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Board Games Utilizing Physical Abilities
Board Games Utilizing Physical Abilities

Board games of physical skills or dexterity games are those that require physical abilities, coordination, and mental skills to win the game. They put players to an ultimate test since they require discretion, agility, and coordination. The 140 year old Crokinole innovated by Eckhardt Wettlaufer of Canada is an exemplar on this type of games. The game which is a combination of English, French, East Indian, and German games consists of a board with three concentric rings corresponding to certain points and checker sized disks. In the game, which is played by two teams and each team consists of two to four players, the checker sized disks are tapped or flipped from the outer edge of the gaming board and with the intention of hitting the boards center but to hit the opponents disks that are already on the board otherwise the turn is considered foul. Other board games of physical skills include Carabande, Topple, Twister, Carrom, Subboteo, Kerplunk, Jenga, Perfection, and other board games that use physical coordination.

Intelligent Deduction Board Games

Board games that require a player to make use of ones intellectual ability to make logical judgment based on a particular premise fall under the category of deductive board games. To win the game, the main mechanic is using deductive reasoning. 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. The mastermind, an abstract deductive game, is played by two which one makes the code while the other breaks it. The goal is for the code breaker to guess the peg patterns made by the code maker in a specific number of turns. Another is an investigation game called the Cluedo, which players depict a certain character, has a murder crime scene setting and players try to find out who the suspect of the crime is. Other games that have the same genre include Black Box, Codam and Mystery Mansion.

Participating in Two Player Board Games

A number of board games are created to be played completely by only two individuals and never more. These board games are suitably created for playing together with your wife, friend, or companion. One of these games is the Abalone, which is a strategy game played using fourteen marbles for each player and set in a hexagonal board with 61 spaces. The games objective is to shove the opponents marbles out of the board. Another game is the Chinese Checker with a goal of moving the pieces to the opposite side where the player started, and is played on a six-pointed star shaped board. A game set on an 8 by 8 game board, the Othello, aims to preserve the most number of pieces in the entire game and the player with the most number of pieces left is deemed winner. Other picks of two player board games are Obsession, Backgammon, Checkers, Cross and Circle, Stratego, Downfall, Plateau, Kamisado, and Suguroku.

Riveting Auction Board Games

In auction board games, where many people are enthused, players give their best to contend other game players in order to dominate the game. Attentiveness and creativeness are attributes of players who usually win in many of these auction board games. The Ra is an Egyptian themed board game where 2-5 players compete against each other to win the most number of lot titles at the end of three rounds or Epochs. A game of which among the 3-5 players will have the richest and famous casino is the goal of Vegas Showdown where players bid on casino-related board tiles such as restaurants and lounges to win the rights to it and increase profits and fame. Another game that is played by 3 to 5 players where they simultaneously buy and sell paintings of six diverse artists and wins after four rounds based on the highest value of paintings sold and bought. All these board games made use of bidding as an important game mechanics.

by: Jesse Temes




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