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.

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
   * Epaminondas
   * Fanorona
   * Five Field Kono
   * Gonnect
   * Halma
   * Havannah
   * Heads and Tails
   * Hex
   * Kensington
   * L Game
   * Lines of Action
   * Lotus
   * 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.

   * 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 know as Clue)
   * El Grande
   * Elfenland
   * Euphrat und Tigris
   * The Game of Life
   * Java
   * Kill Doctor Lucky
   * Lost Cities
   * Mine a million - Dig for minerals, transport to town and get rich...
   * Pay Day
   * 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