Variable Player Powers

Variable Player Powers is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: 51st-state-master-set, 7-wonders-architects, 7-wonders-second-edition.

Magical Athlete is a board game featuring open-drafting, race, roll-spin-and-move. Playtime is around 30 for 2–6 players with animals, dice elements.

Magical Athlete

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fear of the Unknown is a board game featuring action-points, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90 for 1–5 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fear of the Unknown

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

An apiary is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept. Apiaries come in many sizes and can be rural or urban depending on the honey production operation.

Apiary

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

Sky Team is a two-player board game where participants act as pilot and co-pilot to safely land an airplane. It was designed by Luc Rémond and published by Le Scorpion Masqué in 2023.

Sky Team

Twilight Inscription is a board game featuring dice-rolling, paper-and-pencil, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–8 players with science-fiction elements.

Twilight Inscription

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

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♥︎

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

A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore that is created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud. The most famous golem narrative involves Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague. According to Moment magazine, "the go

Golem

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

Messina 1347 is a board game featuring grid-movement, income, modular-board. Playtime is around 60–140 for 1–4 players with economic, medical elements.

Messina 1347

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

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

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)

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

Marvel United is a board game featuring cooperative-game, hand-management, modular-board. Playtime is around 40 for 1–4 players with card-game, comic-book-strip elements.

Marvel United

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

The LOOP is a board game featuring cooperative-game, cube-tower, deck-bag-and-pool-building. Playtime is around 60 for 1–4 players with card-game, science-fiction elements.

The LOOP

Unmatched: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Beowulf is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Beowulf

Whistle Mountain is a board game featuring tile-placement, variable-player-powers, worker-placement. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with industry-manufacturing elements.

Whistle Mountain

Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein is a board game featuring dice-rolling, events, narrative-choice-paragraph. Playtime is around 90–180 for 2–4 players with horror, novel-based elements.

Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein

Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, push-your-luck. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–7 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Atlantis Rising (Second Edition)

Circadians: First Light is a board game featuring contracts, dice-rolling, events. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with dice, science-fiction elements.

Circadians: First Light

Disney Villainous: Evil Comes Prepared 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: Evil Comes Prepared

Disney Villainous: Wicked to the Core 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: Wicked to the Core

Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North is a board game featuring hand-management, take-that, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–4 players with ancient, card-game elements.

Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North

Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan is a board game featuring contracts, dice-rolling, point-to-point-movement. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with dice, economic elements.

Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan

Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot is a board game featuring action-points, card-play-conflict-resolution, hand-management. Playtime is around 20 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot

Arkham Horror (Third Edition) is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, modular-board. Playtime is around 120–180 for 1–6 players with adventure, fighting elements.

Arkham Horror (Third Edition)

Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game is a board game featuring cooperative-game, narrative-choice-paragraph, scenario-mission-campaign-game. Playtime is around 120–180 for 1–5 players with deduction, murder-mystery elements.

Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game

Dice Throne: Season One is a board game featuring dice-rolling, die-icon-resolution, re-rolling-and-locking. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–6 players with card-game, dice elements.

Dice Throne: Season One

Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest is a board game featuring dice-rolling, take-that, team-based-game. Playtime is around 20–40 for 2–6 players with card-game, dice elements.

Dice Throne: Season Two – Battle Chest

Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All is a board game featuring hand-management, take-that, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 45–120 for 2–6 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All

Zombicide: Green Horde is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, modular-board. Playtime is around 60 for 1–6 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Zombicide: Green Horde

Zombie Kidz Evolution is a board game featuring area-movement, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 15 for 2–4 players with childrens-game, fighting elements.

Zombie Kidz Evolution

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

Battle for Rokugan is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, hand-management, order-counters. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–5 players with fantasy, medieval elements.

Battle for Rokugan

Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn is a 2017 strategy board game created by James Kniffen based on the Civilization series of video games. It is primarily inspired by the series' 2016 iteration, Civilization VI. Each player takes the role of a historical civilization, competing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization%3A_A_New_Dawn

Civilization: A New Dawn

Ex Libris may refer to:An ex libris (bookplate), a label affixed to a book to indicate ownership
Ex Libris (band), a Dutch metal band
Ex Libris (bookshop), a Swiss retail company
"Ex Libris" (Charmed), a 2000 episode of the television series Charmed
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Co

Ex Libris

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.

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

Santa Maria

Werewords is a board game for 4 to 10 players designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games in 2017. Players guess a secret word by asking questions. There are different roles randomly assigned at the start of play. Villagers try to find out the magic word before the time

Werewords

51st State: Master Set is a board game featuring hand-management, multi-use-cards, open-drafting. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with card-game, city-building elements.

51st State: Master Set

Blood Bowl (2016 Edition) is a board game featuring critical-hits-and-failures, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 60–180 for 2 players with collectible-components, fantasy elements.

Blood Bowl (2016 Edition)

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, scenario-mission-campaign-game. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Mare Nostrum: Empires is a board game featuring area-movement, dice-rolling, set-collection. Playtime is around 90–120 for 3–5 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Mare Nostrum: Empires

Roll Player is a euro-style board game designed by Keith Matejka and published in 2016 by Thunderworks Games. In the game, players compete to design the best fantasy adventurer, through dice rolling and card drafting mechanics.

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

Roll Player

Star Wars: Destiny is an out-of-print collectible card game by Fantasy Flight Games, first released in November 2016. Its final, 10th expansion was published in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_Destiny

Star Wars: Destiny

Argent: The Consortium is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, modular-board, take-that. Playtime is around 60–150 for 2–5 players with fantasy, political elements.

Argent: The Consortium

Champions of Midgard is a board game featuring dice-rolling, set-collection, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with adventure, dice elements.

Champions of Midgard

Cthulhu Wars is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Cthulhu Wars

Empires: Age of Discovery is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, set-collection, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 50–150 for 2–6 players with civilization, exploration elements.

Empires: Age of Discovery

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak is a board game featuring hidden-roles, role-playing, roles-with-asymmetric-information. Playtime is around 10 for 3–10 players with bluffing, card-game elements.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game – The Force Awakens Core Set is a board game featuring action-queue, critical-hits-and-failures, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2 players with aviation-flight, collectible-components elements.

Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game – The Force Awakens Core Set

Super Motherload is a video game developed by XGen Studios for the PlayStation 4. It was originally released on November 15, 2013, with later releases for PlayStation 3 and Windows. Super Motherload is the sequel to Motherload, an Adobe Flash game also developed by XGen Studios,

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

Super Motherload

The Grizzled is a board game featuring communication-limits, cooperative-game, hand-management. Playtime is around 30 for 2–5 players with card-game, world-war-i elements.

The Grizzled

T.I.M.E Stories is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, move-through-deck. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with adventure, puzzle elements.

T.I.M.E Stories

Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game is a board game featuring action-retrieval, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–60 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game

Zombicide: Black Plague is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, modular-board. Playtime is around 60–180 for 1–6 players with adventure, fantasy elements.

Zombicide: Black Plague

The Dogs of War or Dogs of War may refer to:

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

Dogs of War

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972) is a book by American journalist Frances FitzGerald (1940-) about Vietnam, its history and national character, and the United States warfare there. It was initially published by both Little, Brown and Company an

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

Fire in the Lake

Ultimate Werewolf is a card game designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games. It is based on the social deduction game, Werewolf, which is Andrew Plotkin's reinvention of Dimitry Davidoff's 1987 game, Mafia. The Werewolf game appeared in many forms before Bézier Games p

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

One Night Ultimate Werewolf

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 120 for 1–4 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, american-west elements.

Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death

Rum and Coke, or the Cuba libre, is a highball cocktail consisting of cola, rum, and in many recipes lime juice on ice. Traditionally, the cola ingredient is Coca-Cola ("Coke") and the alcohol is a light rum such as Bacardi; however, the drink may be made with various types of ru

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

Cuba Libre

Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a board game featuring dice-rolling, hand-management, race. Playtime is around 60 for 2–6 players with science-fiction elements.

Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

Freedom: The Underground Railroad is a 2013 co-operative board game designed by Brian Mayer and published by Academy Games, their first game in the Freedom Series. The game has drawn positive attention for its approach and handling of the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%3A_The_Underground_Railroad

Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000 is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, hand-management, take-that. Playtime is around 45 for 2 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay i

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Coup

Tōkaidō may refer to:Taiheiyō Belt, the megalopolis in Japan extending from Ibaraki Prefecture to Fukuoka Prefecture
Tokaido (company), a Japanese company that manufactures karate uniforms, belts, and related products
Tōkaidō (region), a Japanese geographical term meaning both an

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D

Tokaido

This is a list of licensed Risk game boards.

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

Risk Legacy

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative card game published by Greater Than Games and released at Gen Con 2011. Players control a team of comic book-style heroes battling a villain. Each player controls one or more heroes, while a villain and environment deck each run themse

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

Sentinels of the Multiverse

Small World Underground is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–90 for 2–5 players with fantasy, fighting elements.

Small World Underground

Summoner Wars: Master Set is a board game featuring deck-construction, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Summoner Wars: Master Set

Defenders of the Realm is a 2010 board game published by Eagle Games.

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

Defenders of the Realm

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025.

Automobile

Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the 6th most populous city in the state. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Rang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_City%2C_Nevada

Carson City

Claustrophobia is a fear or anxiety of confined spaces. It is triggered by many situations or stimuli, including elevators, especially when crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and hotel rooms with closed doors and sealed windows. Even bedrooms with a lock on the outside, small

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

Claustrophobia

Middle-Earth Quest is a board game featuring hand-management, point-to-point-movement, team-based-game. Playtime is around 180 for 2–4 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Middle-Earth Quest

Small world, Small worlds, or Smallworld may refer to:

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

Small World

Summoner Wars is a mobile video game developed by Plaid Hat Games and Playdek, and based on the 2009 board game of the same name. The iOS version was released on July 4, 2012. The Android version was released on May 15, 2014.

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

Summoner Wars

Warhammer: Invasion is a Living Card Game (LCG) designed by Eric M. Lang and produced by Fantasy Flight Games from 2009 to 2013, set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. Like Fantasy Flight's other LCGs, Invasion is sold as a core set, which can be played on its own, or built upon

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Warhammer: Invasion

Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was an American political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic P

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Tammany Hall

Mr. Jack is an American comic strip by Jimmy Swinnerton which ran in William Randolph Hearst newspapers from August 30, 1903, until 1935. Mr. Jack, a philandering playboy tiger, may be the first developed cartoon animal character, a type that has since become a staple in the comi

Mr. Jack

Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a two to five player high fantasy dungeon crawl published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005. Descent was designed and produced by Kevin Wilson. The game is based on an improved version of the mechanics of FFG's licensed Doom: The Boardgame. In Desce

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Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) is a board game featuring dice-rolling, hidden-movement, point-to-point-movement. Playtime is around 120–180 for 2–5 players with adventure, deduction elements.

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