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Acting Action Drafting Action / Event Action Points Action Queue Action Retrieval Action Table (table determines action outcomes) Action Timer Advantage Token Alliances Area-Impulse Area Majority / Influence Area Movement Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc) Auction / Bidding Auction Compensation Auction: Dexterity Auction: Dutch Auction: Dutch Priority Auction: English Auction: Fixed Placement Auction: Multiple Lot Auction: Once Around Auction: Sealed Bid Auction: Turn Order Until Pass Automatic Resource Growth Betting and Bluffing Bias Bids As Wagers Bingo Bribery Campaign / Battle Card Driven Card Play Conflict Resolution Cards (Specialized) Cards (Standard French-suited deck) Cards (Tarot deck) Catch the Leader Chaining Chit-Pull System Class Based (Pilot, Wizard, Scientist, etc) Closed Drafting Closed Economy Auction Command Cards Commodity Speculation Communication Limits Competitive (players compete against each other to win) Connections Constrained Bidding Contracts Cooperative Game Crayon Rail System Critical Hits and Failures Cube Tower Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Deck Construction Deduction Delayed Purchase Description Based (Narrative more so than Dice) Dexterity-based (e.g. Jenga tower) 'Diceless' (does not use dice or other randomizer) Dice (Percentile) Dice Pool (Roll multiple dice vs target) Dice (Primarily d10) Dice (Primarily d12) Dice (Primarily d16) Dice (Primarily d20) Dice (Primarily d2/coin) Dice (Primarily d4) Dice (Primarily d6) Dice (Primarily d8) Dice (Primarily Fudge/dF) Dice Rolling Dice (Specialized) Dice Step (variable dice vs. static target) Dice (Various) Die Icon Resolution Different Dice Movement Drawing Elapsed Real Time Ending Enclosure End Game Bonuses Events Exploding Dice (Die may 'explode' into a second roll) Finale Ending Flicking Follow Force Commitment Free-form (minimal or no rules - think improv theatre) GM-less (No gamemaster needed to play) Grid-based (uses square terrain for move/combat) Grid Coverage Grid Movement Hand Management Hexagon Grid Hex-based (uses hex terrain for move/combat) Hidden Movement Hidden Roles Hidden Victory Points Highest-Lowest Scoring Hot Potato I Cut, You Choose Impulse Movement Income Increase Value of Unchosen Resources Induction Interrupts Investment Journaling Kill Steal King of the Hill Ladder Climbing LARP (Live-Action-Role-Playing) Layering Legacy Game Level Based (Earn XP and level up) Lifepath Character Generation (Character starts at birth) Line Drawing Line of Sight Loans Lose a Turn Mancala Map Addition Map Deformation Map Reduction Market Matching Measurement Movement Melding and Splaying Memory Minimap Resolution Modular Board Movement Points Movement Template Move Through Deck Moving Multiple Units Multiple Maps Multi-Use Cards Narrative Choice / Paragraph Negotiation Neighbor Scope Network and Route Building Once-Per-Game Abilities Open Drafting Order Counters Ordering Ownership Paper-and-Pencil Passed Action Token Pattern Building Pattern Movement Pattern Recognition Physical Object Physical Removal Pick-up and Deliver Pieces as Map Play-by-Mail (PBM) Player Elimination Player Judge Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc) Point to Point Movement Predictive Bid Prisoner's Dilemma Programmed Movement Progression Tree (Skills, professions, magic abilities, etc.) Push Your Luck Questions and Answers Race Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay) Random Attribute Generation (during Character Creation) Random Production Ratio / Combat Results Table Reading (for Periodicals, Adventure Books, etc) Real-Time Relative Movement Re-rolling and Locking Resource Queue Resource to Move Rock-Paper-Scissors Role Playing Roles with Asymmetric Information Roll and keep (4k2 means roll 4 and keep 2) Roll / Spin and Move Rondel Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game Score-and-Reset Game Secret Unit Deployment Selection Order Bid Semi-Cooperative Game Set Collection Simulation Simultaneous Action Selection Singing Single Loser Game Skill Based (buy or gain skills) Slide / Push Solo / Solitaire Game Speed Matching Spelling Square Grid Stacking and Balancing Stat Check Resolution Static Capture Stock Holding Storytelling Sudden Death Ending Tags Take That Targeted Clues Team-Based Game Tech Trees / Tech Tracks Three Dimensional Movement Tile Placement Track Movement Trading Trait / Aspect Based (personality affects gameplay) Traitor Game Trick-taking Tug of War Turn Order: Auction Turn Order: Claim Action Turn Order: Pass Order Turn Order: Progressive Turn Order: Random Turn Order: Role Order Turn Order: Stat-Based Turn Order: Time Track Unusual Randomizer (not using dice or cards) Variable Phase Order Variable Player Powers Variable Set-up Victory Points as a Resource Voting Wagering / Betting (wagering during play) Worker Placement Worker Placement, Different Worker Types Worker Placement with Dice Workers Zone of Control