Acting

Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.

Action / Event

Action / Event is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Action Drafting

Action Drafting is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Action Points

Action Points is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Action Queue

Action Queue is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Action Retrieval

Action Retrieval is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Action Timer

Action Timer is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Advantage Token

Advantage Token is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Alliances

An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether an explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called allies. Alliances form in many settings, i

Area Majority / Influence

Area Majority / Influence is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Area Movement

Area Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Area-Impulse

Area-Impulse is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction / Bidding

Auction / Bidding is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction Compensation

Auction Compensation is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Dexterity

Auction: Dexterity is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Dutch

Auction: Dutch is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Dutch Priority

Auction: Dutch Priority is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: English

Auction: English is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Fixed Placement

Auction: Fixed Placement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Multiple Lot

Auction: Multiple Lot is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Once Around

Auction: Once Around is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Sealed Bid

Auction: Sealed Bid is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Auction: Turn Order Until Pass

Auction: Turn Order Until Pass is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Automatic Resource Growth

Automatic Resource Growth is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Betting and Bluffing

Betting and Bluffing is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Bias

Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief. In science and eng

Bids As Wagers

Bids As Wagers is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Bingo

Bribery

Bribery is the corrupt solicitation, payment, or acceptance of a private favor in exchange for official action. The purpose of a bribe is to influence the actions of the recipient, a person in charge of an official duty, to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honest

Campaign / Battle Card Driven

Campaign / Battle Card Driven is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Card Play Conflict Resolution

Card Play Conflict Resolution is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Catch the Leader

Catch the Leader is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Chaining

Chaining is a type of intervention that aims to create associations between behaviors in a behavior chain. A behavior chain is a sequence of behaviors that happen in a particular order where the outcome of the previous step in the chain serves as a signal to begin the next step i

Chit-Pull System

Chit-Pull System is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Closed Drafting

Closed Drafting is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Closed Economy Auction

Closed Economy Auction is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Command Cards

Command Cards is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Commodity Speculation

Commodity Speculation is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Communication Limits

Communication Limits is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Connections

Connections may refer to:Connection (disambiguation), plural form

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

Constrained Bidding

Constrained Bidding is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Contracts

A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of those at a future date. The activities and in

Cooperative Game

Cooperative Game is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Crayon Rail System

Crayon Rail System is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Critical Hits and Failures

Critical Hits and Failures is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Cube Tower

Metropol Cube, also known as Cube Tower is an under-construction skyscraper in Batumi, Georgia. At 850 ft (260 m), it will be the tallest building in Georgia. The building is estimated to be completed in 2027, and will have over 300 residential apartments and a rooftop observatio

Deck Construction

Deck Construction is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Deduction

Delayed Purchase

Delayed Purchase is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Dice Rolling

Dice Rolling is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Die Icon Resolution

Die Icon Resolution is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Different Dice Movement

Different Dice Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to create a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, sometimes in combination. More modern tools inclu

Elapsed Real Time Ending

Elapsed Real Time Ending is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Enclosure

Enclosure or inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land", enclosing it, and by doing so depriving commoners of their traditional rights of access and usage. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a f

End Game Bonuses

End Game Bonuses is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Events

Finale Ending

Finale Ending is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Flicking

Flicking is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Follow

Follow may refer to:Follow (album), the third album by Pakho Chau
Follow (dancer), one member of a partner dance
"Follow", a song by Jerry Merrick, popularized by Richie Havens on his 1966 album Mixed Bag
"Follow", a song by Drowning Pool from their 2001 album Sinner
"Follow", a

Force Commitment

Force Commitment is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Grid Coverage

Grid Coverage is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Grid Movement

Grid Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Hand Management

Hand Management is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Hexagon Grid

Hexagon Grid is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Hidden Movement

Hidden Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Hidden Roles

Hidden Roles is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Hidden Victory Points

Hidden Victory Points is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Highest-Lowest Scoring

Highest-Lowest Scoring is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Hot Potato

Hot Potato may refer to:Hot potato, a party game involving tossing a small object
Hot Potato , a 2001 Game Boy Advance video game

I Cut, You Choose

I Cut, You Choose is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Impulse Movement

Impulse Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Income

Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. Income is difficult to define conceptually and the definition may be different across fields. For example, a person's income in an ec

Increase Value of Unchosen Resources

Increase Value of Unchosen Resources is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Induction

Interrupts

In digital computers, an interrupt is a request for the processor to interrupt currently executing code, so that the event can be processed in a timely manner. If the request is accepted, the processor will suspend its current activities, save its state, and execute a function ca

Investment

Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources into something expected to gain value over time". If an investment involves money, then it can be defined as a "commitment of money to receive more money later". From a broader viewpoint, an investment can be def

Kill Steal

Kill Steal is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

King of the Hill

King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that initially aired on Fox from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing in syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010. The show would later be revived on August 4, 2025,

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

Ladder Climbing

Ladder Climbing is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Layering

Layering can refer to:Layering (horticulture), a means of vegetative propagation
Layering (finance), a strategy in high frequency trading
Layering (linguistics), a principle by which grammaticalisation can be detected
Surface layering, a quasi-crystalline structure at the surface

Legacy Game

Legacy Game is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Line Drawing

Line Drawing is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Line of Sight

The line of sight, also known as visual axis or sightline, is an imaginary line between a viewer/observer/spectator's eye(s) and a subject of interest, or their relative direction. The subject may be any definable object taken note of or to be taken note of by the observer, at an

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

Loans

In finance, a loan is the tender of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back. The recipient, or borrower, incurs a debt and is usually required to pay interest for the use of the money.

Lose a Turn

Lose a Turn is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Mancala

Mancala is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, marbles or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces.

Map Addition

Map Addition is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Map Deformation

Map Deformation is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Map Reduction

Map Reduction is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Market

Market may refer to:Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand
Market economy
Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Marketing, the act of satisfying and retaining customers

Matching

Measurement Movement

Measurement Movement is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Melding and Splaying

Melding and Splaying is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, re

Minimap Resolution

Minimap Resolution is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Modular Board

Modular Board is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Move Through Deck

Move Through Deck is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Movement Points

Movement Points is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Movement Template

Movement Template is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Moving Multiple Units

Moving Multiple Units is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern.

Mechanics Index (A–Z)

Most Used Mechanics