"Race" games are are games in which the main objective it to be the first player to reach a goal. Typically, this involves moving game pieces around a playing board, according to the rules of the game. The winner is the first player to move all their pieces to the "home" position on the board. Race games are some of the earliest board games to be invented, appearing in India and the Middle East thousands of years ago. Today, Backgammon is the foremost game of this genre, and also one of the most popular. Race games include:

Aggravation Backgammon Ludo

Parcheesi Sorry Trouble

Other Race Board Games

Aggravation - The Classic Marble Race Game  BUY NOW  $12.99

Aggravate everyone you know! Because they'll try to aggravate you! Players compete in this classic marble race around the board from Base to Home. Just roll the dice and start moving. Take shortcuts to zip ahead or try the super shortcut to shoot across the board. Along the way, aggravate your opponents by sending them back to their Base! Includes game board, die, 24 marbles. For 2 to 6 players.

As in Jules Verne's famous story, the players in Around the World in 80 Days are members of a London Club at the beginning of the 20th century who bet each other on a round-the-world journey. Whoever can complete the journey in less than 80 days will win the bet and the accolades of his comrades. To accomplish this, the players will have to make good use of train and ship travel as they move from place to place. Along the way, they may have the opportunity to speed their travels with balloons and elephants. However, they must also avoid the over-zealous detective, who will slow their progress if he can catch up with them for interrogations in the places they visit. Naturally, events outside the control of the players may also play a part.

Do you enjoy Formula One? No need to dream any more! Now you can discover the thrills of driving a real track in your first single-seater: a Formula De. Speed, tactics, taking risks and a dash of luck: the high-octane cocktail needed to race the world's most prestigious Grand Prix circuits. The principle of the game: a die for each gear! The higher the gear, the more spaces you travel. Simple? Yes, except that you can't just slow down. You should save your engines and tires, conserve enough fuel for the finish, and above all, use skillful braking to take the corners. Also available: Formula Dé: USA Track Pack , Formula Dé: USA Track Pack , and Formula Dé Race Sheets Pad.

In Robo Rally you are one of several supercomputers in a fully automated widget factory. You are brilliant. You are powerful. You are sophisticated. You are bored. So enjoy a little fun at the factory's expense! With the other computers, you program factory robots and pit them against each other in frantic, destructive races across the factory floors. Be the first to touch the flags, in order, and you win it all - the honor, the glory, the grudging respect of the other computers. But first you have to get your robot past obstacles like gaping pits, industrial lasers, moving conveyor belts, and, of course, all the other robots!

This game is sometimes known as "The Royal Game Of UR". The UR game board is a reproduction of a game board found in Mesopotamia's Biblical city of Ur of the Chaldees. The UR game for adults uses strategy and a second game for children is a race game. The game board is handcrafted from hardwood.