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| x Fantasy football |
Fantasy football is a genre of board game or wargame which normally involves two teams of fantasy races (such as elves, dwarves or orcs) competing in an extremely violent variant of American football. Violent future sports such as Rollerball may...
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| x Historical | Ars Magica | ||
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| x Economic simulation | Caylus |
Business simulation games, also known as economic simulation games or tycoon games, are games that focus on the management of economic processes, usually in the form of a business. "Pure" business simulations have been described as construction and...
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| Monopoly | |||
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| x Fantasy | Elfenland | ||
| Runebound | |||
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| Descent: Journeys in the Dark | |||
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| x Tile-based game |
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Dominoes |
A tile-based game is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling or entertainment games. Some board games use tiles to create their board, giving...
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| x Children's | Ludo | ||
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| Trouble | |||
| Sorry! | |||
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| x Adventure | Runebound | ||
| x Roll and move | Monopoly | ||
| Chutes and Ladders | |||
| Cluedo | |||
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| x Sports | Blood Bowl | ||
| Strat-o-Matic | |||
| Formula Dé | |||
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| x Word | Scrabble | ||
| Upwords | |||
| Pictionary | |||
| Alfapet | |||
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| x Railroad | Ticket to Ride: Europe | ||
| Ticket to Ride | |||
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| 18XX | |||
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| x Murder Mystery | |||
| x Cooperative | |||
| x German-style |
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Tigris and Euphrates |
German-style board games, frequently referred to in gaming circles as Euro Games or Euro-style, are a broad class of tabletop games that generally have simple rules, short to medium playing times, indirect player interaction and abstract physical...
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| Settlers of Catan | |||
| Acquire | |||
| Hare and Tortoise | |||
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| x Zero-sum | Go |
In game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which a participant's gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of the other participant(s). If the...
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| x Perfect information | Go |
In game theory, perfect information describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games (all combinations of legal moves) as would be available at the end of the game.
In game theory, a...
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| x Fishing game | Scopa | ||
| x Matching game | Mille | ||
| Gin rummy | |||
| 500 Rum | |||
| Canasta | |||
| Panguingue | |||
| x Shedding-type game | Paskahousu | ||
| Shithead | |||
| Bullshit | |||
| Musta Maija | |||
| x Trick-taking game |
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Whist |
A trick-taking game is a card game or tile-based game in which play of a "hand" centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or "taker" of that trick. The object of such games...
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| Pinochle | |||
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| x Party game |
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Spin the bottle |
Party games are games that some people play as forms of entertainment at social gatherings. Party games usually involve more than one player. There are a large number and styles of party games available and the one selected will depend on the...
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| Trivial Pursuit | |||
| Balderdash | |||
| Pictionary | |||
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| x Adventure board game |
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Talisman |
An adventure board game is a board game in which a player plays as a unique individual character that improves through gameplay. This improvement is commonly reflected in terms of increasing character attributes, but also in receiving new abilities...
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| x Role-playing game |
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Polaris |
A role-playing game (RPG and sometimes roleplaying game) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or...
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| Dungeons & Dragons | |||
| d20 Modern | |||
| d20 System | |||
| !G - Rated G | |||
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| x Transportation | Elfenland | ||
| Thurn and Taxis | |||
| x Miniature wargaming |
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Battleground Fantasy Warfare |
Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming that incorporates miniature figures, miniature armor and modeled terrain as the main components of play. Like other types of wargames, they can be generally considered to be a type of simulation game,...
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| Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse | |||
| Battlefleet Gothic | |||
| Warhammer 40,000 | |||
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| x Block | Wizard Kings |
The Block genre in gaming typically refers to war games which use square or rectangular wooden blocks as the game pieces. Block games are commonly associated with Columbia Games.
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| x Card game |
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Battleground Fantasy Warfare |
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card games...
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| Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot | |||
| Maptitude | |||
| Bridgette | |||
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| x Western |
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The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name....
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| x Thriller |
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened...
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| x Pulp Adventure | |||
| x Political simulation | Democracy |
A political simulation is a game
that attempts to simulate the government and politics of all or part of
a nation. These games may include geopolitical situations (involving
the formation and execution of foreign policy), the creation of
domestic...
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| President Forever 2008 + Primaries | |||
| The Political Machine | |||
| Crisis in the Kremlin | |||
| Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator | |||
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| x Humour |
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Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in...
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| x Alternate reality game | SFZero |
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia to deliver a story that may be altered by participants' ideas or actions.
The form is defined by intense player involvement with a...
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| Mornington Crescent | |||
| World Without Oil | |||
| x Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction | Gamma World |
Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to an existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological...
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| x Board game |
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RoboRally |
A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games can be based on pure strategy, chance (e.g. rolling dice) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal...
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| Poleconomy | |||
| Monopoly | |||
| Space Hulk | |||
| How to be a Complete Bastard | |||
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| x Tactical wargame |
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Panzer Leader |
Tactical wargames are a type of wargame that models military conflict at a tactical level, i.e. units range from individual vehicles and squads to platoons or companies. These units are rated based on types and ranges of individual weaponry. The...
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| Combat Commander: Pacific | |||
| x Cross and Circle game |
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Sorry! |
Cross and Circle is a board game design used for race games played throughout the world.
Strictly, the design comprises a circle divided into four equal portions by a cross inscribed inside it; the classic example of this design is Yut. However, the...
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| Pachisi | |||
| Parcheesi | |||
| Wahoo | |||
| x Cyberpunk |
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GURPS Cyberpunk |
Cyberpunk is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983. It features advanced science, such as...
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| x High fantasy |
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Exalted |
High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel worlds. High fantasy was brought to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, whose major fantasy works were published in...
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| EverQuest | |||
| x Education |
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Maptitude |
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks,...
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| x Trivia |
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Maptitude |
The trivia (singular trivium, adjective trivial) are the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, rhetoric and logic. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic...
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| Trivial Pursuit | |||
| Memory Builder | |||
| x Science Fiction |
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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan |
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the...
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| Imperium | |||
| Triplanetary | |||
| Renegade Legion | |||
| Cosmic Encounter | |||
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| x Racing |
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A sport race is a competition of speed, against an objective criterion, usually a clock or to a specific point. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance,...
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| x Political game | Poleconomy |
A political game is a government simulation game in which players simulate a government running a country. This is sometimes used in education, often to increase students' interest in politics.
Some games operate much like the traditional...
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| x Parlour game | Twenty Questions |
A parlour game is a group game played indoors. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States, these games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes. They were often played in a parlour, hence the name.
During the...
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| Are you there Moriarty? | |||
| Squeak Piggy Squeak | |||
| Carnelli | |||
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| x Live action role-playing game |
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A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically act out their characters' actions. The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with each...
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| x Play-by-mail game |
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It's A Crime |
Play-by-mail games, sometimes known as "Play-by-post", are games, of any type, played through postal mail or email. One example, chess, has been played by mail for centuries (when played in this way, it is known as correspondence chess). Another...
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| Starweb | |||
| x Interactive telephone game | Lone Wolf: The Forbidden Tower | ||
| Lone Wolf: The Fortress of Doom | |||
| x Collectible card game |
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Babylon 5 Collectible Card Game |
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) or customizable card game, is a game played using specially designed sets of playing cards. While trading cards have been around for longer, CCGs combine the appeal of collecting...
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| The X-Files Collectible Card Game | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer Collectible Card Game | |||
| Pokémon Trading Card Game | |||
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| x Piracy |
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Bloode Island |
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same...
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| x Horror |
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Call of Cthulhu |
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non...
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| x Cooperative game | Pandemic |
In game theory, a cooperative game is a game where groups of players ("coalitions") may enforce cooperative behaviour, hence the game is a competition between coalitions of players, rather than between individual players. An example is a...
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| x Personal computer game |
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A PC game, also known as a computer game, is a video game played on a personal computer, rather than on a video game console or arcade machine. PC games have evolved from the simple graphics and gameplay of early titles like Spacewar!, to a wide...
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| x Parkour in popular culture |
Parkour—an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body—has appeared in various television advertisements, news reports and entertainment pieces,...
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| x Continuous game |
A continuous game is a mathematical generalization, used in game theory. It extends the notion of a discrete game, where the players choose from a finite set of pure strategies. The continuous game concepts allows games to include more general sets...
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| x Counting-out game |
A counting-out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be "it", often for the purpose of playing another game. These games usually require no materials, and are played with spoken words or hand gestures.
Many such games involve one...
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| x Letter game |
A letter game involves the exchange of written letters, or e-mails, between two or more participants. The first player writes a letter in the voice of a newly created character; in this first letter, the writer should establish their own identity...
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| x Language game |
A language game (also called secret language or ludling or argot) is a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear. Language games are used primarily by groups attempting to conceal their conversations...
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| x Mathematical game |
A mathematical game is a multiplayer game whose rules, strategies, and outcomes can be studied and explained by mathematics. Examples of such games are Tic-tac-toe and Dots and Boxes, to name a couple. On the surface, a game need not seem...
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