Board Games
Board Games List is a structured entertainment dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Game, Year, Players. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- BoardGameGeek
- Data updated
- Mar 6, 2026
Included fields: Game, Year, Players, Type, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year span
- 1935 to 2019
- Across 14 preview rows
- Players groups
- 10 distinct values
- Across 15 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Game, Year, and Players across entertainment entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Game↕ | Year↕ | Players↕ | Type↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chess | ~600 CE | 2 | Abstract Strategy | King of board games, 1,500+ years old, grandmasters, AI defeated humans (Deep Blue), infinite depth |
Settlers of Catan | 1995 | 3-4 | Euro / Resource | Gateway to modern board games, wood for sheep trades, longest road, anyone got brick?, German game design |
Monopoly | 1935 | 2-6 | Economic / Roll-and-Move | Ruins friendships, everyone has house rules (wrong), Go collect $200, longest games ever, capitalism sim |
Scrabble | 1948 | 2-4 | Word Game | Triple word score, Q without U nightmares, competitive tournaments, Words With Friends copied it |
Risk | 1957 | 2-6 | Strategy / War | World domination, Australia strategy, 6-hour games, alliance betrayals, dice-rolling warfare |
Ticket to Ride | 2004 | 2-5 | Route Building | Perfect family game, train routes across maps, easy to learn, multiple map expansions, gateway game |
Pandemic | 2008 | 2-4 | Cooperative | Players vs the game (cooperative), eerily prescient before COVID-19, save the world from diseases, teamwork |
Codenames | 2015 | 4-8+ | Party / Word | Best party game of 2010s, one-word clues for multiple words, spymaster pressure, simple but brilliant |
Carcassonne | 2000 | 2-5 | Tile Placement | Build medieval France tile by tile, meeples, farmer scoring confusion, gateway Euro game, satisfying |
Wingspan | 2019 | 1-5 | Engine Building | Beautiful bird illustrations, made birding cool, engine building, stunning production quality, educational |
Dungeons & Dragons | 1974 | 3-6+ | Tabletop RPG | Original RPG, Stranger Things revival, imagination-powered, Baldur's Gate 3 boosted it, roll for initiative |
Clue (Cluedo) | 1949 | 3-6 | Deduction | Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick, murder mystery, process of elimination, classic whodunit |
Azul | 2017 | 2-4 | Abstract / Tile | Beautiful Portuguese tile-laying, satisfying components, easy rules deep strategy, gorgeous on the table |
Uno | 1971 | 2-10 | Card Game | Draw 4 card destroys friendships, stacking debate (official rules say no), skip and reverse chaos, universal |
Terraforming Mars | 2016 | 1-5 | Engine Building / Strategy | Build Mars into a habitable planet, card combos, 3-hour sessions, science nerd dream, corporate strategy |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Board Games organized?
The table starts in the source data's order. Community voting is enabled as a separate approval signal beside eligible rows; votes do not replace the source values.
How much data is available on this page?
This dataset contains 15 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
Can I download the complete dataset?
Yes. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 15 rows. Before republishing the data, review the source and any usage terms listed on this page; dtbse does not replace the original source's licensing terms.
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