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# Help center
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<p><p><p><strong>Board and Card Games Stack Exchange</strong> is for expert Q&A from people who like playing, discussing the strategy of, and getting rules clarifications of board games, designing board games or modifying the rules of existing board games.
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<h3>How do we define board games?</h3>
<p>Please see <a href="http://meta.boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/174/if-you-cant-sit-down-at-a-table-and-play-it-its-not-a-board-or-card-game-goo/180#180">this meta question</a> for the full discussion, the summary is:</p>
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<li>Be playable on or around a table</li>
<li>Have objective rules of play and win conditions</li>
<li>Offer dynamic challenges, either through other players, randomization, or both</li>
<li>Be playable by hand, by human players implementing all of the rules</li>
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<h3>What are some examples of board games that are on topic here?</h3>
<p>This is far from a complete list, but we have many questions on the following:</p>
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<li>Collectible Card Games
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<li>Magic:The Gathering</li>
<li>Pokemon</li>
</ul></li>
<li>"German" style board games
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<li>Dominion</li>
<li>Settlers of Catan</li>
<li>Carcassonne</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Traditional board games
<ul>
<li>Axis&Allies</li>
<li>Monopoly</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Traditional card games
<ul>
<li>Bridge</li>
<li>Poker</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Strategic games
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<li>Chess</li>
<li>Go</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Cooperative board games
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<li>Battlestar Galactica</li>
<li>Arkham Horror</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Minature wargames (including the preparation of miniatures/terrain/etc.)
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<li>Warhammer 40k</li>
<li>Warmachine</li>
<li>Battletech</li>
</ul></li>
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<p>For a question to be on topic, it must relate to a game that is on topic, but the particular instance that the question is referring to may loosen those rules. Questions about playing games with giant pieces will make a game not playable around a table, but if it's a game that <em>could be</em> or <em>is normally</em> played around a table, it's fine. Questions about Go problems or Chess problems are fine, even if they are static puzzles, since they are related to a dynamic game. Questions about computer implementations of board games are fine.</p>
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* Which game is like ... ?
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