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. 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.

Two-player board games

  • A Game of War
  • Abalone
  • Advance to Boardwalk
  • 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
  • Crossfire
  • Counter Intelligence
  • 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
  • Hnetafl
  • Irish
  • Jacquet
  • Janggi (Korean chess)
  • Jaipur
  • Kalah
  • Kamisado
  • Khet
  • Liubo
  • Lost Cities
  • Mad Gab
  • Makruk (Thai chess)
  • Mancala
  • Mastermind
  • Matching game
  • Monopoly
  • 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
  • Snakes and Ladders
  • Space Hulk
  • Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
  • Stratego
  • Suffragetto
  • Sugoroku
  • Summoner Wars (Second Edition)
  • Ta Yü
  • Tâb
  • Tafl (Tablut)
  • Tantrix
  • Tak
  • Tic-tac-toe
  • Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989
  • Verquere
  • Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
  • YINSH
  • ZÈRTZ

Multi-player elimination board games

Participants are typically eliminated before the game ends.

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.

Economics 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. 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.

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

  • 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

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