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Board game
A board game is a game for one or more players played with a premarked surface and game counters. 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.
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Two-player abstract strategy games
Players know the entire game state at all times, and random generators such as dice are not used.
Classic two-player abstract strategy games
- Alquerque
- Chess
- Checkers
- Go
- Gomoku
- Hnefatafl
- Mak-yek
- Mancala
- Nine Men's Morris
- Pool Checkers
- Rithmomachia
- Shogi
- Xiang Qi
Modern two-player abstract strategy games
- Abalone
- Alak
- Amazons
- Andantino
- Arimaa
- Ataxx
- Breakthrough
- Chinese checkers
- Connect Four
- Crossings
- Dvonn
- Epaminondas
- Fanorona
- Five Field Kono
- Gonnect
- Halma
- Havannah
- Heads and Tails
- Hex
- Kensington
- L Game
- Lines of Action
- Lotus
- Martian Chess (for two or four players)
- Ninuki-renju
- Orbit
- Quoridor
- Pente
- Phutball
- Reversi
- Spangles
- Tanbo
- Three Musketeers
- Turnabout
- Trax
- TwixT
- Y
Two-player games of chance
Luck or hidden information may decide the outcome, but skill predominates.
- Backgammon
- Battleship
- CooperYoung (aka InterSect)
- Liu po
- Ludo
- Parchisi
- Parques
- Senet
- Sugoroku
- Stratego
Multi-player elimination games
Participants are typically eliminated before game end.
- Crash! The bankrupt game
- Diplomacy
- Monopoly
- Risk
- Titan
European race games
- Game of the Goose
- Tour of Europe
- Round the World with Nellie Bly
- Game of Japan
- The Sun of Brunswick
- Jeu du Grand-Homme
- Circle of Knowledge
- Peter Rabbit's Race Game
Multiplayer games without elimination
Everyone can play along to the end. These games are especially suited for mixed play with adults and children.
- Acquire
- Bohnanza
- Can't Stop
- Carcassonne
- Careers
- Civilization
- Cluedo (also known as Clue)
- El Grande
- Elfenland
- Euphrat und Tigris
- The Game of Life
- Java
- Kill Doctor Lucky
- Lost Cities
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Mine a million - Dig for minerals, transport to town and get rich...
- Pay Day
- Prendi e porta a casa
- Puerto Rico
- Rail Baron
- Settlers of Catan
- Scotland Yard
- Scrabble
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Super Quiz
- Tikal
- Torres
Modern Wargames
Accurate simulation of historical or hypothetical battles is an objective.
- Advanced Squad Leader
- Axis & Allies
- France 1940
- Third Reich
Games of physical skill
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary.- Caroms
- Crokinole
- Subbuteo
Children's games
The rules are easy to learn and the outcome mostly or entirely due to chance.
- Candy Land
- Snakes and ladders
- Ludo
- Sorry
Literature
- The Boardgame Book, USA 1983, Exeter Books
- Sackson, Sid. A Gamut of Games. ISBN 0-486-27347-4
- Schmittberger, R. Wayne. New Rules for Classic Games. ISBN 0-471-53621-0
