best board games ranked in order

[hwangjini_1]

Go

Beat me to it. Tp for you since not many folks will know how to play this one.

If you like chess you will like this. But a major strategic difference is that, unlike chess, you don't try to control the center of the board. The edges are better avenues to victory.

[wiley]

I'm a board game fanatic.  Strategic games or with some strategy/skill more than pure luck....

1.  Chess
2.  Pente
3.  Backgammon
4.  Scrabble
5.  Cribbage
6.  Chinese Checkers (old metal board only)
7.  Checkers
8.  Boggle/Stratego/Yahtzee/Sorry/Connect Four/etc....

Sorry is a great game to play with kids....easy, fun ,frustrating.....very cool that you can be way ahead and then lose, the mark of a good game (drama, etc..)

Go would have been up near the top of the list if I knew how to play it.....Pente however is strategic, fun, and takes two seconds to learn.....The glass stones are beautiful (get the version in the tube with the role out mat) in the sun.  You can make some tea, play Pente and pretend you're deep....

I'm good but not great at Chess.  Speed is a problem and also the end game has never come easily for me.....

I knew I was forgetting one of my all-time favorite games:  Mastermind.
So stick Mastermind in there at number 3.  You can really get your brain working and use different approaches to get info more quickly..

Also, glad people mentioned Risk, Clue, Battleship, Chutes and Ladders, Parchesi (Ludo looks good too)......and I forgot Othello.......I like Othello.  Would have been nice to have invented a game along the lines of say, Battleship, at age 23 and then retire......
Time to learn me some Go.

[bdm860]

Strip Happy Days Game

[dark_lord]

a lot of my favs have already been mentioned.  the only one that i love to play that hasnt been listed is mahjong (even tho its not really a board game)

[indeedproceed]

Nobody gets down with Othello?

I love that game.

[youcanthandlethetruth113]

I like:

Chess (although I never play)
Backgammon (although once I start I can't stop...2/3...3/5...4/7)
Scrabble (classic and timeless)
Monopoly (although it takes too long to finish IMO)

[thirstyboots18]

a lot of my favs have already been mentioned.  the only one that i love to play that hasnt been listed is mahjong (even tho its not really a board game)

I like mahjong on line...play almost every day...to increase hand/eye coordination.    Have never played against "human" competition, though.

[wdleehi]

9. (ugh can't remeber the name)

That was always my favorite.   

[Celtics18]

Nobody gets down with Othello?

I love that game.

Big Tommy Point for the Othello mention. 

[Edgar]

Jumanji

[Redz]

I had a brief flash of this one while teaching today:

[lovely_20]

Nobody gets down with Othello?

I love that game.

Big Tommy Point for the Othello mention. 

Absolutely! Love that game. Also...Parcheesi!

[Eja117]

Is beer pong a board game? Actually I don't like that game.

[Coach]

Cataan has to be on the list.

TP - Totally agree!  Great game.  For those who haven't played this.  Go out and get it!

[Coach]

Every one on this thread need to try playing a game called "The Settlers of Catan" and they need to play it ASAP !!!

as above, Totally agree. If you like board games at all, you have to try this game.