Two-player board games

~ Abalone ~ Agon ~ Backgammon ~ Battleship ~ Blood Bowl ~ Boggle ~ Bul ~ Chess ~ Chinese Checkers ~ Chutes and Ladders ~ Connect Four ~ The Cross and Circle game family ~ Daldøs ~ Downfall ~ DVONN ~ English draughts (Checkers) ~ Fanorona ~ Ghosts ~ Gipf ~ Go ~ Guess Who? ~ Hare and Hounds ~ Hijara ~ Isola ~ Janggi (Korean Chess) ~ Kalah ~ Kamisado ~ Kingdoms ~ Liu po ~ Lost Cities ~ Mad Gab ~ Master Mind ~ Neutreeko ~ Nine Men's Morris ~ Obsession ~ Patolli ~ Pawn duel ~ Plateau ~ PÜNCT ~ Reversi (aka Othello) ~ Rithmomachy ~ Sáhkku ~ Senet ~ Shogi (Japanese Chess) ~ Space Hulk ~ Stratego ~ Sugoroku ~ Tâb ~ Tantrix ~ Wari ~ Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) ~ YINSH ~ ZÈRTZ

Multi-player elimination board games

Participants are typically eliminated before game end.

~ 1313 Dead End Drive ~ Anti-Monopoly ~ Apples to Apples ~ Attack! ~ Axis & Allies ~ Bang! ~ Blokus ~ Blood Feud in New York ~ Blue Max ~ Bookchase ~ Clue ~ Crash! The bankrupt game ~ Diplomacy ~ Djambi ~ Finance ~ Ghettopoly ~ The Great Train Robbery Board Game ~ Hotels ~ Heroscape ~ Khet ~ King Oil ~ Monopoly ~ Monopoly Junior ~ Poleconomy ~ Risk ~ Shogun/Samurai Swords ~ Solarquest ~ Spy Alley ~ Star Wars Epic Duels ~ Star Wars Tactics ~ Strange Synergy ~ Summit ~ TEG ~ Titan ~ War on Terror ~ World War IV: One World, One King

European race board games

~ Cartagena ~ Chicken Cha Cha Cha ~ Formula Dé ~ Game of the Goose ~ Hare and Tortoise ~ Mississippi Queen ~ Transformers

Multiplayer board 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 ~ About Time ~ Acquire ~ Acronymble ~ Adel Verpflichtet ~ Afrikan tähti ~ Agricola ~ Air Charter ~ Aladdin's Dragons ~ Alcatraz ~ Alhambra ~ Alias ~ Amun-Re ~ Articulate! ~ Auf Achse ~ Australia ~ Balderdash ~ Barbarossa ~ Bezzerwizzer ~ Blankety Blank ~ (This Game Is) Bonkers! ~ Brain Chain ~ Brainstorm ~ Break the Safe ~ Buccaneer ~ Can't Stop ~ Candy Land ~ Capitol ~ Carcassonne ~ Careers ~ Cartagena ~ Caylus ~ Checkers ~ CirKis ~ Civilization ~ Clans ~ Cluedo ~ Conspiracy ~ Cosmic Encounter ~ Cranium ~ Crosstrack ~ Da Vinci Game, The ~ Dark Tower ~ Diamant ~ Dixit ~ Domaine ~ Dominion ~ Don't Miss The Boat ~ Don't Quote Me ~ Drunter und Drüber ~ Dune ~ Dungeons and Dragons ~ El Grande ~ Elfenland ~ Empire Builder series ~ Enchanted Forest ~ English draughts ~ Entdecker ~ Escape from Atlantis ~ Evo ~ Farlander ~ Figure It Out ~ Fireball Island ~ Focus ~ The Game of Life ~ GiftTRAP ~ Giganten ~ Girl Talk ~ Go ~ Great Train Robbery ~ GridIron Master ~ The HellGame ~ History of the World ~ I'm the Boss! ~ Imperial ~ Inkan aarre ~ Java ~ Journey through Europe ~ Junta ~ Kill Doctor Lucky ~ Kingdoms ~ Landslide ~ Le Havre ~ The London Game ~ Logo Board Game ~ Löwenherz ~ Luck of the Draw ~ Die Macher ~ Mall Madness ~ Manhattan ~ Masterpiece ~ Master Labyrinth ~ Medici ~ Medina ~ Mensch ärgere dich nicht ~ Merchant of Venus ~ Mexica ~ Mine a million ~ Modern Art ~ Niagara ~ Okey ~ Omega Virus ~ Outrage! ~ Pack & Stack ~ Pandemic ~ Parcheesi ~ Parqués ~ Pay Day ~ Personal Preference ~ Pictionary ~ Pirate's Cove ~ Power Grid ~ Primordial Soup ~ Princes of Florence ~ Puerto Rico ~ Ra ~ Rail Baron ~ Rappakalja ~ Razzia ~ The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game ~ Ricochet Robots ~ Rivers, Roads & Rails ~ RoboRally ~ Rummikub ~ Rummoli ~ Saint Petersburg ~ Samurai ~ San Marco ~ Scotland Yard ~ Scattergories ~ Scrabble ~ Sequence ~ The Settlers of Catan ~ Shadows over Camelot ~ Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective ~ Skirrid ~ Sorry! ~ Squatter ~ Stock Ticker ~ Super Quiz ~ Taj Mahal ~ Take It Easy ~ Take Off! ~ Through the Desert ~ Thurn and Taxis ~ Ticket to Ride ~ Tigris & Euphrates ~ Tikal ~ Timberland ~ Top Secret Spies ~ Torres ~ Totopoly ~ Tracks to Telluride ~ TransAmerica ~ Trivial Pursuit ~ Trouble ~ Tsuro ~ Twilight Imperium ~ Ubongo ~ Vanished Planet ~ Vinci ~ Yahtzee ~ Yut ~ Zombies!!!

Economics and strategy board games

~ Acquire ~ Junta ~ København ~ Monopoly ~ Power Grid ~ Risk ~ Risk 2210 AD ~ The Settlers of Catan ~ Ticket to Ride

Board games of physical skill

Coordination, finesse, or other physical skills are necessary. Also known as dexterity board games.

~ Baboon Ball ~ Beer pong ~ Blockhead! ~ Buckaroo ~ Camp Granada ~ Carrom ~ Chapayev ~ Crokinole ~ Dart Wars ~ Gnip Gnop ~ Hungry Hungry Hippos ~ Jenga ~ Kerplunk ~ Krazy Maze ~ MagnetX ~ Operation ~ Perfection ~ Polarity ~ Subbuteo ~ Twister ~ Villa Paletti

Children's board games

The rules of these board games are easy to learn and the outcome is mostly or entirely due to chance.

~ Candy Land ~ 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 ~ Ludo ~ Mouse Trap ~ Snakes and ladders (aka Chutes and Ladders) ~ Space Hop