Classic games of skill and chance, used to demonstrate characters' personalities. * Battleship, a guessing game originally created for scrap paper "boards" (akin to Tic Tac Toe), but successfully adapted into a commercial form by Milton Bradley. If characters are seen playing this, it usually indicates they've had way too much idle time to kill. Due to the deeply embedded memories of MB's marketing campaigns, nobody ever is depicted destroying a cruiser or carrier, but within 3 turns one player will finally announce "You sank my battleship!" (Particularly suspect, considering a battleship must be hit 4 times before it will sink.) This is more often than not done ironically, or with a lampshade on it, at least recently. * Chess, the supreme Western test of intellect. Expect to see two