HOT GAMES BY THE DECADE
1920S
• Chinese checkers
• Across the Continent
• Mah-jongg
1930S
• Monopoly (still hot)
• Backgammon
• Sorry
1940S
• Candy Land
• Chutes and Ladders
1950S
• Careers
• Clue
• Scrabble
1960S
• Twister
• Operation
• The Game of Life
• Risk
• Mouse Trap
• Ouija Board
• Stratego
• Yahtzee
1970S
• Chess
• Dungeons & Dragons
1980S
• Trivial Pursuit
• Pictionary
• Fireball Island
• Hungry Hungry Hippos
1990S
• The Settlers of Catan (still hot)
• Tigris & Euphrates
• Magic: The Gathering
2000S
• Apples to Apples
• Carcassonne
• Puerto Rico
• Ticket to Ride
• Cranium
Sources: retrojunk.com; collector-board game expert Tony Elam
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