List of board games

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.

Single-player board games
Some board games have solo variants, such as Arkham Horror and Agricola. Others are specifically designed for one player.

• Ambush!

• B-17, Queen of the Skies

• Fields of Fire

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 board games
• A Game of War

• Abalone

• 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

• 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

• Irish

• Jacquet

• Janggi (Korean chess)

• Jaipur

• Kalah

• Kamisado

• Khet

• Liubo

• Lost Cities

• Mad Gab

• Makruk (Thai chess)

• Mancala

• Mastermind

• Matching game

• Nine men's morris

• Onyx

• Operation

• Ouk-Khmer (Cambodian chess)

• Oware

• Plateau

• 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

• Space Hulk

• Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game

• Stratego

• Suffragetto

• Sugoroku

• Summoner Wars (Second Edition)

• Ta Yü

• Tâb

• Tafl (Tablut)

• Tantrix

• Tak

• Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989

• Verquere

• Xiangqi (Chinese chess)

• YINSH

• ZÈRTZ

Multi-player elimination board 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

• Diplomacy

• Djambi

• Doom: The Boardgame

• Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy

• The Farming Game

• Finance

• Ghettopoly

• Glückshaus

• The Great Train Robbery

• Heroscape

• Hey, That's My Fish!

• Hotel

• Jenga

• King of Tokyo

• King Oil

• Ludo

• Mikado

• Monopoly

• 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

• Terakh

• Titan

• Tri-nim

• Tsuro

• Tsuro of the Seas

• War on Terror, The Boardgame

European race games
• Cartagena

• Chicken Cha Cha Cha

• Formula D

• 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: The Master Detective Game

• 30 Seconds

• About Time

• Acquire

• Acronymble

• Afrikan tähti

• Agricola

• Air Charter

• Aksharit

• Aladdin's Dragons

• Alhambra

• Alias

• Amun-Re

• Arkham Horror

• Articulate!

• Auf Achse

• Australia

• Ave Caesar

• Azul

• Bailout! The Game

• Balderdash

• Barbarossa

• Battlestar Galactica

• Bezzerwizzer

• Blankety Blank

• Blood Rage

• Bonkers!

• Brain Chain

• Buccaneer

• Camel Up

• Candy Land

• Can't Stop

• Capitol

• Carcassonne

• Careers

• Caribbean

• Cartagena

• Caylus

• Chinese checkers (Sternhalma)

• Chowka bhara

• Chromino

• CirKis

• Civilization

• Clans

• Clue/Cluedo

• Codenames

• Coin Hopping—Washington D.C.

• Colt Express

• Concept

• Conspiracy

• Continuo

• Cosmic Encounter

• Catan (The Settlers of Catan)

• Cranium

• Crosstrack

• Dark Tower

• Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game

• Diamant

• Dixit

• Dominion

• Don't Miss the Boat

• Don't Quote Me

• Dorn

• Drunter und Drüber

• Dune

• Dungeons & Dragons

• El Grande

• Elfenland

• Enchanted Forest

• Entdecker

• Everdell

• Escape from Atlantis

• A Feast for Odin

• Fictionary

• Figure It Out

• Fireball Island

• Focus

• Fresco

• Game For Fame

• The Game of Life

• Gift Trap

• Giganten

• Girl Talk

• The Golf Game: Par Excellence

• The Great Train Robbery

• GridIron Master

• Halma

• History of the World

• Hoity Toity

• Hooop!

• Hūsker Dū?

• I'm the Boss!

• Imhotep

• Imperial

• Indigo

• Ingenious

• Inkan aarre

• Java

• John Company

• Journey Through Europe

• Junta

• Karuba

• Keltis

• Kill Doctor Lucky

• Kingdomino

• Kingdoms

• Labyrinth

• Landslide

• Las Vegas

• Le Havre

• The 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

• Masterpiece

• Medici

• Medina

• Mensch ärgere Dich nicht

• Merchant of Venus

• Metro

• Mexica

• Mine a Million

• Modern Art

• Mutant Meeples

• Near and Far

• Niagara

• Okey

• Omega Virus

• Ouija

• Outrage!

• Pack & Stack

• Pank-a-Squith

• Parcheesi

• Parqués

• Pay Day

• Personal Preference

• Pictionary

• Pirate's Cove

• Power Grid

• Primordial Soup

• The Princes of Florence

• Probe

• Puerto Rico

• Puzzle

• Qin

• The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone

• Quoridor

• Qwirkle

• Ra

• Rail Baron

• Railway Rivals

• Ricochet Robots

• Rivers, Roads & Rails

• RoboRally

• Rummikub

• Rummoli

• Saint Petersburg

• Samurai

• San Marco

• Scattergories

• Scene It?

• Scotland Yard

• Scoundrels of Skullport

• Scrabble

• Scythe

• Sequence

• Shadows over Camelot

• Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective

• Skirrid

• Small World

• Snakes and Ladders

• Sorry!

• Splendor

• Squatter

• Stock Ticker

• Taj Mahal

• Take It Easy

• Take the Galaxy

• Terraforming Mars

• Terra Mystica

• Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization

• 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

• Travel Go

• Trivial Pursuit

• Trouble

• Twilight Imperium

• Ubongo

• Upwords

• Vanished Planet

• Vinci

• Wingspan

• Yahtzee

• Yut

• Zombies!!!

Economics strategy games
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.

• Acquire

• Battleship

• Catan

• Diplomacy

• Hotel

• Junta

• Kolejka

• København

• Monopoly

• Power Grid

• Race for the Galaxy

• Risk

• Risk 2210 A.D.

• Root

• Sentinels of the Multiverse

• Squatter

• Ticket to Ride

• Triopoly

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

• Mouse Trap

• Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders)

• Space Hop

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: Fire Rescue

• Forbidden Island

• Freedom: The Underground Railroad

• Gloomhaven

• Hanabi

• Just One

• Lord of the Rings

• Pandemic

• Sentinels of the Multiverse

• Shadows over Camelot

• Space Alert

• Spirit Island

• What Next?

• XCOM

Word games
These games are based on construction of words to score points.

• 25 Words or Less

• Acronymble

• Aksharit

• Alfapet

• Bananagrams

• The Big Taboo

• Boggle

• Kings Cribbage

• Mad Gab

• Pictionary

• Probe

• Scrabble

• Thiruthamizh

• Trickster

• Upwords

• Words with Friends

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

• Flibbix

• Hanafuda

• Icehouse pieces

• Stonehenge

• Piecepack