Best Board Games

Board games date back to a time around 2500 B.C and is one of the first of its kind, discovered around 1946 by Leonard Woolley in the royal tombs in what is now called Iraq. It was called 'The Royal Game of Ur', which depicted the city of Ur where Abraham lived, way back in biblical times. Other known ancient games were 'The Game of Go' (Wei-qi in Chinese), 'Mah Jongg' and the 'Mancala family of games', to name a few.

Board games are a good way to keep the mind active, by exercising it on an intellectual level as well as activate one's thinking and analyzing brain functions. It is a nice way of spending a day at home playing these games on a rainy day or when there's nothing else to do, or even just as party games at a casual home get together.

Best Board Games of All Time

Given here is a list of the best board games for adults, kids, teenagers and youngsters. No age bar separates one from playing a game that everyone can actively enjoy as a whole.

Blokus
This game is a great board games for adults and kids. It's a strategic kind of game that gets you thinking up solutions. The aim of the game is to place all the pieces when there is and isn't a possible move to make. It comes with a 400 square board with heightened edges, including an instruction manual.

The Settlers of Catan
Set in an imaginary world called Catan, you need to use the resources that are present to put together a new island home. It comes with both beginner and advanced levels, including different ways of setting up the game depending on how you arrange your six sided tiles of the playing surface. It is basically a game of putting together a community of towns, houses and so on.

Hullabaloo
This gives kids a chance to exercise their listening skills, and allows them to problem solve as the game progresses. It can be played with kids between the age of 4 to 10 years, and can either be played alone or with a group of kids. There is a console that can communicate vocally, to engage players.

Monopoly Junior Edition
This is an excellent game for kids to sharpen their mathematical skills in subtraction, division, multiplication and addition. The one with the most money at the end of the game, is the winner. This can be played between the age group of 5 to 8 years; it can prove to be a very good method of giving your kids an easier way of learning things.

Twister
This game can really get you all geared up for physical activity, since it requires a lot of muscle work. It's a fun game that involves a broad sheet of circular colors of red, green, blue and yellow. A separate board features the same, with a hand that is spun to point at a particular color and body part mentioned on the board. Whatever the hand points to, the players have to accordingly enact on the broad sheet laid out. As time passes, the players get all entwined between crisscrossing limbs; those who collapse on the sheet, lose.

Best Board Games for 2 Players

Here are some of the best board games for two people, even if it is meant for multiple players.

• The Game of Life
• Scrabble
• Checkers
• Chess
• Connect Four
• Battleship
• Scotland Yard
• Ticket to Ride
• Cluedo
• Go
• Pandemic
• Who, What, Where

The best board games are those which can engage the family or a bunch of friends for hours on end, without that element of boredom creeping in. If you don't own any of these, or if you'd like to try a hand at some of these board games, then I suggest you give it a shot and buy them pronto. Have fun!