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# Board game

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Board Games

Strategy games: where the object is to capture or remove the other players pieces, make it impossible for the other player to move. or to control the largest area at the end of the game.

- Backgammon?
- Checkers
- Chess
- [Chinese Checkers]?
- Go
- Hex?
- [Nine Mens Morris]?
- Reversi? (trademarked as "Othello")
- Stratego?
- Phutball

Wargames: Where strategy games are abstract, a wargame usually portrays a specific battle, war or other historical situation. The game board is usually a map of the historical location, and the pieces usually represent the actual military units involved. And wargame rules are usually far more intricate than the rules of, say, Chess, in an effort to accurately simulate the situation in question. Risk is perhaps the most widely known wargame; some wargame aficionados would say that it is too simple to be included in the category. I often explain wargames to the uninitiated as "Risk on steroid?s".

Track Games: where the players move pieces along a track, usually a distance randomly set by the throw of dice. The winner is usually the first to reach some specific location on the board.

- Ludo?
- Monopoly
- [Snakes and Ladders]?

Other:

- Abalone
- Alquerque?
- Boggle?
- Clue?
- Crokinole
- Die Siedler von Catan, which is also known as "The Settlers of Catan".
- Diplomacy?
- Mancala?
- Scrabble?
- Acquire?

We definitely need to come up with a better classification here, at some point. It's a good start, but games like Abalone and Die Siedler really defy any coarse classification. Perhaps nested classification pages, with games existing on multiple pages? I'm planning on adding entries for a few more games that we play regularly, most of which won't quite fit anywhere in here. Don't take this as anything other than a random thought. :) -- Phil Bordelon

Some useful classifications of games may be:

- minimum and maximum number of players
- whether all information is available to all players
- whether a random generator (dice, card shuffle, etc.) is used before and/or during play

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