The point of this thread is to gather some games that are fun and not too dumbed-down. Here's a list so far, of games recommended by users here. I have bolded the names of games that seem especially loved, generally going by how many people here recommend it.

Multiplayer board/card/dice games:

Abalone
Apples to Apples / Apples to Apples Jr.
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Artifact
Axis and Allies
Backgammon
Balderdash
Bananagrams
Bandu / Bausack
Battleship
Bazaar
Blink
Blokus / Blokus Duo / Blokus Trigon
Boggle
Carcassonne
Chess
Chicken Cha-Cha-Cha
Chinese Checkers
Cirkus
Clue, inc. Harry Potter version
Connect Four
Depot Diner
Equate
Fluxx
Go
Go Fish
Gobblet
Granny's House
Growlies in the Garden
Harvest Time
Hearts
Izzi
Knet
Labyrinth, by Ravensburger
Made for Trade
Mancala
Mastermind
Monopoly
No Stress Chess
Operation
Othello
Pandemic
Parcheesi
Pass the Pigs
Professor Noggin
Quarto
Quiddler
Quixo
Quoridor
Qwirkle
Rat a Tat Cat
Rhyme Time
Risk
Rummikub
Scrabble
Scrambled States of America
Scotland Yard
Secret Door
Sequence
Set
Settlers of Catan
Shogi
Shut the Box
Skeletons in the Closet
Sorry
Spellbound
Stratego
Sum Swamp
Tableland
Texas Hold 'Em
Ticket to Ride
Topitop
Toss Up
Triominoes
Trivial Pursuit
Trouble
Uno
Upwords
The Way Things Work
Washington's War
Wordigo
Yahtzee / Yahtzee Turbo
Zeus on the Loose


Single-player board/card/dice games:

Amaze
Block by Block
Brick by Brick
Chocolate Fix
Clever Castle
Cover Your Tracks
Hedgehog Escape
Hoppers
Hot Spot
Kanoodle
Perplexus
River Crossing / River Crossing Jr.
Rush Hour / Rush Hour Jr.
Shape by Shape
Solitaire Chess


Computer games:

Age of Empires
Age of Mythology
Apples to Apples
Blokus
Bloons Tower Defense: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4+
Boggle
Boom Blox (Wii)
Bubble Blast (Android OS)
Chess (Android OS, by Aart J.C. Bik)
Civilization
Cogs (PC, iPad, iPhone)
Crazy Machines (PC, Mac, iPad)
Flood-It (Android OS)
Fritz and Chesster Learn Chess
GalCon (iPad)
Glow Puzzle (Android OS)
Isaac Newton's Gravity (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone)
Jumpstart World Online
Lego Chess
Lego Universe
Lemmings
Lure of the Labyrinth
Master of Orion 2
Meeblings, Meeblings 2
Nethack
Phit (Android OS)
Quoridor
Rome Total War
Rush Hour (Android OS)
Scrabble
Set
Spore
Starcraft
Sudoku
Tinker
Warcraft 3
World of Goo
Wrath of the Gods
Yahtzee, YahtC (Android OS)
Zoo Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon 2
Zoombinis Logical Journey, Zoombinis Mountain Rescue


Unknown quantities-- please post if you have direct experience with these:

Air Traffic Control Tower
Anti-Virus
Architecto - Equilibrio - Tangramino - Cliko[/b] (link is to the easiest / first one, Architecto)
[b]Camelot Legends EMERGENCY REQUEST smile
Crazy Campers
Fire Escape
HooDoo Loop
Meta-Forms
Maze Ways Cat and Mouse
North Pole Camouflage
Pentago
Pirates Undercover
Police Blockade
Sink or Swim
Six
Zoologic

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