What is the #1 board game in the world?

The best-selling board game of all time is chess. It has been one of the best board games to play around the world since it was first introduced in 1200 C.E. The total number of chess sets sold since the game’s introduction is unknown, but more than three million sets are still sold yearly in the United States alone. The most popular board game is Monopoly, which holds the Guinness World Record for being played by the most people: 500 million people worldwide. Monopoly ranked third on our list of the top board games of all time, with more than 275 million copies sold since its introduction in 1935. If two board games had the same estimated number of units sold, preference was given to the game that was introduced first. RankBoard Game Units SoldYear IntroducedNumber of Players1Chess3 million+ sold yearly in the U.S., but the total number of units sold since its introduction is unknown12002 The 10 Top-Selling Board GamesChess: The total number of units sold is unknown, but more than 3 million units are sold yearly in the U.S. alone.