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!)
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
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!
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!
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
2500
5000
7500
10000+
Build something using (pieces)
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!
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
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…
???
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)
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!
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 )
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!
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
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
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!)
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