Variable Set-up

Variable Set-up is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: camel-up, camel-up-second-edition, caylus.

Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon is a board game featuring variable-set-up, worker-placement-different-worker-types. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with science-fiction, space-exploration elements.

Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon

Rats of Wistar is a board game featuring contracts, events, hand-management. Playtime is around 90 for 1–4 players with animals elements.

Rats of Wistar

A federation is an entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the ce

Federation

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 Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague. According to Moment magazine, "the golem is

Golem

Unsettled is a 2007 documentary feature film written, directed, and produced by Adam Hootnick, depicting the experiences of six young Israeli adults taking part in the Gaza disengagement of August, 2005. Its soundtrack features Matisyahu and other Israeli and Jewish pop music, an

Unsettled

Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch and is often associated a violent change in the regime, as in a revolution. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word comes from the Latin roots of regis and cida (cidium), meaning "of monarch" and "kil

Regicide

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

Century: A New World is a board game featuring action-retrieval, contracts, set-collection. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with renaissance elements.

Century: A New World

Camel Up (Second Edition) is a board game featuring betting-and-bluffing, dice-rolling, roll-spin-and-move. Playtime is around 30–45 for 3–8 players with animals, arabian elements.

Camel Up (Second Edition)

Outlive is a real-time strategy video game developed and produced by Brazilian studio Continuum Entertainment. It is a mission-based real-time strategy game where the player controls either the human military or robot forces and attempts to eliminate all opposing forces. It was i

Outlive

Dominion (Second Edition) 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, medieval elements.

Dominion (Second Edition)

First Class: All Aboard the Orient Express! is a board game featuring open-drafting, set-collection, variable-set-up. Playtime is around 40–80 for 2–4 players with card-game, trains elements.

First Class: All Aboard the Orient Express!

The Great Western Trail is a north-south long distance multiple use route that runs from Canada to Mexico through five western states in the United States. The trail has access for motorized and non-motorized use and traverses 4,455 miles (7,170 km) through Arizona, Utah, Idaho,

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

Great Western Trail

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lorenzo held the balance of power within the Italic League, an alliance of states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de'_Medici

Lorenzo il Magnifico

Sushi Go Party! is a board game featuring closed-drafting, end-game-bonuses, hand-management. Playtime is around 20 for 2–8 players with card-game, party-game elements.

Sushi Go Party!

Valeria: Card Kingdoms is a board game featuring dice-rolling, open-drafting, random-production. Playtime is around 30–45 for 1–5 players with card-game, dice elements.

Valeria: Card Kingdoms

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

Elysium, otherwise known as the Elysian Fields, Elysian Plains or Elysian Realm, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. It was initially separated from the Greek underworld—the realm

Elysium

Potion Explosion is a board game featuring contracts, open-drafting, pattern-recognition. Playtime is around 30–45 for 2–4 players with fantasy, puzzle elements.

Potion Explosion

Camel Up is a board game for two to eight players. It was designed by Steffen Bogen and illustrated by Dennis Lohausen, and published in 2014 by Pegasus Spiele. Players place bets on a camel race in the desert; the player who wins the most money is the winner of the game. Camel U

Camel Up

Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is a cooperative deck-building game for 1-5 players, released in 2012. It was designed by Devin Low and published by Upper Deck Entertainment, a division of Upper Deck Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary%3A_A_Marvel_Deck_Building_Game

Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game

Dominion is a card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games. Originally published in 2008, it was the first deck-building game, and inspired a genre of games building on its central mechanic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(card_game)

Dominion: Intrigue

A dominion was any one of several largely self-governing countries that remained, especially in the first half of the 20th century, under the British Crown as parts of the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth of Nations. The list of dominions as at 1926 included Austr

Dominion

In the Year of the Dragon is an album by pianist Geri Allen, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian recorded in 1989 and released on the German JMT label.

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

In the Year of the Dragon

Caylus

Ricochet Robots is a puzzle board game for 2 or more people, designed by Alex Randolph, in which the playing pieces (robots) must be moved to selected locations in as few moves as possible, working within strict limitations on robots' movements. The game was first published in Ge

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

Variable Set-up

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