Now that summer is fading into fall and there’s less time to be outside in the sunshine enjoying the best type of games, lawn games, people are starting to think about hunkering down for the long, cold, worst months ahead, pondering alternative, indoor diversions like board games. Here is a ranking of the best ones:
- Scrabble
- Chess
- Clue
- Candy Land
- Risk
- Monopoly
- Settlers of Catan
- Balderdash
- Stratego
- Bananagrams
- UNO
- Pandemic
- Trivial Pursuit
- Sorry!
- Mancala
- Checkers
- Go
- Backgammon
- Chinese checkers
- Yahtzee
- Chutes and Ladders
- Connect Four
- Operation
- Getting hit by a bus
- Life