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Are you a fan of time travel?

Because in this video I’m going to take you to the past.

You see?

I want to talk about the time when we didn’t have computers or smart phones,

and the only thing we had to entertain ourselves was a board game.

Yes, I know.

We had Atari we had Sega.

probably you had, I did.

But no!

Well, this video is just going to be about board games.

The first game is chess.

In this classic two-player board game

your ultimate goal is to checkmate your opponent’s king piece.

You know?

Piece is this little thing that you play chess with.

There are some other pieces and each of them has its own name.

Like: there are pawns,

bishops,

knights,

rooks,

a king and a queen.

It’s been said that chess is a pretty good metaphor for life.

Maybe that’s why I suck at it.

Next one is backgammon.

Backgammon is also a two-person game that definitely requires a strategy

but there is a little bit of luck involved too.

To play you are responsible for moving a set of fifteen checkers around the board

Yes!

These are called checkers.

with moves dictated by the rolling of two dice.

The first player to successfully cast off or remove all of his or her checkers from the game wins.

Chutes and ladders.

Well!

This one is actually my favorite childhood game.

It contains 100 squares and some ladders and snakes.

Actually in the American version of it there is no snake.

Yeah, and there are slides instead of snakes.

Everything in this game actually is a symbol.

Like the ladders represent a good deed and its reward,

on the other hand, the slides represent consequences of your bad behavior.

Anyway, every player starts in the first square and a dice dictates how many squares a player can advance from there.

I have to add that in the American version, you will have to use a spinner instead of a dice.

If you’re lucky, you’ll land at the base of a good-deed ladder,

which you can climb, advancing extra spaces.

But if you’re not so lucky, you’ll land at the top of a snake and have to go down,

which will set you back quite a bit.

The first player to the 100 square wins.

Sorry.

Well, the name of this game is kinda interesting.

It’s because your pawns kick each other and then it’s like they say: ops, sorry.

In this game

you should move your four pawns around the board

and safely navigate them home again.

All pawns begin in their start spaces, and players use a dice to see what the pawn’s next move might be.

In the American version of this game however,

the players take turns drawing from a deck of 44 cards instead of a dice.

You can win the game by being the first to get all four of your pawns home.

Ok!

That was it.

Now it’s your turn to tell me which one of these games was your favorite.

For me, as I already mentioned it was chutes and ladders, because it was fun.

So you tell me which one was your favorite and I’m gonna read it.

Thanks for watching this video, I’m gonna see you soon.

Bye!