

Ticket to Ride

Dungeons & Dragons

Play them ALL!

Win a game on any boardgame

Be a schools champion at Chess

Be a national Champion at Chess

Play a game of chess that lasts longer than an hour!

Play a game of Chess or Backgammon in Central Park, NY

Pay more than (£/$) 100 on a (Chess/Backgammon) set

Own more than 5 board games

Have a huge family ‘falling out’ over a game of Monopoly

Be the best in your family at Chess / Backgammon

Start a game of Chess and realise there’s one piece missing!

Jigsaws

Complete a jigsaw with more than (Pieces)

100

200

300

500

1000

Educa Borrás – Around the World, 42,000 Pieces!

I’m NOT bored – Complete a 1000 piece jigsaw in one day!

Make your own jigsaw puzzle

Damn dog – Spend many hours looking for a particular piece only to find that it’s missing

Set up a jigsaw on a table and by the time you come back, the rest of the family has finished it!

LEGO

Put your first two blocks of LEGO together!

YEEEEEOW! – Step barefoot on your first piece of LEGO

Build your first house

Own this many pieces of LEGO

500

1000

2500

5000

7500

10000+

Build something using (pieces)

100

500

1000

2000

3000

5000+

Build one of the ‘construction kits’

     Bonus if it’s the Millennium Falcon ( Bonus )

Copy a famous building using standard LEGO pieces

Build something that actually floats!

Toys

Own your first toy

Own one of these toys

Action Man

G.I. Joe

Barbie/Cindy

He-Man

Transformers

Stretch Armstrong

Star Wars Figurine

Toy Story figurine

Own one of the original rubber sharks from JAWS!

Have a Figurine (in box) in mint condition that’s more than 20 years old

Own an original Rubies Cube from the 80’s

Own an original ‘Simon’ from the 80’s

Electronic Gaming

Play these classic arcade games

Defender

Asteroids

PONG

Scramble

Galaxian

Pac-Man

Donkey Kong

Missile Command

Frogger

Street Fighter

Outrun

Mortal Kombat

Play more than 5 of them on original machines

Pinball – Play more than 20 different tables

Play these classic pinball tables

Tee’d Off

Black Hole

Adams Family

Twilight Zone

KISS

Play them all

Play a pinball table from the…

50's

60's

70's

80's

90's

Play one from all the decades

Get your first ‘Free Ball’ on a pinball table!

‘KNOCK’! – Get your first free game on a pinball table

‘Get your name up in lights’ – Get your fist ‘High Score’ on a table or machine

‘Send them home’ – Return the invaders to the top in Space Invaders

‘Clock it’ – Get your score to 9999 in space invaders and then back to 0000

Spend 8 hours in an arcade playing games

Get to the end of Scramble in an arcade

Clear 3 rounds of Pac-Man

Play on these gaming consoles

Atari 2600 (Woody)

Mattel Intellivision

Nintendo NES

Sega Megadrive

Amiga CD 32

Atari Jaguar

Sony Playstation

Nintendo 64

Sega Dreamcast

Sony Playstation 2

Nintendo Gamecube

Xbox

Sony PS3

Xbox 360

Nintendo wii

Sony PS4

Xbox One

Sony PS5

XBox Series s/x

Own more than 10 of them!

Own these handheld

Atari Lynx

Sega Game Gear

Nintendo DS

PSP (Playstation Portable)

Own all of them

Play these classic console games

Sonic the Hedgehog

Mario Brothers

Diggers (Amiga CD32)

Project Gotham 2

HALO: Combat Evolved

GoldenEye 007

DOOM

Final Fantasy

Gauntlet

Gran Turismo

Tony Hawk Pro Skater

Tomb Raider

Rock Band

Wii Sports

Metal Gear Solid

GTA

Portal

The Legend of Zelda

Super Mario Cart

Half Life

Sega Bass Fishing

Quake Arena

D/Generation (Amiga CD32)

SoulCalibur

Rainbow Six

Play 15 of them

Play these PC games

Sim City

World of Warcraft

Minecraft

Leisure Suit Larry

Solitair

Get caught playing solitaire when you were supposed to be working!

Own a limited edition gaming console

Put a ‘skin’ on your console to make it look better!

Own more than 30 games

Sign up to XBox GamePass

Own every PlayStation (1 – 5)

Own every XBox (Original to Series S/X)

Have an X-Box Gamerscore of…

10k

25k

50k

100k

150k

250k

Get a Gamerscore of 1000 on a single game

Have a PlayStation score of…

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Play Grand Theft Auto for so long it starts to feel ok to steal cars and murder prostitutes – 8 hours in a row!

‘We’re all DOOMED’ – find all the secrets in the original DOOM Level 1

Singing the blues – Complete Sonic the Hedgehog!

HALO – Complete all campaigns on the original game

Drive more than 1,000 laps on any racing game

Play more than 8 hours of FIFA in one go!

Play a 4 player game with your friends all in the same room!

Spend more than £/$100 on a set of gaming headphones

Spend more than £/$100 on a gaming controller

Be the best among all your friends at a certain game

Call of Duty – Play these editions

Call of Duty

Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 3

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: World at War

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty: WWII

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Call of Duty: Vanguard

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Call of Duty: WARZONE

Be totally addicted and play 10 or more of them

I’m bulletproof – Finish any campaign on Veteran difficulty

Play 8 hours of CoD in a row without putting down the controller!

Win a game of Battle Royal on Warzone

Collect more than $1,500,000 on your own in Warzone Plunder

Played on all 3 Warzone maps (Verdansk/Caldera/Rebirth Island)

GAMBLING: Casino

Visit a casino where you have to wear a suit!

Visit these famous casinos

Bellagio, Las Vegas

Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Sun City, South Africa

The Sportsman, London

Walk out of any of them with more money than you walked in with!

Stay in a Vegas Casino Hotel

Place a bet in Macao

Play on tables

Poker

Blackjack

Roulette

Craps

Baccarat

All of them

Go into a casino and LOSE more than a months salary!

Go into a casino and WIN more than a months salary!

Win the jackpot on a slot machine!

Win a ‘MEGA prize’ in Vegas on a slot machine

Play a slot machine for more than an hour before realising there MUST be more to life!

GAMBLING: Cards

Poker – Play for more money than you can afford to lose… and LOSE!

Poker – Play for more money than you can afford to lose… and WIN!

Win at a table of 5 or more players

Poker – Enter an amateur competition

Poker – Enter an professional competition

Poker – Win a competition

Learn how to Rolla poker chip across your fingers!

Buy a set of professional poker chips

Use a set of cards that were used in a Vegas casino

BlackJack – Beat the Bank!

Bridge – Learn how to play!

Bridge – Get a ‘proper’ team mate’

Bridge – Win a match

Gin Rummy – Learn to play

SNAP! – Win a game of Snap

UNO – Win a game of Uno

Cribbage – Play a game

Solitaire – Play with cards

Hearts – Play a game

Whist – Play a game

     Bonus if you played with my nan in Tredegar! ( Bonus )

GAMBLING: The Bookies

Walk into a Bookies and place a bet ‘out of the blue’!

Place a bet on the Grand National

Place bets on 10 different horses in the Grand National and still lose!

Place a single bet of more than £/$100

Win an ‘accumulator’!

Place a bet on a football (soccer) team who lose in extra time!

Quizzing/Puzzles

Do a cryptic crossword

     Complete it (Without cheating too much) ( Bonus )

Do a crossword from the same newspaper each week for more than a year!

Sudoku – Complete different difficulties

Easy

Medium

Hard

Expert

Do a Gogen puzzle (my favourite)

     Complete it ( Bonus )

Do a codeword puzzle

     Complete it ( Bonus )

Do a puzzle on Sporkle.com

     Do one a day for a week ( Bonus )

Do a Sporkle quiz from each of the 16 categories

Annoy yourself with a Rubik's cube

     Complete it ( Bonus )

Be part of a Pub Quiz team

Win a Pub Quiz

“Can I have a ‘P’ please Bob!” – Be a contestant on a TV quiz show

‘Smarty Pants’ – Be one of the ‘expert brains’ on a TV quiz show

‘I’m smarter than them’ – Get more than 9 correct answers in the Cash Builder on The Chase while sat on your fat butt watching it on TV.

“Get me out of here!” – Play an Escape Room and ESCAPE

“Well, I quite like it in here!” – Play an Escape Room and FAIL

Enter a maze

     Bonus for Hampton Court Maze ( Bonus )

Exit a maze (without crying and getting rescued by the staff at the end of the day!)