Board Games

Explore the ten best legacy games that evolve as your sessions progress!

How do you inspire girls to become suffragettes? With board games, of course! Honoring 100 years since the 19th Amendment in the USA, I travel across the pond to bring this little-known game back to life.

Do you want to beat your friends at checkers? This article covers basic checkers strategy and tactics to take your checkers game to the next level.

Risk is a popular strategy board game of war and diplomacy that can be played by up to six players. One game of Risk can last from several hours up to several days, which is why the European version features secret missions to shorten the game.

As you undoubtedly already know, chess is a two-player board game played on an 8 x 8 square board. The rules are simple, but depending on the opponent, the game can be extremely challenging. If you're wondering how to get better, this is the article to read.

With all the new high-tech devices such as laptops and smartphones, board games remain an all-time favorite for many. And when a group of people is hooked up on exciting, spooky games, it all becomes better! They can be enjoyed with the whole family, or just older siblings and friends.

Learn how to even the playing field in board game Near and Far with this simple house rule!

Learn how to win as all six core villains in Disney's hit board game Villainous!

This article contains information about darts, including the board, dart types, and barrel grips, as well as the rules for 21 variants of the game.

Game of the Generals is an original Filipino board game. This article will explain the process and rules of playing it.

Learn the pros and cons of social deduction game Blood on the Clock Tower!

Learn ten fun facts about chess you likely didn't know about!

What started out as a teaching aid now entertains millions and has even resisted the digital onslaught.

You know the games, the ones that you shouldn't play with close friends (since they'll no longer be your close friends)?

Explore some ideas for improving your cluegiving in Codenames based on the author's personal experiences, past mistakes, and disastrous encounters with the assassin.

Count down the ten best games that let you expand a deck as you play!

The top ten Scrabble tips for both novice and veteran players.

Learn ten tips to help you achieve victory in the critically acclaimed board game "Above and Below"!

Learn how to play the one-vs-many deduction board game Fury of Dracula!

Count down and review the ten best social deduction games where players must determine one another's identities!

This article discusses accepting what seems like a violation of a principle in order to attain good middle game play.

Read my review of Tiny Epic Quest. This game is adorable and fun! You can even play it by yourself! I will explain how to play and what makes this game great!

Read my review of Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Rumble at Castle Tentakill, a 2- to 4-player card game that's very funny and entertaining.

Read my review of the game Mystic Vale. I explain what this game is about, how to play, and what makes it GREAT!

These are 10 board games I have played in the last year that I have found to be very fun and entertaining. I think everyone should play them at least once!

The value of board games continues to make collecting a good investment both financially and historically. What's hiding in your attic? Do not throw your old games away. They may be more valuable than you think!

Discover the card game that started America's gaming craze in the late 1800s . . . and the woman who invented it.

Board games are one of the oldest forms of gaming—and one of the oldest games found to date comes from Ancient Egypt. It is called Senet, the game of “passing.”

Learn the true story of Monopoly, the game that inspired this timeless classic, and the woman who started it all.

Reiner Knizia's classic Lord of the Rings board game is a cooperative game that is steeped in Tolkien tradition, well-balanced, and fun for friends and family ages 12+.

Boggle is a classic family game that's fun for people aged 8–80+. This review and analysis of the game shows you why it’s a wonderful way to bring your family together for a few minutes in the middle of the chaos of modern life. Family time is precious, and Boggle is a great way to play and connect.

Learn how to play a new chess variant based on some old concepts. It is free, fun, and can be customized for all ages.

It's true, chess makes you smart and intelligent; however, there's more to it than that. Want to know how else chess can improve your life? Read on to find out.

Countdown five successful yet dull board games!

In Stone Age, players collect wood, break stone, wash their gold from the river, trade freely, expand their village and so on to achieve new levels of civilization. Colorblindness may affect play.

One of our favorite games is The Castles of Burgundy. Set in medieval France, each player builds their own princedom using buildings, farms, mines, and more. Let's see how colorblindness affects play.

Merkator is about the rise of Hamburg after the Thirty Years' War. Players act as merchants collecting goods to fulfill contracts. Colorblindness may come into play with this bright, colorful game.

Scythe is a worker placement/economic engine board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. We'll explore how colorblindness affects gameplay.

Scoville is a strategy board game in which colorful peppers are planted, harvested, and sold. All of the colors may make game play challenging for individuals with colorblindness.

Dominoes is a game that is fun to learn. I was at an Ugly Sweater party and was invited to play. In this article, I share how to play, how to win, and a little advice on strategy.

The best free chess engines for game analysis, playing against, engine vs. engine bouts, and anything else you might think of. Warning! These chess engines are super powerful!

Here's a collection of free UCI-compatible chess programs for running UCI engines such as Stockfish, Komodo, and more. These programs are great for analyzing games, managing pgn files, and more!

Scrabble is a very simple and fun game, yet it's more complex than just chucking up words. It involves plenty of strategy.

Settlers of Catan is one of the best strategy board games of all time. What sets it apart, though, is the range of excellent expansions. This guide will review the features of each.

Read through some Monopoly buys, trades, and moves that guarantee losses. This is a guide to 7 common traps in Parker Brothers and Hasbro's most famous board game.

The amazing benefits of crowding around a table with people and enjoying some good ole' fashioned board gaming mayhem. Why you need to start playing as well.

Munchkin Panic is a new board game that infuses the cooperative game Castle Panic with elements from the popular card game Munchkin. Read my independent review to learn more.

Five lines is a board game from at least the 7th century BCE (maybe older). There are no known extant rules, but we can speculate on how to play. Want to learn how to play the historic game of five lines?

There has been a recent resurgence of electronic chess games. Hopefully, this guide will help you decide what to get. The electronic chess games in this article include the Centaur, DGT Pi, and ChessGenius Exclusive.

Before there was Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation, the humble board game kept people from going insane from boredom. Here are the top 10 most popular board games of all time!