Auction / Bidding

Auction / Bidding is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: 1830-railways-robber-barons, a-game-of-thrones, a-game-of-thrones-the-board-game-second-edition.

Cyclades: Legendary Edition is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, auction-bidding. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–6 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Cyclades: Legendary Edition

SkyRise Miami was a proposed high-rise entertainment and observation tower to be built on the shore of Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida, promoted and developed by real estate developer Jeff Berkowitz.

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Skyrise

Furnace

High Frontier 4 All is a board game featuring auction-bidding, deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management. Playtime is around 30–240 for 1–5 players with civilization, economic elements.

High Frontier 4 All

In Norse cosmology, Niðavellir, also called Myrkheimr, is the home of the Dwarves.

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Nidavellir

Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century. The first airline t

Pan Am

A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, flat regions covered with wind-swept sand o

Dune

Coimbra, officially the City of Coimbra, is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of 319.40 square kilometres (123.3 sq mi).
It is the fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, P

Coimbra

Raccoon Tycoon is a board game featuring auction-bidding, auction-turn-order-until-pass, commodity-speculation. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–5 players with animals, economic elements.

Raccoon Tycoon

The Estates, also known as the States, was the assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm, the divisions of society in feudal times, called together for purposes of deliberation, legislation or taxation. A meeting of the estates that covered an entire kingdom wa

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The Estates

Downforce is a downwards lift force created by the aerodynamic features of a vehicle. If the vehicle is a car, the purpose of downforce is to allow the car to travel faster by increasing the vertical force on the tires, thus creating more grip. If the vehicle is a fixed-wing airc

Downforce

The Godfather is a trilogy of American crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the 1969 novel of the same name by Italian American author Mario Puzo. The films follow the trials of the fictional Italian American mafia Corleone family whose patriarch, Vito Corleon

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The Godfather: Corleone's Empire

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represent

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Churchill

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, inc

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Shakespeare

A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk material handling process.

Stockpile

Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization is a board game for 2–4 players designed by Vlaada Chvatil and published by Czech Board Games in 2006. Its theme is the development of human civilization and the players determine the progress of their own civilization in different fields

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Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

Abyss

Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala is a board game featuring auction-bidding, constrained-bidding, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 40–80 for 2–4 players with arabian, fantasy elements.

Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala

Bruxelles 1893 is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, auction-bidding, modular-board. Playtime is around 50–125 for 2–5 players with economic elements.

Bruxelles 1893

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Examples of archipelagos include the Aegean Islands, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockho

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Archipelago

Dactylorhiza aristata, the keyflower, is a species of orchid. It is native to Japan, Korea, northeastern China, the Russian Far East, and Alaska.

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Keyflower

Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery is a board game featuring auction-bidding, betting-and-bluffing, bribery. Playtime is around 120–180 for 3–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery

The Great Zimbabwe is a board game featuring auction-bidding, income, market. Playtime is around 90–150 for 2–5 players with civilization, economic elements.

The Great Zimbabwe

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) is a board game featuring advantage-token, alliances, area-movement. Playtime is around 120–240 for 3–6 players with bluffing, fantasy elements.

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition)

Dungeon Petz is a board game featuring auction-bidding, hand-management, selection-order-bid. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with animals, fantasy elements.

Dungeon Petz

Lancaster

The skull, or cranium, is typically a bony enclosure around the brain of a vertebrate. In some fish and amphibians, the skull is of cartilage. The skull is at the head end of the vertebrate.

Skull

Space Empires 4X is a 4X science fiction board wargame developed by Jim Krohn and published by GMT Games in 2011. It has received three expansions: Close Encounters (2012), Replicators (2018), and All Good Things (2025).

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Space Empires 4X

Runewars is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, auction-bidding, grid-movement. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Runewars

The Cyclades are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the archipelago forming a circle around the sacred isla

Cyclades

Maria

Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Superheated or saturated steam is invisible; however, wet steam, a visib

Steam

Biblios is a board game featuring auction-bidding, auction-turn-order-until-pass, closed-drafting. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with card-game, medieval elements.

Biblios

The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is the largest standing amphitheatre in the world. Construction began under the Emperor Vespasian in 72 and w

Colosseum

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises 4,195 islands, islets and cays, including the eponymous main island and Isla de la Juventud. Situated at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is loc

Cuba

Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was an American political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic P

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Tammany Hall

Vikings were a seafaring people originally from Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland. In their

Vikings

"The Great Rock Island Route", popularized as "Wabash Cannonball" and also known by various other titles, is a 19th-century American folk song that describes the scenic beauty and predicaments of a fictional train, the Wabash Cannonball Express, as it travels on the Chicago, Rock

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Wabash Cannonball

Shogun , officially seii taishōgun , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamakura period and Sen

Shogun

Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic

Indonesia

Vegas Showdown is a board game published by Avalon Hill in 2005 in which players compete to build the most impressive hotel and casino in Las Vegas. It was named "Game of the Year" by Games Magazine in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Showdown

Vegas Showdown

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bordered by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the east and south, with the Arabian Sea forming i

No Thanks may refer to:No Thanks , a 1935 volume of poetry by E. E. Cummings
No Thanks! (game), a card game
No Thanks (app), a Palestinian boycott-awareness app
No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion, a compilation album
A slogan adopted by Better Together (campaign) in the 2014 Scot

No Thanks!

Power Grid is the English-language version of the second edition of the multiplayer German-style board game Funkenschlag, designed by Friedemann Friese and first released in 2004. Power Grid was released by Rio Grande Games.

Power Grid

Shikoku 1889 is a board game featuring auction-bidding, hexagon-grid, market. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–6 players with economic, trains elements.

Shikoku 1889

Struggle of Empires is a board game featuring alliances, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–7 players with age-of-reason, civilization elements.

Struggle of Empires

A Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy novel by American author George R. R. Martin. It was published in August 1996 as the first entry in his series A Song of Ice and Fire. It was Martin's fourth novel and his return to writing prose fiction after a long period working in televisi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Thrones

A Game of Thrones

Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, remained the only oracle of Amun throughout

Amun-Re

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. Most of the city is situated between 500–650 m (1,640–2,133 ft) above sea level. Located in the Chilean Central Valley within the Santiago Basin, bet

Santiago

Age of Steam or Steam Age may refer to:A period of industrialization in parts of Europe between roughly 1770 and 1914
Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
Steam-powered vessels
History of the steam engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Steam

Age of Steam

The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan hi

Taj Mahal

The Princes of Florence is a German board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich published in 2000 by Alea in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. Players assume the roles of Florentine Princes who wish to design their own villas to allow artists to create grea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princes_of_Florence

The Princes of Florence

Ra or Re was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. By the Fifth Dynasty, in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, Ra had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon-day Sun. Ra ruled in all parts of the created world: the sky,

Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Peté

Tikal

For Sale

El Grande is a German-style board game for 2-5 players, designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich, and published in 1995 by Hans im Glück in German, by Rio Grande Games in English, and by 999 Games in Dutch. The game board represents renaissance-era Spain where the nobility

El Grande

High society is a category of people deemed to have social status or prestige.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Society

High Society

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the Mugello reg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Medici

Medici

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown as

Modern Art

1830: Railways & Robber Barons is a board game featuring auction-bidding, hexagon-grid, investment. Playtime is around 180–360 for 2–7 players with economic, trains elements.

1830: Railways & Robber Barons

Die Macher is a strategy board game published by Hans im Glück in 1986 that simulates a German general election.

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