Open Drafting

Open Drafting is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: 51st-state-master-set, 7-wonders-architects, a-few-acres-of-snow.

Castle Combo is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, multi-use-cards, open-drafting. Playtime is around 10–25 for 2–5 players with card-game, medieval elements.

Castle Combo

Civolution is a board game featuring area-movement, dice-rolling, events. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with civilization, dice elements.

Civolution

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

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harmonic objects such as chords, textures a

Harmonies

Men-Nefer is a board game featuring income, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Men-Nefer

Unconscious Mind is a board game featuring contracts, end-game-bonuses, layering. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with medical, post-napoleonic elements.

Unconscious Mind

Wondrous Creatures is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hexagon-grid, open-drafting. 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

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

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

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

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 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

Wonders of the World are lists compiled over the ages that catalogue remarkable natural and man-made constructions.

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World Wonders

An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens, yet nearly every Greek city had an

Akropolis

Azul: Master Chocolatier is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, open-drafting, pattern-building. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with abstract-strategy, puzzle elements.

Azul: Master Chocolatier

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!

In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which lose their foliage completely during the winter or dry season. Consisting of many different species, the unique feature of everg

Evergreen

ISS Vanguard is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, narrative-choice-paragraph. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

ISS Vanguard

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

Marrakesh or Marrakech is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh-Safi region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.

Marrakesh

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

Revive

Sea Salt & Paper is a board game featuring hand-management, open-drafting, push-your-luck. 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

Splendor Duel is a board game featuring contracts, open-drafting, race. Playtime is around 30 for 2 players with card-game, economic elements.

Splendor Duel

Trekking Through History is a board game featuring multi-use-cards, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 30–60 for 1–4 players with adventure, educational elements.

Trekking Through History

Verdant may refer to:Verdant Green, fictional undergraduate at Oxford University
Verdant Power, maker and installer of tidal power and hydroelectric systems
Verdant universities, an informal group of Australian universities founded in the 1960s and 1970s.

Verdant

Wayfarers of the South Tigris is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, end-game-bonuses, modular-board. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with arabian, exploration elements.

Wayfarers of the South Tigris

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

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

7 Wonders: Architects is a board game featuring neighbor-scope, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 25 for 2–7 players with ancient elements.

7 Wonders: Architects

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

Cascadia and Cascadian are terms that derive from the Cascade Range and may refer to:

Cascadia

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

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

Dominant Species: Marine is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, grid-movement, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 90–150 for 2–4 players with animals, environmental elements.

Dominant Species: Marine

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

Khôra: Rise of an Empire is a board game featuring dice-rolling, income, investment. Playtime is around 75 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Khôra: Rise of an Empire

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

Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition is a board game featuring action-points, increase-value-of-unchosen-resources, market. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with pike-and-shot, religious elements.

Pax Renaissance: 2nd 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

Calico is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also contain unseparated husk parts. The fabric is coarser than muslin, but less coarse and thick than canvas or denim. It is still very cheap owing to its unfinished and und

Calico

Imperial Struggle is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, campaign-battle-card-driven, events. Playtime is around 120–240 for 2 players with age-of-reason, american-revolutionary-war elements.

Imperial Struggle

King of Tokyo: Dark Edition is a board game featuring dice-rolling, king-of-the-hill, open-drafting. Playtime is around 30 for 2–6 players with dice, fighting elements.

King of Tokyo: Dark Edition

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

Moonrakers

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. The ocean is conventionally divided into large bodies of water, which are also referred to as oceans, and are themselves mostly divided into seas, gulfs and subsequent bodies of water. The ocean contain

Oceans

2XKO is an upcoming free-to-play fighting game developed by Riot Games, set in the Runeterra universe from League of Legends. It is scheduled to be released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S.

Project L

Raiders of Scythia is a board game featuring contracts, dice-rolling, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–80 for 1–4 players with ancient elements.

Raiders of Scythia

Splendor: Marvel is a board game featuring contracts, open-drafting, race. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with card-game, comic-book-strip elements.

Splendor: Marvel

Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun is a board game featuring action-drafting, income, open-drafting. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun

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

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

Azul: Summer Pavilion is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, open-drafting, pattern-building. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with abstract-strategy, puzzle elements.

Azul: Summer Pavilion

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

Caylus 1303 is a board game featuring action-queue, end-game-bonuses, hidden-victory-points. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–5 players with city-building, economic elements.

Caylus 1303

An escape plan is a plan for prison escape or from other forms of confinement.

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

Escape Plan

Fantastic Factories is a board game featuring contracts, dice-rolling, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 45–60 for 1–5 players with card-game, dice elements.

Fantastic Factories

Hadara is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.

Hadara

Paladins of the West Kingdom is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, market, open-drafting. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–4 players with medieval elements.

Paladins of the West Kingdom

Paris: La Cité de la Lumière is a board game featuring action-drafting, grid-coverage, modular-board. Playtime is around 30 for 2 players with abstract-strategy, puzzle elements.

Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

Point Salad is a board game featuring open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 15–30 for 2–6 players with card-game elements.

Point Salad

Res Arcana is a board game featuring hand-management, income, multi-use-cards. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Res Arcana

Tang Garden is a board game featuring line-of-sight, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 40–60 for 1–4 players with environmental elements.

Tang Garden

The Isle of Cats is a board game featuring closed-drafting, grid-coverage, hidden-victory-points. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with animals, fantasy elements.

The Isle of Cats

The Magnificent may refer to:"The Magnificent" (song), a 1995 song by the One World Orchestra
The Magnificent , 2002
The Magnificent , 2009
The Magnificent 
List of people known as the Magnificent

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

The Magnificent

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

Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula is a board game featuring action-points, contracts, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–4 players with dice elements.

Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula

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

Villager may refer to:A person who resides in a village

Villagers

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

Azul is an abstract strategy board game designed by Michael Kiesling and released by Plan B Games in 2017. Based on Portuguese tiles called azulejos, in Azul players collect sets of similarly colored tiles which they place on their player board. When a row is filled, one of the t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azul_(board_game)

Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a board game featuring highest-lowest-scoring, neighbor-scope, open-drafting. Playtime is around 45–60 for 2–7 players with negotiation, post-napoleonic elements.

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig

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

Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated 'seize the day', taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes.

Carpe Diem

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

CO₂: Second Chance is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, cooperative-game, market. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with economic, environmental elements.

CO₂: Second Chance

Endeavor: Age of Sail is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, open-drafting, point-to-point-movement. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–5 players with exploration, nautical elements.

Endeavor: Age of Sail

Everdell is a board game for 1 to 4 players designed by James Wilson and published by Starling Games in 2018. In the game, players take the role of forest animals building a city over four seasons by collecting resources, recruiting workers, and constructing buildings. The game h

Everdell

A gizmo is a gadget, especially one whose real name is unknown or forgotten.

Gizmos

Lords of Hellas is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, card-play-conflict-resolution. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with ancient, mythology elements.

Lords of Hellas

New Frontiers may refer to:New Frontiers program, a series of NASA planetary science exploration missions
New Frontiers Science Park, a former GSK research centre in Harlow, Essex
Newfrontiers, a network of churches
New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme, an Enterprise

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

New Frontiers

Obsession

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

Space Base is a board game featuring dice-rolling, open-drafting, random-production. Playtime is around 60 for 2–5 players with dice, science-fiction elements.

Space Base

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

Welcome To... is a board game featuring bingo, contracts, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 25 for 1–100 players with city-building elements.

Welcome To...

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

Azul, meaning "blue" in Spanish and Portuguese, may refer to:

Azul

Bärenpark is a multiplayer board game designed by game designer Phil Walker-Harding and was first published in 2017 by Lookout Games. Each player collects and places layers of tiles to plan the map for their individual bear park, a type of zoo common in certain parts of the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A4renpark

Bärenpark

Charterstone is a board game for 1-6 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier and released by Stonemaier Games in 2017. Players work together over a twelve game campaign to build a village, while simultaneously competing to win each game, and ultimately win the campaign. Chartersone w

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

Charterstone

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.

Open Drafting

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