Strategy board games, usually played with pieces alone, challenge you to outmaneuver your opponent and often eliminate their pieces. Games such as Backgammon Chess, Checkers, Chinese Checkers, or new games like Abalone and Omnigon are still suitable for families and kids, but usually involve more tactics than luck, and tend to be restricted to less players. Word games may be played with or without a board and test your tongue with talkative tricks. Players or teams usually guess or come up with words from a certain category or using specific letters. Other word games give you clues and require you to guess the 'key word'.
Word games are great for parties or multiplayer interaction.
Look for Taboo, Guestures, Outburst, Scattegories, and Pictionary, just to name a few. A table is set up with landscape similar to model railroad terrain. Bridges, mountains, forests, and buildings act as the battlefield for pewter figurines. Each player fields an army of figures from 15mm to 2.5 inches tall of various characters from knights to alien marines. A tape measure is used to work out movement rates and dice are used to determine combat outcomes.