Family Board Games Bucket List

Build a real estate empire in this classic game

Form words on a board for points

Jump opponent's pieces in this ancient game

Solve the murder mystery through deduction

Conquer the world in this strategic war game

Build settlements and trade resources on the island of Catan

Save humanity from deadly diseases as a team

Race your pieces across the star board

Guess words based on one-word clues

Flip discs to your color in this abstract game

Build an ancient civilization through card drafting

Attract beautiful birds in this engine-building game

Every two cards share exactly one symbol; find it before anyone else.

A Spanish card game for two to six: assemble four healthy organs in front of you while infecting everyone else with viruses, in about twenty minutes.

The card game every family argues about the house rules for.

Storytelling with surreal illustrated cards (2008).

Chess-like bug tactics played with no board (2001).

A tiny, tense game of deduction (2012).

Play Betrayal at House on the Hill, a cooperative board game with a horror theme where players explore a haunted mansion and one becomes a traitor.

Collect gems and build your jewelry empire

Build a city of critters and constructions

Move your canoes across a river of moving discs and do not go over the falls.

Carts through the canals of the Dutch Golden Age, with merchandise bonuses for the goods you deliver.

A twelve-game campaign west across nineteenth-century North America, where each session changes the board for the next one.

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

Expansion 5 adds abbey tiles that plug any hole in the map, mayors whose strength is the pennants in their city, barns that score a field early, and wagons that move on when their feature closes.

Cable cars over the hills of 1960s San Francisco, collecting tourist attractions along the way.

Expansion 7, and the only one with dexterity in it: a fair tile starts a round where everyone flicks tokens off a small wooden catapult to knock out or steal meeples.

Place settlements on the terrain your card allows and chase the scoring goals.

Recreate a photograph with shoelaces, cubes or sticks and let the table guess.