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a game played on a specially designed board

↑Scrabble, ↑backgammon, ↑checkers, ↑draughts, ↑chess, ↑chess game, ↑Chinese checkers, ↑Chinese chequers, ↑darts, ↑go, ↑go game, ↑halma, ↑lotto, ↑bingo, ↑beano, ↑keno, ↑ludo, ↑Mah-Jongg, ↑mahjong, ↑Monopoly, ↑pachisi, ↑parchesi, ↑parchisi, ↑shovel board, ↑shove-halfpenny, ↑shove-ha'penny, ↑snakes and ladders, ↑ticktacktoe, ↑ticktacktoo, ↑tick-tack-toe, ↑tic-tac-toe, ↑tit-tat-toe, ↑noughts and crosses

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backgammon

checkers

chess

Chinese chequers

Chinese chess

Cluedo (trademark)

draughts

fox and geese

go

halma

kriegspiel

ludo

mancala

Monopoly (trademark)

nine men's morris

pachisi

peggotty

Pictionary (trademark)

Risk (trademark)

Scrabble (trademark)

shogi

snakes and ladders

solitaire

Trivial Pursuit (trademark)

wari

wei ch'i

: a game of strategy (as checkers, chess, or backgammon) played by moving pieces on a board; broadly : a game played on a board

1. a game, as checkers or chess, requiring the moving of pieces from one section of a board to another.

2. any game played on a board.

[1930-35]

board game noun

A game (eg chess, snakes-and-ladders) which is played with pieces, counters, etc on a specially designed board

Main Entry: ↑board

board game UK US noun [countable] [singular board game plural board games]

an indoor game played on a board, often with pieces that are moved around it

Thesaurus: board games and playing board games_hyponym types of games_hypernym to perform an action in a card game_hyponym

board game,

any game, such as checkers or chess, played on a board. Monopoly is a board game with real-estate property plotted on a board.

n. any game played on a board, esp. one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers

noun, pl ⋯ games [count]

: a game (such as chess) that is played by moving pieces on a special board

ˈboard game [board game board games] noun

any game played on a board, often using ↑dice and small pieces that are moved around