Classic Board Games Bucket List

Build a real estate empire in this classic game

Achieve competitive chess rating

Form words on a board for points

Jump opponent's pieces in this ancient game

Solve the murder mystery through deduction

Race to bear off all your checkers first

Conquer the world in this strategic war game

Master the ancient Chinese abstract strategy game

Build settlements and trade resources on the island of Catan

Draw your own track on the map with a crayon, then race the trains you built.

Spend carrots to move; the first Spiel des Jahres, and still a clean race game.

Chess with a shuffled back rank, so the opening book is useless.

Find the fairy-tale treasures under the trees and remember where they were.

Stack blocks into skyscrapers and take over the ones already built.

Fifty alien powers, each of which breaks a different rule.

Paddle steamers race downriver, picking up passengers and running out of coal.

An action-point expedition through the jungle, uncovering temples and treasure.

Seat the guests so the nationalities work out; a tile game about a crowded bar.

Haul freight across Europe by lorry, bidding for the contracts nobody else wants.

Everyone moves everyone's spy and nobody admits which one is theirs.

Build castles upward and score by the level your knight stands on.

Plan a route through a fantasy map using transport cards others also need.

A mill game carved into cathedral cloisters and Roman roof tiles.

Bid, steal and exhibit antiques; simultaneous card selection with a lot of bluffing.

Liar's dice under a cup: raise the bid or call it, and lose a die when you are wrong.

Stack your pieces on top of your opponent's in an abstract Sid Sackson designed in 1963.

Build a town straight through everyone else's outhouses, then vote on the mess.

Sculpt something in clay and let the others guess it, slowly, with questions.

A cycling race with dice, drafting and a peloton that behaves like one.

Five detectives hunt Mister X across a London map; he surfaces every five turns.