Board Games

Ventress Memorial Library is excited to offer an exciting selection of classic and hobbyist board games for you and your family to enjoy. We hope this collection supports screen-free family time. Teen games are shelved outside of the Teen Room, between the teen nonfiction collection and the teen video games. Kids games are shelved in the Children’s Room between the biographies and the nonfiction. 

Checking Out Board Games

Please be mindful of the following policies when checking out a board game:

  • Board games may be checked out by any patron with a teen or adult card.
  • Limit of three board games per household (i.e. per home address).
  • Board games circulate for two weeks and may be renewed one time.
  • There are no overdue fines associated with board games.
  • Board games may be placed on hold for local pickup only.
  • Board games must be returned to the Ventress Memorial Library only.
  • All board games circulate with a list of the parts and pieces and game value. Patrons may be fined up to the full value if a game is returned with damaged or missing pieces.

Available Board Games

5 Minute Dungeon

2-5 players; ages 8+

Adventure Time Love Letter

2-4 players; ages 10+

Apples to Apples

4-10 players; ages 12+

Apples to Apples Junior

4-10 players; ages 9+

Backgammon

2 players; ages 7+

Bananagrams

1-4 players; ages 7+

Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate

3-6 players; ages 12+

Black Sheep

2-4 players; ages 8+

Boggle

1+ players; ages 8+

Boss Monster

2-4 players; ages 13+

Broadsides

2 players; ages 14+

Candy Land

2-4 players; ages 3+

Cards Against Humanity (Family Edition)

4+ players; ages 8+

The Captain is Dead

2-7 players; ages 14+

Catan

3-4 players; ages 10+

The Chameleon

3-8 players; ages 14+

Chess

2 players; ages 8+

Chutes and Ladders

2-3 players; ages 3+

Codenames

2-8 players; ages 10+

Color Brain

2-20 players; ages 12+

Connect Four (Spider-Man Edition)

2 players; ages 6+

Cranium

4-16 players; ages 13+

Dice City

1-4 players; ages 14+

Dizzle

1-4 players; ages 8+

Dominoes (Spongebob Edition)

2-6 players; ages 4+

Don’t Break the Ice

2-4 players; ages 3+

Doomlings

2-6 players; ages 10+

Dragonwood

2-4 players; ages 8+

Dreamwell

2-4 players, ages 14+

Dungeon Mayhem

2-4 players; ages 8+

Elephant’s Trunk

2-4 players; ages 4+

Exploding Kittens

2-10 players; ages 7+

Family Showdown

2+ players; ages 8+

Flickin’ Chicken

2-4 players; ages 6+

Flinch

1-8 players; ages 7+

Forbidden Sky

2-5 players; ages 10+

Frozen II Matching Game

1+ players; ages 3+

Funkoverse DC

2 players; ages 10+

Ghost Blitz 2

2-8 players; ages 8+

Gloom

2-4 players; ages 13+

Go Fish

2-6 players; ages 4+

Guess Who?

2 players; ages 6+

Herd Mentality

4-20 players; ages 10+

Hoot Owl Hoot

2-4 players; ages 4+

Jenga

1+ players; ages 6+

The Legend of Drizzt

1-5 players; ages 12+

Lords of Waterdeep

2-5 players; ages 12+

Mad Gab

4+ players; ages 12+

Mille Bornes

2-6 players; ages 7+

Monopoly (classic)

2-8 players; ages 8+

Outfoxed

2-4 players; ages 5+

Pandemic

2-4 players; ages 8+

Password

3+ players; ages 10+

Pete the Cat: the Missing Cupcakes

2-4 players; ages 3+

Phase 10

2-6 players; ages 7+

Pictionary

3-6 players; ages 12+

Pit

3-8 players; ages 7+

Pokemon Labyrinth

2-4 players; ages 7-99

Qwirkle

2-6 players; ages 6+

Railroad Ink

1-6 players; ages 8+

Ravine

3-6 players; ages 10+

The Resistance

5-10 players; ages 13+

Rivers, Roads, Rails

1-8 players; ages 5+

Rubik’s Race

2 players; ages 7+

Rummikub

2-4 players; ages 8+

Scattergories

2-6 players; ages 13+

Scrabble 

2-4 players; ages 10+

Set

1+ players; ages 6+

Shadows in the Forest

2-7 players; ages 8+

Silver and Gold

2-4 players; ages 8+

Sorry!

2-4 players; ages 6+

Spaceteam

3-6 players; ages 10+

Spontuneous

4-10 players; ages 8+

Spot It!

2-8 players; ages 6+

Star Fluxx

2-6 players; ages 8+

Stratego

2 players; ages 8+

Superfight

3-20 players; ages 8+

Sushi Go!

2-5 players; ages 8+

Sushi Go! Party

2-8 players; ages 8+

Taboo

4+ players, ages 13+

The Tea Dragon Society Card Game

2-4 players; ages 10+

Throw Throw Burrito

2-6 players; ages 7+

Ticket to Ride 

2-5 players; ages 8+

Ticket to Ride First Journey

2-4 players; ages 6+

Trivial Pursuit Genus IV

2-6 players; ages adult+

Truth Be Told

3-8 players; ages 14+

Twister

2-4 players; ages 6+

Tyrants of the Underdark

2-4 players; ages 14+

Ultimate Werewolf

5-75 players; ages 13+

Uno

2-10 players; ages 7+

What Came First?

2-8 players; ages 10+

Who's Most Likely to...

3+ players; ages 14+

Yahtzee

2+ players; ages 8+