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Top 10 Most Popular Board Games Of All Time

28.03.2022

  1. Chess : Chess is one of the oldest and most played board games in history. It is played by two people on a checkered board of contrasting colours (standardly black and white) with corresponding pieces. The game first appeared in India around the 6th century AD and quickly spread to Asia and Europe. It soon became known as a “royal game” due to its popularity amongst the royal family, and it is still played exactly the same today as it was back then.
  2. Backgammon : Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games. Its history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archeological discoveries in Mesopotamia. It is a two-player game where each player has fifteen pieces (checkers) that move between twenty-four triangles (points) according to the roll of two dice.
  3. Monopoly : Monopoly is one of the most popular games in the world. Since its creation in 1935, more than 250 million versions of the game have been purchased and played by more than 1 billion people. For anyone who hasn’t played, it is a real-estate based board game played by up to eight players. The main aim of the game is to be financially stable while simultaneously forcing opponents into bankruptcy.
  4. Risk : Created in 1957 by Frenchman Alber Lamorisse, it was originally titled La Conquete du Monde, which translates to The Conquest of the World. The aim of the game however has always remained the same; to strategically eliminate your competitors and earn control of the board’s entire territory.
  5. Scrabble : Scrabble was a game invented by Alfred Mosher Butts during the 1930s, the time of America’s Great Depression. The game is simple but requires a lot of thinking. Players start with 7 tiles, each with a letter and its corresponding points typed on the front. After each turn players take more tiles to replenish their hand. Each turn, the player forms a word using the tiles in their hand and the points are calculated based on what squares the word is placed on. The words however, must be attached to the words that have already been played out. This adds an element of difficulty to the game.
  6. Battleship : Battleship is a classic game which requires some luck and some strategy. It is a naval themed game which requires a player to sink all of their opponent’s battleships before they get to yours. The game is played on a 10-by-10 grid, and starts with players positioning ships of different shapes and sizes on said grid. Your aim is to strategically place your battleships to make it harder for your opponent to discover your position.
  7. Clue : Clue (Cluedo in some places) is the number one classic detective game which requires the solving of a crime. There is one murder with six suspects. The aim of the game is to determine who the murderer is, what weapon they used and what room the crime was committed in.
  8. Jenga : Jenga’s quick setup and easy play allows for young and old to stack and remove the signature rectangular wooden blocks. A solid and stable table or floor are essential to play on. It can be played between two players or more. The stack of blocks seems uniform, but the careful Jenga player finds and feels for the more loose-fitting pieces, and also sometimes risks removing more stubborn-fitting pieces to strategically confound the opponent.
  9. Taboo : Taboo is the game of forbidden words. In Taboo, your goal is to get your teammate to say the word written on one of the game cards without saying that word or any of the “taboo” words also listed with it. You should try and get through as many cards as possible in the given time.
  10. UNO : All you need to play this fun family game is the Uno card deck. An Uno deck contains 108 cards—25 cards each in one of four colors, plus 8 special action cards (like Skip and Reverse). Players take turns matching a card from their hand by number or color to the card in the middle of the game. Players replenish their hands by pulling from the “draw” deck until there are no cards remaining. The first one who finishes the cards in his/her hand wins the round.