Tabletop game, the Glossary
Tabletop games or tabletops are games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface, such as board games, card games, dice games, miniature wargames, or tile-based games.[1]
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Abalone (board game)
Abalone is a two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987.
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Abstract strategy game
An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game.
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Adventure board game
An adventure board game is a board game in which a player plays as a unique individual character that improves through gameplay.
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Anagrams (game)
Anagrams (also published under names including Anagram, Snatch and Word Making and Taking) is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words.
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Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards.
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Battleship (game)
Battleship (also known as Battleships) is a strategy type guessing game for two players.
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Blackjack
Blackjack (formerly black jack and vingt-un) is a casino banking game.
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Board game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use.
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Board wargame
A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games.
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BoardGameGeek
BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 125,600 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games.
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Bunco
Bunco (also spelled bunko or bonko or buncko) is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds.
Campaign setting
A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign.
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Canasta
Canasta (Spanish for "basket") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 Rum.
Card game
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary). Tabletop game and card game are tabletop games.
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Card sleeve
Plastic card sleeves are used to protect trading cards, game cards, and collectible card game cards from wear and tear.
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Casino chip
Casino chips (also known as poker chips, gaming tokens, or checks/cheques) are small discs used as currency in casinos.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Clock
A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.
Coin
A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.
Collectible card game
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards.
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Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers
The Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers (CATTG), was an international college-student run organization for table top gaming clubs at universities whose interests span (but are not limited to) paper and pencil RPGs, collectible card games, and board games of all shapes and sizes. Tabletop game and Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers are tabletop games.
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Contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.
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Counter (board wargames)
A counter is usually a small cardboard square moved around on the map of a board wargame to represent relevant information or determine certain things.
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Cowrie
Cowrie or cowry is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae.
Craps
Craps is a dice game in which players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice.
Crokinole
Crokinole is a disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size.
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Crossbows and Catapults
Crossbows and Catapults, also known as Battlegrounds, is a game of physical skill first released in 1983.
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Cup
A cup is an open-top container used to hold liquids for pouring or drinking.
D&D Adventurers League
D&D Adventurers League (or simply Adventurers League for short) is the organized play association for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) roleplaying game which is officially administered by D&D's publisher, Wizards of the Coast.
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Dice
Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.
Dice tower
A dice tower (Latin turricula) is a tool used by gamers to roll dice fairly.
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Domineering
Domineering (also called Stop-Gate or Crosscram) is a mathematical game that can be played on any collection of squares on a sheet of graph paper.
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Dominoes
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces.
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Dots and boxes
Dots and boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players (sometimes more).
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Drawstring
A drawstring (draw string, draw-string) is a string, rope or lace used to "draw" (gather, or shorten) fabric or other material.
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Dreidel
A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, (dreydl, plural: dreydlech; sevivon) is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Tabletop game and Dungeons & Dragons are tabletop games.
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Egg timer
An egg timer or kitchen timer is a device whose primary function is to assist in timing during cooking; the name comes from the first timers initially being used for the timing of cooking eggs.
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Eurogame
A Eurogame, also called a German-style board game, German game, or Euro-style game (generally just referred to as board games in Europe), is a class of tabletop games that generally has indirect player interaction and multiple ways to score points.
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Four-in-a-row
Four-in-a-row (or four-in-a-line, Yonmoku-Narabe) is the name for several games in which the object is to line up four things in a row.
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Game board
A game board (or gameboard; sometimes, playing board or game map) is the surface on which one plays a board game.
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Game theory
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.
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Gamebook
A gamebook is a work of printed fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices.
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Gamemaster's screen
A gamemaster's screen, also called a GM's screen, is a gaming accessory, usually made out of either cardboard or card stock, and is used by the gamemaster to hide all the relevant data related to a tabletop role-playing game session from the players in order to not spoil the plot of the story.
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Geek & Sundry
Geek & Sundry is a commercial YouTube and Twitch channel and multimedia production company.
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Gin rummy
Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game variant of rummy.
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Glossary of board games
This glossary of board games explains commonly used terms in board games, in alphabetical order.
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Go (game)
# Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space.
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Gomoku
Gomoku, also called Five in a Row, is an abstract strategy board game.
Government simulation game
A government simulation or political simulation is a game that attempts to simulate the government and politics of all or part of a nation.
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Hanafuda
(flower cards) are a type of Japanese playing cards.
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Hangman (game)
Hangman is a guessing game for two or more players.
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Hex (board game)
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.
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Historical Miniatures Gaming Society
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society (or HMGS) promotes the hobby of historical miniature wargaming in the United States, as a registered non-profit charitable and educational foundation.
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Historicon
Historicon is the largest gaming convention in North America devoted to solely historical miniature wargaming.
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History of games
The history of games dates to the ancient human past.
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Hourglass
An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
Hungry Hungry Hippos (or Hungry Hippos in some UK editions) is a tabletop game made for 2–4 players, produced by Hasbro, under the brand of its subsidiary, Milton Bradley.
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Ion Award
The Ion Award is the largest board game design competition in the United States.
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Jenga
Jenga is a game of physical skill created by British board game designer and author Leslie Scott and marketed by Hasbro.
Klask
Klask is a board game in which two players compete using large magnets under the playing board to control their playing piece and steer the ball into the goal in their opponent's side of the board. Tabletop game and Klask are tabletop games.
Knucklebones
Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragaloi (singular: astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks, among many other names, is a game of dexterity played with a number of small objects that are thrown up, caught, and manipulated in various manners.
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Legacy game
A legacy game is a variant of tabletop board games in which the game itself is designed, through various mechanics, to change permanently over the course of a series of sessions.
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List of dice games
Dice games are games that use or incorporate one or more dice as their sole or central component, usually as a random device.
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Long dice
Long dice (sometimes oblongFinkel 2004, p 39. or stick dice) are dice, often roughly right prisms or (in the case of barrel dice) antiprisms, designed to land on any of several marked lateral faces, but neither end.
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Loopin' Louie
Loopin' Louie, is an interactive electronic board game designed by Carol Wiseley and published by Milton Bradley in 1992.
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Mahjong
Mahjong (English pronunciation) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century.
Mahjong solitaire
Mahjong solitaire (also known as Shanghai solitaire, electronic or computerized mahjong, solitaire mahjong or simply mahjong) is a single-player matching game that uses a set of mahjong tiles rather than cards.
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Mancala
Mancala (منقلة manqalah) is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface.
Miniature model (gaming)
In miniature wargaming, players enact simulated battles using scale models called miniature models, which can be anywhere from 2 to 54 mm in height, to represent warriors, vehicles, artillery, buildings, and terrain.
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Miniature wargaming
Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming in which military units are represented by miniature physical models on a model battlefield.
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Miniatures game
Miniatures games are a form of tabletop game which prominently features the use of miniature models or figures.
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Modelling clay
Modelling clay or modelling compound is any of a group of malleable substances used in building and sculpting.
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Monopoly (game)
Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game. Tabletop game and Monopoly (game) are tabletop games.
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OMGcon
OMGcon (sometimes stylized as OMG!con) is a three-day anime convention held during June at the Owensboro Convention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.
Paper-and-pencil game
Paper-and-pencil games or paper-and-pen games (or some variation on those terms) are games that can be played solely with paper and pencils (or other writing implements), usually without erasing.
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Parcheesi
Parcheesi is a brand-name American adaptation of the Indian cross and circle board game Pachisi, published by Selchow & Righter and Winning Moves Games USA.
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing.
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Patience (game)
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them.
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PAX (event)
PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming.
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Pencil
A pencil is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand.
Perfect information
In economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition.
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Phutball
Phutball (short for Philosopher's Football) is a two-player abstract strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays.
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Pig (dice game)
Pig is a simple dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945.
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Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs.
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Poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules.
Poker dice
Poker dice are dice which, instead of having number pips, have representations of playing cards upon them.
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Referee
A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection.
Risk (game)
Risk is a strategy board game of diplomacy, conflict and conquest for two to six players.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Roulette
Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi.
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Ruler
A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a user estimates a length by reading from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device.
SaltCON
SaltCON is the largest Board Game Convention in Utah held annually in Layton at the Davis Conference Center with the "aim of bringing people together with games." The event is family friendly, and focuses on hobby and designer board games.
Scenario
In the performing arts, a scenario (from Italian, "that which is pinned to the scenery") is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events.
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Scoreboard
A scoreboard is a large board for publicly displaying the score in a game.
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Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. Tabletop game and Scrabble are tabletop games.
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Scribbage
Scribbage (also marketed as Ad-Lib Crossword Clues) is a classic dice word game published in 1959 by the E.S. Lowe Company.
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Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.
Shuffling machine
A shuffling machine is a machine for randomly shuffling packs of playing cards.
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Sic bo
Sic bo (Chinese: 骰寶), also known as tai sai (大細), dai siu (大小), big and small or hi-lo, is an unequal game of chance of ancient Chinese origin played with three dice.
Spinning top
A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect.
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Sprouts (game)
Sprouts is an impartial paper-and-pencil game which can be analyzed for its mathematical properties.
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Sticker
A sticker is a type of label: a piece of printed paper, plastic, vinyl, or other material with temporary or permanent pressure sensitive adhesive on one side.
Stochastic game
In game theory, a stochastic game (or Markov game), introduced by Lloyd Shapley in the early 1950s, is a repeated game with probabilistic transitions played by one or more players.
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Stopwatch
A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation.
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Strategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous, decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.
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Sudoku
Sudoku (digit-single; originally called Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle.
Table (furniture)
A table is an item of furniture with a raised flat top and is supported most commonly by 1 to 4 legs (although some can have more).
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Tabletop role-playing game
A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a classification for a role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech, and sometimes movements. Tabletop game and tabletop role-playing game are tabletop games.
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Tabletop sports
Tabletop sports are sports that are played on a tabletop, but usually excluding mind sports. Tabletop game and tabletop sports are tabletop games.
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Tally counter
A tally counter is a mechanical, electronic, or software device used to incrementally count something, typically fleeting.
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Tarot card games
Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits.
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Teetotum
A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games.
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Terror in Meeple City
Terror in Meeple City (Formerly Rampage) is a board game created by & Antoine Bauza and published by.
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Tic-tac-toe
Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner.
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Tile
Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass.
Tile-based game
A tile-based game is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play.
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Trading card
A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia).
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Twister (game)
Twister is a game of physical skill produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves Games USA.
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User guide
A user guide, also commonly known as a user manual, is intended to assist users in using a particular product, service or application.
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Wargame
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict.
White Wolf Publishing
White Wolf Entertainment AB, formerly White Wolf Publishing, was an American roleplaying game and book publisher.
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Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (WotC or Wizards) is an American publisher of games, most of which are based on fantasy and science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game stores.
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Xiangqi
Xiangqi, commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players.
Yahtzee
Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro).
15 puzzle
The 15 puzzle (also called Gem Puzzle, Boss Puzzle, Game of Fifteen, Mystic Square and more) is a sliding puzzle.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_game
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