Worker Placement

Worker Placement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: a-war-of-whispers, age-of-empires-iii-the-age-of-discovery, agricola-all-creatures-big-and-small.

Inventions: Evolution of Ideas is a board game featuring point-to-point-movement, worker-placement. Playtime is around 60–150 for 1–4 players with civilization, industry-manufacturing elements.

Inventions: Evolution of Ideas

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

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. Furthermore, an apiary may refer to a hobbyist's hives or those used for commercial or educational usage. It can also

Apiary

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.7 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous

Barcelona

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

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

My Father's Work is a board game featuring events, hand-management, narrative-choice-paragraph. Playtime is around 180 for 2–4 players with fantasy, horror elements.

My Father's Work

Weather Machine is a lumino kinetic bronze sculpture and columnar machine that serves as a weather beacon, displaying a weather prediction each day at noon. Designed and constructed by Omen Design Group Inc., the approximately 30-foot-tall (9 m) sculpture was installed in 1988 in

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Weather Machine

Dinosaur World may refer to:Dinosaur World (Arkansas), a defunct theme park in Arkansas, USA
Dinosaur World (Creswick), a defunct theme park in Creswick, Victoria, Australia
Dinosaur World, a family of theme parks in Florida, Kentucky and Texas in the US, each with over 150 life

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

Dinosaur World

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

Kanban EV is a board game featuring action-points, hand-management, variable-phase-order. Playtime is around 60–180 for 1–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Kanban EV

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

A War of Whispers is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, betting-and-bluffing, hidden-victory-points. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with fantasy, political elements.

A War of Whispers

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)

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

Cooper Island may refer to:Cooper Island, an island and Special Protection Area off the southeast end of South Georgia.
Cooper Island 
Cooper Island 
Cooper Island 
Cooper Islands, Alaska, US
Cooper's Island, Bermuda

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Cooper Island

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

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

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

Gùgōng is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, hand-management, set-collection. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–5 players with medieval, travel elements.

Gùgōng

Caverna: Cave vs Cave is a board game featuring tile-placement, worker-placement. Playtime is around 20–40 for 1–2 players with economic, fantasy elements.

Caverna: Cave vs Cave

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

Dinosaur Island

Nusfjord is a fishing village in Flakstad Municipality in Lofoten in Nordland county, Norway. The village lies on the southern shore of the island of Flakstadøya, along the Vestfjorden.

Nusfjord

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

Rajas of the Ganges is a board game featuring connections, dice-rolling, race. Playtime is around 45–75 for 2–4 players with dice, economic elements.

Rajas of the Ganges

Agricola (Revised Edition) is a board game featuring enclosure, hand-management, worker-placement. Playtime is around 30–120 for 1–4 players with animals, economic elements.

Agricola (Revised Edition)

Vinhos: Deluxe Edition is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, variable-phase-order, worker-placement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Vinhos: Deluxe Edition

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

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

Raiders of the North Sea is a board game featuring contracts, dice-rolling, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–80 for 2–4 players with medieval, nautical elements.

Raiders of the North Sea

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

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Dogs of War

Kanban: Driver's Edition is a board game featuring action-points, commodity-speculation, variable-phase-order. Playtime is around 90–120 for 2–4 players with economic, industry-manufacturing elements.

Kanban: Driver's Edition

Bora Bora is a French island group in the Leeward Islands in the South Pacific. The Leeward Islands comprise the western part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, which is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. Bora Bora has a total land area

Bora Bora

Bruxelles 1893 is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, auction-bidding, modular-board. Playtime is around 50–125 for 2–5 players with economic elements.

Bruxelles 1893

Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a board game featuring automatic-resource-growth, increase-value-of-unchosen-resources, solo-solitaire-game. Playtime is around 30–210 for 1–7 players with animals, economic elements.

Caverna: The Cave Farmers

Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. He is also known for participating in the early English slaving voyages of his cousin, John Hawkins, and John Lovel

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Francis Drake

Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira, is an autonomous region of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean about 805 km southwest of mainland Portugal. Together with the Azores, it is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal and a special territory of the European Unio

Madeira

Maquis initially referred to Maquis shrubland, a Mediterranean shrubland biome, and came to be associated with the armed resistance groups which hid in the terrain covered with that scrub growth.

Maquis

Russian Railroads is a tile-based Euro-style board game for 2 to 4 players by Helmut Ohley and Leonhard Orgler. The game was published in 2013 by Hans im Glück Verlag. It is based on the worker placement principle, in which players can in turn distribute their available workforce

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Russian Railroads

Viticulture, viniculture, or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine, ranges from Western Europe to the Persian shores of the Caspian Sea, the vine

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Viticulture

Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers who sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After

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Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small

Myrmes is a board game featuring grid-coverage, grid-movement, hexagon-grid. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with animals, environmental elements.

Myrmes

Snowdonia, or Eryri, is a mountainous region and national park in North Wales. It contains all 15 mountains in Wales over 3000 feet high, including the country's highest, Snowdon, which is 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) tall. These peaks are all part of the Snowdon, Glyderau, and Carned

Snowdonia

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. The Manhattan Project employed nearly 130,000 people at its peak

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The Manhattan Project

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

Belfort is a city in northeastern France, situated approximately 25 km (16 mi) from the Swiss border. It is the prefecture of the Territoire de Belfort.

Belfort

Dungeon Petz is a board game featuring auction-bidding, hand-management, selection-order-bid. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with animals, fantasy elements.

Dungeon Petz

Lancaster

A will and testament is a legal document that expresses a person's (testator) wishes as to how their property (estate) is to be distributed after their death and as to which person (executor) is to manage the property until its final distribution. For the distribution (devolution

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Last Will

The phrases "pray and work" and to work is to pray refer to the monastic practice of working and praying, generally associated with its use in the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Ora et Labora

A village is a human settlement or a residential community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certai

Village

Luna commonly refers to:Earth's Moon, named "Luna" in Latin, Spanish and other languages
Luna (goddess), the ancient Roman personification of the Moon
Luna (name), including a list of people and characters with this given name and surname
Luna marble, the ancient Roman term for C

Luna

Ready-to-wear (RTW) – also called prêt-à-porter, or off-the-rack or off-the-peg in casual use – is the term for garments sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made-to-measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame. In other words,

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Prêt-à-Porter

Vinhos is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, worker-placement. Playtime is around 60–135 for 2–4 players with economic, farming elements.

Vinhos

Carson City, officially the  Carson City Consolidated Municipality, 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

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Carson City

Dungeon Lords may refer to:Dungeon Lords, a 2009 euro-style game
Dungeon Lords , a 2005 game from DreamCatcher Interactive and Typhoon Games

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

Dungeon Lords

Egizia is a board game featuring bias, end-game-bonuses, open-drafting. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with ancient, farming elements.

Egizia

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 4000 BC and 2000 BC, with the advent of metalworking. Because of i

Stone Age

Glenn Drover's Empires: The Age of Discovery is the first of the Glenn Drover's Empires board games, created by Glenn Drover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Drover's_Empires%3A_The_Age_of_Discovery

Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery

The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Welsh author Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. Set in the 12th century, the novel covers the time between the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of

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

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