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Party Game

Ignite laughter and camaraderie with party games designed to be easy to learn and play for a lot of fun!

From wordplay to physical challenges, party games are perfect for gatherings, encouraging social interaction and lively competition, ensuring everyone is part of the excitement.

Education

Transform learning into an adventure with educational board games.

Designed to teach and entertain, these games cover a wide range of subjects, from mathematics to language arts, making education an engaging and enjoyable journey for players of all ages.

Media & Pop Culture

Dive into the worlds of your favorite movies, TV shows, and books with media and pop culture board games.

Relive iconic moments, embody beloved characters, and explore familiar settings in games that pay homage to popular culture, offering fans a unique way to engage with their favorite franchises.

Dice

Experience the thrill of chance and strategy intertwined in dice games. With each roll, fortunes can change, demanding quick thinking and adaptability.

These games blend luck with tactical decision-making, ensuring that no two games are ever the same

Miniatures

Immerse yourself in detailed worlds with miniatures board games, where intricately designed figures bring the game to life.

Whether commanding armies or embarking on adventures, these games offer a tactile and visually stunning experience that enhances immersion.

Miscellaneous

Explore a world of unique and unconventional board games that break the mold.

From collectible components and modular game systems to fan-made expansions and print-and-play creations, these games offer endless possibilities for customization and creativity, ensuring fresh and exciting gameplay every time.

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Action Drafting

Action Points

Action Queue

Action Retrieval

Area Majority / Influence

Area Movement

Auction: Dutch

Automatic Resource Growth

Betting and Bluffing

Bias

Bingo

Campaign / Battle Card Driven

Card Play Conflict Resolution

Catch the Leader

Chaining

Closed Drafting

Collections

Commodity Speculation

Communication Limits

Connections

Contracts

Cooperative Game

Critical Hits and Failures

Deck Construction

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Deduction

Delayed Purchase

Dice Rolling

Die Icon Resolution

Enclosure

End Game Bonuses

Events

Flicking

Follow

Grid Coverage

Grid Movement

Hand Management

Hexagon Grid

Hidden Movement

Hidden Roles

Hidden Victory Points

Highest-Lowest Scoring

I Cut, You Choose

Income

Increase Value of Unchosen Resources

Interrupts

Investment

Layering

Legacy Game

Line Drawing

Line of Sight

Loans

Map Addition

Map Reduction

Market

Market, Bidding and Trading

Melding and Splaying

Memory

Modular Board

Move Through Deck

Movement Points

Multi-Use Cards

Multiple Maps

Narrative Choice / Paragraph

Negotiation

Network and Route Building

Once-Per-Game Abilities

Open drafting

Ownership

Paper-and-Pencil

Pattern Building

Pattern Recognition

Pick-up and Deliver

Player Elimination

Player Powers

Point to Point Movement

Push Your Luck

Race

Re-rolling and Locking

Real-Time

Resource to Move

Rock-Paper-Scissors

Role Playing

Roles with Asymmetric Information

Roll / Spin and Move

Rondel

Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game

Score-and-Reset Game

Secret Unit Deployment

Semi-Cooperative Game

Simulation

Simultaneous Action Selection

Slide / Push

Solo / Solitaire Game

Square Grid

Stat Check Resolution

Stock Holding

Storytelling

Sudden Death Ending

Tags

Take That

Team-Based Game

Tech Trees / Tech Tracks

Tile Placement

Track Movement

Trading

Traitor Game

Trick-taking

Tug of War

Turn Order: Auction

Turn Order: Claim Action

Turn Order: Progressive

Turn Order: Stat-Based

Turn Order: Time Track

Variable Phase Order

Variable Set-up

Victory Points as a Resource

Voting

Worker Placement

Worker Placement with Dice Workers

Worker Placement, Different Worker Types