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.
Single-player board games
Some board games have solo variants, like Arkham Horror and Agricola. Others are specifically designed for one player.
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
- 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
- Suffragetto
- Sugoroku
- Ta Yü
- Tâb
- Tablut
- Tantrix
- Tak
- Twilight Struggle
- Wari
- Wooper
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- YINSH
- ZÈRTZ
- Zingo!
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
- 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
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
- Azul
- Bailout! The Game
- Balderdash
- Barbarossa
- Battlestar Galactica
- Bezzerwizzer
- Blankety Blank
- Blokus
- Blood Rage
- (This Game Is) Bonkers!
- Brain Chain
- 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
- Pank-a-Squith
- 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
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.
- Acquire
- Battleship
- Diplomacy
- Glasnost The Game
- Hotel
- Junta
- Kolejka
- København
- Monopoly
- Power Grid
- Race for the Galaxy
- Risk
- Risk 2210 AD
- Sentinels of the Multiverse
- Squatter
- The Settlers of Catan
- Ticket to Ride
Games of physical skill
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary. Also known as dexterity games.
- Blockhead!
- Buckaroo
- Camp Granada
- Carrom
- Chapayev
- Crokinole
- Dart Wars
- Gnip Gnop
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
- Jenga
- Kerplunk
- Krazy Maze
- 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
- Catan Junior
- 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
- The Kids of Catan
- Ludo
- Mouse Trap
- Snakes and ladders (aka Chutes and Ladders)
- Sorry!
- Space Hop
- Uncle Wiggily
Cooperative games
Cooperative games in which all players need to work together to win.
Word games
These games are based on construction of words to score points.
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
- List of cross and circle games