Board games

Games that are played turn by turn on a flat board.

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C is for Checkers

Checkers is another word for the game of draughts.

C is for Chess

Chess is a game for two people, using a chequered board and pieces of two different colours. There are rules for how far and which way the different chess pieces can move. The object of the game is to capture or check your opponent's king.
Connect Four is a two-player board game, first sold by Milton Bradley in 1974. Players take turns dropping colored discs into a vertical grid with seven columns and six rows. The aim is to be the first player to make a line of four matching discs in a row. The line can go across, up and down, or diagonally.

D is for Draughts

Draughts is a board game for two players, also called checkers. It is played on a board of 64 black and white squares. Each player starts with 12 round pieces on the dark squares. Players move their pieces diagonally and try to capture the other player's pieces by jumping over them.

A piece can usually move forward one square, but it can jump over an opposing piece into an empty square. Repeated jumps may capture several pieces in one turn. When a piece reaches the far side of the board, it becomes a king and can move both forward and backward. The game has been played for hundreds of years.

S is for Scrabble

Scrabble is a game where players draw letter tiles from a bag and use them to form words on a board that looks similar to a crossword puzzle.