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.

• Ambush!

• B-17, Queen of the Skies

• Fields of Fire (game)

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

• 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

• 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

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• 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
• Cartagena

• Chicken Cha Cha Cha

• Formula Dé

• Game of the Goose

• Hare and Tortoise

• Mississippi Queen

• Transformers

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

• (This Game Is) Bonkers!

• Brain Chain

• Brainstorm

• Break the Safe

• Buccaneer

• Clue

• 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

• Keltis

• Kill Doctor Lucky

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Terra Mystica

• 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

• Yahtzee

• Yut

• Zombies!!!

• Zoophoria

Economics and strategy games
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.

• Acquire

• Battleship

• Diplomacy

• Glasnost The Game

• 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.

• Arkham Horror

• Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

• Betrayal at House on the Hill

• Castle Panic

• Flash Point

• Forbidden Island

• Freedom: The Underground Railroad

• Hanabi

• Lord of the Rings

• Pandemic

• Sentinels of the Multiverse

• Shadows over Camelot

• Space Alert

• Spirit Island

• X-COM

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

• Flibbix

• Hanafuda

• Icehouse pieces

• Stonehenge