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.
Contents
- 1 Single-player board games
- 2 Two-player abstract strategy games
- 3 Two-player games
- 4 Multi-player elimination games
- 5 European race games
- 6 Multiplayer games without elimination
- 7 Economics and strategy games
- 8 Games of physical skill
- 9 Children's games
- 10 Cooperative games
- 11 Gaming systems
- 12 See also
- 13 External links
Single-player board games[edit]
Some board games have solo variants, like Arkham Horror and Agricola. Others are specifically designed for one player.
Two-player abstract strategy games[edit]
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[edit]
- Abalone
- Agon
- Android: Netrunner
- Asalto
- Backgammon
- BattleLore (board game)
- Battleship
- Blockade
- Blood Bowl
- Bul
- Camelot
- Chaturanga (Indian chess)
- Checkers
- Chess
- Commands & Colors: Ancients
- Connect 4
- Cross and Circle game
- Daldøs
- Diamond
- Diceball
- Downfall
- DVONN
- Fanorona
- Game of the Generals
- Ghosts
- Go
- Gipf
- Guess Who?
- Hare and Hounds
- Hounds and Jackals
- Hex
- Hijara
- Isola
- Janggi (Korean chess)
- Jaipur
- Le Jeu de la Guerre
- Kalah
- Kamisado
- Liu po
- Lost Cities
- Mad Gab
- Makruk (Thai chess)
- Master Mind
- Matching game
- Nine men's morris
- Onyx
- Operation
- Ouk Chatrang (Cambodian chess)
- Plateau
- PÜNCT
- Quarto
- Qwirkle
- Rithmomachy
- Sáhkku
- Santorini
- Sector 41
- Senet
- Shatar (Mongolian chess)
- Shatranj (Persian chess)
- Shogi (Japanese chess)
- Simon
- Sittuyin (Burmese chess)
- Skip-Bo
- Space Hulk
- Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
- Stratego
- Sugoroku
- Ta Yü
- Tâb
- Tablut
- Tantrix
- Tak
- Twilight Struggle
- Wari
- Wooper
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- YINSH
- ZÈRTZ
- Zingo!
Multi-player elimination games[edit]
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
- The Farming Game
- Finance
- Ghettopoly
- Glückshaus
- The Great Train Robbery
- Heroscape
- Hey, That's My Fish!
- Hotels
- Jenga
- Khet
- King of Tokyo
- King Oil
- Ludo
- Mikado
- Poleconomy
- Risk
- Shadow Hunters
- Shengguan Tu
- 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[edit]
Multiplayer games without elimination[edit]
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
- Azul
- Bailout! The Game
- Balderdash
- Barbarossa
- Battlestar Galactica
- Bezzerwizzer
- Blankety Blank
- Blokus
- Blood Rage
- (This Game Is) Bonkers!
- Brain Chain
- Brainstorm
- Break the Safe
- Buccaneer
- Camel Up
- Candy Land
- Can't Stop
- Capitol
- Carcassonne
- Careers
- Caribbean
- Cartagena
- Caylus
- Chinese Chequers
- Chromino
- CirKis
- Civilization
- Clans
- Clue/Cluedo
- Codenames
- Coin Hopping—Washington D.C.
- Colt Express
- 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
- Dungeons & Dragons
- El Grande
- Elfenland
- Enchanted Forest
- Entdecker
- Escape from Atlantis
- Farlander
- Fictionary
- Figure It Out
- Fireball Island
- Focus
- Fresco
- Game For Fame
- The Game of Life
- GiftTRAP
- Giganten
- Girl Talk
- Glasnost The Game
- Go
- Great Train Robbery
- GridIron Master
- Halma
- History of the World
- Hooop!
- Husker Du?
- I'm the Boss!
- Imperial
- Indigo
- Ingenious
- Inkan aarre
- Java
- Journey through Europe
- Junta
- Karuba
- Keltis
- Kill Doctor Lucky
- Kingdomino
- Kingdoms
- Landslide
- Las Vegas
- Le Havre
- The Game of 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
- Mutant Meeples
- Near and Far
- Niagara
- Okey
- Omega Virus
- Ouija
- Outrage!
- Pack & Stack
- Pandemic
- Parcheesi
- Parqués
- Pay Day
- Personal Preference
- Pictionary
- Pirate's Cove
- Power Grid
- Primordial Soup
- Princes of Florence
- Probe
- Puerto Rico
- Puzzle
- Qin
- The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone
- Quoridor
- Qwirkle
- Ra
- Rail Baron
- Rappakalja
- Razzia
- Ricochet Robots
- Rivers, Roads & Rails
- RoboRally
- Rummikub
- Rummoli
- Saint Petersburg
- Samurai
- San Marco
- Scattergories
- Scene It
- Scotland Yard
- Scoundrels of Skullport
- Scrabble
- Scythe
- 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!
- Take the Galaxy
- Terraforming Mars
- Terra Mystica
- Through the Ages
- Through the Desert
- Thurn and Taxis
- Ticket to Ride
- Tigris and 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
- Wingspan
- Yahtzee
- Yut
- Zombies!!!
- Zoophoria
Economics and strategy games[edit]
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.
Games of physical skill[edit]
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary. Also known as dexterity games.
Children's games[edit]
The rules are easy to learn and the outcome is mostly or entirely due to chance.
Cooperative games[edit]
Cooperative games in which all players need to work together to win.
Gaming systems[edit]
These are sets that can be used to play multiple games.
See also[edit]
- 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
- List of cross and circle games