The Stimulating Monopoly Board Game The most commercially successful among board games is Monopoly which has been played by over 500 million people in the United States and worldwide. With Rich Uncle Pennybags or Mr. Monopoly as the mascot, the game was introduced to the public in 1935 by creator Charles Darrow. With each players aim to bankrupt the other opponents by building houses and hotels, buying properties and collecting rentals fees,...more
Action Filled War Board GamesWar board game is a type of board game that portrays either a real or imaginative military operation. These games requiring strategy have different complexity level which could be simple or high level. The pioneering war board game, Tactics, was published in 1954 by Charles Robert has two editions, namely Tactics II and 25th anniversary edition, and its game mechanics became standard for other war board games. A...more
Winning in Multi-player Elimination Board Games The very objective of multi-player elimination board games is to remove the other players off the game before it ends. Every players social capacity is heightened since the game is comprised of many participants who can make the game stirring and energetic all throughout. The following are few of the worlds played board games under the mentioned category. Multi-player elimination games like the Great Train Robbery Board Game, Apples to Apples, Blokus, Bookchase, Controlling Interest, Class Struggle, Star Wars Epic Duels, War on Terror, Explorium: a Gold Rush game, Go for Broke, Axis and Allies, and Strange Synergy are examples of games with the said genre that people will surely enjoy. Players who can outsmart others and have the ability to defend ones character throughout the entire progression of the game can surely hit the winning mark. At some games, it is beyond the players control to remove the other players while in other games, a player must strongly enforce the elimination of the other players. Exciting Auction Board GamesPlayers in auction board games compete with each other by outbidding every other player to win...more
Helping out in Cooperative Board Games Cooperative board games enable players to work for a certain objective that could either be against another set of players or against the game. It is game which focuses more on team cooperation over competition, either winning or losing as a group. To make it more challenging, events in the game do not come...more
Board Games in Social Gatherings The Game for the Whole Brain as others would love to call it; Cranium is composed of 4-16 players. This game is comprised of several activities and needs a player to have quite a few abilities. In 1998, Whit Alexander and Richard Tait created and published the game. The players are divided into groups of 2to 4...more
Assisting in Cooperative Board Games Cooperative board games enable players to work for a certain objective that could either be against another set of players or against the game. These games centers winning, losing, and performing as a team in contrast to individual pursuit. As the game progresses, events come randomly making it more difficult for the players to win. The Scotland Yard was one of the first games to be released back in the 1980s. It is a game where several players act as detectives or police who works cooperatively to hunt down a player acting as the criminal within the game depicting the streets of London. Arkham Horror, another game in the 1980s is about players who act as investigators who works together to protect H. P. Lovecraft's Massachusetts town of Arkham against aliens and monsters to enter through the gates and eventually close these portals. In 2000 other cooperative board games have been published like The Lord of the Rings, Shadows over Camelot, and Pandemic. Adeptly Competing in Trivia Board GamesA person who loves to read books would find it interesting and amusing to play trivia board games. It is all based upon the questions posed and...more
Amusement with Childrens Board GamesSince children have innate nature to play, childrens board games are made to match every childs abilities and inclination. These games can bring amusement to the whole family when played together with children. ...more
Taking Part in Two Player Board GamesSome board games are designed entirely for only two players to enjoy and can never be played by more than two people. These board games are suitably created for playing together with your wife, friend, or...more
The Haste of Race Board GamesRace board games, which players struggle to be first to reach the goal, are included in the pioneers of board games innovation. The game involves moving pieces on the game board under definite game rules and the player...more
Mind Boggling Word Board Games Several board games that revolve around words including word search types, crossword puzzle types, bluff word games, and others belong to the word board games genre. Scrabble is the most popular and most played word...more
The Strategic Game of ChessChess is among the board games that can only be played by two people. The objective of the game is to eliminate the opponents king piece where it has no chance of moving or subduing an enemy piece without getting...more
Prevailing in Multi-player Elimination Board GamesMost board games with several players have goals of eliminating the other participants at the end of the game like multi-player elimination board games. The excitement and the dynamic crowd of the...more