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Action Queue
Action Points
Action Retrieval
Area Majority / Influence
Area Movement
Automatic Resource Growth
Betting and Bluffing
Bias
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Card Play Conflict Resolution
Chaining
Closed Drafting
Communication Limits
Commodity Speculation
Connections
Contracts
Cooperative Game
Deck, Bag and Pool Building
Deduction (Mechanism)
Delayed Purchase
Dice Rolling
End Game Bonuses
Events
Finale Ending
Force Commitment
Grid Movement
Grid Coverage
Hand Management
Hexagon Grid
Hidden Movement
Hidden Roles
Hidden Victory Points
Income
Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
Loans
King of the Hill
Layering
Map Addition
Market
Memory (Mechanism)
Modular Board
Movement Points
Multi-Use Cards
Narrative Choice / Paragraph
Negotiation (Mechanism)
Neighbour Scope
Network and Route Building
Open Drafting
Once-Per-Game Abilities
Ownership
Paper-and-Pencil
Player Elimination
Pattern Building
Point to Point Movement
Push Your Luck
Race
Random Production
Resource to Move
Rock-Paper-Scissors
Role Playing
Roles with Asymmetric Information
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
Solo / Solitaire Game
Square Grid
Stock Holding
Storytelling
Sudden Death Ending
Tags
Take That
Team-Based Game
Tech Trees / Tech Tracks
Tile Placement
Trading
Traitor Game
Trick-taking
Tug of War
Turn Order: Claim Action
Turn Order: Progressive
Turn Order: Role Order
Turn Order: Stat-Based
Turn Order: Time Track
Variable Phase Order
Variable Player Powers
Variable Set-up
Victory Points as a Resource
Voting
Worker Placement
Zone of Control
