50 GAMES LIKE

From treasured classics lượt thích Chess & Monopoly khổng lồ new favorites lượt thích Speak Out & Cards Against Humanity, we've rounded up our 50 favorite board games of all time.

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Put away the electronics & gather 'round for a good old-fashioned board game. No matter which trò chơi you love khổng lồ play, you'll enjoy the break. We've rounded up 50 of our favorite board games of all time that span every popular category. As you click through this list, you'll find the best board games for kids và families and adult board games that are fitting for older members of the family.

Some of these fun board games are perfect for one player while others are meant for two, while more still are best played with a large family. Whether it"s critical thinking & competition you seek or simple fun và loads of laughter, there"s something on this danh mục for everyone.

All you need lớn play this fun family game is the Uno card deck. There are no other marbles, spinners, or game pieces required, which makes this quick khổng lồ clean up & great khổng lồ take on the go. An Uno deck contains 108 cards—25 cards each in one of four colors, plus 8 special kích hoạt cards (like Skip và Reverse). Players take turns matching a card from their hand by number or màu sắc 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. When a player has just one thẻ left they get to điện thoại tư vấn out "Uno!" as a warning to the other players, which, in our opinion, is one of the best parts of the game. That, & the obligatory victory dance after you win.

We love this trò chơi because it gets the whole family humming, sketching, solving, & thinking. There's no way out of it—to win a trò chơi of Cranium, you và your team must go all the way around the board & complete the designated activities. Each màu sắc along the game path indicates which of the four card categories you have to pull from to lớn proceed. If you successfully complete the challenge presented on the thẻ you get to roll a die & continue that number of spaces. If you don't complete the challenge, you're stuck until your next turn when you have to try that category again. As an added bonus for time-crunched families, the trò chơi board offers three different rates of play.

Dominoes is great fun for players of all ages, so grab Grandma và a set of dominoes và start play! While there are a variety of games you can play with dominoes, one of our favorites is Mexican Train. In this game, the largest double number tile is placed in the "station" in the middle of the table. From here, each player is responsible for his or her own domino "train," where the kết thúc of each domino played must match the end of the domino preceding it. Extra tiles are placed in the "boneyard" and replenish each player's stash until they are all gone. The first player khổng lồ complete his or her train wins.

29. Chutes và Ladders

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It's a race khổng lồ the finish in this classic childhood game where good deeds take you far, và naughty behaviors will set you back. The Chutes & Ladders trò chơi board contains 100 squares và depicts a series of ladders and slides. Each ladder represents a good deed & its reward, but every slide represents the consequences of bad behavior. Every player starts in the first square and a spinner dictates how many spaces a player can advance from there. If you're lucky, you'll land at the base of a good-deed ladder, which you can climb, advancing extra spaces. But if you're not so lucky, you'll land at the top of a slide & have to go down, which will mix you back quite a bit. The first player to the 100 square wins.

Watch fields, roads, and cities rapidly expand in the Medieval-themed trò chơi Carcassonne. Players take turns placing one of the game tiles in an attempt lớn build up their land. After placing a tile, you can score points by putting a "follower" piece on the items you built. The role và subsequent point value of a follower varies depending on what piece of property you put them on. For instance, a follower placed on a monastery tile is a monk who earns different points than a follower placed on a road tile as a thief. With every turn, you'll have to decide if it's worth it to place a tile that adds lớn your property, or if you'd rather strategically place a tile that messes up your opponent's plans. Calculate your moves carefully, because once all the tiles have been played, the player with the most points wins.

There's gridlock during rush hour và it's up to lớn you to help. In this single-player game, try to không tính tiền the red escape oto by maneuvering the cars và trucks out of the way. This will likely take lots of little moves, as the blocking vehicles can only move forward or backward in the direction they are facing. Traffic Jam comes with 40 different challenges with varying levels of difficulty. Depending on the puzzle, up lớn 15 cars and tracks can be in the way but, slowly & carefully, you can shift them to không tính phí the red car. This game is meant for one player, but we think it's helpful to talk through strategies và work together if you have more than one who wants lớn play.

In Trouble, the goal is khổng lồ be the first player to get all four of your pieces around the board and back trang chủ again. The premise is simple, but there are challenges along the way. Gameplay is controlled by a die, but it's not just rolled by hand—no, no—to roll the die in Trouble, you get to press the plastic dome on the game's cool pop-o-matic dice roller. For a piece khổng lồ leave home base, you first have khổng lồ roll a six. After that, pieces can advance normally based on the die roll. With 28 spots on the trò chơi board, it can start lớn get crowded when all 16 pieces are in play, & that's where the trouble can begin. If another player lands on a spot occupied by one of your pieces, your piece is sent back to trang chủ base and has khổng lồ start the process again.

All aboard! The stakes are high in this trò chơi to see who can visit the most cities in North America in just seven days. In Ticket to Ride, players lay claim to lớn railroads across the United States và Canada và compete to connect the most cities with their trains. Draw cards to see what kind of train oto you can play or what your next destination might be. Earn points for placing trains & for successfully connecting two destination cities. The game ends when a player has less than two trains remaining, & bonus points are then awarded khổng lồ the player who created the longest continuous route. The player with the most points wins. You have a ticket lớn ride, so where will your journey take you?

Move your four pawns around the board & safely navigate them trang chủ again in the game of Sorry. All pawns begin in their respective start spaces, và players take turns drawing from a deck of 44 cards lớn see what the pawn's next move might be. Sorry is a competition, và there are two ways to set back your opponents. Similar khổng lồ the game Trouble, if you land on a space that is already occupied by another player's pawn, that pawn is sent back lớn the start. The second way khổng lồ create a setback is by drawing one of the deck's four "Sorry" cards. If this happens, you can select any one of your opponents' pawns to return to start, except a pawn in a safety zone. Win by being the first khổng lồ get all four of your pawns home. Psst! A scoring system exists if you wish khổng lồ play multiple rounds of this game.

We love that there's no limit khổng lồ how many people can play the fun trò chơi of Yahtzee, the dice game where it's all up khổng lồ the luck of the roll. Each round, players receive three opportunities lớn roll up to lớn five dice. After each roll, you can evaluate the dice và choose which, if any, you want to lớn roll again. You are looking for a pattern that will work for one of the 13 possible Yahtzee categories. At the kết thúc of your turn, choose which category you will use for that round and tally the score accordingly. You can only use a category once per game, so choose carefully. If you land all five dice on the same number, it's called a Yahtzee (feel free to shout it out). At 50 points, a Yahtzee is the highest possible score you can roll. Play up to lớn 13 rounds and then tally your scores; the player with the highest score wins.

Multiple Players

Nothing gets the fun going like an invigorating trò chơi that prompts players lớn shout, act, và strategize on the fly.

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Pictionary is a buổi tiệc nhỏ game suitable for players of all ages. Teams take turns drawing và guessing as many words or phrases as possible in a timed round. You might think a trò chơi of drawing sounds easy, but this game can be more difficult than it seems. The path on the Pictionary trò chơi board is comprised of different colored squares, each denoting a different cấp độ of difficulty for a word on the corresponding trò chơi card. Players take turns drawing things lượt thích "buck teeth" and "sand trap" for their teammates lớn guess. Play using the board và be the first team lớn make it all the way to lớn the finish line, or ditch the board altogether và play just for the laughs.

We dare you to try & keep a straight face during a game of Apples lớn Apples. This clever buổi tiệc nhỏ game will have everyone laughing out loud. Each box contains a phối of green hãng apple cards, which have adjectives on them, và a set of red táo bị cắn cards, which have nouns on them. Each round, a new player gets khổng lồ be the judge and presents a green táo khuyết card khổng lồ the group. The rest of the players select one of the red táo bị cắn cards from their hands lớn play. Sometimes the nouns match the adjectives perfectly, sometimes they make no sense at all, and sometimes they are downright hysterical. Once everyone has contributed a red card, the judge chooses a favorite. Depending on your group you could play just for fun, or designate a set number of rounds and see who can play the most winning cards in that time.

Scattergories is a fun list-making game that requires thinking fast. The idea of the trò chơi is lớn come up with creative answers lớn 12 different categories—things like TV shows, U.S. Presidents, vegetables, or types of sandwiches—in a short period of time. At the start of each round, you roll a 20-sided letter die which decides the letter that every answer must begin with. Then you mix the sand timer và get going! When the time is up, players compare their answers with one another. If the same answer appears on more than one các mục it gets crossed off, but a player receives one point for each chất lượng word. The winner is the player who has the most points after three rounds. (Or more, if you're having too much fun.)

In this fast-paced game, players try to get their teammates lớn say the word on an electronic disc without actually saying that word or any variations of it. The disc has some 10,000 words stored in it. Play the "everything" category which will pull one of those words at random, or select one of the 10 different categories for a smaller pool of words with a central theme. Get your teammates lớn say a word & then quickly pass the disc lớn the opposite team. This process continues, passing the disc from team to team until the round ends. A timer embedded in the disc gradually beeps faster & faster until it abruptly sounds a loud buzz, signaling the over of a round. Move fast! You don't want the disc to buzz in your hands.

Taboo is the game of forbidden words. In Taboo, your goal is to lớn 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. Try and get through as many cards as possible in the given time. Your team will get one point for each thẻ correctly guessed, but you will thảm bại one point every time you say one of the taboo words. A one-minute hourglass và a buzzer button will be in the possession of the opposing team during your round. Your opponents, no doubt, will delight in shouting "time's up!" the second the last grain of sand falls through the dial & pressing the buzzer any time you slip up & utter one of the taboo words.

This trò chơi is a riot lớn play at parties. Ellen DeGeneres plays it with guests on her TV show, so you know it's good. In Speak Out, players read a phrase from one of the trò chơi cards while wearing a special mouthpiece that makes it hard khổng lồ enunciate. Have your group form teams and take turns trying to lớn guess the phrase on a trò chơi card. You can read the phrase as many times as you want or try và provide clues, but it will only help if your teammates can understand what you're saying. Try khổng lồ get through as many cards as possible in the given time. Each game comes with 10 dishwasher-safe mouthpieces, but you can buy additional packs of mouthpieces if you have a big crowd. A friendly suggestion: Keep some napkins or paper towels handy to lớn wipe up your drool.

This game, which is perfect for four players, is based on the popular '60s game show of the same name. In Password, one player on each team knows the secret word and gives a one-word clue khổng lồ his or her teammate. If the first team doesn't get the answer after one clue, then the second team is allowed lớn give a clue and try khổng lồ solve the password. This continues until the secret word is finally guessed or until 10 clues have been given, whichever comes first. Every password starts with a point value of 10 but decreases by one point with each clue given. Play 10 secret words for a total of five rounds, and in the end, the team with the highest score wins. Think you can guess the password?

Have you ever repeated a word over và over again until it sounds like it's not even a word? The goofy trò chơi of Mad Gab is lượt thích the reverse of that. If you repeat a strange series of words enough times, they actually sound like a common word or phrase. The trò chơi contains cards with 800 words and phrases on them in "Mad Gab" language that will have you scratching your head as you try và figure out just what the heck a thẻ is trying khổng lồ say. Teams are given two minutes to sound out three cards, và if they can't solve one of the puzzles, a designated "stealer" on the opposing team may steal that point. Enjoy playing this game where everyone sounds silly.

Adult Board Games

These multi-player games combine strategy, wit, & humor. Play them at a các buổi party or bring them to a brewery khổng lồ enjoy in a lively setting.

Baby zebras are born without stripes. True or false? Put your knowledge khổng lồ the chạy thử with the classic game of Trivial Pursuit. There are more than 2,000 questions covering sports và leisure, science và nature, art & culture, geography, entertainment, & history in this ultimate game of trivia. Players travel around the wheel-shaped trò chơi board & answer questions from the different categories. Colored squares along the trò chơi path denote which category lớn pull from. If you answer a question right, you get to lớn go again. Collect one pie-shape trò chơi piece when you land on each category hub, then be the first player to lớn make it lớn the center of the board where you must answer one final question to lớn win. If you don't feel like getting out the board, you can always just answer the questions for fun.

The premise of this chip and card game is simple: Play a thẻ from your hand & place a chip on the corresponding square. But there's some strategy involved, too. In sequence, each thẻ from two 52-card decks is represented on the game board. Players take turns playing a card from their hands & then placing a chip on one of the spaces that match that card. Get five of your team's chips in a row, whether horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, và you have a sequence. The first team khổng lồ create two sequences wins. Pay close attention to the moves of the opposing team. If you see an opportunity lớn place a chip & block them from getting a sequence, you might want lớn take it. Sequence is like a grown-up version of Connect Four.

Welcome to the beautiful, resource-rich island of Catan. In this award-winning game, you and your fellow players are settlers on the island working khổng lồ build up your settlements và cities. Different parts of the island provide different resources và you will have to barter và trade with your opponents lớn get what you need. The trò chơi board is made up of 19 different hexagonal tiles that allow for a different layout each time, so no two games are the same. Accrue victory points for various cultural achievements—for example, 1 point for a settlement, 2 points for having the largest army. Players keep their victory cards concealed during play to throw off opponents as the first one lớn reach 10 victory points wins. Catan is a trò chơi of strategy that is suitable for both adults and older kids.

Dominion is a Medieval-themed deck-building game where players compete khổng lồ acquire the most valuable cards. Each trò chơi contains 500 cards. There are no other game pieces involved besides the cards, & most of the cards indicate how they can be used, making this a relatively quick game to learn. Each player starts with the same 10 cards and then works khổng lồ build up his or her own deck. There are cards that dictate which actions can be made during your turn, there are treasure cards that are used as currency, and there are victory cards, which score you points at the kết thúc of the game. Gameplay ends once the last victory thẻ has been purchased or three or more stacks run out of cards. The player with the highest number of victory points wins. Dominion is approachable for older kids but equally fun for adults.

Cribbage is a math-based game of strategy that has been around for centuries. Khổng lồ play, you just need a deck of cards và a cribbage board. There are a number of rules khổng lồ play and scoring, so the trò chơi might move slow when you are first starting. If you can, pick up the rules from a (very patient) experienced player, or learn to lớn play with a fellow newbie. Cribbage is great for two players but can accommodate up lớn four. The trò chơi consists of a series of rounds where players strategically play cards in their hands to lớn score certain points. The cribbage board keeps track of the score, as players move their pegs along the path. Lớn win, be the first player to score 121 points.

Don't try to lớn be prim & proper while playing Cards Against Humanity. The trò chơi consists of đen cards that have open-ended statements and questions on them & white cards that have a variety of funny, inappropriate, & weird words & phrases on them. Each round, a new player gets to lớn act as the judge và plays one of the open-ended đen cards. Everyone else then selects one of the trắng phrase cards from their hands và submits them khổng lồ the judge. The judge shuffles the white cards & reads them aloud khổng lồ the group before selecting a favorite. This laugh-out-loud trò chơi is adults-only for a reason. Play simply for the laughter that is sure to lớn ensue, or award points for each winning white thẻ to see who is the best at being bad.

This quick board trò chơi for adults challenges player's khổng lồ decorate with colorful tiles. Scores are based on how the tiles are arranged. The player with the most points wins the game! One reviewer wrote, "It's nice to lớn have a strategy game that doesn't have too many rules and is relatively quick lớn play (maybe 30 minutes)."