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By Dave Golder published 2 April 2015

Why can't sci-fi and fantasy characters play something other than chess for a change?

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Your Move

Your Move

Ever noticed that an awful lot of people in sci-fi and fantasy films play chess? Why cant they battle wits over something else for a change? We give them something else to play with

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Spock plays Connect Four

Spock plays Connect Four

Forget 3D Chess. This the is logical game to play

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The Doctor & K9 play Mousetrap

The Doctor & K9 play Mousetrap

If they have a rodent problem maybe they should call in the exterminators

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Eldon Tyrell plays Guess Who?

Eldon Tyrell plays Guess Who?

Maybe this is how the big boss in Blade Runner decides what his replicants will look like.

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WOPR plays Scrabble

WOPR plays Scrabble

Why play WarGames when you could be trying to make a word out of X, Z, Q, Y, B, V and O?

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Xavier and Eric play Buckaroo

Xavier and Eric play Buckaroo

Professor X is First Class at this game. Magneto wishes it wasnt all made of plastic.

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Xavier and Eric play KerPlunk

Xavier and Eric play KerPlunk

Professor X likes the way the straws form multiple X shapes. Magneto wishes it wasnt made of plastic

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Frank Poole plays Pac-Man

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Still popular in 2001 for when you get fed up with HAL beating you at Chess all the time.

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Andy and Kenneth play Battleships

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If you were separated by streets heaving with zombies during the Dawn Of The Dead, a bit a binocular-aided Battleships will help pass the time.

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Number Six plays Cluedo

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Imagine if this formed the Village green in The Prisoner rather than a giant chess set? Seems more like one of Number Twos interrogation schemes to us.

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Death plays Jenga

Death plays Jenga

After chess in The Seventh Seal and Twister, Cluedo and Battleship in Bill and Teds Bogus Journey, he needed to find a new challenge.

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