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BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, [6] and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. [7]Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced.
Kingmaker is a board game for 2–7 players in which each player controls one or more royal families in 15th-century England. [1] Through war, diplomacy, and politics, the players attempt to gain control of one or more members of the two rival royal families, the House of Lancaster and the House of York, to place one of them on the throne of England while eliminating all other "pretenders."
These are winners of the American Tabletop Awards, a US-based board game award selected by a committee of board game media creators for games released in the previous calendar year. [14] Early Gamers These are winners in the Early Gamers category, a category for games targeted at people new to board games.
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 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and ...
An abstract strategy game is a board, card or other game where game play does not simulate a real world theme, and a player's decisions affect the outcome.Many abstract strategy games are also combinatorial, i.e. they provide perfect information, and rely on neither physical dexterity nor random elements such as rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles.
Players begin a game of Patchwork with five buttons, and take turns moving around a time-track board, [3] about which are dispersed polyomino tiles representing fabric. [2] [1] During their turn, they may choose one of three tiles available along the path, which determines the distance travelled on the central board and the choices available to the next player. [4]
Pente is an abstract strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel. [1] [2] A member of the m,n,k game family, Pente stands out for its custodial capture mechanic, which allows players to "sandwich" pairs of stones and capture them by flanking them on either side.
Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a 2013 board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg.It is a complex worker placement strategy game that shares similarities in gameplay and theme with his earlier board game, Agricola, [2] The game's theme revolves around helping a small dwarf family to settle a cave and nearby woodlands and to develop the setting through furnishing caves as well as converting forests into ...