List of board games

This is a list of board games. This page classifies board games according to the concerns which might be uppermost for someone organizing a gaming event or party. See the article on game classification for other alternatives, or see Category:Board games for a list of board game articles.

Two-player abstract strategy games
In abstract strategy games, players know the entire game state at all times, and random generators such as dice are not used.

Two-player games

 * Abalone
 * Agon
 * Backgammon
 * Battleship
 * Blood Bowl
 * Bul
 * Chess
 * Chinese Checkers
 * Connect Four
 * The Cross and Circle game family
 * Daldøs
 * Downfall
 * DVONN
 * English draughts (Checkers)
 * Fanorona
 * Ghosts
 * Gipf
 * Go
 * Guess Who?
 * Hare and Hounds
 * Hijara
 * Isola
 * Janggi (Korean Chess)
 * Kalah
 * Kamisado
 * Kingdoms
 * Liu po
 * Lost Cities
 * Mad Gab
 * Master Mind
 * Nine Men's Morris
 * Obsession
 * Patolli
 * Pawn duel
 * Plateau
 * PÜNCT
 * Reversi (aka Othello)
 * Rithmomachy
 * Sáhkku
 * Senet
 * Shogi (Japanese Chess)
 * Snakes and Ladders
 * Space Hulk
 * Stratego
 * Sugoroku
 * Tâb
 * Tantrix
 * Wari
 * Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
 * YINSH
 * ZÈRTZ

Multi-player elimination games
Participants are typically eliminated before game end.


 * 1313 Dead End Drive
 * American Megafauna
 * Anti-Monopoly
 * Apples to Apples
 * Attack!
 * Axis & Allies
 * Bang!
 * Blokus
 * Blood Feud in New York
 * Blue Max
 * Bookchase
 * Cluedo (Clue in North America)
 * Coppit
 * Crash! The bankrupt game
 * Diplomacy
 * Djambi
 * Finance
 * Ghettopoly
 * The Great Train Robbery Board Game
 * Hotels
 * Heroscape
 * Khet
 * King Oil
 * Monopoly
 * Monopoly Junior
 * Poleconomy
 * Risk
 * Shogun/Samurai Swords
 * Solarquest
 * Spy Alley
 * Star Wars Epic Duels
 * Star Wars Tactics
 * Strange Synergy
 * Summit
 * TEG
 * Titan
 * War on Terror

European race games

 * Cartagena
 * Chicken Cha Cha Cha
 * Formula Dé
 * Game of the Goose
 * Hare and Tortoise
 * Mississippi Queen
 * Transformers

Multiplayer games without elimination
Everyone can play along to the end. These games are especially suited for mixed play with adults and children.


 * 18XX
 * 221B Baker Street
 * 30 Seconds
 * About Time
 * Acquire
 * Acronymble
 * Adel Verpflichtet
 * Afrikan tähti
 * Agricola
 * Air Charter
 * Aladdin's Dragons
 * Alhambra
 * Alias
 * Amun-Re
 * Articulate!
 * Auf Achse
 * Australia
 * Balderdash
 * Barbarossa
 * Bezzerwizzer
 * Blankety Blank
 * (This Game Is) Bonkers!
 * Brain Chain
 * Brainstorm
 * Break the Safe
 * Buccaneer
 * Can't Stop
 * Candy Land
 * Capitol
 * Carcassonne
 * Careers
 * Cartagena
 * Caylus
 * Checkers
 * CirKis
 * Civilization
 * Clans
 * Cluedo
 * Conspiracy
 * Cosmic Encounter
 * Cranium
 * Crosstrack
 * Da Vinci Game, The
 * Dark Tower
 * Diamant
 * Dixit
 * Domaine
 * Dominion
 * Don't Miss The Boat
 * Don't Quote Me
 * Drunter und Drüber
 * Dune
 * Dungeons and Dragons
 * El Grande
 * Elfenland
 * Empire Builder series
 * Enchanted Forest
 * English draughts
 * Entdecker
 * Escape from Atlantis
 * Evo
 * Farlander
 * Figure It Out
 * Fireball Island
 * Focus
 * The Game of Life
 * GiftTRAP
 * Giganten
 * Girl Talk
 * Go
 * Great Train Robbery
 * GridIron Master
 * The HellGame
 * History of the World
 * I'm the Boss!
 * Imperial
 * Inkan aarre
 * Java
 * Journey through Europe
 * Junta
 * Kill Doctor Lucky
 * Kingdoms
 * Landslide
 * Le Havre
 * The London Game
 * Logo Board Game
 * Löwenherz
 * Luck of the Draw
 * Die Macher
 * Mall Madness
 * Manhattan
 * Masterpiece
 * Master Labyrinth
 * Medici
 * Medina
 * Mensch ärgere dich nicht
 * Merchant of Venus
 * Mexica
 * Mine a million
 * Modern Art
 * Niagara
 * Okey
 * Omega Virus
 * Outrage!
 * Pack & Stack
 * Pandemic
 * Parcheesi
 * Parqués
 * Pay Day
 * Personal Preference
 * Pictionary
 * Pirate's Cove
 * Power Grid
 * Primordial Soup
 * Princes of Florence
 * Puerto Rico
 * Qwirkle
 * Ra
 * Rail Baron
 * Rappakalja
 * Razzia
 * The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game
 * Ricochet Robots
 * Rivers, Roads & Rails
 * RoboRally
 * Rummikub
 * Rummoli
 * Saint Petersburg
 * Samurai
 * San Marco
 * Scotland Yard
 * Scattergories
 * Scrabble
 * Sequence
 * The Settlers of Catan
 * Shadows over Camelot
 * Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
 * Skirrid
 * Small World
 * Sorry!
 * Squatter
 * Stock Ticker
 * Super Quiz
 * Taj Mahal
 * Take It Easy
 * Take Off!
 * Through the Desert
 * Thurn and Taxis
 * Ticket to Ride
 * Tigris & Euphrates
 * Tikal
 * Timberland
 * Top Secret Spies
 * Torres
 * Totopoly
 * Tracks to Telluride
 * TransAmerica
 * Trivial Pursuit
 * Trouble
 * Tsuro
 * Twilight Imperium
 * Ubongo
 * Vanished Planet
 * Vinci
 * Yahtzee
 * Yut
 * Zombies!!!

Economics and strategy games
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.


 * Acquire
 * Junta
 * København
 * Monopoly
 * Power Grid
 * Risk
 * Risk 2210 AD
 * The Settlers of Catan
 * Ticket to Ride

Games of physical skill
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary. Also known as dexterity games.


 * Baboon Ball
 * Beer pong
 * Blockhead!
 * Buckaroo
 * Camp Granada
 * Carrom
 * Chapayev
 * Crokinole
 * Dart Wars
 * Gnip Gnop
 * Hungry Hungry Hippos
 * Jenga
 * Kerplunk
 * Krazy Maze
 * MagnetX
 * Operation
 * Perfection
 * Polarity
 * Subbuteo
 * Twister
 * Villa Paletti

Children's games
The rules are easy to learn and the outcome is mostly or entirely due to chance.


 * Candy Land
 * Chicken Cha Cha Cha
 * Don't Break the Ice
 * Don't Wake Daddy
 * Forbidden Bridge
 * Hey Pa! There's a Goat on the Roof
 * Hi Ho! Cherry-O
 * Hungry Hungry Hippos
 * Ludo
 * Mouse Trap
 * Snakes and ladders (aka Chutes and Ladders)
 * Space Hop

Gaming Systems
These are sets that can be used to play multiple games.


 * Flibbix
 * Icehouse pieces
 * Stonehenge