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=Welcome to Board Games Wiki!=

This Wiki is devoted to the board games that have kept generations amused for more than five thousand years. Artifacts of board games have been found in all great civilizations since the Egyptians. Games we still play today, like backgammon, can trace their history back through time to the earliest of humans.

Board games are those defined as having a playing board and playing pieces to indicate position or standing in the game. This Wiki will focus only on games that take place on some sort of board.

=Types of Games=

Below are the most common types of board games played today, and in the past.

Strategy Games
Typically strategy games lack a theme, but always try to minimize luck. Examples of these would be games like chess, checkers, and backgammon.

Race Games
Race games can be a subcategory of other games, but can also be specifically race games. The purpose of a race game is to get the pieces from one end of the playing board to the other. The first one to accomplish this is the winner. Examples of race games would be Parcheesi, Trouble, and Snakes and Ladders.

Roll and Move Games
Roll and move games are yet another sub description of many board games. Roll and move games are games in which a players progress across the board is determined by dies, a spinner, or some other numerical counting device. Roll and move games are often also race games. Examples of roll and move games are Monopoly, Life, and Candy Land.

Trivia Games
Trivial games are games in which the players are quizzed on some sort of trivia. Trivia games are games like Trivial Pursuit.

War Games
[|War games]simulate battle, whether that be historical battle, or less realistic, more playable battle games. The object is typically to overtake the opponent. Examples of these games are games such as Battleship, Risk, and Tactics II.

Word Games
Word games stress the knowledge of language. The players are pressed to pick or spell words typically under some sort of time constraint. They range from simple games like Pass the Bomb, where players have to spell a word before the game "explodes," to Scrabble, where an excellent vocabulary will help the player dominate their opponent.