30 to 90 Minutes

Monopoly and Chinese Checkers are placed here as a browsing convenience for their track-and-goal mechanics, not as a strict Parlett-family claim.

Race Games covers games whose central mechanic is moving a piece along or across a track toward a destination, one of David Parlett's core traditional-game families, including Backgammon, Ludo, Parcheesi, Snakes and Ladders and Senet among others. 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.