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.
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 involving chance or hidden information
- Backgammon
- Battleship
- Blood Bowl
- The Cross and Circle game family
- Crash Tackle
- Daldøs
- Dracula's Revenge
- Downfall
- Frankenstein's Children
- Ghosts
- Guess Who?
- Isis & Osiris
- Kingdoms
- Liu po
- Magestones
- Mastermind
- Mindmover
- Mozaic
- Nabuko Generals and Conquerors
- Obsession
- Sáhkku
- Senet
- Space Hulk
- Star Wars Epic Duels
- Strata5
- Stratego
- Sugoroku
- Tâb
- Tantrix
- Wari
- Zoki Games
Multi-player elimination games
Participants are typically eliminated before game end.
- 1313 Dead End Drive (game)
- Anti-Monopoly
- Apples-to-Apples
- Attack!
- Axis & Allies
- Blokus
- Blue Max
- Bookchase
- Class Struggle
- Crash! The bankrupt game
- Deflexion
- Diplomacy
- Explorium: a Gold Rush game
- Finance
- Ghettopoly
- Hotels
- King Oil
- Las Vegas The Board Game
- Monopoly
- Poleconomy
- Privateer
- Risk
- Solarquest
- Spy Alley
- Star Wars Epic Duels
- Strange Synergy
- Summit
- TEG - Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra
- Titan
- War on Terror
- Zoki Games
European race games
- Circle of Knowledge
- Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix
- Formula Dé
- Galopp Royal
- Game of the Goose
- Game of Japan
- Great Balloon Race
- Hare and Tortoise
- Jeu du Grand-Homme
- Mississippi Queen
- Peter Rabbit's Race Game
- Round the World with Nellie Bly
- Streetcar
- The Sun of Brunswick
- Tour of Europe
- Um Reifenbreite
- Warhamster Rally
- Yucata'
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
- À la carte
- Acquire
- Acronymble
- Adel Verpflichtet
- Afrikan tähti
- Aladdin's Dragons
- Alhambra
- Amun-Re
- Atlantis
- Attika
- Attribute
- Auf Achse
- Australia
- Barbarossa
- Basari
- Bauernschlau
- Billabong
- Blankety Blank
- (This Game Is) Bonkers!
- Brain Chain
- Break the Safe
- The Bridges of Shangri-La
- Buccaneer
- Buzzle
- Café International
- Campanile
- Can't Stop
- Canyon
- Capitol
- Carcassonne
- Careers
- Carolus Magnus
- Cartagena
- Casablanca
- Caylus
- Chameleon
- Checkers
- Chinatown
- Chinese checkers
- Civilization
- Clans
- Cluedo (also known as Clue)
- Columbus
- Connect Four
- Cosmic Encounter
- Cranium
- Crayon Rails
- Crosstrack
- Da Vinci Game, The
- Dark Tower
- Das Amulett
- Debate This!
- Deflexion
- Dicke Kartoffeln
- Domaine
- Don't Quote Me
- Drunter und Drüber
- Dschunke
- Duftende Spuren
- Dune
- Ein Solches Ding...
- El Grande
- Elfenland
- Enchanted Forest
- English draughts
- Entdecker
- Evo
- Extrablatt
- Farlander
- Favoriten
- Fearsome Floors
- Figure It Out
- Fireball Island
- Fische Fluppen Frikadellen
- Flying Dutchman
- Flusspiraten
- Forus
- Freebooter
- Funagle
- The Game of Life
- Get the Goods
- GiftTRAP
- Giganten
- Girl Talk
- Go (modern board game)
- Go For Broke
- Goa
- Gold Rush
- Goldland
- GridIron Master
- Die Händler
- Hansa
- Hattrick
- High Society
- Highlanders
- History of the World
- Holiday AG
- Imperial
- Ingenious
- Intrigue
- Jagd der Vampire
- Java
- Journey through Europe
- JUMP
- Junta
- Kill Doctor Lucky
- Kingdoms
- Knock Out
- Korg 70,000 B.C.
- La Cittá
- Landslide
- The London Game
- Lost
- Löwenherz
- Luck of the Draw
- Die Macher
- Maharaja
- Mall Madness
- Manhattan
- Manitou
- Marracash
- Master Labyrinth
- Medici
- Medieval Merchant
- Medina
- Merchant of Venus
- Merchants of Amsterdam
- Mexica
- Mine a million
- Minos
- The Mob
- Modern Art
- Mole in the Hole
- Nautilus
- Neolithibum
- New England
- Outrage!
- Outpost
- Paris Paris
- Parcheesi
- Payday
- Personal Preference
- PervArtistry
- Pfusch
- Pictionary
- Pirate's Cove
- Pizarro & Co.
- Power Grid
- Prendi e porta a casa
- Primordial Soup
- Princes of Florence
- Pueblo
- Puerto Rico
- Quo Vadis?
- Ra
- Rail Baron
- Rapidough
- Ramses II
- Razzia
- Rette Sich wer Kann
- Rheinlander
- Ricochet Robots
- Righteous Game
- Rivers, Roads & Rails
- RoboRally
- Römer
- Rummikub
- Rummoli
- Saint Petersburg
- Samurai
- San Marco
- The Secret Door
- Sequence
- Settlers of Catan
- Schraumeln
- Schweinsgalopp
- Scotland Yard
- Scattergories
- Scrabble
- Serenissima
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Shadows over Camelot
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
- Showmanager
- Sixth Sense
- Skirrid
- Sorry!
- Space Hop
- Speechless (board game)
- Spiel der Türme
- Spy vs. Spy
- Sternen Himmel
- Sticheln
- Stock Ticker
- Super Quiz
- Taj Mahal
- Tal der Könige
- Take It Easy
- Terra X
- Through the Desert
- Ticket to Ride
- Tigris & Euphrates
- Tikal
- Timberland
- Top Secret Spies
- Torres
- Totopoly
- Tracks to Telluride
- Traders of Genoa
- TransAmerica
- Trivial Pursuit
- Trouble
- Tutankhamen
- TV Mania
- Tycoon
- Union Pacific
- Vanished Planet
- Vernissage
- Verräter
- Vinci
- Was Sticht?
- Web of Power
- Wind & Wetter
- You Haven't Changed A Bit
- Zoki Games
- Zombies!!!
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 mostly or entirely due to chance.
- Ab Die Post!
- Candy Land
- Chicken Cha Cha Cha
- Cooties
- Die Ritter von der Haselnuß
- Don't Break the Ice!
- Don't Wake Daddy!
- Hallo Dachs!
- Hey Pa! There's a Goat on the Roof
- Hi Ho! Cherry-O
- Husch Husch kleine Hexe
- Loopin' Louie
- Ludo
- Mouse Trap
- Piepmatz
- Snakes and ladders (aka Chutes and Ladders)
- Space Hop
- Verflixt Gemixt
- Zoki Games
Gaming Systems
These are sets that can be used to play multiple games.
See also
- List of board wargames
- List of Japanese board games
- List of mancala games
- List of board game publishers
- List of game manufacturers