Checkers (Draughts): Jump over opponent's pieces to capture; reach the far row to be crowned king Chess: Checkmate the other king Monopoly: Buy and trade properties and collect rent; the last player with money wins Scrabble: Make words on a board with letter tiles to score points Clue: Work out who did it, with what, and where Risk: Move armies to conquer the map Candy Land: Follow colored spaces to reach the Candy Castle Chutes and Ladders: Climb ladders and slide down chutes to reach 100 Connect Four: Drop discs to line up four of your color in a row Battleship: Guess where the other player's ships are hiding on a grid Sorry!: Move your pawns around the board and send others back to start Parcheesi: Race four pawns around the board and home Ludo: A race game where you roll a die to bring tokens home Backgammon: Race checkers around the board using dice Mancala: Move stones around pits to capture more than your opponent Go: Surround more territory than your opponent with stones; it began in China over 2,500 years ago Dominoes: Match the dots on tiles end to end Yahtzee: Roll five dice to score combinations Boggle: Find words in a grid of letter cubes before time runs out Jenga: Pull blocks from a tower without making it fall Operation: Remove silly body parts without touching the sides Twister: Put your hands and feet on colored circles Pictionary: Draw clues so teammates can guess the word Charades: Act out words with no talking Trivial Pursuit: Answer questions of many kinds to collect wedges Catan: Trade resources and build roads and settlements Ticket to Ride: Collect train cards and claim railway routes Carcassonne: Place tiles to build roads, cities and fields Guess Who?: Ask yes or no questions to find the other player's character Hungry Hungry Hippos: Marbles race to be gobbled up by your hippo Mouse Trap: Build a silly contraption to catch the mouse Othello (Reversi): Flip your opponent's discs by trapping them between yours Tic-tac-toe: Get three of your marks in a row Hangman: Guess letters to reveal a word before the drawing is done Dots and Boxes: Draw lines to complete boxes Sudoku: Fill a grid so each row, column and box has 1 to 9 Rubik's Cube: Twist the faces until each side is one color Tangram: Arrange seven shapes to make a picture Jigsaw puzzle: Fit pieces together to make a picture Stratego: Capture the opponent's flag using hidden ranked pieces Pente: Get five stones in a row Nine Men's Morris: Make 'mills' of three in a row to capture Senet: An ancient Egyptian race game Royal Game of Ur: An ancient game from Mesopotamia, about 4,500 years old Pachisi: The ancient Indian game that Parcheesi and Ludo came from Snakes and Ladders: The Indian game that inspired Chutes and Ladders Die: One of a pair of dice; has six sides with 1 to 6 dots Opposite sides of a standard die add to: 7 Pawn: A small game piece that moves on the board Turn: Your chance to play Fair play: Following the rules and being kind whether you win or lose Free flashcards from Peabody at peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-board-games