Talk:List of board games

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This classification systems seems rather incomplete. Why only ' European race games' what happened to North America and Asia. Lumos3 19:55, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I agree. I had a bit of trouble categorising Afrikan tähti, whose article I wrote. It's an European game, and has a race element involved, but it's not as linear as Ludo or the Goose Game. It doesn't eliminate players either, but it is won by one of the players successfully bringing the diamond back, and not at some neutral deadline. The categories should be explained better. 7:22, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
How about the following:
  • games of mental skill
    • two player
      • abstract strategy
        • classic
        • modern
      • games of chance
    • multi-player
      • with elimination
      • without elimination
        • racing games (i.e. first to victory condition)
        • scoring games (i.e. highest score at end of game)
  • games of physical skill
  • children's games
It's fairly similar to what's already there, but at least you can work out where pretty much any game goes.
I think we can drop generic game sets, since the ones listed aren't board games! Percy Snoodle 13:02, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
OK, I've retitled the sections and put it at User:Percy Snoodle/List of board games. I'm in the process of checking the multi-player games against BoardGameGeek, and then I'll move it here, unless anyone shouts. Percy Snoodle 14:35, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Are you a werewolf?

For what I understand, Are_You_a_Werewolf? is not a *board* game. Shouldn't it be deleted from this list? Manuelcorrea 12:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

It's not a board game. Slice it. Chris Stangl 20:26, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ludo - multiple entries

I've noticed that Ludo appears twice in the lists; possibly other games do to. Is that OK, or is it not? In the case of Ludo, one of the listings is under the heading "Children's games", which from a systematic point of view is a silly category. I've just been around four adults who played a ludo turnament over several nights. While the rules are rather simple (though not as simple as in some far more difficult games), with four players, sometimes all just trying to win, but occasionally forming alliances to prevent one particular player from winning, it's not so trivial. Remember that whenever you have two pieces on the move (or one on the move, and a die roll of 6), you have a choice as to what to do with your die roll.--Niels Ø 08:11, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mozaic?

Why is this on the list? It's not a game.

[edit] This list vs. the board games (and board game stubs) categories?

With the category system in full swing, I'm seeing some disparities between this list and the category listings... I don't know enough about most of these games to place them in the list. The real question is, will the category system make this list (and perhaps others like it) obsolete?

Dan 04:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad links

Both "Serenissima" and "Vernissage" linked to entirely irrelevant pages. I've deleted the links, but maybe some checking should be done to see if they really are board games. Jon Rob 14:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new list?

should we have another list: List of spinoff board games? Ragnaroknike 02:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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