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Classic Board Games

A beginner-friendly guide to classic board games, with simple explanations of the rules, setup, and how each game is played.

Backgammon

Backgammon is a game played on a board between two players, each trying to move their fifteen counters around and off the board before the other.

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Battleships

Battleships is a two-player guessing game in which each player conceals a fleet of ships on a grid and takes turns calling coordinates to locate and sink the opponent's fleet.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy game played on an 8×8 board where each player manoeuvres sixteen pieces, aiming to checkmate the opponent's king.

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Checkers / Draughts

Checkers, also known as Draughts, is a two-player strategy game played on an 8×8 board where players move pieces diagonally and capture opponents by jumping over them.

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Cluedo

Cluedo is a deduction game for two to six players who must determine which suspect committed a murder, in which room, and with which weapon.

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Connect 4

Connect 4 is a two-player game in which players drop coloured discs into a seven-column, six-row grid, aiming to be the first to form a line of four in any direction.

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Dominoes

Dominoes is a tile-matching game in which players place rectangular tiles end-to-end by matching the number of dots, aiming to empty their hand before their opponents.

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Go

Go is a two-player strategy game played on a grid where players alternate placing black or white stones to surround territory and capture opponent stones.

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Jenga

Jenga is a game in which players take turns removing individual wooden blocks from a stacked tower and placing them on top, until the structure falls.

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Ludo

Ludo is a board game for two to four players who roll a die to race four tokens around a cross-shaped track, sending opponents back to start by landing on the same square.

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Monopoly

Monopoly is a property-trading game for two to six players who buy, develop, and rent properties to collect income and eliminate opponents.

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Othello

Othello, also known as Reversi, is a two-player strategy game played on an 8×8 board where players place discs to outflank and flip the opponent's pieces, aiming to hold the majority at game end.

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Risk

Place armies on a world map and roll dice to take land from other players. Learn how to set up, fight a battle, and win by taking the whole board.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game for two to four players who draw letter tiles and form words on a crossword-style board, scoring points based on letter values and board squares.

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Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders is a race game for two or more players in which dice rolls move pieces along a numbered grid, with ladders advancing pieces forward and snakes sending them back.

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