All Race Games

Games in which pieces move along a marked track toward a finish, one of David Parlett's core traditional-game families, covering Backgammon, Ludo, Parcheesi, Pachisi, Snakes and Ladders, Sorry!, Yut, Patolli, Royal Game of Ur and Senet. Monopoly and Chinese Checkers are placed here too as a browsing convenience rather than a principled Parlett-family claim: Monopoly for its roll-and-move-around-a-track structure and Chinese Checkers for its move-pieces-across-a-board-to-a-goal structure, neither a traditional dice race in the strict sense. Belongs here: games whose central mechanic is moving a piece along or across a track toward a destination. Does not belong here: games where pieces capture or displace each other along the way as the primary goal, grouped under Displacement and Capture Games.