Something in common
Red Wonders
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This game has players trying to get their 15 pieces off the board while capturing or delaying the opponents, based on moving from dice rolls.
Backgammon
This game is not about soldering, although that could change.
Fluxx
They Might Be Giants sing not about the merchants selling at a bazaar in this game, but rather about the city that it's (re)named after.
Istanbul
4 - Coral, at no cost.
Free reef
Forbidden Fireball
Island
Often referring to a number of different games utilizing the same components, these games feature pits or holes, as well as pebbles or seeds as the pieces.
Mancala
This game is not about unlocking your android devices, but woodland warfare.
Root
This river front city, and former capital of Portugal, gives its name to this dice and card drafting game.
Coimbra
5 - A vindictive stomach sore
Cruel ulcer
Struggle Imperium
Twilight
2016 marked the first time an AI was able to defeat a human master without a handicap in this game, one of the four essential arts.
Go
This game is not about a quartet of boat canvases, but rather real estate transactions.
Founded in 1521, this capital of an unincorporated US territory lends it's name to a city building card game.
San Juan
6 - A place to watch movies, without enough iron.
Anemic cinema
Ink Revolution
Railroad
A young game at perhaps less than 1000 years old, this Japanese game may have evolved from an Indian game called Chaturanga.
Shogi
This game is not about a cheerleading competition in the Caribbean. (Unless that's who the invaders are.)
Spirit Island
In the game that shares it's name with this city, the second largest in it's country, you play as Meiji era merchants.
Silence license
Modern Junk
Art
This ancient game, which involves making lines of three pieces to remove your opponent's pieces from the board, dates to at least 1400 BCE.
Nine Men's Morris
Strangely enough, this game is not about Morse, ASCII, or semaphore.
Codenames
This commune in France shares it's name with a game where players are building a medieval castle.
Caylus
7 - A sneeze museum
Allergy gallery