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.
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.
Classic two-player abstract strategy games
Alquerque
Chaturanga and its descendants:
Chess
Jangki (Korean Chess)
Makruk (Thai Chess)
Shogi (Japanese Chess)
Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
Draughts or Checkers
Fox and geese
Go
Gomoku
Hnefatafl
Mak-yek
Mancala and the numerous games of this family
Three, Six and Nine Men's Morris
Rhythmomachia
Bagha-Chall
Modern two-player abstract strategy games
Abalone (board game)
Alak
Andantino
Arimaa
Ataxx
Breakthrough
Cathedral
Check Lines
Chinese checkers
Connect Four
Connect6
Crossings
Death Stacks
Entropy (1977 and 1994 games)
Epaminondas
Fanorona
Five Field Kono
The Game of the Amazons
Ghost Game
The Gipf project games:
Gipf
Tamsk
Z?tz
Dvonn
Yinsh
Gobblet
Gonnect
Gounki
Halma
Havannah
Heads or Tails
Hex
Hexplode ? an ingenious game originally designed for the BBC Micro computer.
Hexxagon
Hijara
Kensington
King's Mate (Ruin Mist)
L Game
Lasca
Lines of Action
Lotus
Malaika
Martian Chess (for two to six players)
Mozaic
Ninuki-renju
Orbit
Pente
Phutball
Quads
Quarto
Qubic
Quoridor
Reversi (Othello)
Rhumb Line
Spangles
Tanbo
Teeko
Terrace
Three Musketeers
Thud
Turnabout
Trax
TwixT
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Two-player games of chance
Backgammon
Battleship
CooperYoung (aka InterSect)
Liu po
Ludo
Mastermind
Mozaic
Parcheesi and the other Cross and Circle games
Senet
Space Hulk
Stratego
Sugoroku
Multi-player elimination games
Participants are typically eliminated before game end.
Anti-Monopoly
Axis & Allies
Blokus
Blue Max
Crash! The bankrupt game
Diplomacy
Family Business
Monopoly
Risk
TEG - Plan T?tico y Estrat?ico de la Guerra
Titan
Solarquest
Summit
Viktory
Poleconomy
European race games
Circle of Knowledge
Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix
Formula D?
Galopp Royal
Game of the Goose
Game of Japan
Great Baloon Race
Hare and Tortoise
Jeu du Grand-Homme
Mississippi Queen
Peter Rabbit's Race Game
Round the World with Nellie Bly
Streetcar
The Sun of Brunswick
Tour of Europe
Um Reifenbreite
Warhamster Rally
Yucata'
Multiplayer games without elimination
Everyone can play along to the end. These games are especially suited for mixed play with adults and children.
18XX
?la carte
Acquire
Adel Verpflichtet
Afrikan t?ti
Aladdin's Dragons
Alhambra
Das Amulett
Amun Re
Atlantis
Attribute
Attika
Auf Achse
Barbarossa
Basari
Bauernschlau
Billabong
Bohnanza
Break the Safe
The Bridges of Shangri-La
Buzzle
Caf?International
Campanile
Can't Stop
Canyon
Capitol
Carcassonne
Careers
Carolus Magnus
Cartagena
Casablanca
Chameleon
Chinatown
Civilization
Clans
Cluedo (also known as Clue)
Coloretto
Columbus
Crayon Rails
Cosmic Encounter
Debate This
Dicke Kartoffeln
Domaine
Drunter und Dr?er
Dschunke
Duftende Spuren
Ein Solches Ding...
El Grande
Elfenland
Enchanted Forest
Entdecker
Evo (elimination is technically possible but unlikely)
Extrablatt
Favoriten
Fearsome Floors
Fireball Island
Fische Fluppen Frikadellen
Flying Dutchman
Flusspiraten
Forus
Freebooter
Get the Goods
Giganten
Girl Talk
Goa
Gold Rush
Goldland
Die H?dler
Hansa
The Game of Life
Hattrick
High Society
Highlanders
History of the World
Holiday AG
Ingenious
Intrige [sic]
Jagd der Vampire
Java
Junta
Kill Doctor Lucky
Kingdoms
Knock Out
La Citt?
Landslide ? the ultimate game of presidential politics
Lost Cities
L?enherz
Die Macher
Maharaja
Manhattan
Manitou
Marracash
Master Labyrinth
Medici
Medieval Merchant
Medina
Merchant of Venus
Merchants of Amsterdam
Mexica
Mine a million ? Dig for minerals, transport to town and get rich...
Minos
The Mob
Modern Art
Mole in the Hole
Nautilus
Neolithibum
New England
Paris Paris
Pay Day
Personal Preference
Pfusch
Pirate's Cove
Pizarro & Co.
Prendi e porta a casa
Primordial Soup
Princes of Florence
Prosperity
Pueblo
Puerto Rico
Quo Vadis?
RA
Rail Baron
Ramses II
Razzia
Rette Sich wer Kann
Rheinlander
Rivers, Roads & Rails
Robo Rally
R?er
Rummikub
Saint Petersburg
Samurai
San Marco
Settlers of Catan
Schraumeln
Schweinsgalopp
Scotland Yard
Scrabble
Serenissima
Seven Deadly Sins
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Showmanager
Spiel der T?me
Sternen Himmel
Sticheln
Stock Ticker
Super Quiz
Taj Mahal
Tal der K?ige
Take it Easy
Terra X
Through the Desert
Ticket to Ride
Tigris & Euphrates
Tikal
Timberland
Top Secret Spies
Torres
Totopoly
Tracks to Telluride
Traders of Genoa
TransAmerica
Tutankhamen
Tycoon (board game)
Union Pacific
Vernissage
Verr?er
Vinci
Was Sticht?
Web of Power
Wind & Wetter
Zombies!!!
Games of physical skill
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary.
Carabande
Caroms
Chapayev
Crokinole
Jenga
Operation.
Subbuteo
Villa Paletti
Children's games
The rules are easy to learn and the outcome mostly or entirely due to chance.
Ab Die Post!
Candy Land
Chicken Cha Cha Cha
Hallo Dachs!
Hey Pa! There's a Goat on the Roof
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Husch Husch kleine Hexe
Loopin' Louie
Ludo
Mouse Trap
Piepmatz
Die Ritter von der Haselnu?
Snakes and ladders
Sorry
Verflixt Gemixt
Generic game sets
These are sets used to play various board games.
Icehouse pieces
Piecepack