High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board," according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance (i.e. rolling dice) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve. Early board games represented a battle between two armies and most current board games are still based on beating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points (often expressed as in-game currency).