The Most Popular Board Games of All Time

In this party game, teams of players race the clock to tackle a variety of tasks that may include celebrity impersonations, drawing with their eyes closed, or answering trivia questions.

In this game of spatial strategy, players attempt to fill the board with their own tetris-like pieces while blocking opponents from placing theirs.

Players take turns dropping colored tokens into a grid in an attempt to create a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of four tokens of the same color.

In this ancient two-player harvest game, the goal of is to strategically sow seeds on the board and collect the most seeds in your own storehouse.

The objective of Stratego, an army game with 40 pieces on each side, is to capture the opposing army’s flag or deplete its forces to the point of immobility.

With six continents and 42 territories, this political strategy game entails complex interactions of diplomacy and conquest, and can take days to complete.

The premier resource management game, Catan involves building settlements, cities, and roads by collecting and spending various natural resources in order to dominate the board.

Teams rely on the artistic skills of their members in this drawing game where players must guess the word or phrase relayed by a quick sketch.

In this fast-paced strategy game, players place discs on a board in an attempt to surround and take their opponent’s discs.

Players can choose from over 30 careers as they navigate the ups and downs of debt, housing, wealth, and vacations.

With 104 numbered tiles in four colors as well as two jokers, Rummikub’s objective is to create target tile sets before your opponent does.

Suitable for children young and old, this colorful, candy-themed racing board game has a long, winding track that leads to the Candy Castle.

In backgammon, a two-player game with dice and checker-like pieces, the objective is to move pieces around the board until they can be taken off, with the first player to remove all their pieces winning.

This classic trivia game has over 2,400 questions in six categories: science and nature, history, sports and leisure, entertainment, art and literature, and geography.

Based on a pen-and-paper game dating back to WWI, Battleship is a strategy guessing game where players seek to sink their opponent’s naval fleet.

In this murder mystery game, players move through a mansion using sleuthing skills to determine the nature of their host’s untimely death.

Using a tiled board and letters worth varying amounts of points, Scrabble players spell out words and connect them to other words in a style similar to a crossword puzzle.

The goal of this real estate trading game is to own the most properties on the board and drive competitors into bankruptcy.

Players in checkers move discs across a checkered board with the goal of reaching the other side of the board and capturing all of their opponent’s discs.

Played on a checkered board with an array of six types of pieces that move in distinct ways to capture opposing pieces, chess is a strategy game with a nearly infinite number of possible movement patterns.