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| x Settlers of Catan |
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German-style | Klaus Teuber | 999 Games |
The Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) under the name Die Siedler von Catan.
Settlers was one of the first German-style board games to...
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| x The Game of Life |
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Economic simulation | Reuben Klamer | Milton Bradley Company |
The Game of Life, also known simply as LIFE, is a board game originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley, as The Checkered Game of Life. The game simulates a person's travels through his or her life, from high school graduation to retirement, with...
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| x Spectrangle |
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Tile-based game | Educational Insights, Inc |
Spectrangle is a triangular tile-based abstract strategy game invented by Alan John Fraser-Dackers, Maxwell Graham Gordon and Lester Wynne Jordan. The principles behind the game are based on the work of British mathematician Percy Alexander MacMahon...
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| x Breakscore |
Breakscore is a board game usually played by two to four players at a time.
The aim of the game is to race others to the enzone and win with the highest score. Obstacles on the board ensure that the winner is not known until the very last roll of...
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| x Kremlin |
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Avalon Hill |
Kremlin is a board game parody of Soviet government. The game takes its name from the Moscow Kremlin, the physical location of the main Soviet government offices. It was designed by Urs Hostettler and released in 1988 by Avalon Hill. In 1989,...
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| x Statis Pro Baseball | Sports |
Statis Pro Baseball was a strategic baseball simulation board game. It was created by Jim Barnes in 1970, named after a daily newspaper column he wrote for an Iowa morning newspaper, and published by Avalon Hill in 1978, and new player cards were...
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| x CheckerBoard |
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CheckerBoard is a simple freeware GUI for Microsoft Windows, for playing checkers by Martin Fierz. It reads the Portable Draughts Notation standard for checkers games and is a GUI for checkers engines. Popular engines include Cake Manchester and...
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| x Contigo |
Contigo is a 1974 board game designed by Frank Thibault and published by 3M as part of their bookshelf game line. The game is playable by between 2 and 4 players, and is similar to both Mancala and Checkers.
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| x RPGQuest |
RPGQuest is a Brazilian adventure board game, created by Marcelo Del Debbio. The game is designed for children of ages 8-10 as an introduction to role-playing games
The basic game has 7 fantasy races and 8 character classes to choose from, over 120...
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| x Circus Maximus | Avalon Hill |
Circus Maximus is a chariot-racing board game originally published by Battleline Publications in 1979, but better known for the 1980 Avalon Hill edition. It was designed by Michael E. Matheny with Don Greenwood working on the second edition. Up to...
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| x Puerto Rico |
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German-style | Andreas Seyfarth | Rio Grande Games |
Puerto Rico is a German board game designed by Andreas Seyfarth, and published in 2002 by Alea in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. Players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean...
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| x A Klingon Challenge |
Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game - A Klingon Challenge is a VCR game created by Decipher, Inc. and set in the Star Trek universe. It utilizes a video tape that runs constantly while users play the board game section which...
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| x Escape from Atlantis |
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Parker Brothers |
Escape from Atlantis is a board game that portrays the sinking of Atlantis and the attempts by the population to escape the sinking island. It was originally released in the USA under the title of Survive! and first published in the English language...
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| x Cosmic Coasters | Andrew Looney | Looney Labs |
Cosmic Coasters is a board game designed by Andrew Looney and published by Looney Labs. In 2002, Cosmic Coasters won the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 2001.
The game is played on custom bar coasters bearing the image of a Galilean...
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| x Make Your Own-opoly |
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Make Your Own-opoly is a board game manufactured by TDC Games. Based on the popular board game Monopoly, it allows one to customize the game's various attributes using a PC program and a color printer. The game won the 2001 Hobby Outlook ...
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| x YINSH |
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Kris Burm | Rio Grande Games |
YINSH is an abstract strategy board game by game designer Kris Burm. It is the fifth game to be released in the GIPF Project. At the time of its release in 2003, Burm stated that he intended it to be considered as the sixth and last game of the...
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| x Railway Rivals |
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Railroad |
Railway Rivals is a railroad-themed board game designed by Glynn and David Watts and popularised by Games Workshop in 1985. Players build railways and then run trains along them.
The game is in two stages; in the first part players draw tracks on...
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| x War at Sea | Avalon Hill |
War at Sea is a strategic board wargame depicting the naval war in the Atlantic during World War II, published by Jedko Games in 1975, and subsequently republished by Avalon Hill in 1976 and more recently by L2 Design Group in 2007.
It is also the...
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| x Ludo |
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Children's |
LUDO (from Latin ludo, "I play") is a simple board game, similar to Tock and Sorry!, for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls. The game is a simplification of the traditional...
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| x Trax |
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Tile-based game |
Trax is a two-player abstract strategy game, invented by David Smith in 1980. The game is played with a set of tiles on which sections of black and white track join adjacent edges on one side and opposite edges on the other side. Players place tiles...
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| x Vegas Showdown |
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Economic simulation |
Vegas Showdown is a board game for players aged 12 and above.
From the publisher: Build your own hotel/casino by bidding against the other players to acquire tiles that represent slot machines, lounges, restaurants, and other casino-related places....
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| x Ancients |
Ancients is a board wargame designed by Bill Banks. It consists of a low-complexity tactical combat system that allows players to play out battles in a pre-gunpowder setting.
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| x Risk: Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition |
Risk: Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition is a commercial strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. It is a variation of the classic board game Risk, with the rules and appearance altered to fit within the fictional...
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| x Sports table football |
Sports table football is the competitive game based on the board game of Subbuteo. It is administered globally by the Federation of International Sports Table Football, or FISTF. While the inspiration for STF comes from Subbuteo, the rules and...
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| x Arab-Israeli Wars | Avalon Hill |
Arab-Israeli Wars is a tactical level wargame published in the US in 1977 by Avalon Hill. It simulates at a tactical level various battles in the Suez Crisis, Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. It is designed to be played by two players; game length...
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| x The London Game |
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Railroad |
The London Game is a British board game based on the London Underground in London, England.
The game was first released in 1972 by the game company Condor. The game was re-released in 1997 to celebrate 25 years of the game's existence with a new all...
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| x Tales of the Crystals |
Tales of the Crystals is an interactive children's fantasy role playing game, aimed mostly towards young girls (ages 8 and up). It was published in 1993 by Milton Bradley Company.
The game contains an audio cassette that gives the players certain...
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| x Napoleon |
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Avalon Hill |
Napoleon is a strategic-level board wargame covering the Waterloo Campaign of the Hundred Days after Napoleon's return from Elba starting with the French invasion of Belgium on June 15, 1815. Each turn is one-third of a day (with only one player...
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| x All Star Baseball | Sports |
All Star Baseball is one of the two most popular baseball board games of the last sixty years, and has been honored as one of the fifty most influential American board games of all time. It was manufactured by Cadaco-Ellis and designed by baseball...
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| x Mahjong |
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Tile-based game |
Mahjong (麻將) is a game for four players that originated in China. It was called (麻雀), meaning sparrow in ancient China. It is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Minnan, as well as in Japanese....
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| x Bill Dixon |
Bill Dixon (William R. Dixon) is a board game designer, who has four 18XX games published:
As of 2006, he is currently working on an expansion kit which will combine 1830, 1832, 1850, and 1870 into one large game covering the eastern half of the...
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| x Cashflow 101 | Economic simulation |
Cashflow 101 is an educational tool in board game format designed by Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad), which aims to teach the players concepts of investing by having their money work for them in a risk free setting (play money) while...
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| x Block Mania |
"Block Mania" is a Judge Dredd story, which ran in British comic 2000 AD #236-244, in 1981. The story itself is a prologue for the longer storyline "The Apocalypse War", which immediately follows the conclusion of "Block Mania".
The story opens with...
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| x Das Bohnenspiel |
Bohnenspiel ("the bean game") is a German mancala game described in the 1937 Deutsche Spielhandbuch.
The field consists of two rows of six pits each. The game starts with six beans in each pit.
Each player "owns" the six pits closest to himself. The...
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| x Star Fleet Battles |
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Star Fleet Battles (SFB) is a tactical strategy board wargame set in an offshoot of the Star Trek setting called the Star Fleet Universe. Originally created in 1979 by Stephen V. Cole, it has had four major editions. The current edition is published...
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| x Shadows Over Camelot |
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Board game | Bruno Cathala |
Shadows Over Camelot is an Arthurian-themed board game designed by Serge Laget and Bruno Cathala. The game was also published in French as Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde and in German as Schatten über Camelot. Players take on the roles of Knights...
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| x Don't Break the Ice |
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Children's |
Don't Break the Ice is a children's tabletop game for two to four players ages 3 and up. Originally marketed by Schaper Toys in 1968, the game is presently manufactured by Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley.
The game is set up by placing plastic "ice"...
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| x Pay Day |
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Economic simulation | Paul J. Gruen | Parker Brothers |
Pay Day is a board game originally made by Parker Brothers (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) in 1975. It was invented by Paul J. Gruen of West Newbury, Massachusetts, USA, one of the era's top board game designers. It was Gruen's most successful game,...
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| x Filthy Rich | Economic simulation | Richard Garfield | Wizards of the Coast |
Filthy Rich is a card game designed by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast in 1998. The game uses a binder with 4 Ultra Pro 9-pocket card sleeves to simulate an advertising space. Players place ads, represented by cards, in the...
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| x Scrabble |
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Word |
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard...
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| x Scotland Yard |
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Scotland Yard is a board game in which a team of players, as "police", cooperate to track down a player controlling a "criminal" around a board representing the streets of London. It is named after Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's...
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| x KingsRow |
KingsRow is a strong checkers engine, and can be used with the CheckerBoard GUI. It was released by Ed Gilbert in 2000.
Unlike Cake++, KingsRow can use the Chinook database, up to 8-pieces.
KingsRow was stronger than Cake++ in the early years. Cake+...
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| x Novuss |
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Novuss is a game of physical skill which is closely related to pocket billiards, but on a smaller scale. It is essentially a larger, cued derivative of the boardgame carrom. Novuss is a national sport in Latvia. The board is approximately 40 in. ...
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| x Custodian Capture |
Custodian capture is a technical term in board games referring to a particular form of capturing.
It occurs when a player has placed two of his pieces on opposite sides of an opponent's piece. This mode of capture is unusual in most modern games and...
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| x A House Divided |
A House Divided is a strategic level board wargame about the American Civil War for two players, featuring point-to-point movement, low-complexity rules, and relatively few counters to maneuver. It was designed by Frank Chadwick and released in 1981...
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| x Medina |
Medina is a board game designed by Stefan Dorra and published by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games in 2001. In the game, three or four players compete to be the most influential developer of Medina, a desert city near the Atlas Mountains in 1822....
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| x Alexander the Great |
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Avalon Hill |
Alexander the Great is a board wargame first published in 1971 by Guidon Games.Printed when board wargaming was relatively new, this game was designed by Gary Gygax. When Guidon went out of business, Avalon Hill contacted Gygax to secure an...
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| x The Awful Green Things From Outer Space |
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The Awful Green Things from Outer Space (AGTFOS) is a two-player board game developed and illustrated by Tom Wham inspired by the Kinji Fukasaku motion picture, The Green Slime. It originally appeared as an insert in Dragon Magazine #28 (1979), and...
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| x Air Assault on Crete |
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Avalon Hill |
Air Assault on Crete is a wargame that was first published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1977. It includes a bonus game entitled Invasion of Malta-1942. Each game has its own pieces and mapboards and shares a minimum of equipment between them....
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| x Hungry Hungry Hippos |
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Children's |
Hungry Hungry Hippos is a board game made for young children currently produced by Hasbro, under the brand of its subsidiary, Milton Bradley. It was published in 1966 and introduced in 1978. The purpose of the game is to collect as many marbles as...
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| x Crimson Skies |
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Board game |
Crimson Skies is a media franchise and fictional universe created by Jordan Weisman and Dave McCoy. The series' intellectual property is currently owned by Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), although Weisman's new company, Smith & Tinker Inc., has...
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| x Shuffleboard |
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Shuffleboard (more precisely deck shuffleboard, and also known as shuffle-board, shovelboard, shovel-board and shove-board [archaic]) is a sport in which players use broom-shaped paddles to push weighted pucks, sending them gliding down a narrow and...
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| x Dungeon Twister |
Dungeon Twister is a strategy board game with a fantasy theme.
Dungeon Twister was created by Christophe Boelinger, who published other French games such as Halloween Party, A Dog's Life, and Snowboard. Dungeon Twister was originally printed in...
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| x Triplanetary |
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Science fiction |
Triplanetary was a science fiction board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1973. It was a simulation of space combat within the solar system in the early 21st Century. The game was designed by Marc W. Miller as part of a series to be...
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| x Ghettopoly | Economic simulation |
Ghettopoly is a Monopoly parody released in 2003. Invented by David Chang, it uses Monopoly-like mechanics in the atmosphere of a caricaturized United States ghetto.
The four railroad properties are replaced by liquor stores. Other properties...
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| x White Bear and Red Moon |
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Avalon Hill |
White Bear and Red Moon (WBRM) is a fantasy board wargame set in the peculiar fantasy world of Glorantha, invented by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Greg set up the Chaosium game publishing company purely to produce and market this game,...
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| x Ingenious |
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Reiner Knizia | Fantasy Flight Games |
Ingenious is the English name for Einfach Genial (Simply Ingenious), a German abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia under commission from Sophisticated Games and published in 2004 by Kosmos. Across most of Europe it is titled as the...
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| x Freeloader |
Freeloader is a game published by Cheapass Games. The object of the game is to mooch as much free stuff as possible off of your friends and neighbours.
Freeloader comes with a set of 6 cardboard board pieces which are arranged in a circle. Each card...
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| x Divine move |
A divine move is a truly inspired and original move in a game of Go. A divine move should be a non-obvious move which balances strategy and tactics to turn a losing game into a winning game. Divine move is singular—they are of such rarity that a...
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| x Civilization |
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Strategy | Francis Tresham | Avalon Hill |
Civilization is a board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in Britain in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the US in 1981 by Avalon Hill. The game typically takes eight or more hours to play and is for two to seven...
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