Editing Board game (section)

===Components===

Board games can also be categorized by their components, including:<ref name="game-types_board-games-land_2024"/>

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|+ Board game categorization by components
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! Board game audience
! Description
! Examples 
! Ref
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| [[Dice game|Dice]]
| [[Dice]] board games are those that use dice as their sole or principal component. 
| [[List of dice games|Example of ''dice'' games]] that are also board games, include: ''[[The Castles of Burgundy]]''; [[King of Tokyo|''King of Tokyo'' franchise games]]; ''[[Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood (board game)|Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood]]''; ''[[Sagrada (board game)|Sagrada]]''; ''[[Too Many Bones (board game)|Too Many Bones]]''; ''[[Troyes#In popular culture|Troyes]]''; ''[[The Voyages of Marco Polo]]''; ''[[The White Castle (board game)|The White Castle]]''  
| <ref name="game-types_hero-time_current(2025)"/><ref name="game-types_board-games-land_2024"/><ref name="dice-games_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Dice|website=Board Game Geek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1017/dice|access-date=10 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241217195833/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1017/dice|archive-date=17 December 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
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| [[Gamebook|Book]]
| Book board games are those where a book is a major operative component, can be separated into two types:<ul>'''Supplement'''
: A book is used as a repository for game designs and rules, which are applied to common gaming equipment, i.e. a checkered board, paper and pencil, cards, dominoes, dice, etc. {{pb}}'''Narrative'''
: A book is a board game's operative mechanism, involving storytelling, dice rolling or a "multiple-choice paragraph system".
</ul>
| ''[[Gaslands]]''; ''[[Four Against Darkness (board game)|Four Against Darkness]]''; ''[[Frostgrave]]''; ''[[Spire's End (board game)|Spire's End]]''; ''[[Ace of Aces (picture book game)|''Ace of Aces'' franchise games]]''
| <ref name="book_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Book|website=Board Game Geek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1117/book|access-date=16 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114032112/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1117/book|archive-date=14 January 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
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| [[Card game|Card]]
| [[Playing card|Card]] board games are those where cards are the sole or central mechanism of the game. There are two types:<ul>'''Stand-alone'''
: In stand-alone card board games all the cards necessary for gameplay are purchased at once. {{pb}}'''Collectible'''
: In collectible card board games players purchase either "starter" and "booster" card packs to compile an increasingly more powerful deck with which to compete with.
</ul>
| ''[[7 Wonders Duel]]''; ''[[Anno 1800 (board game)|Anno 1800]]''; ''[[Arkham Horror: The Card Game]]''; ''[[Citadels (card game)|Citadels]]''; ''[[The Crew (card game)|''The Crew'' franchise games]]''; ''[[Everdell]]''; ''[[Splendor (game)|Splendor]]''; ''[[Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization]]''; ''[[Wingspan (board game)|Wingspan]]''
| <ref name="game-types_hero-time_current(2025)"/><ref name="game-types_board-games-land_2024"/><ref name="card_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Card Game|website=Board Game Geek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1002/card-game|access-date=9 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109143809/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1002/card-game|archive-date=9 January 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
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| Electronic
| Electronic board games are those that have an electronic apparatus as the central component of the game, such as circuitry or sometimes simple computers. Electronic board games differ from both; electrified games, such as ''[[Operation (game)|Operation]]'' which contain no circuitry; and those games requiring a website or app to be played.
| ''[[Return to Dark Tower]]''; ''[[Space Alert]]''; ''[[Escape: The Curse of the Temple (board game)|Escape: The Curse of the Temple]]''; ''[[Loopin' Louie]]''; ''[[Escape Room: The Game (board game)|Escape Room: The Game]]''; ''{{ill|La Boca (board game)|it|lt=La Boca|La Boca (gioco da tavolo)}}''  
| <ref name="electornic-games_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Electronic|website=Board Game Geek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1072/electronic|access-date=18 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229233540/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1072/electronic|archive-date=29 December 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
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| Game system
| Game system board games are ones based around an item whose components are not a game of themselves, but are used to play games.
| The [[''Dungeons & Dragons'' starter set]]; a [[piecepack]]; a [[decktet]];<ref name="decktet_decktet_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Decktet|website=Decktet (www.decktet.com)|language=en|url=https://www.decktet.com|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110041225/https://www.decktet.com|archive-date=10 January 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="decktet_father-geek_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Decktet Game System Review|website=Father Geek (www.fathergeek.com)|language=en|url=https://fathergeek.com/decktet-game-system|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240919171639/https://fathergeek.com/decktet-game-system|archive-date=19 September 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="decktet_gaming-stuff_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=The Decktet|website=Gaming Stuff (www.fecundity.com)|first=P.D.|last=Magnus|language=en|url=https://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/decktet/index.php|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908125945/https://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/decktet|archive-date=8 September 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref> [[GEMJI|GEMJI tiles]];<ref name="gemji_gemji_current(2025)">{{Cite news|title=Grow with games. Be a better parent, leader & human with GEMJI!|language=en|website=Gemji (www.gemji.com)|url=https://gemji.com|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124214218/https://gemji.com|archive-date=24 January 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="gemji_bgg_2020">{{Cite news|title=GEMJI (2020)|language=en|website=BoardGameGeek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/320963/gemji|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250207223000/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/320963/gemji|archive-date=7 February 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref> a [[chestego|chestego set]];<ref name="chestigo_bgg_current(2025)">{{Cite news|title=Chestego (2018)|language=en|website=BoardGameGeek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/265071/chestego|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207223550/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/265071/chestego|archive-date=7 February 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref> a [[shibumi (game system)|shibumi object]];<ref name="shibumi_chesstris_2012">{{Cite news|title=Chesstris|author=Martin|date=28 January 2012|language=en|page=|website=Chresstris (www.chesstris.com)|url=http://chesstris.com/2012/01/28/shibumi-game-design|access-date=5 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207220553/http://chesstris.com/2012/01/28/shibumi-game-design|archive-date=7 February 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="shibumi_browne-andrés(campolbri)_2012">{{Cite news|title=Shibumi│Rule book|first1=Cameron|last1=Browne|first2=Néstor Romeral|last2=Andrés|date=2012|language=en|pages=7–8|website=Cambolbro (www.cambolbro.com)|url=http://cambolbro.com/games/shibumi/shibumi-rule-book-v1.1.pdf|access-date=8 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207221114/http://cambolbro.com/games/shibumi/shibumi-rule-book-v1.1.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="shimbumi_brown_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Shibumi Game System|website=(www.cambolbro.com/games/shibumi)|first=Cameron|last=Browne|language=en|url=https://cambolbro.com/games/shibumi|access-date=21 April 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241105033735/http://www.cambolbro.com/games/shibumi|archive-date=5 November 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="
shibumi_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Shibumi (2011)|website=Board Game Geek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135270/shibumi|access-date=21 April 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404193653/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135270/shibumi|archive-date=4 April 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref> [[Mü & More (board game)|''Mü & More'']]'s unique card deck; a [[card games|traditional deck of card]]; ''[[Unmatched (board game)|Unmatched]]'s'' unique card deck; a ''[[Hanafuda]]''; [[Unsettled (board game)|''Unsettled'']]'s unique card deck; a [[rainbow deck]]<ref name="game-system-games_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Number|website=BoardGameGeek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1098/number|access-date=17 January 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250117124123/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1098/number|archive-date=17 January 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
| {{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
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| Miniatures
| [[Miniature model (gaming)|Miniatures]] board games are board games that use detailed miniature models to represent characters or units. Games of this type use miniatures as part of their game mechanics, combining tactics and strategy with collecting and artistry. Of all board game types, miniature games can be some of the most complex to produce, and time-consuming for players, who often are required to paint the models. 
| ''[[BattleTech]]''; ''[[Blood Rage (board game)|Blood Rage]]''; ''[[Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game|Dead of Winter]]''; ''[[Fury of Dracula]]''; [[Gloomhaven|''Gloomhaven'' franchise games]]; ''[[Mansions of Madness]]''; ''[[Memoir '44]]''; ''[[Nemesis (board game)|Nemesis]]''; ''[[Rising Sun (board game)|Rising Sun]]''; ''[[Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game|''Star Wars'' franchise miniature games]]''; ''[[Santorini (game)|Santorini]]''; ''[[War of the Ring (board game)|War of the Ring]]''; ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
| <ref name="game-types_hero-time_current(2025)"/><ref name="game-types_board-games-land_2024"/><ref name="miniatures-games_bgg_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Miniatures|website=Board Game Geek (www.boardgamegeek.com)|language=en|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1047/miniatures|access-date=10 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225171820/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1047/miniatures|archive-date=25 December 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
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| [[Tile-based game|Tile-based]]
| A tile-based board game is one that uses small tiles as playing pieces or to create the board. These board games are also called "tile placement" board games.
| [[:Category:Tile-based board games|Examples of tile-based games]] that are also board games include: ''[[Carcassonne (board game)|Carcassonne]]''; ''[[Scrabble]]''; ''[[Tigris and Euphrates]]''; ''[[Evo (board game)|Evo]]''; ''[[Takenoko (board game)|Takenoko]]''; ''[[Cacao (board game)|Cacao]]''; ''[[The Castles of Burgundy]]''; ''[[Quadropolis (board game)|Quadropolis]]''; ''[[Between Two Cities (board game)|Between Two Cities]]''
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