Once-Per-Game Abilities

Once-Per-Game Abilities is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: 7-wonders-duel, aquasphere, battlestar-galactica-the-board-game.

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

Bomb Busters is a board game featuring communication-limits, cooperative-game, deduction. Playtime is around 30 for 2–5 players with deduction, spies-secret-agents elements.

Bomb Busters

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

Zoo Vadis is a board game featuring bribery, hidden-victory-points, negotiation. Playtime is around 20–40 for 3–7 players with animals, negotiation elements.

Zoo Vadis

Brazil: Imperial is a board game featuring card-play-conflict-resolution, contracts, grid-movement. Playtime is around 100 for 1–4 players with city-building, civilization elements.

Brazil: Imperial

Under Falling Skies is a board game featuring dice-rolling, modular-board, once-per-game-abilities. Playtime is around 20–40 for 1 players with dice, science-fiction elements.

Under Falling Skies

The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. The affair began on June 17, 1972, when members of a group associated with Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign were caught burglarizing

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Watergate

The wingspan of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of 60.93 metres, and a wandering albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of 3.63 metres, the official record for a living bird.
The term

Wingspan

Heaven & Ale is a board game featuring grid-coverage, highest-lowest-scoring, once-per-game-abilities. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with economic, farming elements.

Heaven & Ale

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

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Hero Realms

7 Wonders Duel is a 2015 two-player strategy card game designed by Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala with art from Miguel Coimbra. A spinoff of 7 Wonders, the game was published by Repos Production and achieved commercial success.

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7 Wonders Duel

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

Specter Ops is a board game featuring dice-rolling, grid-movement, hidden-movement. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–5 players with deduction, fighting elements.

Specter Ops

AquaSphere is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 100 for 2–4 players with nautical, science-fiction elements.

AquaSphere

Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar is a board game featuring bias, end-game-bonuses, once-per-game-abilities. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar

Finca is a Spanish term for estate. In English usage, it refers to a piece of rural or agricultural land, typically with a cottage, farmhouse or estate building present, and often adjacent to a woodland or plantation.

Finca

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

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Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

Samurai  were members of the warrior class who served as retainers to lords in Japan prior to the Meiji era. Samurai existed from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era. They were originally provincial warriors who served the Kuge and i

Samurai

Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control six

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