Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: a-few-acres-of-snow, aeons-end, aeons-end-legacy.

Kingdom Legacy: Feudal Kingdom is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, events, hand-management. Playtime is around 360–480 for 1 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Kingdom Legacy: Feudal Kingdom

Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–150 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Dune: Imperium – Uprising is a board game featuring automatic-resource-growth, card-play-conflict-resolution, contracts. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–6 players with movies-tv-radio-theme, novel-based elements.

Dune: Imperium – Uprising

Expeditions

Great Western Trail: New Zealand is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management, ownership. Playtime is around 75–150 for 1–4 players with animals elements.

Great Western Trail: New Zealand

Life of the Amazonia is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–4 players with animals, puzzle elements.

Life of the Amazonia

Scholars of the South Tigris is a board game featuring action-retrieval, area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with arabian, medieval elements.

Scholars of the South Tigris

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60–600 for 1–4 players with adventure, aviation-flight elements.

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game is a deckbuilding game released by Fantasy Flight Games and Asmodee on March 3, 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_The_Deckbuilding_Game

Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game

The Witcher: Old World is a board game featuring card-play-conflict-resolution, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–150 for 1–5 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

The Witcher: Old World

Challengers! is a board game featuring deck-construction, deck-bag-and-pool-building, finale-ending. Playtime is around 45 for 1–8 players with animals, card-game elements.

Challengers!

Clank!: Catacombs is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 45–90 for 2–4 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Clank!: Catacombs

In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading, and elapsed time. The corresponding term in biology, to describe the processes by

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Dead Reckoning

Endless Winter: Paleoamericans is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, prehistoric elements.

Endless Winter: Paleoamericans

Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game for one to four players designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017. It is a campaign-based dungeon crawl game including a narrative campaign, 95 unique playable scenarios, and 17 playable classes. Since its introdu

Frosthaven

Great Western Trail: Argentina is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management, ownership. Playtime is around 75–150 for 1–4 players with animals elements.

Great Western Trail: Argentina

Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a strategy board game designed by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen, with art by Vincent Dutrait, published by Days of Wonder in 2022. It is a race game in which players play cards to move their race cars around a circuit, carefully man

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Heat: Pedal to the Metal

Keep the Heroes Out! is a board game featuring action-retrieval, area-movement, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 40 for 1–4 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Keep the Heroes Out!

The Lacrimosa, is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass. Its text comes from the Latin 18th and 19th stanzas of the sequence. Many composers, including Mozart, Berlioz, and Verdi have set the text as a discrete movement of the Requiem.

Lacrimosa

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 30–90 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

Revive

Skymines is a board game featuring action-queue, area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 75–150 for 1–4 players with economic, science-fiction elements.

Skymines

Undaunted: Stalingrad is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 45–75 for 2 players with wargame, world-war-ii elements.

Undaunted: Stalingrad

Wonderland's War is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 45–125 for 2–5 players with fantasy, novel-based elements.

Wonderland's War

Bitoku is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 120 for 1–4 players with fantasy, mythology elements.

Bitoku

Bloodborne: The Board Game is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 45–75 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Bloodborne: The Board Game

Cubitos is a board game featuring catch-the-leader, deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with dice, racing elements.

Cubitos

Great Western Trail: Second Edition is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management, ownership. Playtime is around 75–150 for 1–4 players with american-west, animals elements.

Great Western Trail: Second Edition

Imperium: Classics is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses, hand-management. Playtime is around 40–160 for 1–4 players with ancient, card-game elements.

Imperium: Classics

Imperium: Legends is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses, hand-management. Playtime is around 40–160 for 1–4 players with card-game, civilization elements.

Imperium: Legends

Living Forest is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, push-your-luck, race. Playtime is around 40 for 1–4 players with animals, card-game elements.

Living Forest

Dune: Imperium is a 2020 board game designed by Paul Dennen and published by Dire Wolf Digital. In the board game, which is set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, players use deck-building and worker placement to gain alliances with factions and combat to earn victory points. Upon

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Dune: Imperium

Etherfields is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Etherfields

A fortification is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin fortis ("strong") and facere.

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Fort

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

Lost Ruins of Arnak is a 2020 board game by the husband-wife duo Michal "Elwen" Štach and Michaela "Mín" Štachova. It won Game of the Year in the 2020 Board Game Quest Awards as well as the 2021 Deutscher Spiele Preis.

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

Lost Ruins of Arnak

Moonrakers is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county in the West Country of England.

Moonrakers

Paleo

The LOOP is a board game featuring cooperative-game, cube-tower, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60 for 1–4 players with card-game, science-fiction elements.

The LOOP

Undaunted: North Africa is a board game featuring command-cards, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 45–60 for 2 players with wargame, world-war-ii elements.

Undaunted: North Africa

Viscounts of the West Kingdom is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with medieval elements.

Viscounts of the West Kingdom

Warp's Edge is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, solo-solitaire-game. Playtime is around 30–45 for 1 players with science-fiction elements.

Warp's Edge

Aeon's End: Legacy is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Aeon's End: Legacy

Aeon's End: The New Age is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management. Playtime is around 60 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Aeon's End: The New Age

Aquatica may refer to:Aquatica, a chain of water parks in the United States
Aquatica Orlando
Aquatica San Antonio
Aquatica San Diego
Aquatica (Kolkata), a water park in Kolkata
Aquatica KK, an aquarium in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, also known as The Green Connection
Aquatica (beetl

Aquatica

Black Rose Wars is a board game featuring action-queue, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with bluffing, fantasy elements.

Black Rose Wars

Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–45 for 1–2 players with wargame, world-war-ii elements.

Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes

Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Questline and published by Awaken Realms. Set in a dark fantasy reimagining of Arthurian legend, the game was released in early access for Windows in March 30, 2023 with a full release

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_Grail%3A_The_Fall_of_Avalon

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, campaign-battle-card-driven. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth

The Taverns of Tiefenthal is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling, open-drafting. Playtime is around 60 for 2–4 players with card-game, dice elements.

The Taverns of Tiefenthal

Undaunted: Normandy is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling, hand-management. Playtime is around 45–60 for 2 players with wargame, world-war-ii elements.

Undaunted: Normandy

Blackout: Hong Kong is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 75–150 for 1–4 players with economic, exploration elements.

Blackout: Hong Kong

Concordia Venus is a board game featuring action-retrieval, advantage-token, auction-dutch. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–6 players with ancient, economic elements.

Concordia Venus

Newton most commonly refers to:Isaac Newton (1642–1726/1727), English scientist
Newton (unit), SI unit of force which is named after Isaac Newton

Newton

Obsession

Quacks

Shards of Infinity is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, hand-management. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Shards of Infinity

Star Realms: Frontiers is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, open-drafting. Playtime is around 20–45 for 1–4 players with card-game, fighting elements.

Star Realms: Frontiers

Thunderstone Quest is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, scenario-mission-campaign-game. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Thunderstone Quest

Too Many Bones: Undertow is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–180 for 1–2 players with adventure, dice elements.

Too Many Bones: Undertow

Community Chests, commonly referred to as community trusts, community foundations and united way organizations, are endowment funds pooled from a community for the purpose of charitable giving. The first Community Chest, "Community Fund", was founded in 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio, b

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War Chest

Aeon's End: War Eternal is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management. Playtime is around 60 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Aeon's End: War Eternal

The Altiplano, Collao or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the latitude of the widest part of the north–south-trending Andes. The bulk of the Altiplano lies in Bolivia, but its north

Altiplano

Century: Golem Edition is a board game featuring action-retrieval, auction-dutch, contracts. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–5 players with card-game, economic elements.

Century: Golem Edition

Century: Spice Road is a 2017 table-top strategy game designed by Emerson Matsuuchi and distributed by Plan B Games. The game is a simulation of fifteenth-century spice trading, and each player competes for points as they buy and sell spices represented by colored cubes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century%3A_Spice_Road

Century: Spice Road

Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, modular-board. Playtime is around 45–90 for 2–4 players with science-fiction elements.

Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Dice Forge is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling, open-drafting. Playtime is around 45 for 2–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Dice Forge

Spirit Island may refer to:Spirit Island (Alberta)
Spirit Island (Minnesota), an island in Lake Minnetonka
Spirit Island

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

Spirit Island

The Quest for El Dorado is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

The Quest for El Dorado

Aeon's End is a board game featuring chit-pull-system, cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Aeon's End

Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure is a board game featuring action-points, deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Cry havoc may refer to:"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war", a quotation from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar
Cry 'Havoc' (film), a 1943 war drama
Cry Havoc 
Cry Havoc 
"Cry Havoc" (Grimm), an episode of the TV series Grimm
Cry Havoc, an album by Destrophy
Cry Ha

Cry Havoc

Dominion (Second Edition) is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, hand-management. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with card-game, medieval elements.

Dominion (Second Edition)

The Great Western Trail is a north-south long distance multiple use route that runs from Canada to Mexico through five western states in the United States. The trail has access for motorized and non-motorized use and traverses 4,455 miles (7,170 km) through Arizona, Utah, Idaho,

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

Great Western Trail

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, scenario-mission-campaign-game. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Hero Realms is a 2016 fantasy card-based deck building tabletop game designed by Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle and published by Wise Wizard Games. In the game, the player has to defeat opponents by purchasing cards using gold coins that deal damage points until the opponent's h

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

Hero Realms

Millennium Blades is a board game featuring commodity-speculation, deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management. Playtime is around 80–120 for 2–5 players with card-game, real-time elements.

Millennium Blades

Mystic Vale is a forested ravine that was acquired by the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 1993. It is located outside the ring road to the southeast of campus. Its tree canopy is dominated by large specimens of Douglas-fir and grand fir. A few western red ced

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Mystic Vale

Not Alone

One Deck Dungeon is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–45 for 1–2 players with card-game, dice elements.

One Deck Dungeon

Tyrants of the Underdark is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, connections, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60 for 2–4 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Tyrants of the Underdark

Baseball Highlights: 2045 is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, hand-management, open-drafting. Playtime is around 45 for 1–4 players with card-game, science-fiction elements.

Baseball Highlights: 2045

Coffee Roaster is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, memory, once-per-game-abilities. Playtime is around 10–30 for 1 players with industry-manufacturing elements.

Coffee Roaster

Dale of Merchants is a board game featuring auction-dutch, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with animals, card-game elements.

Dale of Merchants

Forbidden Stars is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, card-play-conflict-resolution. Playtime is around 120–180 for 2–4 players with bluffing, fighting elements.

Forbidden Stars

Mombasa is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital status in 1907. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. Buildings in the CBD are blue and white, representing th

Mombasa

Runebound (Third Edition) is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 120–180 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Runebound (Third Edition)

Star Realms: Colony Wars is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase, hand-management. Playtime is around 20 for 2 players with card-game, fighting elements.

Star Realms: Colony Wars

Steampunk Rally is a board game featuring closed-drafting, deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 45–60 for 2–8 players with dice, racing elements.

Steampunk Rally

Super Motherload is a video game developed by XGen Studios for the PlayStation 4. It was originally released on November 15, 2013, with later releases for PlayStation 3 and Windows. Super Motherload is the sequel to Motherload, an Adobe Flash game also developed by XGen Studios,

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

Super Motherload

Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 30–60 for 1–5 players with card-game, fighting elements.

Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game

Orléans is a city in north-central France, about 120 kilometres southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the department of Loiret and of the region of Centre-Val de Loire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orl%C3%A9ans

Orléans

A paperback book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, also known as wrappers, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardback (hardcover) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic.

Paperback

Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2 to 5 players. Designed by Wei-Hwa Huang and Tom Lehmann, it was published by Rio Grande Games in 2014. Player dice represent their empire's populace, whom the players use to develop new technologies, settle worlds

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

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