1. Othello
   Go
2. Connect Four

In Othello, you flip the discs to make them your color.

1. Operation
   Risk
2. Pandemic

Pandemic is a cooperative game in which players try to stop the spread of four diseases.

1. Settlers of Catan
   Carcassonne
2. Risk

Carcassonne is named for a medieval French city.

1. Scattergories
   Monopoly
2. Pictionary

In the Pictionary scene, Jess can't stop yelling "baby fish mouth."

1. Life
   Sorry!
2. Chutes and Ladders

You can also send other players back home and say, "Sorry!"

1. Monopoly
   Casino
2. Life

Now, of course, there are plenty of city-themed Monopoly boards, but the classic version is Atlantic City.

1. Risk
   Apples to Apples
2. Trouble

In the middle of the Trouble board sits the Pop-O-Matic, which you push down to roll the dice.

1. Clue
   Uncle Wiggily
2. Domaine

It's the mystery game Clue, of course. And don't forget Mr. Green, Miss Scarlett, Mrs. White, Col. Mustard and Professor Plum.

1. Buzzword
   Scrabble
2. Boggle

The classic Scrabble was actually created by an architect in 1933.

1. Parcheesi
   chess
2. Dungeons & Dragons

The youngest chess grandmaster ever was 12-year-old Sergey Karjakin in 2002.

1. checkers
   Chinese checkers
2. chess

Checkers and draughts are one and the same.

1. Carcassonne
   Settlers of Catan
2. Risk

Settlers of Catan players can spend resources to build cities and roads.

1. Cranium
   Pictionary
2. Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit really took the '80s by storm.

1. Stratego
   Risk
2. Battleship

In Stratego, both players get six bombs and one flag.

1. Parcheesi
   backgammon
2. mancala

Backgammon is one of the oldest games around. Players move around a board with 12 pointed arrows.

1. Blokus
   Masterpiece
2. Life

As you travel on the path of Life, your player can graduate from college, get a job, get married, have kids, win the lottery … and go bankrupt.

1. Candy Land
   Risk
2. Uncle Wiggily

Candy Land was designed in 1948 by a girl who was recovering from polio in a children's hospital.

1. Chutes and Ladders
   Life
2. Figure It Out

In Chutes and Ladders, if game pieces land on certain squares, the player might climb up a ladder or slip down a slide.

1. Parcheesi
   Chinese checkers
2. mancala

The object of Chinese checkers is to move your marbles to the opposite side of the star.

1. cribbage
   Parcheesi
2. backgammon

The original name of Parcheesi is "pachisi," and it was once played with actual people (usually servants) moving around on an outdoor board.

1. Scattergories
   Pictionary
2. Cranium

In Scattergories, you have to think of words or terms that fit into different categories and start with a certain letter.

1. Go
   Othello
2. Chinese Checkers

The object of Go is to gain more territory with your stones.

1. Railways & Robber Barons
   Ticket to Ride
2. Monopoly

The object of Ticket to Ride is to build train routes across a country or a continent.

1. Hi Ho! Cherry-O
   Uno
2. Apples to Apples

In Apples to Apples, you have to pick which of your adjectives best complements a noun card that another player draws.

1. Carcassonne
   Risk
2. Axis & Allies

Axis & Allies is a World War II strategy game that was created in 1981.

1. Connect Four
   Othello
2. Uno

The object of Connect Four is to make a row out of four of your discs.

1. Stratego
   Jenga
2. Battleship

The version of Battleship introduced by Milton Bradley in 1967 has plastic boards and pegs.

1. Scattergories
   Cranium
2. Pictionary

You never know what you're going to get with Cranium.

1. Operation
   mancala
2. Boggle

In Operation, players have to use metal pincers to extract a plastic "body part" from a metal-lined opening, which can result in a shock.

1. Balderdash
   Taboo
2. Scattergories

If you say one of the "taboo" words, your team is penalized.