Bucket List: Strategy Board Games

Like chess?  Backgammon?  Consider a bucket list goal to master these familiar, ancient and intriguing board strategy games!

  1. Cathedral 
  2. Quoridor
  3. Halma
  4. Chaturaji
  5. Petteia
  6. Kensington
  7. Backgammon
  8. Nine Men’s Morris
  9. Tafl (Hnefatafl)
  10. Abalone
  11. Patolli
  12. Makruk
  13. Senet
  14. Mancala
  15. Octi
  16. Dou Shou Qi
  17. Latrunculi (or “Mercenaries”)
  18. Janggi
  19. Connect Four
  20. Gomoki
  21. Djambi
  22. Chinese Checkers
  23. Draughts (aka Checkers)
  24. Xianigqi
  25. Hiashatar
  26. Shogi
  27. Ur (aka The Game of Twenty Squares) 
  28. Chess
  29. Go
  30. Oshi
  31. Chaturanga
  32. Bagh-Chal

What do you think of this bucket list? What caught your eye? What’s missing?

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