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The Stirring Dungeon Board Game
The Stirring Dungeon Board Game

Adventure board games is more of a role playing game that enables players to represent a certain character that can have its prowess and skills boosted as wells as obtain some equipments as the game progresses. The very first adventure board game was Dungeon released in 1975 and was designed by Steve Winter, S. Schwab, David R. Megarry, and Gary Gygax. The game comprises of a vinyl cloth foldable game board, a pair of six-sided dice, a rulebook, and four colored Parcheesi-style playing pieces (green, white, blue, and red). An interesting part of the game set are the variety of treasures and monster cards design with black and white on one side while on the other side are different colors displaying the six different dungeon levels with increasing difficulty: first is gold, second is orange, third is red, fourth is magenta, fifth is green, and sixth is blue. Every players objective is to accumulate the most treasures and conquer the monster to be the first to return to the dungeon entrance. There have been later versions like the Dungeon and Dragons.

The Challenging Game of Chess

Chess is one of the oldest board games and can only accommodate two players. The objective of the game is to eliminate the opponents king piece where it has no chance of moving or subduing an enemy piece without getting eliminated. The game consists of an 8 by 8 checkered game board with a total of 64 squares. It has 2 sets of 16 playing pieces one for each player composed of one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each player alternately takes turns in moving a single piece according to the movement rules except in castling where two pieces can move at the same time. It is a practice that the players with light colored pieces make the opening move and the corresponding piece can land on an empty square or on an enemy occupied provided that the piece can capture the opponents. The World Chess Federation maintains the rules and regulations of the game.

Smart Deduction Board Games

Deductive board games entail making out judgments out of a given premise and logical thinking of game players. A central mechanic of these games would include deductive reasoning to win the game. There are two extensive categories of deductive board games namely the abstract deductive games which do not follow a theme and the investigation deductive games in which players act out game characters. Mastermind, played by 2 players is an example of abstract deductive board game where one player acts as code maker and the other acts as code breaker. The code maker pins up pegs on the game board in a specific pattern and the objective of the game is for the code breaker to guess the pattern of the colored pegs. On the other hand, an example of investigation games is the Cluedo where it is centered in a murder crime scene where each player portrays a character to find out who did the crime, which weapon was used, and in what room the crime happened. Other picks of deduction board games include Black Box, Mystery Mansion, and Coda.

Assisting in Cooperative Board Games

Games that encourage players to go for certain objectives such as to go against some players or against the game itself are classified as cooperative board games. These games emphasizes on team cooperation, which means winning or losing as a team, rather than individual competition. The events in the game come at random when the game advances making it more challenging for the players. The Scotland Yard was one of the first games to be released back in the 1980s. This game where players are portrayed as detectives, cooperate to track down another player depicting as a criminal in the streets of London. Horror, also produced in the 1980s, is set in the town of Arkham and players also impersonate as investigators to secure the town from aliens and monsters that pass through the gates and also to close the access. Other cooperative board games published are Shadows Over Camelot, Pandemic, and Lord of the Rings.

by: Jesse Temes




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