Hand Management

Hand Management is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: 1960-the-making-of-the-president, 51st-state-master-set, 7-wonders.

Wingspan is a board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games in 2019. It is a card-driven, engine-building board game in which players compete to attract birds to their wildlife reserves. During the game's development process, Hargrave constructed per

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Finspan

Galactic Cruise is a board game featuring action-points, connections, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 90–150 for 1–4 players with aviation-flight, economic elements.

Galactic Cruise

A speakeasy, also called a beer flat, blind pig, or blind tiger, was an illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages. The term may also refer to a retro style bar that replicates aspects of historical speakeasies.

Speakeasy

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–5 players with fantasy, novel-based elements.

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

The zenith is the imaginary point on the celestial sphere directly "above" a particular location. "Above" means in the vertical direction opposite to the gravity direction at that location (nadir). The zenith is the "highest" point on the celestial sphere. The direction opposite

Zenith

Agent Avenue is a board game featuring hand-management, i-cut-you-choose, race. Playtime is around 10–20 for 2–4 players with animals, bluffing elements.

Agent Avenue

Andromeda's Edge is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, dice-rolling, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 80–160 for 2–4 players with fighting, science-fiction elements.

Andromeda's Edge

Arcs may refer to:Arcs , a 2024 board game
Archaeosine synthase, an enzyme
The Arcs, an American garage rock band formed by Dan Auerbach in 2015
Les Arcs, a ski resort in the French Alps
Les Arcs, Var, a town in southern France

Arcs

Compile: Main 1 is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, card-play-conflict-resolution, deck-construction. Playtime is around 20–30 for 2 players with card-game, science-fiction elements.

Compile: Main 1

Ezra–Nehemiah is a book in the Hebrew Bible found in the Ketuvim section, originally with the Hebrew title of Ezra, called Esdras B in the Septuagint. The book covers the period from the fall of Babylon in 539 BCE to the second half of the 5th century BCE, and tells of the succes

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Ezra and Nehemiah

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution, critical-hits-and-failures. Playtime is around 20 for 1 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs

Imperium: Horizons 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: Horizons

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

Let's Go! To Japan is a board game featuring closed-drafting, contracts, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 45–60 for 1–4 players with card-game, transportation elements.

Let's Go! To Japan

Primal: The Awakening is a board game featuring cooperative-game, hand-management, scenario-mission-campaign-game. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Primal: The Awakening

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

Star Wars: Unlimited is a trading card game published by Fantasy Flight Games. Its first set, Spark of Rebellion, was released on March 8, 2024. It includes a wide variety of unique art on the cards instead of using film stills. Like many other TCGs, it shares design elements wit

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Star Wars: Unlimited

The 7th Citadel is a board game featuring cooperative-game, grid-movement, hand-management. Playtime is around 5–1000 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

The 7th Citadel

The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, hand-management, income. Playtime is around 30 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth

Wondrous Creatures is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hand-management, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 40–80 for 1–4 players with fantasy elements.

Wondrous Creatures

Wyrmspan is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hand-management, once-per-game-abilities. Playtime is around 90 for 1–5 players with animals, card-game elements.

Wyrmspan

Beast most often refers to:Animal, a multicellular, eukaryotic organism in the biological kingdom Animalia
The Beast (Revelation), one of three beasts described in the Book of Revelation
Monster, a type of creature found in fiction, folklore, mythology, and religion

Beast

Black Rose Wars: Rebirth is a board game featuring card-play-conflict-resolution, deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 90–240 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Black Rose Wars: Rebirth

Daybreak most commonly refers to:Dawn, the beginning of the twilight before sunrise
Sunrise, when the upper edge of the Sun appears over the horizon

Daybreak

Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors

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Distilled

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, cover

Earth

Earthborne Rangers is a board game featuring card-play-conflict-resolution, cooperative-game, deck-construction. Playtime is around 60–240 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Earthborne Rangers

Evacuation or Evacuate may refer to:Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), patient evacuation in combat situations
Casualty movement, the procedure for moving a casualty from its initial location to an ambulance
Emergency evacuation, removal of persons from a dangerous place due to a dis

Evacuation

Everdell Farshore is a board game featuring hand-management, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 40–80 for 1–4 players with animals, card-game elements.

Everdell Farshore

Expeditions

Faraway

Forest Shuffle is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hand-management, layering. Playtime is around 40–60 for 2–5 players with animals, card-game elements.

Forest Shuffle

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

Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory is a board game featuring action-event, hand-management, simulation. Playtime is around 90–180 for 2–4 players with economic, educational elements.

Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory

Knarr were the Norse merchant and cargo ships of the Viking Age, used by Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking expansion. While the name etymologically suggests that it was used as a warship at times, the types from the latter half of the Viking Age were built as wor

Knarr

Kutná Hora: The City of Silver is a board game featuring action-queue, events, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with city-building, economic elements.

Kutná Hora: The City of Silver

La Granja: Deluxe Master Set is a board game featuring action-drafting, area-majority-influence, automatic-resource-growth. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–4 players with dice, economic elements.

La Granja: Deluxe Master Set

Legacy of Yu is a board game featuring chaining, hand-management, multi-use-cards. Playtime is around 60 for 1 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Legacy of Yu

Nucleum is a board game featuring action-retrieval, contracts, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Nucleum

Rats of Wistar is a board game featuring contracts, events, hand-management. Playtime is around 90 for 1–4 players with animals elements.

Rats of Wistar

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

Terrorscape is a board game featuring deduction, dice-rolling, hand-management. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with horror, movies-tv-radio-theme elements.

Terrorscape

The Vale of Eternity is a board game featuring hand-management, multi-use-cards, open-drafting. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

The Vale of Eternity

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

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West is a board game featuring connections, contracts, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 20–90 for 2–5 players with trains elements.

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze is a board game featuring action-points, campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution. Playtime is around 20–60 for 1–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze

Voidfall is a board game featuring command-cards, cooperative-game, events. Playtime is around 90–240 for 1–4 players with civilization, economic elements.

Voidfall

Beer & Bread is a board game featuring closed-drafting, contracts, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2 players with card-game, farming elements.

Beer & Bread

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is a board game featuring enclosure, hand-management, predictive-bid. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–5 players with animals, card-game elements.

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition

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!

Creature Comforts is a British stop-motion comedy franchise originating in a 1989 animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes, making it appear as if the animals were being interviewed about the

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

Creature Comforts

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

Flamecraft is a card game designed by Manny Vega which was fundraised via Kickstarter and published in 2022 by Cardboard Alchemy featuring illustrations by Sandara Tang. Players act as "Flamekeepers", assisting shops in town with dragons and enchantments in order to have the best

Flamecraft

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

Guards of Atlantis II is a board game featuring area-movement, campaign-battle-card-driven, communication-limits. Playtime is around 90–120 for 4–10 players with fantasy, miniatures elements.

Guards of Atlantis II

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

Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest is a board game featuring action-queue, hand-management, selection-order-bid. Playtime is around 45–60 for 1–6 players with fantasy, pirates elements.

Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest

Mindbug: First Contact is a board game featuring hand-management, take-that. Playtime is around 15–25 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Mindbug: First Contact

Mosaic: A Story of Civilization is a board game featuring action-queue, area-majority-influence, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 120 for 2–6 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Mosaic: A Story of Civilization

My Father's Work is a board game featuring events, hand-management, narrative-choice-paragraph. Playtime is around 180 for 2–4 players with fantasy, horror elements.

My Father's Work

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

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, deck-construction. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2 players with adventure, bluffing elements.

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke

Sea Salt & Paper is a board game featuring hand-management, melding-and-splaying, open-drafting. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with animals, card-game elements.

Sea Salt & Paper

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

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American CGI animated television series created by George Lucas and produced by Lucasfilm Animation. Set between Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), it follows Jedi Knights An

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set is a board game featuring automatic-resource-growth, cooperative-game, deck-construction. Playtime is around 30–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set

Wandering Towers is a board game featuring hand-management, memory, race. Playtime is around 30 for 1–6 players with fantasy, memory elements.

Wandering Towers

War of the Ring: The Card Game is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

War of the Ring: The Card Game

Wingspan Asia is a board game featuring dice-rolling, end-game-bonuses, hand-management. Playtime is around 40–70 for 1–2 players with animals, economic elements.

Wingspan Asia

Ark Nova is a strategic board game for up to four people. It was designed by game designer Mathias Wigge, and first published in 2021. In Ark Nova, players aim to score conservation and appeal points by building a zoo. Upon its release, Ark Nova received positive reviews and rece

Ark Nova

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

Brian Boru: High King of Ireland is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, closed-drafting, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–90 for 3–5 players with card-game, medieval elements.

Brian Boru: High King of Ireland

Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes. I

Canvas

Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition

Codex Naturalis is a board game featuring hand-management, layering, open-drafting. Playtime is around 20–30 for 1–4 players with card-game, environmental elements.

Codex Naturalis

The final girl or survivor girl is a trope in horror films. It refers to the last surviving female character to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. The final girl has been observed in many films, notable examples being Psycho, Voices of Desire, The Te

Final Girl

For Northwood! A Solo Trick-Taking Game is a board game featuring hand-management, predictive-bid, scenario-mission-campaign-game. Playtime is around 15–30 for 1 players with animals, card-game elements.

For Northwood! A Solo Trick-Taking Game

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

Hadrian's Wall is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall wi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Wall

Hadrian's Wall

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

Kemet: Blood and Sand is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 2–5 players with ancient, fighting elements.

Kemet: Blood and Sand

Marvel United: X-Men is a board game featuring cooperative-game, hand-management, modular-board. Playtime is around 40 for 1–5 players with card-game, comic-book-strip elements.

Marvel United: X-Men

A meadow is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as they maintain an open character. Meadows can occur naturally under favourable conditions but are often artificially created fro

Meadow

Radlands may refer to:Radlands (album), 2012 album by Mystery Jets
Radlands (game), 2021 board game by Daniel Piechnick
Radlands (skatepark), skatepark in Northampton, England

Radlands

Sleeping Gods is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, events. Playtime is around 60–1200 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Sleeping Gods

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, follow, hand-management. Playtime is around 45–60 for 1–4 players with card-game, science-fiction elements.

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine is a trick-taking cooperative card game for 2–5 players designed by Thomas Sing and released in 2019. The Crew is played across 50 'missions' where players aim to win tricks based on their task cards, but can only communicate limited informatio

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The Crew: Mission Deep Sea

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is a board game created by Corey Konieczka and first published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2008 based on the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series.
Players take the roles of characters from the series, trying to guide the Galactica and its fleet to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica%3A_The_Board_Game

Unfathomable

Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume Two

7 Wonders (Second Edition) is a board game featuring closed-drafting, hand-management, neighbor-scope. Playtime is around 30 for 3–7 players with ancient, card-game elements.

7 Wonders (Second Edition)

Anno 1800: The Board Game is a board game featuring contracts, end-game-bonuses, hand-management. Playtime is around 120 for 2–4 players with card-game, city-building elements.

Anno 1800: The Board Game

Disney Villainous: Perfectly Wretched is a board game featuring hand-management, take-that, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 40–60 for 2–3 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Disney Villainous: Perfectly Wretched

Dwellings of Eldervale is a board game featuring action-retrieval, dice-rolling, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–5 players with economic, fantasy elements.

Dwellings of Eldervale

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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