55 Gifts for Board Game Lovers That Are Not Boring

It’s fun! It’s quick! It’s challenging! It’s other cool adjectives according to the box! In SEQUENCE, your mission is to complete a sequence of game pieces determined by drawn cards. It’s fun. Trust us.

Push the dice bubble to move your game piece. And then keep pushing it, because honestly, that’s the allure. Sure, there are rules, but rules limit the number of allowable bubble pushes per turn. So, you decide: rules, or making dice dance?

Want to win? Get your color-coordinated pawns to Home Base first! Want to infuriate other players? “Slide” past them or “bump” their pawns back to Start.

Featuring over 2,400 questions, your goal is to answer correctly, collect wedges, and move to the center of the board. And don’t worry — correctly answering one out of every 75 questions is a statistic worth bragging about.

Who killed Toby Flenderson? It’s your job to determine the strange (and probably silly) death of Michael Scott’s low-energy enemy. If you’re a fan of Clue, The Office, and the death of everyone’s least favorite HR rep, we recommend reveling in this popular game of delightful deduction.

Protect your new home — the mall — while battling zombies, collecting weapons, and completing objectives. Just make sure you’re checking the perimeter, or your new shopping center home will host brain-eating shoppers.

While not technically a board game, it’s been associated with literal board games since everyone assumed it was close enough to being a board game. The rules: Align four sliding chips in a row and the game is yours. It’s a very easy way to determine who cooks dinner.

You know words, so test your word-knowing with Scrabble! Spell words on the board and receive points per letter. Place them in a clever manner and receive extra points for clever placement. Inside Tip: “Irregardless” is not a word.

Call out coordinates to blast away at enemy ships. And once you’ve mapped your blast zone with misses, you’ll know exactly where to strike next!

Featuring a handcrafted board and elegant, pegged horses, this classic game for non-gambling families pits horse against horse in a race to the finish.

Kids will love asking questions to determine the name of several mystery characters. “Does he fly or swim” is not one of those questions.

This classic game features candy-themed everything. Perfect for a child’s first game, you’ll love watching them win while letting them win.

Use the “Zinger” to dispense images! Match those images to the pictures on your card! The first to fill their card WINS…and earns the right to say, “ZINGO!”

Your mission? Traverse the “shadowy bits,” collect cupcakes, avoid the sun, and enjoy a picnic. If the game included a moon made of ring bologna, we would give it five stars (out of four stars).

Teach your kids the financial fundamentals with this engaging board game. Teach children the importance of assets, liabilities, investing, and financial stability with this incredibly helpful game that also teaches adults!

Kids can test the karate skills they’re born with thanks to this clever hands-on game. Follow the board’s blinking lights and chop, strike, and swipe until the board “breaks,” or cries for mercy.

Let’s kick things off with a classic. Your job? Amass property, utilities, etc., and then bankrupt your opponents through horrendous rent! Yes, they’re crying, but you’re stuffing a pillow with play money!

This collector’s edition Monopoly game replaces those boring game tokens with HALO-inspired pieces like the Chief’s helmet and the always tumbling Warthog. And the board? Filled with familiar locations found in the hit series of HALO video games.

Featuring game pieces and a gorgeously illustrated gameboard inspired by the episodic Star Wars saga, this Star Wars-stuffed Monopoly game features more Star Wars per square-inch than any Star Wars-based board game.

Tame the remote island of Catan! Farm the land, discover vast resources, and trade with nearby settlers to maintain your budding civilization. Avoid robbers and vigorously expand your domain in order to win (i.e., dominate).

Now you control seafaring settlers who happen upon the islands of Catan — an uncharted island cluster stuffed with unknown treasures and untapped resources. Build ships, enact trade, and expand your more sea-worthy civilization.

You’re one of several corporations tasked with making Mars livable for cosmic, colonizing humans. But like Earth, corporate competition is fierce, so do your very best to expand humanity’s galactic infrastructure.

Jump your opponent’s checkers until they have no checkers. Winning by any other means is too merciful, and therefore, a sign of weakness.

Your checkers? Fancy, fashionable, and a little hoity-toity. Handcrafted from genuine black and white marble, this exquisite checkers board features alternating, indented squares and smooth, sandblasted surfaces.

You don’t play chess professionally. Not yet. But you’ve been practicing like a professional with this tournament-class chess set. By this time next year, you’ll be ready to take on IBM’s Deep Blue.

Go it alone or team up with other likeminded (or foolhardy) adventurers in a quest to clear dungeons, amass loot, and upgrade abilities and weapons. This ever-changing game is made so by the decisions you make, and the paths you take.

Choose a character class, amass treasure, and fight horrifying creatures in this updated version of the classic board game from Dungeons and Dragons.

Explore ominous mansions, gather treasure, tools, and weapons, and battle horrific monsters in this app-driven board game. And if you manage to stave off insanity, you might actually win the game. Sort of.

Once noble knights loyal to the king, you’re transformed into field mice to escape (and then overtake) the evil Vanestra. Avoid giant perils and retake the kingdom in this mouse-filled fantasy game.

Will you be the evil dungeon overlord commanding dark, salivating minions? Or will you be one of several heroes charged with ending the overlord’s oppressive reign? It’s up to you in this fully realized realm complete with detailed miniatures and 3D game pieces.

Transformed into a mysterious Mage Knight, you spend your time building armies, attacking enemies, and conquering cities, all in the name of the nefarious-sounding Void Counsel. Being slightly evil sounds appealing in this amazing fantasy game.

Made from laser-cut acrylic, this angular sign sits comfortably upon door and window trims, bookshelves, and more importantly, fireplace mantles. Immediately grant context to a room stuffed with board games with this unique, handcrafted sign.

This set of three prints features the precisely rendered patents of classic, undeniably popular board games. Want to plaster the game room with original plans of America’s premier pastime products? Then purchase this set of prestigious blueprint prints!

This ceramic, 11oz mug features a classic rendering of Monopoly’s miserly money grubber! If you’re a fan of coffee, Monopoly, and stockpiling fake cash until your younger sibling tramples the board, this Monopoly mug is the perfect selfish purchase.

This ceramic mug is perfect for hands-on players who enjoy engaging rules, piles of game pieces, and incredibly immersive experiences lasting several changing seasons.

If you’re a fan of Risk and/or wall art, this giant Risk game is the perfect, hangable gift. And while you’re ogling the board’s obvious beauty, be sure to resume crippling military bombardments with the included cards, dice, and Risk-centric game bits.

It’s the epicenter of epic gaming with this custom-built gaming table! Featuring a soft play surface and built-in steel cupholders (for dice, game pieces, pretzels, and cheese curls), this still epic gaming table is the perfect, play-ready surface!

The Rustic Farmhouse Board Game Table, etc.? Yes, it’s certainly impressive, but it doesn’t measure up to THIS board game table behemoth. Custom-built from solid maple, this titanic gaming table features a recessed playing surface and carefully crafted channels to carry convenient gaming accessories.

Keep track of who wins, and who cleans the chicken coup (i.e., loses) with this hangable, handmade game challenge board. Write your name in the slot, and add a colored meeple after each and every valorous victory. The first to reach ten, wins. The last to reach ten? They move a mattress into the coup.

This sizable puzzle mat is perfect for puzzle placement and tidy transportation! With an inflatable tube for safe, superior rolling, this puzzle map is a must for master puzzle makers.

Where to store game pieces, dice, discs, cards, tokens, or meeples of every conceivable color? Why, right inside these colorful board game storage bowls! And don’t worry about transportation — these bowls unbutton, flatten, and fit inside most board game boxes. You’re welcome.

Carry as many games as you (and your back) can carry with this sizable, protective board game bag. With padded linings and straps, this spacious bag safely transports hours of playable fun.

Stop holding cards like an amateur, and start propping them up like a pro. This set of four playing card holders is the perfect alternative to sloppy, inefficient card holding with unpredictable human hands!

With a hard external shell, this Catan carrying case features perfectly measured spaces for Catan-specific game pieces. And those perfectly measured spaces? They’re made from a precision-cut, high-contrast, hard-blue foam. And that soft black foam lining the top of the case? It makes sure those securely held game pieces are infinitely more secure.

Crafted with interlinked, stainless-steel rings resembling the finest chain mail armor, this unique game dice bag (with drawstring) carries all manner of game pieces (while protecting one from all manner of swords and spears).

Perfect for card-focused games with nary a board in sight, this wooden organizer keeps cards spaced, organized, very safe, and on deck for eventual play.

Made from 100% combed and ring-spun cotton, this soft, unisex t-shirt describes your discerning taste in tabletop entertainment.

This soft t-shirt for women expresses one’s preference for dependable, intelligent entertainment over unnerving, temperamental people.

Would you rather be at the beach? At the dance? In space? Standing over Ben Kenobi’s smoking robes after a vengeful Jedi duel? NO! You’d rather be playing board games! Why? Because the t-shirt says so, and Star Wars isn’t real!

This set of handmade, sterling-silver chess piece earrings is the perfect gift for a chess-obsessed friend, sibling, or significant other. If your beloved chess player is constantly considering the demise of your queen, this pair of earrings makes a perfect, impressive gift.

Get educated! This informative tome boasts serious information on over 100 tabletop games. Learn important details about your favorite games and those worth considering in this heavily researched resource.

Want to learn the origins of board games? Want to know why we’ve been challenging friends, rivals, and frenemies over game tables with rolling, throwable dice?? Want to know why the obsession lasted centuries and not seconds??? It’s all right here in the Oxford History of Board Games.

How did your favorite roleplaying games decide on those intricate systems to reflect battles and build characters? It’s all right here in this very informative book with a very informative title.

What’s the perfect reflection of life? A mixture of strategy, quick wits, and sometimes, an awful lot of luck? That’s right — board games. This book looks at the deep psychological connections between board games and real life, and how the complexities of one informs the other.

Looking for reviews, interviews, and all sorts of informational tidbits regarding board games, card games, roleplaying games and wargames? Then crack open this helpful book and drink in the details.