List of board games

This is a list of board games. See the article on game classification for other alternatives, or see Category:Board games for a list of board game articles. Board games are games with rules, a playing surface, and tokens that enable interaction between or among players as players look down at the playing surface and face each other.[1] Unlike digital games, player interaction is not mediated by a system in board games, and ultimately the essential difference between board games and digital games is the medium.[1]

## Single-player board games

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Some board games have solo variants, such as Arkham Horror and Agricola. Others are specifically designed for one player.

* B-17, Queen of the Skies
* Fields of Fire

## Two-player abstract strategy games

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Main article: List of 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.[2]

## Two-player board games

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* A Game of War
* Abalone
* Agon
* Android: Netrunner
* Arimaa
* Asalto
* Backgammon
* BattleLore
* Battleship
* Blockade
* Blood Bowl
* Bul
* Camelot
* Chaturanga (Indian chess)
* Checkers
* Chess
* Commands & Colors: Ancients
* Connect Four
* Connect6
* Cross and circle game
* Daldøs
* Diamond
* Diceball!
* Doublets
* Downfall
* DVONN
* Draughts
* East Front
* English Game
* Fanorona
* Game of the Generals
* Ghosts
* GIPF
* Go
* Gobblet
* Gomoku
* Guess Who?
* Hare and Hounds
* Hounds and jackals
* Hex
* Hijara
* Irish
* Jacquet
* Janggi (Korean chess)
* Jaipur
* Kalah
* Kamisado
* Khet
* Liubo
* Lost Cities
* Mad Gab
* Makruk (Thai chess)
* Mancala
* Mastermind
* Matching game
* Napoléon à Austerlitz
* Nine men's morris
* Onyx
* Operation
* Ouk-Khmer (Cambodian chess)
* Oware
* PÜNCT
* Quarto
* Qwirkle
* Reversi (Othello)
* Rithmomachy
* Royal Game of Ur
* RSVP
* 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
* Summoner Wars (Second Edition)
* Ta Yü
* Tâb
* Tafl (Tablut)
* Tantrix
* Tak
* Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989
* Verquere
* Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
* YINSH
* ZÈRTZ

## Multi-player elimination board games

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Participants are typically eliminated before the game ends.

* 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: New Dawn for the Galaxy
* The Farming Game
* Finance
* Ghettopoly
* Glückshaus
* The Great Train Robbery
* Heroscape
* Hey, That's My Fish!
* Hotel
* Jenga
* King of Tokyo
* King Oil
* Ludo
* Mikado
* Monopoly
* Poleconomy
* Risk
* Shadow Hunters
* Shengguan Tu
* Shogun/Samurai Swords
* Solarquest
* Sopwith
* Spy Alley
* Star Wars Epic Duels
* Star Wars Tactics
* StarCraft: The Board Game
* Strange Synergy
* Summit
* TEG
* Terakh
* Titan
* Tri-nim
* Triumph
* Tsuro
* Tsuro of the Seas
* War on Terror, The Boardgame

## European race games

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

## Multiplayer games without elimination

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Everyone can play along to the end. These games are especially suited for mixed play with adults and children.

* 18XX
* 221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game
* 30 Seconds
* About Time
* Acquire
* Acronymble
* Afrikan tähti
* Agricola
* Air Charter
* Aksharit
* Aladdin's Dragons
* Alhambra
* Alias
* Amun-Re
* Arkham Horror
* Articulate!
* Auf Achse
* Australia
* Ave Caesar
* Azul
* Bailout! The Game
* Balderdash
* Barbarossa
* Battlestar Galactica
* Bezzerwizzer
* Blankety Blank
* Blood Rage
* Bonkers!
* Brain Chain
* Buccaneer
* Camel Up
* Candy Land
* Can't Stop
* Capitol
* Carcassonne
* Careers
* Caribbean
* Cartagena
* Caylus
* Chinese checkers (Sternhalma)
* Chowka bhara
* Chromino
* CirKis
* Civilization
* Clans
* Clue/Cluedo
* Codenames
* Coin Hopping—Washington D.C.
* Colt Express
* Concept
* Conspiracy
* Continuo
* Cosmic Encounter
* Catan (The Settlers of Catan)
* Cranium
* Crosstrack
* Dark Tower
* Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game
* Diamant
* Dixit
* Dominion
* Don't Miss the Boat
* Don't Quote Me
* Dorn
* Drunter und Drüber
* Dune
* Dungeons & Dragons
* El Grande
* Elfenland
* Enchanted Forest
* Entdecker
* Everdell
* Escape from Atlantis
* A Feast for Odin
* Fictionary
* Figure It Out
* Fireball Island
* Focus
* Fresco
* Game For Fame
* The Game of Life
* Gift Trap
* Giganten
* Girl Talk
* The Golf Game: Par Excellence
* The Great Train Robbery
* GridIron Master
* Halma
* History of the World
* Hoity Toity
* Hūsker Dū?
* I'm the Boss!
* Imhotep
* Imperial
* Indigo
* Ingenious
* Inkan aarre
* Java
* John Company
* Journey Through Europe
* Junta
* Karuba
* Keltis
* Kill Doctor Lucky
* Kingdomino
* Kingdoms
* Labyrinth
* Landslide
* Las Vegas
* Le Havre
* The 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
* Masterpiece
* Medici
* Medina
* Mensch ärgere Dich nicht
* Merchant of Venus
* Metro
* Mexica
* Mine a Million
* Modern Art
* Mutant Meeples
* Near and Far
* Niagara
* Omega Virus
* Ouija
* Outrage!
* Pack & Stack
* Pank-a-Squith
* Parcheesi
* Parqués
* Pay Day
* Personal Preference
* Pictionary
* Pirate's Cove
* Power Grid
* Primordial Soup
* The Princes of Florence
* Probe
* Puerto Rico
* Puzzle
* Qin
* The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone
* Quoridor
* Qwirkle
* Ra
* Rail Baron
* Railway Rivals
* Ricochet Robots
* Rivers, Roads & Rails
* RoboRally
* Rummoli
* Saint Petersburg
* Samurai
* San Marco
* Scattergories
* Scene It?
* Scotland Yard
* Scoundrels of Skullport
* Scrabble
* Scythe
* Sequence
* Shadows over Camelot
* Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
* Skirrid
* Small World
* Snakes and Ladders
* Sorry!
* Splendor
* Squatter
* Stock Ticker
* Taj Mahal
* Take It Easy
* Take the Galaxy
* Terraforming Mars
* Terra Mystica
* Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
* 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
* Travel Go
* Trivial Pursuit
* Trouble
* Twilight Imperium
* Ubongo
* Upwords
* Vanished Planet
* Vinci
* Wingspan
* Yahtzee
* Yut
* Yunnori
* Zombies!!!

## Economics strategy games

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Games involving scarce resources and strategy.

* Acquire
* Battleship
* Catan
* Diplomacy
* Hotel
* Junta
* Kolejka
* København
* Monopoly
* Mr. Trucker
* Power Grid
* Race for the Galaxy
* Risk
* Risk 2210 A.D.
* Root
* Sentinels of the Multiverse
* Squatter
* Ticket to Ride
* Triopoly

## Games of physical skill

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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
* Operation
* Perfection
* Polarity
* Subbuteo
* Twister
* Villa Paletti

## Children's games

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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
* Mouse Trap
* Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders)
* Space Hop

## Cooperative games

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Cooperative games in which all players need to work together to win. Some cooperative games may introduce a spy or betrayer at some point in the game - and the other players, together are now faced with not only beating the game, but also thwarting the spy's attempt to make the group fail. Betrayal at House on the Hill is one such example.

* Arkham Horror
* Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
* Betrayal at House on the Hill
* Castle Panic
* Flash Point: Fire Rescue
* Forbidden Island
* Freedom: The Underground Railroad
* Gloomhaven
* Hanabi
* Just One
* Lord of the Rings
* Pandemic
* Sentinels of the Multiverse
* Shadows over Camelot
* Space Alert
* Spirit Island
* What Next?
* XCOM

## Word games

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These games are based on construction of words to score points.

* 25 Words or Less
* Acronymble
* Aksharit
* Alfapet
* Bananagrams
* The Big Taboo
* Boggle
* Kings Cribbage
* Mad Gab
* Pictionary
* Probe
* Scrabble
* Thiruthamizh
* Trickster
* Upwords
* Words with Friends

## Gaming systems

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

* Flibbix
* Hanafuda
* Icehouse pieces
* Stonehenge
* Piecepack

## See also

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* Games portal
* Lists portal

* Spiel des Jahres (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

## References

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1. ^ a b Bayeck, Rebecca Yvonne (August 2020). "Examining Board Gameplay and Learning: A Multidisciplinary Review of Recent Research". Simulation & Gaming. 51 (4): 411–431\. doi:10.1177/1046878119901286. ISSN 1046-8781.
2. ^ Garcia, Dan; Bezakova, Ivona; Blank, Adam; Terrell, Neal (2021-03-05). "Teaching Computer Science with Abstract Strategy Games". Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. SIGCSE '21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1232–1233\. doi:10.1145/3408877.3432572. ISBN 978-1-4503-8062-1.

## External links

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* Board Game Geek
* A Zen Guide to Board Games
* Gamerate Game database
* Board Games Land
* Board Game Theories