Plays well with
2, 3, 4, 5, 6+

Competitive, Cooperative, All vs One, Set Partnerships/Teams, Variable Partnerships, Secret Teams, Solo or Shared Victory Possible

Hidden Untrackable, Hidden Trackable, Open Info

Real-time, Turn-based, Simultaneous turn-based

Symetrical, Asymetrical Starting, Variable player powers

Zero-sum, Non-zero-sum

5-20 minutes, 30-45 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 120 minutes, 180+ minutes

Area Control, Betting/Gambling, Auction - Power Grid, Auction - Blind Bidding, Auction - Once Around, Auction - Set Prices (Vegas Showdown, Amun Re), Drafting - Public (Coloretto), Drafting - Hidden (7 Wonders), Deckbuilding, Press Your Luck, Route Building, Action Points, Area Movement,  Speculation, Hand Management, Memory, Set Collection, Trick-taking/Climbing, Negotiation/Trading, Worker Placement, Time track, Simultaneous Selection, Acting/Charades/Storytelling, Changing Rules, Yomi (Reading People), Valuation, Dexterity, Role Selection, Tile Connection Building, Resource Collection & Conversion, Reward Track (Caylus), Round Rewards + End Game Rewards (Strozzi), Sharp Tiers (e.g. 5, 10, 30, 35 - Lost Cities Boardgame), Deduction, Stock, Gradually Expanding Options (Caylus, Agricola), Tech Advancement (Goa, Factory Manager), Mesurement (Warhammer, Dragon Delta), Swap Asymetrical Positions (Turn the Tide), Exploration (Tongiaki, Tikal), Pick-up & Deliver, Communal Deck (Wiz-War, Robo-Rally), Voting, Increasing value for unwanted items (Puerto Rico, Saint Petersburg, Waterdeep)

Timer - Turns; Timer - Points; Timer - Deck; Timer - Goal; Timer - Resource Exhausted, Timer - Time


Dice, Cards, Set Board, Modular boards, Tiles, PLayer Boards

Score Track ---- Hidden Score tokens

Pawns, Colored Cubes, Colored Discs, Colored Glass Bits, Timer

Very Interactive ------ Multiplayer Solitaire
Pure Chance ----- Pure Skill

Event Deck




Note Cards, Card Sleeves (with MTG/etc backers), Sheets of Blank Paper, wood cubes, assorted pawns/meeples, colored gems, money, dice, numbered cards (stichlen...), pens, tile/token bags, poker chips, tiddleywinks, wood cylinders, wood discs, wood sticks,
blank hexes, blank squares