Categories
There are a number of different categories that board games can be broken up into, although considerable overlap exists, and a game may belong in several categories. The following is a list of some of the most common:
- Abstract strategy games like chess, Tafl games, checkers, go, Reversi, or modern games such as Abalone or Stratego
- Dexterity games like Tumblin' Dice and Pitch Car
- German-style board games, or Eurogames, like The Settlers of Catan, Carson City or Puerto Rico
- Educational games like Arthur Saves the Planet, Cleopatra and the Society of Architects, and Shakespeare: The Bard Game
- Family games like Roll Through the Ages, Birds on a Wire, or For Sale
- Historical simulation games like Through the Ages and Railways of the World
- Large multiplayer games like Take It Easy and Swat (2010)
- Musical games like Spontuneous
- Race games like parchisi, backgammon or Worm Up
- Roll-and-move games, like Monopoly or Life
- Share-buying games (in which players buy stakes in each other's positions; these are typically longer economic-management games)
- Spiritual development games that have no winners or losers, like Transformation Game or Psyche's Key
- Two-player only games like En Garde and Dos de Mayo
- Trivia games, like Trivial Pursuit
- Train games
- Wargames, ranging from Risk and Diplomacy to Attack or Conquest of the Empire
- Word games, like Scrabble, Boggle, or What's My Word? (2010)
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