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Deck. Proprietary cards. Playing time. 15 minutes. Dobble is a game in which players have to find symbols in common between two cards. It was the UK’s best-selling game in 2018 and 2019. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The game is sold as Dobble in Europe and Spot It! in the US. [ 4] The name is a play on the word 'double'.
A physical item included in the game. E.g. the box itself, the board, the cards, the tokens, zipper-lock bags, inserts, rule books, etc. See also equipment. counter. See piece. currency. A scoring mechanic used by some games to determine the winner, e.g. money ( Monopoly) or counters ( Zohn Ahl ).
The Royal Game of Ur is a two-player strategy race board game of the tables family that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC. The game was popular across the Middle East among people of all social strata, and boards for playing it have been found at locations as far away from Mesopotamia as Crete and Sri Lanka.
Codenames is a 2015 party card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team.
Snakes and ladders is a board game for two or more players regarded today as a worldwide classic. [ 1] The game originated in ancient India as Moksha Patam, and was brought to the United Kingdom in the 1890s. It is played on a game board with numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and "snakes" are pictured on the board, each ...
Carcassonne ( / ˌkɑːrkəˈsɒn /) is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently) [ 2] in English. [ 3]
2–4. Playing time. 180'. Age range. 12+. Fortress America is a strategic board wargame designed by Michael Gray [ 1] and published in 1986 by Milton Bradley. The game depicts a 21st Century United States being invaded on three sides by three world powers. Fortress America was the fourth of five games in the Gamemaster series.
Playing time. 30 minutes – 2 hours (11×11 board) Chance. None. Skills. Strategy, tactics. Hex (also called Nash) is a two player abstract strategy board game in which players attempt to connect opposite sides of a rhombus-shaped board made of hexagonal cells. Hex was invented by mathematician and poet Piet Hein in 1942 and later rediscovered ...