Games resembling checkers have been played for over 5,000 years.

The Russian chess player Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion  in 1985 when he was just 22 years old…but the world’s youngest  chess grandmaster was crowned in 2021: American player Abhimanyu Mishra was just 12 years old at the time.

In a game of Scrabble, K is the only tile worth five points.

At the very beginning of a game of chess, there are eight possible ways to put your opponent in mate within just two moves.

The highest possible break in a game of snooker is 147 points. At the 1997 World Championships, British snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan scored 147 in just five  minutes and 20 seconds.

There are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

In 2015, the official French-language Scrabble championship was won by New Zealander Nigel Richards. He didn’t speak French and had only started to learn the French word list two months before the competition.