Board Games are the perfect way to have a great time with your loved ones. There are various types of board games for two players or multiple players. Board games stimulate critical thinking, competition, teamwork and always bring a lot of fun.

This list will introduce some of the most popular classic board games that might interest you:

Scrabble

If you love word games, you have got to try Scrabble! This game can be played by two to four players. At the start, each player will receive a number of plastic letter tiles that can be placed together on a 15x15 grid game board to make up words.

Since each letter is worth a different point value, you would need to analyze to see which letter combination would bring the most points. The possibilities are endless and one great way to master Scrabble is to practice with an online word unscrambler which can help you hone your word making skills. It's great to get your mind thinking and calculating.

Furthermore, kids are able to learn a lot more words while playing this Scrabble which is great for their vocabulary. Whenever a player runs out of his or her tiles, the game ends and whoever gets the most points wins.

For this game, you may want to have a dictionary, a pen and paper nearby to record the scores of each player!

Chess

One of the most historic and well-known board games is chess. Playing chess helps players to train various skills such as strategic thinking, problem solving, creative thinking and pattern recognition. That's the reason why even after 1500 years, chess is still one of the most widely played board games all over the world. This is a two-player game in which each player has 16 pieces to maneuver on a 64-square board.

Each of the pieces (pawns, rooks, bishops, knights, a queen and a king) has different strength and characteristics. The queen is considered the most powerful piece, and the game ends when a player checkmate's the opponent's king in every direction or the king has no other place to go in order to survive.

In order to win this game, you really need to think hard and strategically before making any move. It's a great game to train your mind and your patience.

Monopoly

Introduced in 1935, Monopoly is also one of the oldest board games to date. In this real estate game, players buy and trade property with the goals to buy as much property as possible in order to create their own monopoly.

You also need to bankrupt your opponents and make other players unable to pay your rent in order to win the game. Just like real-world real estate, this is also a game of risk and luck. Beware that this game can take a long time as you need to bankrupt the other players one by one!

Go

Go is another ancient strategy board game created more than 2500 years ago in China and is still played in many parts of Asia today, as well as in the US and various Western countries. In this two-player game, the ultimate goal is to surround more territory on the board than your opponent. Each player is supplied with unlimited stones, one player will use white stones and the other used black stones.

Once placed on the board, a stone cannot be removed unless it is surrounded by the opponent's stones on all orthogonally-adjacent points. The ultimate goal is to form as many territories as possible on the board and capture your opponent's stones by completely surrounding them.

Go may have simple rules but it is considered the most highly complex strategy game, as all moves are possible at all times. A game of Go can also take quite long to finish. Unlike other board games, in Go, a player can still turn the game around even near the end. Due to this difficult to predict and unexpected nature, Go is one of the most interesting mind games ever created.

Clue

If you love Sherlock Holmes and detective stories, you will love Clue (or Cluedo) - the classic murder mystery board game. In this game, you will need to hunt down clues to figure out the murderer, the location of the crime and the weapon used.

The more players there are, the more exciting and difficult the game will be as you also need to spy on your opponents, what clues they are using and what they are doing. Both the clues and your opponents' responses will help you connect the dots.

If you are looking for fun alternatives to video games and the internet, you should definitely try some of these classic board games with your kids and friends. Board games are not only fun but are also a great way to sharpen many skills that are useful in real life.


WRITTEN BY

Brand Voices