Chess is a game of skill and strategy that can be played by players at any level from beginner to Grandmaster. The first step is to learn the way the pieces are moved and the basic rules of the game.
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Draughts, also known as checkers, is at first sight not dissimilar to chess in terms of its setup and objectives and the board itself is identifiable with a chessboard.
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Backgammon is a classic board game that combines strategy and luck, where players move pieces based on the roll of dice to be the first to bear off all their checkers.
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The Royal Game of Ur is an ancient Mesopotamian race game, where players compete to move their pieces off the board while navigating strategy and chance through dice rolls.
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Senet is one of the oldest known board games, played in Ancient Egypt. It involves moving pieces across a grid-based board, with an element of luck and strategy guiding the players' progress.
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With a very simple setup and set of rules, dominoes is perhaps the most immediately intuitive game to play on a sufficiently large surface and has therefore been popularised worldwide.
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Hnefatafl, translated as 'King's table' and more easily understood as the 'Viking Game,' is an asymmetric strategy game where one player defends the king while the other attempts to capture him.
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