40 Games Trivia Questions for Kids
The easiest games questions in the game, picked for younger players. Every one comes with the answer and a short explanation of why it is right.
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Easy Games Questions and Answers
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How many face cards are in a standard deck?
12
The four suits each contain a jack, queen, and king, making 12 face cards.
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How many cards belong to each suit in a standard deck?
13
Each suit runs ace through ten, then jack, queen and king, which comes to thirteen cards.
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On a standard six-sided die, what do opposite faces add up to?
7
Opposite faces on a conventional die are arranged so their values total seven.
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Who is Pikachu's longtime trainer in the anime?
Ash
Ash Ketchum is Pikachu's longtime trainer in the Pokémon anime.
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A hundred players drop onto a shrinking map. How does the match end?
Be the last player or team standing
Battle royales eliminate players until one survivor or surviving team remains.
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According to Guinness World Records, what is the best-selling video game of all time?
Minecraft
Minecraft holds the Guinness World Record, having passed 350 million copies sold by April 2025 across every platform since its 2011 full release.
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Which company developed Overwatch?
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment developed Overwatch.
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Who is Mario's main antagonist?
Bowser
Bowser is Mario's principal recurring antagonist.
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How many players are in a standard bridge game?
Four
Bridge is played by four people in two partnerships.
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In contract bridge, one suit is named for the deal. What does a card of that suit do?
It beats a card of any other suit
One suit is named trump for the deal. A card in that suit beats any card from the other three suits, so the two of trumps takes a trick even against an ace.
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Which studio originally developed Halo?
Bungie
Bungie originally developed the Halo series.
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In draughts, also known as checkers, how does an ordinary uncrowned piece move?
One square diagonally forward
An uncrowned man steps one square diagonally forward onto an empty square. Only once it reaches the far row and is crowned a king can it travel diagonally backwards as well.
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Which two chess pieces move during castling?
The king and a rook
Castling is a move involving the king and one rook under FIDE rules.
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Which chess piece moves in an L-shape?
Knight
The knight moves two squares along a rank or file and then one square across, which formally makes it the piece that lands on the nearest square not sharing its rank, file or diagonal. It is also the only piece that can jump over anything in its way.
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In chess, what is it called when the player to move is not in check but has no legal move at all?
Stalemate
A player who is not in check yet cannot make any legal move is stalemated, and the game is an immediate draw however much material the other side has left. It is the classic way a winning endgame gets thrown away.
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Who begins play in a standard game of chess?
The white side
FIDE’s standard rule gives the opening move to the player with the white pieces.
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How many squares are on a standard chessboard?
64
A standard chessboard has eight ranks and eight files, giving 64 squares in total.
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What central mystery are players solving in Cluedo/Clue?
A murder
The deduction game asks players to identify the murderer, weapon, and room.
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What viewpoint defines the classic Doom game's presentation?
First-person
Doom presents the player's weapon and world from a first-person perspective.
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In gaming, what does DLC stand for?
Downloadable content
Downloadable content is added to a game after release, ranging from a costume to a full expansion.
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Who is Sonic's main nemesis?
Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman is Sonic's primary recurring nemesis.
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Which die is most associated with resolving attacks and checks in Dungeons & Dragons?
A twenty-sided die
The d20 is the signature die for D&D ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws.
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What is the D&D referee and narrator traditionally called?
Dungeon Master
D&D calls the person who runs the adventure and adjudicates rules the Dungeon Master, or DM.
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Which company developed Fortnite?
Epic Games
Epic Games built Fortnite, released in 2017 and carried worldwide by its free Battle Royale mode. The same studio makes Unreal Engine, the graphics technology behind a large share of other studios' games.
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In Counter-Strike, what is the Terrorist team's main round objective?
Plant the bomb at a site
The Terrorist team’s main objective is to plant the C4 bomb at a designated bombsite and protect it until it detonates.
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How are the main numbered Final Fantasy games labeled?
With Roman numerals
The mainline run goes Final Fantasy I through XVI in Roman numerals, which is why fans write FFVII rather than FF7. Direct sequels break the pattern with a suffix instead, as with Final Fantasy X-2.
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When gamers talk about a game's performance, what does FPS stand for?
Frames per second
Frames per second counts how many complete images the hardware finishes drawing each second. Cinema runs at 24, console games usually target 30 or 60, and competitive players push past 120 because a higher rate shortens the gap between moving the mouse and seeing the result on screen.
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At which release stage does a game first run end to end, with features still missing and testing kept inside the studio?
Alpha
Alpha is the point where the whole product runs end to end but features are still missing or rough, and testing stays inside the team. Beta follows once the feature list is closed and outside testers are let in to hunt bugs. A release candidate is a build believed to be final, and the gold master is the one that ships.
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A stack of crates jitters instead of settling, and bullets pass through walls. Which part of the game engine has failed?
The physics engine
A game engine divides the work between subsystems. The renderer turns the scene into pixels, the animation system moves character skeletons, input maps controller signals to actions, and the physics engine tracks gravity, momentum and collisions. A body passing through solid ground is a collision the physics engine did not register.
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What is it called when software on a modern computer imitates an old console's hardware closely enough to run its original games unchanged?
Emulation
An emulator reproduces the old machine itself in software, its processor, memory map, sound and graphics chips, so the original game code runs believing it is on the real hardware. Because it copies the machine rather than the game, one emulator can run an entire console library, including titles nobody ever tested it against.
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A video game sold in North America carries a large letter E in the ESRB box on its packaging. What does that tell a buyer?
It is considered suitable for players of all ages
The Entertainment Software Rating Board rates games in the United States and Canada and prints its verdict in a black box on the front of the packaging. E stands for Everyone. The bands above it are E10+, T for Teen, M for Mature at 17 and over, and AO for Adults Only.
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Who is Link's recurring adversary?
Ganon
Ganon is Link's recurring primary foe across The Legend of Zelda series.
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Which game series stars Master Chief?
Halo
Master Chief is the central protagonist of the Halo series.
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How many players normally receive hands in the classic card game Hearts?
Four
The standard four-player deal uses the full 52-card deck.
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What is the name of Mario's younger brother?
Luigi
Luigi is Mario's younger brother.
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How many tiles are in a standard mahjong set?
144
The tiles split into three suits of 36 each, bamboos, circles and characters, plus 28 honor tiles for the four winds and three dragons, and eight flower and season tiles used only as bonus draws.
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In which arcade game did Mario first appear?
Donkey Kong
Designer Shigeru Miyamoto first wanted a licensed Popeye cast; when the deal fell through, Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl were reworked into Jumpman, the ape, and the captive Pauline. Jumpman wasn't renamed Mario and made a plumber until later games.
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Which company makes the Xbox?
Microsoft
Microsoft makes the Xbox console line.
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Which company created Minecraft?
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios created and develops Minecraft.
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Which game was famously bundled with the original Nintendo Game Boy in many markets?
Tetris
Nintendo paired the portable Game Boy with Tetris, helping establish the system's appeal.
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