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Now that summer is fading into fall and there’s less time to be outside in the sunshine enjoying the best type of games, lawn games, people are starting to think about hunkering down for the long, cold, worst months ahead, pondering alternative, indoor diversions like board games. Here is a ranking of the best ones:

Scrabble Chess Clue Candy Land Risk Monopoly Settlers of Catan Balderdash Stratego Bananagrams UNO Pandemic Trivial Pursuit Sorry! Mancala Checkers Go Backgammon Chinese checkers Yahtzee Chutes and Ladders Connect Four Operation Getting hit by a bus Life