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| 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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| Historical | Ars Magica | |||
| Science Fiction | Warhammer 40,000 | |||
| Star Wars Miniatures | ||||
| Economic simulation |
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Computer Game Genre | Caylus |
Business simulation games, or economic simulation games, are games that simulate a real-world, historical, or hypothetical economy or business. The interest in these games lies in accurate simulation of real-world events using algorithms, as well as...
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| Monopoly | ||||
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| Fantasy | Elfenland | |||
| Runebound | ||||
| Battleground Fantasy Warfare | ||||
| Descent: Journeys in the Dark | ||||
| Wizard Kings | ||||
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| Tile-based game |
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Computer Game Genre | Dominoes |
A tile-based game is a game that uses tile as one of the fundamental elements of play. It has different meanings depending on how it is used. There are many traditional games which use tiles, but when referring to video game, normally a tile-based...
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| Game | Mahjong | |||
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| Children's | Ludo | |||
| Candy Land | ||||
| Trouble | ||||
| Sorry! | ||||
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| Adventure | Runebound | |||
| Roll and move | Monopoly | |||
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| Cluedo | ||||
| Trivial Pursuit | ||||
| Pictionary | ||||
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| Sports | Blood Bowl | |||
| Strat-o-Matic | ||||
| Formula Dé | ||||
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| Racing | ||||
| Word | Scrabble | |||
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| Pictionary | ||||
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| The Da Vinci Game | ||||
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| Railroad | Ticket to Ride: Europe | |||
| Ticket to Ride | ||||
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| Horror | ||||
| Auction | ||||
| Murder Mystery | ||||
| Cooperative | ||||
| German-style |
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Hare and Tortoise |
German-style board games are a broad class of games produced in recent decades in Germany and other countries. These games are usually less abstract than Chess, and their components feature original, copyrighted artwork, but their rules are designed...
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| Settlers of Catan | ||||
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| Zero-sum | Go |
In game theory and economic theory, zero-sum describes a situation in which a participant's gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the other participant(s). If the total gains of the participants are added up, and the total...
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| Perfect information | Go |
Perfect information is a term used in economics and game theory to describe a state of complete knowledge about the actions of other players that is instantaneously updated as new information arises.
Chess, Irensei and Go are canonical examples of...
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| Strategy | Computer Game Genre | Go |
A Strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning." Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often...
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| Quotation Subject | Stratego | |||
| Media genre | Diplomacy | |||
| Colonial Diplomacy | ||||
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| Fishing game | Scopa | |||
| Matching game | Mille | |||
| Gin rummy | ||||
| 500 Rum | ||||
| Canasta | ||||
| Panguingue | ||||
| Shedding-type game | Paskahousu | |||
| Shithead | ||||
| Bullshit | ||||
| Musta Maija | ||||
| Trick-taking game | Playing card game | Whist |
A Trick-taking game is any one of a class of card game where play centers around a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks. The object of such games is then closely tied to the winning, or "taking", of these tricks, or of the cards...
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| Game | Vint | |||
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| Party game | Computer Game Genre | Spin the bottle |
Party games are game which share several features suitable to entertaining a social gathering of moderate size.
Not all of the above are suitable for children's parties. Traditional children's party games (some of which are also popular with...
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| Trivial Pursuit | ||||
| Balderdash | ||||
| Pictionary | ||||
| Twister | ||||
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| 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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| Role-playing game |
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Computer Game Genre | Dungeons & Dragons |
A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail...
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| Literary Genre | D20 Modern | |||
| Media genre | D20 System | |||
| Industry | !G - Rated G | |||
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| Transportation | Elfenland | |||
| Thurn and Taxis | ||||
| Collectible Card Game | Magic: The Gathering | |||
| Netrunner | ||||
| Pokémon Trading Card Game | ||||
| World of Warcraft Trading Card Game | ||||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | ||||
