Simultaneous Action Selection is another popular game mechanic in modern board games. In games with this mechanic, all players choose[…]
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Worker Placement Games
Worker Placement is a game mechanic used mostly in medium to heavy strategy games. Players start the game with one[…]
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Monopoly
When you mention modern boardgames to people who don’t play The Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride or any of the other thousands of games we call our hobby, then this is what 90% or more of them will think of. Admit it, you’ve heard that reply yourself when telling your non-gaming acquaintances about your hobby: “What, like Monopoly”?
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Cooperative and Competitive Games
Cooperative games are a very recent phenomenon: games where all players win or all players lose, no one has to feel slighted by the end of the game. A more peaceful pastime than competitive games for sure, but where does the tension come from without opposing players? Find out more about cooperative games in this week’s Meeplepedia.
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Ancient Games and Toys
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome back our victim test player and occasional writer Tine to the first post in a[…]
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Negotiation Games
Negotiation is part of a great number of modern games. Imagine Settlers of Catan without negotiating trades, Risk without forming[…]
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Perfect Information
Perfect Information is a term from game theory, the mathematical field concerned with modelling strategic decision making, ingames as well[…]
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Roll and Move
Roll-and-move games are, for many of us, the first boardgames we ever played. From all boardgames, pure roll-and-move games have[…]
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Deck-building Games
Deck-building games are a relatively new family of board games, having emerged as recently as 2008. By necessity, deck-building games[…]
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