Board Games, Ranked 

Now that summer is fading into fall and there’s less time to be outside in the sunshine enjoying the best type of games, lawn games, people are starting to think about hunkering down for the long, cold, worst months ahead, pondering alternative, indoor diversions like board games. Here is a ranking of the best ones:

Scrabble

Chess

Clue

Candy Land

Risk

Monopoly

Settlers of Catan

Balderdash

Stratego

Bananagrams

UNO

Pandemic

Trivial Pursuit

Sorry!

Mancala

Checkers

Go

Backgammon

Chinese checkers

Yahtzee

Chutes and Ladders

Connect Four

Operation

Getting hit by a bus

Life