The World's Best Board Games screenshots

After the display of the company logo the game's main menu loads

All game's start with a pretty picture of the game board and the option to Start, View High Scores, or exit back to the main menu

Backgammon is a two player game so only two players can be configured in this case. The smiley blue face indicates a human opponent, the smiley blue square thing is a computer opponent

Ooops!

Before a game can start the player(s) are shown a copy of the game's rules

A backgammon game in progress. Human players have to click on the dice in the centre of the screen to make their roll

At this point in the backgammon game the player has a counter on the bar. They have rolled a 5-1. The game shows the possible moves by putting ghost counters on the board

There's a menu bar at the top of the screen in the centre. On the left of that bar is a cube icon. Clicking on that changes the viewpoint in any game

The backgammon high score table. There's one for many of the games and each comes pre-populated with names like this

A game of reversi in progress. The game will not let the player make an illegal move, By the player pictures is the current score, the computer is winning 5-19

Whoopee. I won

The Peg Solitaire game This is a single player game. Here the computer is showing the current valid moves for the selected piece

A game of chess. Here the game is showing all the squares threatened by the player's queen.

The first page of the rules for Catch The Hat. Not a game that you often see on the computer

A game of Catch The Hat in progress. This can be a four player game and the computer can play any three seats

Chinese checkers is a three player game but it can be played with just two

Setting up a game for one human player and three computer opponents, this is for Snakes & Ladders In the game the heads move occasionally which is disturbing if not expected

The Snakes & Ladders board

The Nine Men's Morris board

The rules for Nine men's Morris. So simple yet so infuriating, another game that's not commonly seen on the PC

Pachisi is a game very like Ludo. In this implementation the player gets three rolls to throw a six to start and continues to get three rolls while all four tokens remain at home

The pretty start screen for Blocked! No High Score table for this game

Blocked is an unusual game. This is the first screen of the rule book

The overhead view at the start of a game of Blocked! It is a four player game but here only three players have been configured

The World's Best Board Games

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