Prompt 6 of 7
Name a board game
89 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Senet— Ancient Egyptian game, 3100 BC. The oldest board game ever found. Your ancestors played it. They also had no idea what the rules were.
85 ptsDeep Cut30 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Ark Nova
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Brass: Birmingham
- Carrom
- Cascadia
- Concordia
- Cribbage
- Crokinole
- Dungeon Petz
- Everdell
- Food Chain Magnate
- HeroQuest
- Hive
- Hnefatafl— Viking chess, with an unpronounceable name and an escape-the-king twist.
- Le Havre
- Mage Knight
- Nine Men's Morris
- Pax Pamir
- Puerto Rico
- Qwirkle
- Root
- Royal Game of Ur
- Santorini
- Shogi
- Small World
- Spirit Island
- Terra Mystica
- Through the Ages
- Twilight Imperium
- Xiangqi
60 ptsRare34 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- 7 Wonders
- Agricola
- Arkham Horror
- Axis and Allies
- Azul
- Chinese checkers
- Codenames
- Cranium
- Diplomacy
- Dominion
- Gloomhaven
- Go
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
- King of Tokyo
- Mahjong
- Mancala
- Mastermind
- Mousetrap
- Mysterium
- Operation
- Othello
- Parcheesi
- Pictionary
- Power Grid
- Rummikub
- Scotland Yard
- Scythe
- Sequence
- Splendor
- Stratego
- Terraforming Mars
- Trouble
- Twister
- Wingspan
30 ptsSchooler18 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Backgammon
- Battleship
- Boggle
- Candyland
- Checkers
- Chutes and Ladders
- Connect Four
- Dominoes
- Guess Who?
- Jenga
- Life
- Pandemic
- Settlers of Catan
- Sorry!
- Ticket to Ride
- Trivial Pursuit
- Uno— Technically cards. Spiritually a board game. The shelf agrees.
- Yahtzee
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Carcassonne— The gateway euro-game. The boardgame community's ambassador. Everyone eventually names it.
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Chess
- Clue
- Monopoly
- Risk
- Scrabble