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
- Blockade
- Blood Bowl
- Bul
- Camelot
- Checkers
- Chess
- Cross and Circle game
- Daldøs
- Diamond
- Downfall
- DVONN
- Fanorona
- Game of the Generals
- Ghosts
- Go
- Gipf
- Guess Who?
- Hare and Hounds
- Hex
- Hijara
- Isola
- Janggi (Korean chess)
- Le Jeu de la Guerre
- Kalah
- Kamisado
- Liu po
- Lost Cities
- Mad Gab
- Master Mind
- Nine Men's Morris
- Obsession
- Onyx
- Othello
- Patolli
- Plateau
- PÜNCT
- Quarto
- Rithmomachy
- Sáhkku
- Senet
- Shogi
- Space Hulk
- Stratego
- Sugoroku
- Tâb
- Tablut
- Tantrix
- Wari
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- YINSH
- ZÈRTZ
Multi-player elimination games
Participants are typically eliminated before game end.
- 13 Dead End Drive
- 1313 Dead End Drive
- American Megafauna
- Anti-Monopoly
- Attack!
- Axis & Allies
- Bang!
- Battle Sheep
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Blokus
- Blood Feud in New York
- Blue Max
- Bookchase
- Castle Risk
- Clue Jr.: Case of the Missing Pet
- Coppit
- Crash! The bankrupt game
- Diplomacy
- Djambi
- Doom: The Boardgame
- Eclipse
- Finance
- Ghettopoly
- The Great Train Robbery
- Heroscape
- Hey, That's My Fish!
- Hotels
- Jenga
- Khet
- King of Tokyo
- King Oil
- Ludo
- Monopoly
- Monopoly Junior
- Poleconomy
- Risk
- Shadow Hunters
- Shogun/Samurai Swords
- Solarquest
- Spy Alley
- Star Wars Epic Duels
- Star Wars Tactics
- StarCraft: The Board Game
- Strange Synergy
- Summit
- TEG
- Titan
- Tsuro
- Tsuro of the Seas
- War on Terror
European race games
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
- Aksharit
- Aladdin's Dragons
- Alhambra
- Alias
- Amun-Re
- Arkham Horror
- Articulate!
- Ashta Chamma
- Auf Achse
- Australia
- Balderdash
- Barbarossa
- Battlestar Galactica Board Game & Expansions
- Bezzerwizzer
- Blankety Blank
- Blokus
- (This Game Is) Bonkers!
- Brain Chain
- Brainstorm
- Break the Safe
- Buccaneer
- Camel Up
- Candy Land
- Can't Stop
- Capitol
- Carcassonne
- Careers
- Caribbean
- Cartagena
- Caylus
- Chromino
- CirKis
- Civilization
- Clans
- Clue/Cluedo
- Codenames
- Concept
- Conspiracy
- Cosmic Encounter
- Cranium
- Crosstrack
- Dark Tower
- Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game
- Diamant
- Dixit
- Domaine
- Dominion
- Don't Miss The Boat
- Don't Quote Me
- Dorn
- Drunter und Drüber
- Dune
- El Grande
- Elfenland
- Enchanted Forest
- Entdecker
- Escape from Atlantis
- Evo
- Farlander
- Figure It Out
- Fireball Island
- Focus
- Fresco
- Game For Fame the Party Board Game
- GiftTRAP
- Giganten
- Girl Talk
- Go
- Great Train Robbery
- GridIron Master
- History of the World
- Hooop!
- Husker Du?
- I'm the Boss!
- Imperial
- Indigo
- Ingenious
- Inkan aarre
- Java
- Journey through Europe
- Junta
- Kill Doctor Lucky
- Kingdoms
- Landslide
- Las Vegas
- Le Havre
- Life
- Logo Board Game
- The London Game
- Lords of Waterdeep
- Löwenherz
- Luck of the Draw
- Die Macher
- The Mad Magazine Game
- The Magic Labyrinth
- Mahjong
- Malefiz
- Mall Madness
- Manhattan
- Master Labyrinth
- Masterpiece
- 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
- Qin
- Quoridor
- 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
- Scattergories
- Scene It
- Scotland Yard
- Scoundrels of Skullport
- Scrabble
- Sequence
- The Settlers of Catan
- Shadows over Camelot
- Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
- Skirrid
- Small World
- Snakes and Ladders
- Sorry!
- Splendor
- Squatter
- Stock Ticker
- Taj Mahal
- Take It Easy
- Take Off!
- Terra Mystica
- Through the Desert
- Thurn and Taxis
- Ticket to Ride
- Tigris & Euphrates
- Tikal
- Timberland
- Time's Up!
- Top Secret Spies
- Torres
- Totopoly
- Tracks to Telluride
- TransAmerica
- Trivial Pursuit
- Trouble
- Twilight Imperium
- Twin Tin Bots
- Ubongo
- Upwords
- Vanished Planet
- Vinci
- Yahtzee
- Yut
- Zombies!!!
Economics and strategy games
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.
Games of physical skill
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary. Also known as dexterity games.
Children's games
The rules are easy to learn and the outcome is mostly or entirely due to chance.
Cooperative games
Cooperative games in which all players need to work together to win.
Gaming systems
These are sets that can be used to play multiple games.
See also
- Game of the Year
- Games 100
- List of board wargames
- List of Japanese board games
- List of mancala games
- List of board game publishers
- List of game manufacturers