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A board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game). Like other forms of entertainment, board games can represent nearly any subject.
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Backgammon
Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. Players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits....
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 5 yr. (5 yr )
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Chess
Chess is a board game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from a similar, much older game of Indian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's...
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Monopoly
Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.
Monopoly is the most commercially-successful board game in United...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 8 yr. (8 yr )
Introduced:
- 1903 ,
- 1935
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Maximum playing time:
- 180 min (108 hs )
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Stratego
Stratego is a board game featuring a 10 × 10 square board and two players with 40 pieces each. Pieces represent individual officers and soldiers in an army. The objective of the game is to either find and capture the opponent's Flag, or capture so...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 8 yr. (8 yr )
Risk
Risk is a commercial strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World), in...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
Titan
Titan is a fantasy board game for two to six players, designed by Jason McAllister and David A. Trampier. It was first published in 1980 by Gorgonstar, a small company created by the designers. Soon afterward, the rights were licensed to Avalon Hill...
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Go
Go is a strategic board game for two players. It is also known as igo (Japanese), weiqi or wei ch'i (Chinese) or baduk (Korean). Go is noted for being rich in strategic complexity despite its simple rules.
The game is played by two players who...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 5 yr. (5 yr )
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Minimum playing time:
- 3 min (1.8 hs ) ,
- 20 min (12 hs )
Maximum playing time:
- 600 min (360 hs )
RoboRally
RoboRally is a board game originally published in 1994 by Wizards of the Coast (WotC). It was designed in 1985 by Richard Garfield, who would later create the card game Magic: The Gathering. The game and its expansions received a total of four...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Introduced:
- 1994
Minimum playing time:
- 120 min (72 hs )
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Ogre
Ogre is a board wargame first released in 1977 as the first Metagaming Concepts Microgame, designed by Steve Jackson. Its basic premise is that it is an asymmetric-forces game set in the late 21st century. One player has a single giant robot tank ...
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Crimson Skies
Crimson Skies is a media franchise and fictional universe created by Jordan Weisman and Dave McCoy. The series' intellectual property is currently owned by Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), although Weisman's new company, Smith & Tinker Inc., has...
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Fortress America
Fortress America is a strategic board game designed by Michael Gray and published in 1986 by Milton Bradley. Fortress America was the fourth of five games in the Gamemaster series.
Set in the 21st century, the board game begins with the premise that...
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Conquest of the Empire
Conquest of the Empire is a board game created in 1984 by Milton Bradley and re-released in the summer of 2005 by Eagle Games, designed by Glenn Drover. Part of the Gamemaster series, Conquest of the Empire is very similar to the popular Axis &...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 10 yr. (10 yr )
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Space Hulk
Space Hulk is a board game by Games Workshop, first released in 1989 and re-released in 2009. The game is set in their Warhammer 40,000 universe and draws a certain degree of inspiration from the Alien movies.
The term "Space Hulk", from which the...
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- 2
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Apocalypse
Apocalypse is a board game released by Games Workshop in 1980. The game is a re-release of the earlier Gibsons Games publication, Warlord.
The game is conceptually similar to Risk but played on a map of Western Europe, and unlike Risk allows...
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Junta
Junta is a board game designed by Vincent Tsao originally published by Creative Wargames Workshop in 1978, and later published by West End Games. Players compete as the corrupt power elite families of a fictional parody of a stereotypical banana...
Number of players:
- 2
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Battle Masters
Battle Masters is a board game by Milton Bradley made in collaboration with Games Workshop in 1992. It is a game the simulates the type of battles as seen in Warhammer Fantasy Battle, but with much simpler game mechanics not based on its parent game...
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Empires in Arms
Empires in Arms is an out-of-print board game by Harry Rowland, published by the Australian Design Group in 1983. It was licenced to the Avalon Hill Game Company (now a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc.) in 1985. It was nominated for the Charles S. Roberts...
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Shadows Over Camelot
Shadows Over Camelot is an Arthurian-themed board game designed by Serge Laget and Bruno Cathala. The game was also published in French as Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde and in German as Schatten über Camelot. Players take on the roles of Knights...
Number of players:
- 3
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Minimum playing time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game
The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game is an introductory version of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game packaged in the form of a board game. The current version of this game was released in September 2006. The original game was released in 2004 by...
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- 2004
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So Long Sucker
So Long Sucker is a board game which was invented in 1950 by John Forbes Nash, Mel Hausner, Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik. It is a four-person bargaining/economic strategy game. Each player begins the game with 7 chips, and in the course of...
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Tribond
TriBond is a popular board game distributed by Imagination Games. It asks the question - "What do these three things have in common?" Players try to guess the "common bond" between the three clues. It follows in the tradition of Trivial Pursuit,...
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a card-driven designer board game, with the design of the game credited to Michael Tummelhofer, a pseudonym for Michael Bruinsma, Jay Tummelson and Bernd Brunnhofer. Most of the design work was done by Brunnhofer. The game was...
Minimum playing time:
- 45 min (27 hs )
Battle Cry
Battle Cry was a popular grand strategic American Civil War board game produced by the Milton Bradley Company as part of their popular American Heritage series.
Originally published in 1961, Battle Cry was reprinted in the 1970s. The game was part...
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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan
The Creature That Ate Sheboygan is a science fiction board game released in 1979 by Simulations Publications (SPI). The game was originally designed by Greg Costikyan. It won the Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Game of...
Cemetery Hill
Cemetery Hill: The Battle of Gettysburg, 1-3 July, 1863 was a board game published in 1975 by Simulation Publications, Inc. (SPI). It represented the fighting on Cemetery Hill in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
"Cemetery Hill...
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Introduced:
- 1975
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War on Terror
War on Terror, The Boardgame is a satirical, strategic board game produced by TerrorBull Games. Released in 2006, War on Terror was invented primarily as a reaction and a challenge to modern day events, in particular the 2003 invasion of Iraq and...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 14 yr. (14 yr )
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Conquistador
Conquistador is a board game simulating the exploration of the New World in the 16th century. Players take on the role of European countries sending expeditions to find gold and establish colonies. Although the design uses the trappings of board...
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Britannia
Britannia is a strategy board game, first released and published in 1986 by Gibsons Games in the United Kingdom and most recently updated in late 2008 as a re-release of the 2005 edition, produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It broadly depicts the wars...
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Poleconomy
Poleconomy is a board game invented by New Zealander Bruce E. Hatherley and first published in 1983. It is similar to Monopoly but the board is divided into companies rather than properties. Players compete to acquire properties and investments...
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 8 yr. (8 yr )
Introduced:
- 1983
Minimum playing time:
- 180 min (108 hs )
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Sally the Sunflower
Sally the Sunflower is a board game by Hasbro. The game aims to teach children about magnets.
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Starforce: Alpha Centauri
Starforce was a board game published in 1974 by Simulations Publications Inc. as one of their first science fiction games, a departure from their usual historical wargames. The game was based on a concept by Redmond Simonsen.
StarForce described a...
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War and Peace
War and Peace Game of the Napoleonic Wars: 1805-1815 is an Avalon Hill board game copyright 1980.
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The game War & Peace by Mark McLaughlin – according to BGG listings his first published game – is a multi-player strategic war game from the...
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- 1980
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Union Pacific
Number of players:
- 2
Minimum age (years):
- 12 yr. (12 yr )
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Introduced:
- 1999
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