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Board Games Board games are tabletop games that usually involve
moving or placing pieces on an already marked board
(playing surface), and also include elements of
tabletop, dice, role-playing, and miniatures games.

Below are a few selection of popular board games:

Chess
Chess is a strategic board game for two players
played on a chessboard, which is a checkered tiled
board of sixty-four squares set in an eight-by-eight
grid. It is one of the world's oldest and most famous
games, with millions of people playing it around the
world. Chess is thought to have arisen in India
between the years 280 and 550 B.C., during the time
of the Gupta Empire.

Scrabble
Two to four players compete on a 225-
square board by shaping words with
lettered tiles; words spelled out by
letters on the tiles interlock like words
in a crossword puzzle.

Snakes and Ladders


Also known as Moksha Patam, is an ancient Indian
board game for two or more players that is still played
today. It's played on a gridded game board of
numbered squares. On the floor, there are some
"ladders" and "snakes," each connecting two separate
board squares.The aim of the game is to traverse one's
game piece from the start (bottom square) to the
finish (top square) using die rolls, with the aid of
scaling ladders but with the hindrance of falling down
snakes.

Monopoly
Hasbro publishes Monopoly, a board game.
Players travel around the game board by
rolling two six-sided dice, purchasing,
selling, and building properties with houses
and hotels. The aim of the game is for
players to receive rent from their opponents
in order to bankrupt them.

Go
Go is a two-player abstract strategy
board game in which the aim is to
encircle more territories than the
opponent. The game was created more
than 2,500 years ago in China and is
thought to be the world's oldest board
game still in use today.

SOURCES: https://www.britannica.com/sports/Scrabble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_game
https://hobbylark.com/board-games/The-Top-Ten-Board-Games-Of-All-Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

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