Classic Board Games
Classic board games are played on a shared board — a grid, a track, or a set of points and lines — where pieces move according to fixed rules. Many of these games are centuries or even thousands of years old, and their boards can be drawn with nothing more than a straight edge and a pencil. This category covers strategy games of position and territory, from the deep calculation of chess to the simple, satisfying geometry of nine men's morris.
Chess
A two-player war of position played across 64 squares.
Checkers
A fast-moving capture game of diagonal jumps, also known as draughts.
Backgammon
A race around the board that blends dice luck with real strategy.
Nine Men's Morris
A quiet game of forming rows of three on a triple-square grid.
Dominoes
A tile-matching game of laying down numbered ends to build a growing line.
Go
An ancient territory game played with black and white stones on a grid.