Pattern Building

Pattern Building is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: akropolis, arboretum, azul.

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

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled 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, covering 70

Earth

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

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

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

Azul: Queen's Garden is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, pattern-building, set-collection. Playtime is around 45–60 for 2–4 players with abstract-strategy, puzzle elements.

Azul: Queen's Garden

Bullet♥︎ is a board game featuring cooperative-game, pattern-building, push-your-luck. Playtime is around 10–20 for 1–4 players with fighting, puzzle elements.

Bullet♥︎

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

Mille Fiori is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, closed-drafting, pattern-building. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with card-game, industry-manufacturing elements.

Mille Fiori

Welcome to the Moon is a board game featuring bingo, narrative-choice-paragraph, paper-and-pencil. Playtime is around 25–30 for 1–6 players with city-building, science-fiction elements.

Welcome to the Moon

A bonfire is a large and controlled outdoor fire, used for waste disposal or as part of a religious feast, such as Saint John's Eve.

Bonfire

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

My City may refer to:"My City" , a 2015 television episode
"My City", a song by 24kGoldn, Kane Brown and G Herbo from the Fast X (soundtrack)
"My City (Remix)", a song from YSL Records's 2021 compilation album Slime Language 2, featuring YTB Trench
"My City", a song by Onefour fe

My City

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

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

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

Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.

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

Cartographers

Nova Luna is a board game featuring contracts, pattern-building, race. Playtime is around 30–60 for 1–4 players with abstract-strategy, puzzle elements.

Nova Luna

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

Tiny Towns is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, follow, grid-coverage. Playtime is around 45–60 for 1–6 players with abstract-strategy, animals elements.

Tiny Towns

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

A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic (non-living) processes such as deposition of sand or wave erosion planing down rock outcrops. However, re

Reef

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

Azul

Benalbanach was a 7,803 ton heavy lift cargo ship which was built in 1946 as Empire Athelstan. In 1947 she was sold and renamed Benalbanach. Further name changes were Camelot in 1965 and Dragon Castle in 1969. She was scrapped in 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Benalbanach_(1946)

Dragon Castle

Kingdomino is a 2016 tile board game for 2-4 players designed by Bruno Cathala and published by Blue Orange Games. In this 15-20 minute, family-oriented game, players build a five by five kingdom of oversized domino-like tiles, making sure as they place each tile that one of its

Queendomino

Sagrada is a Spanish word meaning "sacred".

Sagrada

The Shipwreck Arcana is a board game featuring communication-limits, cooperative-game, deduction. Playtime is around 10–30 for 2–5 players with card-game, deduction elements.

The Shipwreck Arcana

Kanagawa Prefecture  is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 and third-densest at 3,800 inhabitants per square kilometre (9,800/sq mi). Its geographic area of 2,415 km2 (932 s

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

Kanagawa

Quadropolis is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, open-drafting, pattern-building. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with city-building, environmental elements.

Quadropolis

An arboretum is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arboreta are in botanical gardens as living collection

Arboretum

FUSE

Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a board game featuring end-game-bonuses, hidden-victory-points, i-cut-you-choose. Playtime is around 90 for 1–4 players with post-napoleonic, puzzle elements.

Castles of Mad King Ludwig

Red7 is a board game featuring hand-management, move-through-deck, multi-use-cards. Playtime is around 5–30 for 2–4 players with card-game, number elements.

Red7

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, catch-the-leader, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30 for 2–4 players with abstract-strategy, card-game elements.

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends

Galaxy Trucker is a science fiction board game for two to four players. It was developed by Vlaada Chvátil, with graphics designed by Radim Pech. The Czech version of Galaxy Trucker was released in 2007 by Czech Games Edition, and a German version was published in the same year b

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

Galaxy Trucker

Taluva is a board game featuring chaining, hexagon-grid, layering. Playtime is around 45 for 2–4 players with abstract-strategy, territory-building elements.

Taluva

Ingenious may refer to:Ingenious (2004) by Reiner Knizia
Ingenious , a 2009 drama comedy romance film, originally titled Lightbulb, starring Dallas Roberts, Jeremy Renner, Ayelet Zurer
Ingenious , a 2009 British television family drama starring Anna Bray, David Calder, Reece Doug

Ingenious

YINSH is an abstract strategy board game by game designer Kris Burm. It is the fifth game to be released in the GIPF Project. At the time of its release in 2003, Burm stated that he intended it to be considered as the sixth and last game of the project, and that the game which he

YINSH

Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers is a German-style board game. It is a member of the Carcassonne family of board games, and was developed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede. It was first published in 2002, in German by Hans im Glück, and in English by Rio Grande Games. In 2015, the English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne%3A_Hunters_and_Gatherers

Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers

Carcassonne is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, region of Occitania. It is the prefecture of the department.

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

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