Network and Route Building

Network and Route Building is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: 1830-railways-robber-barons, 1846-the-race-for-the-midwest, age-of-innovation.

Windmill Valley is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, market, multi-use-cards. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–4 players with economic, farming elements.

Windmill Valley

Age of Innovation is a board game featuring contracts, end-game-bonuses, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 40–200 for 1–5 players with civilization, economic elements.

Age of Innovation

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

Next Station: London is a board game featuring bingo, connections, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 25–30 for 1–4 players with city-building, trains elements.

Next Station: London

Revive

The Guild of Merchant Explorers is a board game featuring bingo, chaining, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 45 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

The Guild of Merchant Explorers

Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write is a board game featuring connections, dice-rolling, grid-coverage. Playtime is around 30–45 for 1–4 players with animals, dice elements.

Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write

Railroad Ink Challenge: Lush Green Edition is a board game featuring bingo, connections, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 15–30 for 1–4 players with dice, trains elements.

Railroad Ink Challenge: Lush Green Edition

Witchstone is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, grid-coverage, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with fantasy elements.

Witchstone

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

Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia. It emerged as an Akkadian-populated but Amorite-ruled state c. 1894 BC. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was retrospectively cal

Babylonia

Barrage

Clinic: Deluxe Edition is a board game featuring catch-the-leader, network-and-route-building, pick-up-and-deliver. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–4 players with city-building, economic elements.

Clinic: Deluxe Edition

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875 as incidental music for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play Peer Gynt. It was originally part of Opus 23 but was later extracted as the final piece of Peer Gynt, Su

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In the Hall of the Mountain King

A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. Industry datasets indicate the length of the global trunk/transmission pipeline network is on the order of ~2.19 million km by 2025, with North America

Pipeline

Trails of Tucana is a board game featuring bingo, connections, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 15 for 1–8 players with exploration elements.

Trails of Tucana

AuZtralia is a board game featuring action-retrieval, cooperative-game, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 30–120 for 1–4 players with economic, exploration elements.

AuZtralia

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

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Blue Lagoon

Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edition is a board game featuring bingo, connections, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 20–30 for 1–6 players with dice, trains elements.

Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edition

Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition is a board game featuring bingo, connections, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 20–30 for 1–6 players with dice, trains elements.

Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition

Smartphone Inc. is a board game featuring action-queue, area-majority-influence, layering. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–5 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Smartphone Inc.

Underwater Cities is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hand-management, income. Playtime is around 80–150 for 1–4 players with card-game, city-building elements.

Underwater Cities

Gaia Project is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hexagon-grid, income. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–4 players with civilization, economic elements.

Gaia Project

Santa Maria, Sta. Maria, Santa María or Santa Marija is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, in languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Maltese.

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Santa Maria

Yamataï is a board game featuring action-drafting, contracts, increase-value-of-unchosen-resources. Playtime is around 40–80 for 2–4 players with mythology elements.

Yamataï

The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe. Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the ti

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Iberia

Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails is a board game featuring connections, hand-management, network-and-route-building. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with nautical, trains elements.

Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails

Yokohama  is the second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Ka

Yokohama

Karuba may refer to:Karuba, a tile-laying race game
Karuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a village
Karuba, Estonia, a village
Karuba, a brand of coffee sold at Kwik Trip

Karuba

Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America is a board game featuring auction-turn-order-until-pass, catch-the-leader, income. Playtime is around 120 for 2–6 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America

The Monday demonstrations were a series of peaceful political protests against the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The demonstrations began in Leipzig on 4 September 1989, starting the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse o

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Wir sind das Volk!

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

Myrmes is a board game featuring grid-coverage, grid-movement, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with animals, environmental elements.

Myrmes

Terra Mystica is a Euro-style board game for two to five players designed by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller. The game was first published by Feuerland Spiele in Germany in 2012, and was later published in English and French by Zman Games and Filosofia Édition in 2013. Feuerl

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Terra Mystica

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 train is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives, though some are self-propelled, such as multiple units or railcars. Passengers and cargo are carried in railroad cars, a

Trains

Airlines Europe is a board game featuring investment, network-and-route-building, open-drafting. Playtime is around 75 for 2–5 players with aviation-flight, economic elements.

Airlines Europe

The phrases "pray and work" and to work is to pray refer to the monastic practice of working and praying, generally associated with its use in the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Ora et Labora

Hansa Teutonica is a German board game designed by Andreas Steding and published by Argentum Verlag in 2009. It ranked in the top 10 at the Deutscher Spiele Preis.

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Hansa Teutonica

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about 710,000 people and a land area of 32.9 km2 (12.7 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world.

Macao

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

Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries is a board game featuring hand-management, network-and-route-building, open-drafting. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–3 players with trains elements.

Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries

"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

Thurn und Taxis may refer to:House of Thurn und Taxis, a German noble family
Thurn-und-Taxis Post, a mail system named for the family
Thurn and Taxis, a game about the mail system

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

Thurn and Taxis

Ticket to Ride: Märklin is a board game featuring hand-management, network-and-route-building, open-drafting. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–5 players with trains, transportation elements.

Ticket to Ride: Märklin

1846: The Race for the Midwest is a board game featuring hexagon-grid, investment, market. Playtime is around 120–240 for 3–5 players with economic, trains elements.

1846: The Race for the Midwest

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

Ticket to Ride is a series of turn-based strategy railway-themed Eurogames designed by Alan R. Moon, the first of which was released in 2004 by Days of Wonder. As of 2024, 18 million copies of the game have been sold worldwide and it has been translated into 33 languages. Days of

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Ticket to Ride: Europe

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

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

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

Ticket to Ride

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

A bus is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter purposes, or through private ownership. Although the average bus

Roads & Boats is a board game featuring grid-movement, line-drawing, modular-board. Playtime is around 240 for 1–4 players with city-building, civilization elements.

Roads & Boats

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.

Network and Route Building

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