User:Percy Snoodle/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.

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.

Classic

 * Alquerque
 * Chaturanga and its descendants:
 * Chess
 * Jangki (Korean Chess)
 * Makruk (Thai Chess)
 * Shogi (Japanese Chess)
 * Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
 * Draughts or Checkers
 * Fox games
 * Go
 * Gomoku
 * Hnefatafl
 * Mak-yek
 * Mancala and the numerous games of this family
 * Three, Six and Nine Men's Morris
 * Rhythmomachia

Modern

 * Abalone (board game)
 * Alak
 * Andantino
 * Arimaa
 * Ataxx
 * Breakthrough
 * Cathedral
 * Chinese checkers
 * Connect Four
 * Crossings
 * Death Stacks
 * Entropy (1977 and 1994 games)
 * Epaminondas
 * Fanorona
 * Five Field Kono
 * The Game of the Amazons
 * The Gipf project games:
 * Gipf
 * Tamsk
 * Zèrtz
 * Dvonn
 * Yinsh
 * Gobblet
 * Gonnect
 * Gounki
 * Halma
 * Havannah
 * Heads and Tails
 * Hex
 * Hijara
 * Kensington
 * L Game
 * Lines of Action
 * Lotus
 * Martian Chess (for two to six players)
 * Malaika
 * Mozaic
 * Ninuki-renju
 * Orbit
 * Quarto
 * Qubic
 * Quoridor
 * Pente
 * Phutball
 * Reversi
 * Rhumb Line
 * Spangles
 * Tanbo
 * Teeko
 * Terrace
 * Three Musketeers
 * Thud
 * Turnabout
 * Trax
 * TwixT
 * Y

Games of chance
Luck or hidden information may decide the outcome, but skill predominates.
 * Backgammon
 * Battleship
 * CooperYoung (aka InterSect)
 * Liu po
 * Ludo
 * Mastermind
 * Mozaic
 * Parcheesi and the other Cross and Circle games
 * Senet
 * Space Hulk
 * Stratego
 * Sugoroku

Elimination games
Players are eliminated during the course of a game; the last remaining player wins
 * Solarquest
 * Anti-Monopoly
 * Crash! The bankrupt game
 * Diplomacy
 * Family Business
 * Focus
 * Monopoly
 * Risk
 * Titan

Race games
The first player to achieve some victory condition is the winner.
 * Afrikan tähti
 * Attika
 * Billabong
 * Can't Stop
 * Canyon
 * Careers
 * Carolus Magnus (though scores are used if no player achieves the victory condition before the end of the game)
 * Cartagena
 * Circle of Knowledge
 * Cluedo (also known as Clue)
 * Columbus
 * Cosmic Encounter
 * Das Amulett
 * Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix
 * Ein Solches Ding...
 * Elfenland
 * Enchanted Forest
 * Favoriten
 * Fearsome Floors
 * Fische Fluppen Frikadellen
 * Flusspiraten
 * Formula Dé
 * Galopp Royal
 * Game of the Goose
 * Game of Japan
 * Gold Rush
 * Great Baloon 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'

Scoring games
All players play to some predefined limit (for example a fixed number of turns, a fixed amount of time) and then add up their scores; the player with the highest score is the winner. These games are especially suited for mixed play with adults and children, and most German-style board games fit into this category. In some games (for example Auf Achse) scoring only occurs when a player staisfies some ending condition - but if that player has not necessarily won, the game is not considered a racing game.
 * 18XX
 * À la carte
 * Acquire
 * Adel Verpflichtet
 * Aladdin's Dragons
 * Alhambra
 * Amun Re
 * Atlantis
 * Attribute
 * Auf Achse
 * Barbarossa
 * Basari
 * Bauernschlau
 * The Bridges of Shangri-La
 * Buzzle
 * Café International
 * Campanile
 * Capitol
 * Carcassonne
 * Casablanca
 * Chameleon
 * Chinatown
 * Civilization
 * Clans
 * Crayon Rails
 * Dicke Kartoffeln
 * Domaine
 * Drunter und Drüber
 * Dschunke
 * Duftende Spuren
 * El Grande
 * Entdecker
 * Evo (elimination is technically possible but unlikely)
 * Extrablatt
 * Flying Dutchman
 * Freebooter
 * Giganten
 * Goa
 * Goldland
 * Die Händler

This is as far as I've got reclassifying the multiplayer games Percy Snoodle 15:32, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Hansa
 * The Game of Life
 * Hattrick
 * High Society
 * Highlanders
 * History of the World
 * Holiday AG
 * Ingenious
 * Intrige [sic]
 * Jagd der Vampire
 * Java
 * Junta
 * Kill Doctor Lucky
 * Kingdoms
 * Knock Out
 * La Cittá
 * Landslide &mdash; the ultimate game of presidential politics
 * Lost Cities
 * Löwenherz
 * Die Macher
 * Maharaja
 * Manhattan
 * Manitou
 * Marracash
 * Master Labyrinth
 * Medici
 * Medieval Merchant
 * Medina
 * Merchant of Venus
 * Merchants of Amsterdam
 * Mexica
 * Mine a million &mdash; Dig for minerals, transport to town and get rich...
 * Minos
 * The Mob
 * Modern Art
 * Mole in the Hole
 * Nautilus
 * Neolithibum
 * New England
 * Paris Paris
 * Pay Day
 * Pfusch
 * Pirate's Cove
 * Pizarro & Co.
 * Prendi e porta a casa
 * Primordial Soup
 * Princes of Florence
 * Pueblo
 * Puerto Rico
 * Quo Vadis?
 * Ra
 * Rail Baron
 * Ramses II
 * Razzia
 * Rette Sich wer Kann
 * Robo Rally
 * Römer
 * Rummikub
 * Saint Petersburg
 * Samurai
 * San Marco
 * Settlers of Catan
 * Schraumeln
 * Schweinsgalopp
 * Scotland Yard
 * Scrabble
 * Serenissima
 * Seven Deadly Sins
 * Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
 * Showmanager
 * Spiel der Türme
 * 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
 * Traders of Genoa
 * TransAmerica
 * Tutankhamen
 * Tycoon (board game)
 * Union Pacific
 * Vernissage
 * Verräter
 * Vinci
 * Was Sticht?
 * Web of Power
 * Wind & Wetter
 * Zombies!!!

Games of physical skill
Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary.
 * Carabande
 * Caroms
 * Crokinole
 * Jenga
 * Subbuteo
 * Villa Paletti

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
 * Girl Talk
 * Hallo Dachs!
 * Hungry Hungry Hippos
 * Husch Husch kleine Hexe
 * Loopin' Louie
 * Ludo
 * Mouse Trap
 * Piepmatz
 * Die Ritter von der Haselnuß
 * Snakes and ladders
 * Sorry
 * Verflixt Gemixt