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Classic games of skill and chance, used to demonstrate characters' personalities.
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* '''[[Trivial Pursuit]]''', a combination of luck and knowledge. Entire books have detailed not only strategies for both asking and answering questions, but also the game's inaccuracies and ambiguities.
* '''[[Pictionary]]''', where teams try to guess what the person has drawn. Scenes featuring this will usually have two teams: a) the psychic team, where they're able to guess what their partner is drawing right off the bat, and b) the terrible team, where the encyclopedia-quality drawings of a team member will draw nothing but blank stares.
* '''[[
There are many more board games, but these are the only [[Small Reference Pools|ones commonly played]].
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Often, the trademarked ones will have an in-world [[Brand X]] equivalent.
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/SOS/wounded-rose.txt Wounded Rose]'', the very first story of the "Symphony of the Sword" from ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', [[Broken Bird]] [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena Tenjou]] ends up joining a ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' campaign as part of her growing socialization...
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** While the bit of game seen in the film doesn't match D&D ''exactly'', the novelization [[Did Do the Research]] and got all the details right in its version of the scene.
* The 1993 film ''[[Searching for Bobby Fischer]]'' is almost archetypal in the way it uses chess as a plot element, a device, and a symbol all at once.
== Live Action TV ==
* In the final episode of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'', entitled "Discos and Dragons", Daniel (James Franco) is forced to join the Audio/Visual Club and the geeks invite him to a game of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. He ends up enjoying it.
* In ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' [[Diabolical Mastermind]] Windom Earle is obsessed with chess, and plays a demented "life size" game with real people against Agent Cooper. There are few of the "set piece" elements of Hollywood chess here, but the "supreme test of intellect" aspect is in full play.
* The infamous [[Made for TV Movie]] ''[[Mazes and Monsters]]'' uses its eponymous ''[[Dungeons
== Theatre ==
* ''[[Chess (theatre)|Chess]]'', of course. The "supreme test of intellect" plays out on ''many'' levels at once here, with gambits and countergambits ranging from the individual to the international; and when staged properly, it somehow turns the on-stage chess games into incredibly tense man-to-man struggles while ''still'' being essentially two people staring at a game board.
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