Glossary of board games

This glossary of board games explains commonly used terms in board games, in alphabetical order.

For a list of board games, see List of board games; for terms specific to chess, see Glossary of chess; for terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems.

Equipment for Ludo : four Ludo pieces, a die, a dice cup, a Ludo board

Surakarta gameboard and initial setup

Wooden meeples from the board game Carcassonne

Simple wooden pawn -style playing pieces, often called Halma pawns

The five Platonic solid polyhedrals ( from the left ): tetrahedron (d4), cube (d6), octahedron (d8), dodecahedron (d12), icosahedron (d20)