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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 | ||
| x Science Fiction | Warhammer 40,000 | ||
| Star Wars Miniatures | |||
| x Economic simulation |
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Caylus |
Business simulation games, or economic simulation 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 management simulations...
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| Java | |||
| Monopoly | |||
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| x Fantasy | Elfenland | ||
| Runebound | |||
| Battleground Fantasy Warfare | |||
| 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. It has different meanings depending on how it is used. There are many traditional games which use tiles, but when referring to video games, normally a tile-based...
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| Triominos | |||
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| x Children's | Ludo | ||
| Candy Land | |||
| 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 Racing | |||
| x Word | Scrabble | ||
| Upwords | |||
| Pictionary | |||
| Alfapet | |||
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| x Railroad | Ticket to Ride: Europe | ||
| Ticket to Ride | |||
| Rail Baron | |||
| 18XX | |||
| Crayon rails | |||
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| x Auction | |||
| x Murder Mystery | |||
| x Cooperative | |||
| x German-style |
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Tigris and Euphrates |
German-style board games are a broad class of tabletop games that generally have simple rules, short to medium playing times, high levels of player interaction, and attractive physical components. The games emphasise strategy, downplay luck and...
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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, 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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| x Perfect information | Go |
In game theory, a game is said to have perfect information if all players know all moves that have taken place.
Chess is an example of a game with perfect information as each player can see all of the pieces on the board at all times. Other examples...
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| x Strategy | Go |
A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. The word strategy has military connotations, because it derives from the Greek word for general.
Strategy is different from tactics. In military terms, tactics is concerned with...
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| Stratego | |||
| Diplomacy | |||
| Colonial Diplomacy | |||
| The Godfather Game | |||
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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 any one of a class of card games where play centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks. The object of such games then may be closely tied to the number of tricks taken, as in plain-trick games like...
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| Pinochle | |||
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| x Party game | Spin the bottle |
Party games are games suitable to entertaining in social gatherings. Though the definition is not strictly set, party games tend to include many or all of the following traits:
Not all of the above are suitable for children's parties. Traditional...
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| Trivial Pursuit | |||
| Balderdash | |||
| Pictionary | |||
| Twister | |||
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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; 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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| 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 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, generally about...
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| Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse | |||
| Battlefleet Gothic | |||
| Warhammer 40,000 | |||
| Warhammer Fantasy Battle | |||
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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 War | Wizard Kings | ||
| x Card game |
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Battleground Fantasy Warfare |
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary things with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). Some games have formally...
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| Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot | |||
| Maptitude | |||
| Bridgette | |||
| Illuminati | |||
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| x Western |
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The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known...
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| x Thriller |
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more...
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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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Humorous fan works are funny. Or at least they try to be.
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| x Space Combat | Attack Vector: Tactical | ||
| x Alternate reality game | SFZero |
An alternate reality game (ARG), is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions.
The form is defined by...
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| Mornington Crescent | |||
| x Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction |
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Gamma World |
Post-Apocalyptic directly constitutes an occurrence that is after an apocaplyptic event.
Post-Apocalpytic - After-Apocalypse
Post-Apolcalyptic movies deal with many different scenarios often dealing with the end of man kind, the destruction of...
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| x Board game |
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RoboRally |
A board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game). Like other forms of entertainment, board games can represent nearly any subject....
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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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| x Cross and Circle game | Sorry! |
Cross and Circle are a family of board games played throughout the world. They are generally played on boards which usually feature a circle divided into four equal portions by a cross inscribed inside it. In modern boards, the circle may be...
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| Pachisi | |||
| Parcheesi | |||
| Wahoo | |||
| x Cyberpunk |
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GURPS Cyberpunk |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983. It...
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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 came to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis whose major fantasy works were published in the...
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| EverQuest | |||
| x Education |
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Maptitude |
Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated...
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| x Trivia |
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Maptitude |
Trivia (singular: trivium) are unimportant (or "trivial") items, especially of information.
In the late 20th century the expression came to apply more to information of the kind useful almost exclusively for answering quiz questions: a perfect ...
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| x Science fiction |
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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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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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| 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 | It's A Crime |
Play-by-mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. One example, chess, has been played by mail for centuries (when played in this way, it is known as correspondence chess). Another example, Diplomacy, has been played by...
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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 | |||
| Netrunner | |||
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| x Piracy |
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Bloode Island |
Piracy is a war-like act committed by private parties (not affiliated with any government) that engaged in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not...
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| x Horror |
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Call of Cthulhu |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human...
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| x Cooperative game | Pandemic |
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 coordination game, when...
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| x Personal computer game |
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A personal computer game (also known as a computer game or PC game) is a game played on a personal computer, rather than on a video game console or arcade machine. Computer games have evolved from the simple graphics and gameplay of early titles...
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| x Parkour in popular culture |
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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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