Board Games

Backgammon is a two-player race game in which each side moves fifteen checkers around a twenty-four point board according to dice rolls, hitting and blocking the opponent, and wins by bearing every checker off first.

Checkers — draughts outside North America — is a two-player abstract strategy game on an 8×8 board. Pieces move diagonally, capture by jumping, and are crowned as kings on reaching the far row.

Chess is played between two opponents who move pieces alternately on a square board called a "chessboard" (Art. 1.1). The player with the light-coloured pieces (White) makes the first move, after which the players move alternately (Art. 1.2).

International draughts is a mind sport between two players (1.1), played on a 100-square board. It is the form of draughts governed worldwide by the Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames, and it is distinct from the 64-square game known in North America as checkers — the board is larger, and men ca...

Go is a game of strategy between two sides, usually played on a 19x19 grid (AGA Rule 1). Known as baduk in Korea and weiqi in China, it is one of the oldest board games still played under codified rules.

Scrabble is a word game in which play consists of forming interlocking words, crossword fashion, on the playing board using letter tiles with various score values; the object is to get the highest score (Appendix 1).

Battleship is a hidden-information strategy game for two players. Each player secretly arranges a fleet on a coordinate grid and then attempts to locate and sink the opposing fleet by calling one coordinate at a time. The first player to sink every opposing ship wins.

Carcassonne is a tile-placement strategy game in which players collectively build a medieval landscape of cities, roads, monasteries, and fields. Each player places followers, commonly called meeples, on selected features to claim them and earn points. The landscape grows differently in every gam...

Catan (originally The Settlers of Catan, 1995) is a resource-trading game for three to four players on a modular hex island. Players collect resources determined by dice rolls, trade them, and spend them building roads, settlements and cities, racing to ten victory points.

Chinese Checkers is an abstract strategy game in which players race their playing pieces across a six-pointed, star-shaped game board. Despite its name, it is neither a form of checkers nor a game that originated in China. Pieces are not captured, and every piece remains in play throughout the game.

Clue is a hidden-information deduction game in which players investigate a mystery by identifying three concealed facts: the suspect, the weapon, and the room. One card from each category forms the confidential solution. Every other mystery card is distributed among the players, who gradually eli...

Connect Four is a two-player game in which discs are dropped into a vertical seven-column grid, falling to the lowest free slot. The first player to line up four of their own discs — horizontally, vertically or diagonally — wins.

Monopoly is a property-trading board game for two to eight players. Move around a board buying properties, build houses and hotels, and collect rent from opponents who land on them. The last player left solvent wins.

Risk is a turn-based strategy board game about controlling territories, defending borders, and deciding when to launch an attack. Each player commands an army represented by playing pieces placed across a world map. Players gain reinforcements, attack neighboring territories with dice, and reposi...

Stratego is a two-player game of hidden information, tactical movement, bluffing, and deduction. Each player commands an army whose identities face toward its owner and remain concealed from the opponent. The goal is to discover and capture the opposing Flag while protecting your own.

Ticket to Ride is a route-building board game for two to five players. Each player develops a railway network across a map of North America by collecting matching sets of Train Car cards and spending those cards to claim routes between neighboring cities.