Top Results for Tile Placement

Hive Carbon is a monochrome edition of Hive, the two-player abstract strategy game designed by John Yianni. It uses black and white insect-themed hexagonal tiles while retaining the game's central objective: surround the opposing Queen Bee without allowing your own Queen Bee to be surrounded. The ed...

Galaxy Trucker is a science-fiction board game designed by Vlaada Chvátil in which players construct spacecraft from component tiles under real-time pressure. After construction, the ships undertake a journey involving hazards, enemies, cargo opportunities, and the possible loss of exposed component...

Scrabble is a tile-based word game where players form words on a board using letter tiles. Created by Alfred Butts in 1938, it’s notable for its strategic gameplay and established competitive scene. The game is suitable for individuals and families who enjoy vocabulary building and engaging with cla...

The Isle of Cats is a competitive board game designed by Frank West and published by The City of Games in 2019. Players draft cards, select cats and other treasures, and fit polyomino-shaped tiles onto personal boats while trying to meet scoring objectives. The game supports one to four players and...

*inbento* is a minimalist pattern-matching puzzle game developed by the Polish studio Afterburn and released in 2019. The gameplay challenges players to arrange various food items into bento boxes to match specific target patterns, offering over 120 levels of increasing complexity. Between puzzles,...

Quadropolis is a tile-laying city-building board game designed by Frank Garcia and published by Days of Wonder in 2016. Players take on the role of mayors competing to build the most effective metropolis by drafting and placing architectural tiles on their personal city grids. The game challenges pl...

Ingenious is an abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2004. Players take turns placing domino-like hexagonal tiles on a grid, matching colored symbols to score points in multiple categories. The game's defining mechanic is that a player's final score is determined en...

Calico is a tile-placement board game designed by Kevin Russ and released in 2020. In the game, players assume the role of quilt makers who draft and place hexagonal fabric tiles onto their personal player board. The objective is to strategically create color and pattern matches to attract cats and...

Bärenpark is a tile-laying board game designed by Phil Walker-Harding and published by Lookout Games in 2017. Players use polyomino tiles of various shapes and sizes to construct bear enclosures on individual player boards representing a park. Points are earned by strategically placing tiles, coveri...

Nova Luna is a strategy board game released in 2019, designed by Uwe Rosenberg (known for Agricola and Patchwork) with artwork by Corné van Moorsel. Players place moon-phase tiles and connect colored task wheels to fulfill objectives, creating a balance between immediate actions and long-term strate...

Cacao is a tile-placement board game designed by Phil Walker-Harding and released in 2014. Players take on the roles of Aztec chieftains managing their worker pools to harvest and trade cocoa beans. The game is distinguished by its dual-layer mechanic, where players place personal worker tiles adjac...

Bananagrams is a word game designed by Abraham Nathanson and first published in 2006. The game consists of 144 letter tiles stored in a banana-shaped fabric pouch, with players simultaneously building their own crossword grids without a board. Each player draws tiles and arranges them into interconn...

Designed by Bruno Cathala and published by Blue Orange Games in 2017, Queendomino is a standalone sequel to the tile-placement game Kingdomino. The game introduces additional mechanics including building construction, knights, dragons, and city walls while maintaining the domino-style tile placement...

Bosk is a tabletop board game designed by Daryl Chow and published in 2019 that focuses on the changing seasons of a forest. Players take on the role of different tree species, aiming to dominate areas of a park through strategic tile placement. The gameplay is divided into two distinct phases: the...

Spring Meadow is a tile-laying board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 2018 by Lookout Games. In the game, players draft and place three-dimensional, polyomino-shaped meadow tiles to construct a lush landscape while collecting animal tiles for bonus points. A distinguishing mechanical f...

Cottage Garden is a tabletop board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg and published in 2016. It is a competitive tile-laying game for one to four players where participants use polyomino tiles to construct flower beds on personal grid boards. The game mechanics draw clear inspiration from block-puzzle f...

NMBR 9 is an abstract tile-placement game designed by Wolfgang Warsch. Players draw number cards and place the matching numbered tile in a personal structure, either on the table or above earlier layers; higher layers must be supported by at least two tiles below. At the end, each tile scores its nu...

Qin is a 2012 abstract tile-laying board game designed by Reiner Knizia and set in ancient China. Players place tiles to create and connect provinces, then use wooden pagodas to mark control of the resulting areas. The game is intended for tabletop players who enjoy spatial planning, territory forma...

Hanging Gardens is a tabletop game designed by Japanese game designer Hisashi Hayashi. Its central theme is the construction of gardens on floating islands, and play uses cards or tiles to assemble and score garden layouts. It is aimed at players who enjoy strategic drafting and spatial arrangement,...

Upwords is a tile-based word board game invented by Elliot Rudell. Players form words on a grid and may stack tiles on existing letters, allowing a placed word to be changed by building upward while sharing letters with words already on the board. The vertical stacking mechanic distinguishes it from...

Tsuro of the Seas is a physical tile-laying board game released in 2012 as a sea-themed follow-up to Tsuro. Players place path tiles to create routes for sailing ships, but dice-rolled sea monsters add hazards that can disrupt those routes and change the course of play. The game is for players who e...

Super Scrabble is an expanded edition of the Scrabble word game. It uses a larger playing board than the standard edition, includes additional letter tiles, and provides more premium scoring squares, allowing more words and higher scores to fit into a single game. The edition is intended for players...

Dabble is an anagram-based word game designed by George Weiss and published by INI, LLC. Each player receives twenty letter tiles and races to arrange them into five words containing two, three, four, five, and six letters, with the objective of completing the set before opponents. It is intended fo...

Scrabble Junior is a simplified children's version of Scrabble, the crossword-style tile-placement word game. Its board has two playing surfaces: one uses printed words and pictures to guide younger players, while the other provides a more open format for children who are ready to form words indepen...