# The best-selling board games of all time

Chess and draughts for centuries, Monopoly with over 275 million copies, Scrabble, Cluedo and the German classic Catan: the board and family games that have sold the most. Which one is in your cupboard?

- 10 votes · 20 items
- Aug 31, 2025 · labrat
- https://even.best/en/l/2978/the-best-selling-board-games-of-all-time

## Top 20

1. **Chess** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — More than 1,500 years old and still a perennial bestseller.
2. **Cluedo (Clue)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The country-house murder mystery, since 1949.
3. **Uno** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The card game with over 150 million copies.
4. **Risk** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — World domination at the kitchen table, since 1957.
5. **Candy Land** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The American children's game.
6. **Ticket to Ride** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Over 10 million copies since 2004.
7. **Operation** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Steady hands needed, since 1965.
8. **Draughts (checkers)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of the oldest board games in the world.
9. **Monopoly** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Over 275 million copies since 1935.
10. **Scrabble** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Over 150 million sold.
11. **Trivial Pursuit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Over 100 million copies since 1981.
12. **Pictionary** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Over 38 million copies since 1985.
13. **Catan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Settlers of Catan: over 32 million since 1995.
14. **The Game of Life** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Driving through life since 1960.
15. **Battleship** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The classic naval duel.
16. **Carcassonne** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Over 12 million since 2000.
17. **Pandemic** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The co-operative game against diseases, since 2008.
18. **Sorry!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A race game from 1934.
19. **Connect Four** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Four in a row, since 1974.
20. **Jenga** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Over 90 million wobbly towers.

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