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Board games on BoardGameGeek are classified under categories and mechanics. Categories have to do with the look or the subject matter of the game, eg. "Wargame" or "Political". Mechanics have to do with the way you play the game, eg. "Hand Management" or "Set Collection".
BoardgameGeek lists 80 categories and 44 mechanics. ("Memory" is listed as both a category and a mechanic.) If you consider categories and mechanics together, there are 7504 possible two-item combinations, and 6534 of these combinations are represented by at least one entry on BoardGameGeek. In this section I'll point out some of the more interesting combinations.
These games are the only ones on BoardGameGeek to have a certain combination of categories and mechanics.
| Category/Mechanic | The only game |
|---|---|
| Abstract Strategy + Civil War | Andersonville (5.00) |
| Abstract Strategy + Singing | Hitchiker (4.94) |
| Abstract Strategy + Vietnam War | Instant Thunder (7.00) |
| Acting + American Civil War | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| Acting + American Indian Wars | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| Acting + American Revolutionary War | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| Acting + City Building | Western Town (0.00) |
| Acting + Comic Book/Strip | Time's Up de Troy (0.00) |
| Acting + Game System | Fflow (0.00) |
| Acting + Hex-and-Counter | La Batalla de los Arapiles (7.97) |
| Acting + Industry / Manufacturing | Super Model (0.00) |
| Acting + Maze | Przygody w dżungli (4.00) |
| Acting + Medical | Bistourisq (0.00) |
| Acting + Miniatures | Baby Hunt (0.00) |
| Acting + Nautical | Sälles äventyr (0.00) |
| Acting + Territory Building | Pierscien Swietej Kingi (5.00) |
| Acting + World War II | Murder Ă la carte: The Brie, the Bullet & the Black Cat (0.00) |
| Action / Dexterity + Renaissance | Lorrein (7.35) |
| Action / Dexterity + Worker Placement | Counter: Real Time Miniature Combat (0.00) |
| Action Point Allowance System + Crayon Rail System | Rails Through the Rockies (5.71) |
| Action Point Allowance System + Korean War | Major Campaigns of General Douglas MacArthur (6.01) |
| Action Point Allowance System + Mature/Adult | The Good News! Bad News! game (2.67) |
| Action Point Allowance System + Singing | Rave (2.50) |
| Action Point Allowance System + Word | The Ultimate Word Game (0.00) |
| Adventure + American Civil War | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| Adventure + American Indian Wars | Pony Soldiers: Skirmish Rules for the Indian Wars & the Old West (7.00) |
| Adventure + American Revolutionary War | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| Adventure + Medical | S.N.E.A.K. - our last hope (9.00) |
| Adventure + Trick-taking | Silber Dollar (8.00) |
| Adventure + Vietnam War | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| American Civil War + Arabian | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Auction/Bidding | Blockade Runner (7.10) |
| American Civil War + Bluffing | Andersonville (5.00) |
| American Civil War + Children's Game | The Underground Railroad (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Exploration | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Game System | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Horror | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| American Civil War + Mafia | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| American Civil War + Maze | Running the Blockade (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Movies/TV/Radio theme | The Gray Ghost (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Party Game | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Spies/Secret Agents | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| American Civil War + Tile Placement | Battle Flag TCG (6.19) |
| American Civil War + Trick-taking | Victory & Honor (6.53) |
| American Indian Wars + Arabian | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Book | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Economic | Lords of the Sierra Madre (1st edition) (8.33) |
| American Indian Wars + Environmental | Count Coup - An Anthropological Board Game of North American Indian Ways (5.50) |
| American Indian Wars + Exploration | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Game System | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Hand Management | Indian Wars (5.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Korean War | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Nautical | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Negotiation | Lords of the Sierra Madre (1st edition) (8.33) |
| American Indian Wars + Party Game | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Pattern Recognition | Indian Arrow-Heads (5.50) |
| American Indian Wars + Political | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Religious | Pride Cycle (7.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Role Playing | Pony Soldiers: Skirmish Rules for the Indian Wars & the Old West (7.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Science Fiction | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Set Collection | Indian Wars (5.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Spies/Secret Agents | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Trading | The Mystic Warriors of the Plains (0.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Trains | Battlegame Book 1: The Wild West (6.29) |
| American Indian Wars + Trick-taking | Davy Crockett (4.00) |
| American Indian Wars + Trivia | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Arabian | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Area-Impulse | War Of The Ages (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Auction/Bidding | Independence! (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Card Drafting | American Revolution (5.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Children's Game | Junior General (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Deduction | Murder in Philly! (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Exploration | Great American History Games (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Game System | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Horror | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| American Revolutionary War + Humor | Murder in Philly! (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Mafia | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| American Revolutionary War + Murder/Mystery | Murder in Philly! (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Partnerships | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Party Game | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Pick-up and Deliver | Swamp Fox (0.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Racing | Secret Mission (5.00) |
| American Revolutionary War + Tile Placement | Clash for a Continent: Battles of the American Revolution and French & Indian War (7.35) |
| American Revolutionary War + Variable Phase Order | Flintlock: Black Powder, Cold Steel - Volume I: Carolina Rebels (6.34) |
| American Revolutionary War + Worker Placement | Independence! (0.00) |
| American West + Arabian | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| American West + Area-Impulse | Buckaroo (4.67) |
| American West + Line Drawing | Treasure (in the Canadian Rockies) (4.00) |
| American West + Nautical | Up the Creek (5.66) |
| American West + Pattern Building | Montezuma (0.00) |
| American West + Puzzle | Passing the Buck (0.00) |
| American West + Religious | LDS Church History Game (0.00) |
| American West + Singing | The Tequila Game (0.00) |
| American West + Video Game Theme | Frag Deadlands (5.42) |
| American West + Word | Skix (5.00) |
| Ancient + Mature/Adult | Wild FIRE : Legend of the Ryukage - Card Battle Game (0.00) |
| Ancient + Space Exploration | Battlegammon (0.00) |
| Ancient + Spies/Secret Agents | Munchkin Promotional Bookmarks (5.82) |
| Ancient + Storytelling | In the Land of Egypt (0.00) |
| Ancient + Trains | Cleopatra's Caboose (6.33) |
| Ancient + Vietnam War | Junior General (0.00) |
| Ancient + Zombies | Munchkin Promotional Bookmarks (5.82) |
| Animals + Line Drawing | Very Busy Spider Game (0.00) |
| Animals + Mafia | Horse Racing Mafia (6.44) |
| Animals + Modern Warfare | Kill Everything! (4.00) |
| Animals + Spies/Secret Agents | Rapidcroco (5.80) |
| Arabian + Area-Impulse | Mid-East Peace (5.04) |
| Arabian + Aviation / Flight | Flying Carpet (5.87) |
| Arabian + Betting/Wagering | Toledo 1085 (6.38) |
| Arabian + Collectible Components | Captain Gallant (0.00) |
| Arabian + Game System | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| Arabian + Horror | Mummys Tomb (0.00) |
| Arabian + Humor | Alhambra: The Card Game (6.56) |
| Arabian + Industry / Manufacturing | Ghawar: The world's biggest oil field (5.50) |
| Arabian + Line Drawing | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Arabian + Mafia | Alhambra: The Card Game (6.56) |
| Arabian + Mature/Adult | Der gestohlene Harem oder die falschen Eunuchen (0.00) |
| Arabian + Maze | Kasjba (4.00) |
| Arabian + Nautical | Voyage of Sinbad (0.00) |
| Arabian + Number | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Arabian + Partnerships | Sultans of Karaya (6.00) |
| Arabian + Party Game | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Arabian + Pirates | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| Arabian + Prehistoric | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Arabian + Role Playing | Legends of Araby (7.17) |
| Arabian + Science Fiction | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| Arabian + Spies/Secret Agents | Foreign Legion (6.10) |
| Arabian + Sports | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Arabian + Trains | Ghawar: The world's biggest oil field (5.50) |
| Arabian + Trivia | Rahala (0.00) |
| Arabian + Voting | Footsteps of the Prophet (6.00) |
| Arabian + Word | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Arabian + World War II | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| Area Control / Area Influence + Electronic | 360째 Air Hockey (2.67) |
| Area Enclosure + Chit-Pull System | Scramble for Africa (0.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Collectible Components | Titan Legions (6.68) |
| Area Enclosure + Game System | Go (7.76) |
| Area Enclosure + Murder/Mystery | Aether Captains: The Search (8.25) |
| Area Enclosure + Novel-based | Azad (8.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Religious | Ancient Gods of Mesopotamia (0.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Renaissance | Brandub (7.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Spies/Secret Agents | Charlie's Angels (3.80) |
| Area Enclosure + Stock Holding | HEX-TRI Tactical Board Game (9.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Trading | Greater Miamiopoly (0.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Trick-taking | Junk Yard (5.90) |
| Area Enclosure + Voting | Menaces Sur Ter (6.00) |
| Area Enclosure + Zombies | Zombiegeddon (5.82) |
| Area Movement + Music | Musical Assassins (0.00) |
| Area Movement + Trains | Color Train Game (5.83) |
| Area-Impulse + Aviation / Flight | Falcon Ace (8.84) |
| Area-Impulse + Betting/Wagering | Triagonal (6.00) |
| Area-Impulse + City Building | Azteca (5.94) |
| Area-Impulse + Collectible Components | Z-G (6.40) |
| Area-Impulse + Comic Book/Strip | Snoopy and the Red Baron (4.99) |
| Area-Impulse + Deduction | Fantom Electronic (0.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Farming | Weinlese auf Hierro (0.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Game System | Triagonal (6.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Math | Triagonal (6.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Mythology | Territory (6.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Novel-based | The Hunt for Red October (5.77) |
| Area-Impulse + Prehistoric | Dinosaurs Gotta Love Me Game (5.17) |
| Area-Impulse + Puzzle | Rocketball (5.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Racing | Circus Imperium (6.61) |
| Area-Impulse + Transportation | Brewtown Brou-ha ha (0.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Trick-taking | SexPlay the Game (6.00) |
| Area-Impulse + Trivia | Skarb Zakonu (4.50) |
| Area-Impulse + Video Game Theme | Bosconian-D (4.70) |
| Auction/Bidding + Civil War | Battle for Baghdad (7.23) |
| Auction/Bidding + Line Drawing | Super Sharp Pencil & Paper Games (6.90) |
| Auction/Bidding + Maze | Super Sharp Pencil & Paper Games (6.90) |
| Aviation / Flight + Bluffing | Cloud 9 (6.42) |
| Aviation / Flight + Comic Book/Strip | Dastardly & Muttley in their Flying Machines (8.00) |
| Aviation / Flight + Deduction | Dogfight! (0.00) |
| Aviation / Flight + Medical | The Flying Doctor Game (4.00) |
| Aviation / Flight + Pattern Recognition | Geier Sturzflug (5.11) |
| Aviation / Flight + Political | La battaglia delle Falkland (0.00) |
| Aviation / Flight + Prehistoric | Whirlybirds and Early Birds (4.50) |
| Aviation / Flight + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Hornet Leader II - Cold War (7.54) |
| Aviation / Flight + Spies/Secret Agents | Crimson Skies (6.06) |
| Aviation / Flight + Worker Placement | Aether Captains: Pirates and Traders (7.10) |
| Betting/Wagering + Civil War | Warwick the Kingmaker (7.75) |
| Betting/Wagering + Line Drawing | 101 giochi con carta e matita (8.00) |
| Betting/Wagering + Maze | 101 giochi con carta e matita (8.00) |
| Betting/Wagering + Modern Warfare | World War II in the West (7.33) |
| Betting/Wagering + World War II | World War II in the West (7.33) |
| Bluffing + Medical | Therapie - Jetzt oder nie (6.89) |
| Bluffing + Zombies | Norwegian SS-zombies (0.00) |
| Book + Civil War | PSL Guide to Wargaming (4.00) |
| Book + Civilization | Die Siedler von Catan: Das Buch zum Spielen (7.36) |
| Book + Electronic | Giant Intergalactic Electronic Game Book (0.00) |
| Book + Horror | The Lost Toys (3.00) |
| Book + Mature/Adult | Queen's Blade (6.57) |
| Book + Prehistoric | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Book + Singing | 50 Card Games for Children (7.00) |
| Book + Variable Phase Order | World in Flames: 93 Annual (7.17) |
| Book + Video Game Theme | 101 giochi con carta e matita (8.00) |
| Book + Vietnam War | Flames of War: Tropic Lightning (0.00) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Crayon Rail System | Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 - Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War (5.95) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Electronic | The Con Game (0.00) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Environmental | Antarctica (first edition) (4.69) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Line Drawing | NUTS! (6.25) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Medical | Strain (0.00) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Murder/Mystery | The Quest for Shangri-La (7.07) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Number | Sudoku Taisen 6x6: The Great Battle of Sudoku (4.00) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Singing | The Con Game (0.00) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Trick-taking | Dimension Defender (0.00) |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Word | Antarctica (first edition) (4.69) |
| Card Drafting + Crayon Rail System | Santa Claus Takes the Intercity (7.50) |
| Children's Game + Civil War | Junior General (0.00) |
| Children's Game + Crayon Rail System | Uncle Happy's Train Game (3.50) |
| Children's Game + Hex-and-Counter | The Adventures of Captain Can (0.00) |
| Children's Game + Mature/Adult | Sea Ranger (0.00) |
| Children's Game + Variable Phase Order | Road Kill Truckers (7.00) |
| Children's Game + Vietnam War | Junior General (0.00) |
| Children's Game + Worker Placement | Sky Castles (0.00) |
| Chit-Pull System + Environmental | Dominant Species (7.99) |
| Chit-Pull System + Game System | Tales of Titans (0.00) |
| Chit-Pull System + Line Drawing | & cetera (7.70) |
| Chit-Pull System + Religious | A Forest Full of Kings (0.00) |
| Chit-Pull System + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Μονοκράτορας (7.75) |
| Chit-Pull System + Storytelling | Take the Bait (0.00) |
| Chit-Pull System + Trains | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (8.00) |
| Chit-Pull System + Voting | The Republic of Rome (7.63) |
| City Building + Deduction | City of Chaos (6.44) |
| City Building + Electronic | Monopoly City (5.92) |
| City Building + Medical | Hospital (7.40) |
| City Building + Modern Warfare | Kill Everything! (4.00) |
| City Building + Movies/TV/Radio theme | Godzilla: Kaiju World Wars (6.43) |
| City Building + Murder/Mystery | City of Chaos (6.44) |
| City Building + Music | Jazz King (0.00) |
| City Building + Novel-based | Die Siedler von Catan: Rincewind und der Tourist (6.45) |
| City Building + Number | DieScraper (0.00) |
| City Building + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Milton Keynes (6.67) |
| City Building + Trivia | FRANCHI$IT (3.33) |
| City Building + Zombies | One Against the Dead (5.97) |
| Civil War + Economic | Spanish Civil War 3rd Edition (6.50) |
| Civil War + Horror | Norwegian SS-zombies (0.00) |
| Civil War + Negotiation | Footsteps of the Prophet (6.00) |
| Civil War + Pirates | Spartacus Imperator (9.40) |
| Civil War + Racing | Taking the Fort (0.00) |
| Civil War + Role Playing | El Salvador Spel: Spel van de 100.000 Doden (0.00) |
| Civil War + Science Fiction | Civil War 2061 (4.50) |
| Civil War + Spies/Secret Agents | Land of the Free (6.63) |
| Civil War + Territory Building | Redguard (4.83) |
| Civil War + Voting | Footsteps of the Prophet (6.00) |
| Civil War + Zombies | Norwegian SS-zombies (0.00) |
| Civilization + Crayon Rail System | Tahuantinsuyu (7.28) |
| Civilization + Electronic | Deutsches Museum: Das Erlebnis Spiel (5.00) |
| Civilization + Game System | Lorrein (7.35) |
| Civilization + Music | Backers: Amalgamations of the Spiritual Hinterlands (0.00) |
| Civilization + Napoleonic | Viktory (6.88) |
| Civilization + Novel-based | Azad (8.00) |
| Civilization + Pattern Recognition | EVE: Conquests (6.62) |
| Civilization + Puzzle | SIMSOC (8.00) |
| Civilization + Spies/Secret Agents | Lyssan (9.67) |
| Civilization + Sports | Whoozit (5.00) |
| Civilization + Storytelling | Backers: Amalgamations of the Spiritual Hinterlands (0.00) |
| Civilization + Word | Antarctica (first edition) (4.69) |
| Collectible Components + Commodity Speculation | Pro Draft (6.06) |
| Collectible Components + Electronic | Sangokushi Taisen (7.33) |
| Collectible Components + Industry / Manufacturing | LAB (5.30) |
| Collectible Components + Mafia | Don - Continuing Criminal Enterprise (4.33) |
| Collectible Components + Murder/Mystery | Clue Juicy Couture (0.00) |
| Collectible Components + Music | Playas & Haters (0.00) |
| Collectible Components + Napoleonic | Eagles: Waterloo (6.53) |
| Collectible Components + Number | Topps Attax (6.00) |
| Collectible Components + Pattern Recognition | Orbit: Rocket Race 5000 (8.97) |
| Collectible Components + Stock Holding | Timopoly (0.00) |
| Collectible Components + Territory Building | Guildes (0.00) |
| Collectible Components + Worker Placement | Furoticon (8.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Commodity Speculation | Troll Robot Arena (0.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Farming | Wabbit Wampage (5.80) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Industry / Manufacturing | Menaces Sur Ter (6.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Modern Warfare | Final Straw (5.50) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Music | KISS-opoly (5.58) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Pattern Recognition | Tintin et le Piège du Totem Dhor (5.06) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Prehistoric | Flesh (0.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Real-time | Heavy Hitters (0.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Singing | Brew-HaHa (8.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Space Exploration | Mobile Suit Z Gundam game: Take off MkII (5.25) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Trains | Thomas & Friends: Thomas making tracks game (6.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Transportation | Cursed Earth game (0.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + Worker Placement | Troll Robot Arena (0.00) |
| Comic Book/Strip + World War II | Victory (4.50) |
| Commodity Speculation + Crayon Rail System | Martian Rails (7.32) |
| Commodity Speculation + Electronic | The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt (5.00) |
| Commodity Speculation + Game System | Holydeck (8.00) |
| Commodity Speculation + Line Drawing | Martian Rails (7.32) |
| Commodity Speculation + Medical | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Commodity Speculation + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Rocks for Sale (6.00) |
| Commodity Speculation + Singing | Hitchiker (4.94) |
| Commodity Speculation + World War II | Escape With Honour (0.00) |
| Commodity Speculation + Zombies | Zombie Survival: The Board Game (6.18) |
| Crayon Rail System + Educational | Railway Pioneers (0.00) |
| Crayon Rail System + Industry / Manufacturing | Funkenschlag (7.65) |
| Crayon Rail System + Line Drawing | Martian Rails (7.32) |
| Crayon Rail System + Modern Warfare | Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 - Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War (5.95) |
| Crayon Rail System + Negotiation | Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 - Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War (5.95) |
| Crayon Rail System + Pattern Building | Ferrocarriles Pampas (5.81) |
| Crayon Rail System + Political | Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 - Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War (5.95) |
| Crayon Rail System + Territory Building | Tahuantinsuyu (7.28) |
| Crayon Rail System + Wargame | Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 - Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War (5.95) |
| Deduction + Hex-and-Counter | Strategy Seven "The Board Game" (0.00) |
| Deduction + Route/Network Building | 101 giochi con carta e matita (8.00) |
| Dice + Korean War | Field Hospital (8.19) |
| Economic + Zombies | Age of Steam Expansion: The Zombie Apocalypse (7.92) |
| Electronic + Environmental | Deutsches Museum: Das Erlebnis Spiel (5.00) |
| Electronic + Napoleonic | Electronic Stratego (5.96) |
| Electronic + Political | Debate This! (5.23) |
| Electronic + Prehistoric | Primeval Fierce Ferocious Future Predator Game (0.00) |
| Electronic + Route/Network Building | Short Circuits (0.00) |
| Electronic + Zombies | Last Night on Earth Special Edition Soundtrack CD (5.73) |
| Environmental + Mature/Adult | Sea Ranger (0.00) |
| Environmental + Medieval | Antiquity (7.86) |
| Environmental + Religious | Two by Two (6.42) |
| Environmental + Space Exploration | Deutsches Museum: Das Erlebnis Spiel (5.00) |
| Environmental + Trains | Nice Weather (5.58) |
| Environmental + Zombies | Epidemic Express (6.00) |
| Expansion for Base-game + Singing | Hossa! Weihnachts-Special (7.00) |
| Exploration + Medical | S.N.E.A.K. - our last hope (9.00) |
| Exploration + Modern Warfare | We Can Be Heroes II (7.50) |
| Exploration + Number | North Pole (6.81) |
| Exploration + World War I | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Fantasy + Vietnam War | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| Farming + Horror | Zombie Rancher (5.73) |
| Farming + Napoleonic | Bohnaparte (6.00) |
| Farming + Trains | Daitou (6.23) |
| Farming + Travel | Müller & Sohn (4.38) |
| Farming + Zombies | Zombie Rancher (5.73) |
| Fighting + Medical | Strain (0.00) |
| Fighting + Music | Masquerade (6.23) |
| Fighting + Stock Holding | Neighborhood Conflict (10.00) |
| Game System + Industry / Manufacturing | Lorrein (7.35) |
| Game System + Line Drawing | Fighters versus Bombers (0.00) |
| Game System + Mafia | Blak Dragon (0.00) |
| Game System + Novel-based | Star Wars Adventures (2.00) |
| Game System + Pick-up and Deliver | Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (7.33) |
| Game System + Political | Stonehenge (5.62) |
| Game System + Religious | Farmasum (7.00) |
| Game System + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Pentology Card Game (5.50) |
| Game System + Route/Network Building | Starship Marines (5.50) |
| Game System + Space Exploration | Star Wars Adventures (2.00) |
| Game System + Spies/Secret Agents | Hotspots Card Game (0.00) |
| Game System + Stock Holding | 18NAC (0.00) |
| Game System + Worker Placement | Escape of the Dead Minigame (6.61) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Medical | Body War (8.00) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Number | Strategy Seven "The Board Game" (0.00) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Pattern Recognition | Strategy Seven "The Board Game" (0.00) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Real-time | Perry Rhodan Simulation (5.54) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Singing | Sharks and Jets (6.50) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Video Game Theme | World of Warcraft Miniatures Game (6.69) |
| Hex-and-Counter + Worker Placement | Exile Sun (7.00) |
| Horror + Industry / Manufacturing | Menaces Sur Ter (6.00) |
| Horror + Music | Zombie Crisis: Party Edition (0.00) |
| Horror + Route/Network Building | Age of Steam Expansion: The Zombie Apocalypse (7.92) |
| Horror + Sports | Zombie Basketball (4.00) |
| Horror + Territory Building | Menaces Sur Ter (6.00) |
| Humor + Korean War | MASH Game (0.00) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Miniatures | LAB (5.30) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Music | Pop Stars (5.29) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Novel-based | bolo' bolo: Eine Welt ohne Geld (0.00) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Number | Robot Master (6.44) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Pattern Recognition | Conceptualize This! (6.00) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Religious | Rapa-nui (7.60) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Secret Unit Deployment | Lost Gold (5.40) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Spies/Secret Agents | Spion im Werk - Das Opel-Spiel (0.00) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Video Game Theme | T.O.O.L. (8.50) |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Zombies | Zombie State: Diplomacy of the Dead (6.95) |
| Korean War + Medieval | Strategy I (6.58) |
| Korean War + Napoleonic | Strategy I (6.58) |
| Korean War + Paper-and-Pencil | Warbirds in Miniature (8.25) |
| Korean War + Party Game | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| Korean War + Point to Point Movement | Major Campaigns of General Douglas MacArthur (6.01) |
| Korean War + Print & Play | 38th Parallel (6.44) |
| Korean War + Renaissance | Strategy I (6.58) |
| Korean War + Set Collection | Battle Recall Card Game (0.00) |
| Korean War + Variable Phase Order | The Speed of Heat (7.30) |
| Line Drawing + Medieval | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Line Drawing + Miniatures | Fighters versus Bombers (0.00) |
| Line Drawing + Modern Warfare | Code Name: Sector (5.39) |
| Line Drawing + Music | Duelo & CIA. (6.33) |
| Line Drawing + Mythology | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Line Drawing + Pirates | Pirates' Gold (5.74) |
| Line Drawing + Prehistoric | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Line Drawing + Space Exploration | Quazer (0.00) |
| Line Drawing + Stock Holding | Colorado Railroads Game (7.00) |
| Line Drawing + Trick-taking | Uncle Rez's Pets (5.50) |
| Line Drawing + World War I | Fighters versus Bombers (0.00) |
| Line Drawing + World War II | NUTS! (6.25) |
| Mafia + Math | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Mafia + Medical | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Mafia + Music | The KINGPIN! Game (0.00) |
| Mafia + Mythology | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Mafia + Novel-based | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Mafia + Paper-and-Pencil | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Mafia + Pattern Building | Jailbreak (5.98) |
| Mafia + Pattern Recognition | Jailbreak (5.98) |
| Mafia + Pirates | Murderless Mysteries: Arch Villains Anonymous (5.00) |
| Mafia + Prehistoric | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Mafia + Travel | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Mafia + Trivia | The Sopranos Trivia Game (3.86) |
| Mafia + Vietnam War | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| Mafia + World War I | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Mafia + Zombies | Deadfellas (0.00) |
| Math + Mature/Adult | Der gestohlene Harem oder die falschen Eunuchen (0.00) |
| Math + Medical | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Math + Renaissance | Dueling Nobles (6.25) |
| Math + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Math + Spies/Secret Agents | Agent Doppelnull (0.00) |
| Math + Transportation | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Mature/Adult + Medical | Therapy, The Second Session (6.14) |
| Mature/Adult + Murder/Mystery | Serial Killer Trivia Game (0.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Number | Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge (9.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Pick-up and Deliver | The KINGPIN! Game (0.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Queen's Blade (6.57) |
| Mature/Adult + Route/Network Building | Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge (9.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Secret Unit Deployment | SexPlay the Game (6.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Spies/Secret Agents | The KINGPIN! Game (0.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Stock Holding | seXXX-O-Fun (8.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Territory Building | Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge (9.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Worker Placement | Furoticon (8.00) |
| Mature/Adult + Zombies | Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Outbreak (9.00) |
| Maze + Singing | The Con Game (0.00) |
| Maze + Stock Holding | Expedition (9.00) |
| Maze + Zombies | Zed Run! - The Survival Horror Game Show (0.00) |
| Medical + Modular Board | S.N.E.A.K. - our last hope (9.00) |
| Medical + Nautical | S.N.E.A.K. - our last hope (9.00) |
| Medical + Number | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Medical + Partnerships | Astoria (6.05) |
| Medical + Pattern Recognition | Astoria (6.05) |
| Medical + Territory Building | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Medical + Transportation | The Flying Doctor Game (4.00) |
| Medical + Travel | Drugopoly (0.00) |
| Medical + Voting | Group Therapy (5.78) |
| Medical + Wargame | Body War (8.00) |
| Medical + Worker Placement | Hospital (7.40) |
| Medieval + Singing | Monty Python and the Holy Grail CCG (4.72) |
| Medieval + Space Exploration | The Jumbo Book of Board Games (4.33) |
| Medieval + Trains | The Jumbo Book of Board Games (4.33) |
| Medieval + Vietnam War | Junior General (0.00) |
| Memory + World War I | The Great War in Europe (6.71) |
| Miniatures + Number | HappyAnimals (0.00) |
| Miniatures + Party Game | HappyAnimals (0.00) |
| Miniatures + Pattern Recognition | Five Men Standing (6.50) |
| Miniatures + Trains | Cry Havoc! (0.00) |
| Modern Warfare + Murder/Mystery | Final Straw (5.50) |
| Modern Warfare + Mythology | Kaiju: Giant Monster Boardgame (2.67) |
| Modern Warfare + Party Game | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| Modern Warfare + Pirates | Sandy Hook Battle Games (0.00) |
| Modern Warfare + Real-time | Sinai (6.09) |
| Modern Warfare + Space Exploration | Deutsches Museum: Das Erlebnis Spiel (5.00) |
| Modern Warfare + Storytelling | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| Modern Warfare + Trains | Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 - Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War (5.95) |
| Modern Warfare + Travel | DiceWarGame (6.92) |
| Modern Warfare + Trick-taking | Down in Flames - Locked-On (0.00) |
| Modern Warfare + Voting | Superpower (4.18) |
| Modern Warfare + Word | Antarctica (first edition) (4.69) |
| Movies/TV/Radio theme + World War I | Rules of War (0.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Music | Musical Assassins (0.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Napoleonic | Le Mystere des Masques (7.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Nautical | Murder Mystery Evening: The Porthole Affair (5.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Renaissance | I Giochi del 2000: Gli Ultimi Templari (7.33) |
| Murder/Mystery + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Mayday (10.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Trick-taking | The Crime Club Card Game (4.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Video Game Theme | Final Straw (5.50) |
| Murder/Mystery + Word | From the Casebook of Michael Collins' Dan Fortune (6.00) |
| Murder/Mystery + Zombies | Chronicles of Zombie Town (0.00) |
| Music + Nautical | Beach Music Trivia (0.00) |
| Music + Number | Totally Treble (0.00) |
| Music + Political | Latvija Galda Spēle (7.50) |
| Music + Prehistoric | Höhlengrölen (4.42) |
| Music + Religious | Tuunes (0.00) |
| Music + Renaissance | Opera (6.73) |
| Music + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Zombie Crisis: Party Edition (0.00) |
| Music + Secret Unit Deployment | Schrille Stille (6.56) |
| Music + Transportation | Igelkottens hämnd! (5.12) |
| Music + Worker Placement | The Haunted Musicians (0.00) |
| Music + Zombies | Zombie Crisis: Party Edition (0.00) |
| Mythology + Political | Sacrifice of the Pharaohs (10.00) |
| Mythology + Renaissance | Texas Renaissance Festival Game (5.00) |
| Mythology + Space Exploration | La guerra de los signos (0.00) |
| Mythology + Stock Holding | Gheos (6.62) |
| Mythology + Video Game Theme | Age of Mythology: The Boardgame (6.27) |
| Napoleonic + Party Game | Junk in the Trunk (7.00) |
| Napoleonic + Spies/Secret Agents | Castle Risk (5.36) |
| Napoleonic + Transportation | Dead Man's Island (6.10) |
| Napoleonic + Travel | Walker's Tour through France (0.00) |
| Napoleonic + Trick-taking | Das Alte Reich (5.20) |
| Napoleonic + Vietnam War | Junior General (0.00) |
| Nautical + Prehistoric | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Nautical + Vietnam War | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| Nautical + Word | Alphabet Pirates (0.00) |
| Novel-based + Transportation | Star Wars Adventures (2.00) |
| Novel-based + World War I | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Novel-based + World War II | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Number + Political | 101 giochi con carta e matita (8.00) |
| Number + Prehistoric | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Number + Space Exploration | Giftmania (8.00) |
| Number + Transportation | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Paper-and-Pencil + Worker Placement | Escape of the Dead Minigame (6.61) |
| Party Game + Trains | How to Host a Murder: The Last Train from Paris (6.27) |
| Party Game + Worker Placement | BasketBoard (0.00) |
| Party Game + World War I | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| Pattern Building + World War II | The JEEP Board - 15 Games and 10 Puzzles (0.00) |
| Pick-up and Deliver + Singing | Hitchiker (4.94) |
| Pirates + Route/Network Building | Word Pirates! (4.94) |
| Pirates + Stock Holding | Estland (0.00) |
| Pirates + Trains | Age of Steam Expansion: 20,000 Rails Under the Sea (6.57) |
| Pirates + Trivia | Game of American Battles (0.00) |
| Pirates + World War I | Skirmish Wargaming (7.33) |
| Political + Prehistoric | Nomad (6.29) |
| Political + Singing | Hitchiker (4.94) |
| Prehistoric + Religious | Dino Trivia (3.00) |
| Prehistoric + Route/Network Building | The Settlers of the Stone Age (6.70) |
| Prehistoric + Spies/Secret Agents | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Prehistoric + Stock Holding | Fight Of The Giants (4.44) |
| Prehistoric + Transportation | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Prehistoric + Travel | Games of the World (8.06) |
| Prehistoric + Variable Phase Order | Uchronia (0.00) |
| Prehistoric + Video Game Theme | Dinosaur King (4.82) |
| Prehistoric + Voting | Tribes (6.42) |
| Prehistoric + World War I | Where Heroes Dare (6.83) |
| Puzzle + Worker Placement | Duplexity (0.00) |
| Puzzle + World War II | The JEEP Board - 15 Games and 10 Puzzles (0.00) |
| Racing + Worker Placement | Escape With Honour (0.00) |
| Racing + World War I | Combination Board 4 Games (3.00) |
| Real-time + Route/Network Building | Soapbox Derby (0.00) |
| Real-time + Trains | RunAway Train (6.50) |
| Real-time + Variable Phase Order | Catch a Crook Game (6.00) |
| Real-time + Worker Placement | Commonwealth (6.50) |
| Religious + Spies/Secret Agents | Omega Expedition (3.28) |
| Religious + Zombies | Final Days - Miniatures Battle Game (5.95) |
| Renaissance + Rock-Paper-Scissors | Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame (5.71) |
| Renaissance + Video Game Theme | Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame (5.71) |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors + Singing | Fantasi fararen (3.00) |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors + Spies/Secret Agents | Exam 101 (6.67) |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors + Stock Holding | Rock, Paper, Scissors, Inc. (4.62) |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors + Variable Phase Order | Conquest, the card game (7.75) |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors + Zombies | Zombie Crisis: Party Edition (0.00) |
| Role Playing + Route/Network Building | Trade-off: The Land Use Planning Game (0.00) |
| Role Playing + Trains | How to Host a Murder: The Last Train from Paris (6.27) |
| Route/Network Building + Trick-taking | CHem-eO (6.95) |
| Route/Network Building + Trivia | First Around The World (0.00) |
| Route/Network Building + World War I | Hell (5.17) |
| Route/Network Building + Zombies | Age of Steam Expansion: The Zombie Apocalypse (7.92) |
| Science Fiction + Singing | The Con Game (0.00) |
| Secret Unit Deployment + Singing | 50 Card Games for Children (7.00) |
| Secret Unit Deployment + Trains | Katastrophy (0.00) |
| Secret Unit Deployment + Trivia | Star Trek: The Next Generation (4.05) |
| Singing + Tile Placement | Old MacDonald Soundtracks (6.00) |
| Singing + Trains | Loco Loco (0.00) |
| Singing + Transportation | Igelkottens hämnd! (5.12) |
| Singing + Wargame | Sharks and Jets (6.50) |
| Space Exploration + Stock Holding | Spaceopoly (6.12) |
| Space Exploration + Trains | The Jumbo Book of Board Games (4.33) |
| Space Exploration + Word | Black Hole (6.50) |
| Spies/Secret Agents + Video Game Theme | Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Junior Detective Edition (3.67) |
| Spies/Secret Agents + Word | Linq (6.90) |
| Spies/Secret Agents + Zombies | Munchkin Promotional Bookmarks (5.82) |
| Sports + Trains | Alte Spiele (0.00) |
| Sports + Zombies | Zombie Basketball (4.00) |
| Stock Holding + Video Game Theme | The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt (5.00) |
| Stock Holding + Wargame | Neighborhood Conflict (10.00) |
| Storytelling + Territory Building | Ethereum (6.80) |
| Storytelling + Vietnam War | Chain Reaction (7.29) |
| Storytelling + Worker Placement | Crusoe (8.32) |
| Storytelling + World War I | England Invaded (8.00) |
| Trains + Video Game Theme | Railroad Tycoon (7.70) |
| Trains + Worker Placement | Katastrophy (0.00) |
| Transportation + Video Game Theme | Railroad Tycoon (7.70) |
| Transportation + World War II | Winds of War (4.77) |
| Transportation + Zombies | Age of Steam Expansion: The Zombie Apocalypse (7.92) |
| Travel + Video Game Theme | 101 giochi con carta e matita (8.00) |
| Travel + Worker Placement | Katastrophy (0.00) |
| Trick-taking + Video Game Theme | PAC-MAN Card Game (4.54) |
| Trick-taking + Vietnam War | Down in Flames - Locked-On (0.00) |
| Trivia + Vietnam War | MINDFIELD, The Game of US Military Trivia (0.00) |
| Trivia + Worker Placement | Fauna junior (6.62) |
| Variable Phase Order + Vietnam War | The Speed of Heat (7.30) |
| Voting + World War II | The Road to War: Europe 1936 (0.00) |
Some categories and game mechanics are combined again and again. This list contains the most popular combinations.
The world is waiting for these new types of wargames.
Design a game that combines these elements, and it will be unlike any other game on BoardGameGeek.
These combinations of categories and mechanics tend to do very well. For this table and the next three tables, I considered only combinations that had at least five games and 100 ratings.
| Category/Mechanic | Mean rating | Standard deviation | Highest-rated example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area Control / Area Influence + Modern Warfare | 8.22 | 0.34 | |
| City Building + Farming | 8.21 | 0.20 | |
| Civilization + Co-operative Play | 8.15 | 0.41 | |
| Co-operative Play + Territory Building | 8.14 | 0.39 | |
| Miniatures + Space Exploration | 8.14 | 0.42 | |
| Farming + Variable Phase Order | 8.08 | 0.37 | |
| Modern Warfare + Simultaneous Action Selection | 8.08 | 0.67 | |
| Campaign / Battle Card Driven + Modern Warfare | 8.03 | 0.64 | |
| Industry / Manufacturing + Route/Network Building | 8.03 | 0.20 | |
| Civil War + Hand Management | 8.03 | 0.41 | |
These combinations of categories don't do very well.
| Category/Mechanic | Mean rating | Standard deviation | Highest-rated example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Game + Medical | 4.06 | 0.33 |  |
| Action / Dexterity + Medical | 4.05 | 0.34 |  |
| Educational + Storytelling | 3.97 | 1.64 |  |
| Religious + Roll and Move | 3.95 | 1.57 |  |
| Educational + Religious | 3.83 | 1.57 | |
| Abstract Strategy + Paper-and-Pencil | 3.59 | 1.69 |  |
| Children's Game + Paper-and-Pencil | 3.23 | 1.19 |  |
| Number + Pattern Recognition | 3.19 | 1.37 |  |
| Number + Party Game | 3.03 | 1.18 |  |
| Religious + Storytelling | 2.79 | 0.68 |  |
These combinations of categories tend to vary wildly in quality. You don't know what you're going to get with these.
| Category/Mechanic | Mean rating | Standard deviation | Highest-rated example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betting/Wagering + Storytelling | 5.67 | 2.04 | |
| Math + Science Fiction | 5.61 | 1.92 |  |
| Book + Roll and Move | 5.81 | 1.89 | |
| Children's Game + Role Playing | 6.89 | 1.72 |  |
| Number + Set Collection | 4.17 | 1.72 |  |
| Hex-and-Counter + Sports | 6.37 | 1.71 |  |
| Dice + World War I | 5.94 | 1.69 |  |
| Abstract Strategy + Paper-and-Pencil | 3.59 | 1.69 | |
| Action / Dexterity + Rock-Paper-Scissors | 5.35 | 1.65 | |
| Educational + Storytelling | 3.97 | 1.64 | |
These combinations of categories tend to produce games that are reliably good, reliably bad, or reliably mediocre.
| Category/Mechanic | Mean rating | Standard deviation | Highest-rated example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluffing + Mythology | 6.61 | 0.10 | |
| Pattern Building + Route/Network Building | 6.33 | 0.10 |  |
| Mafia + Simultaneous Action Selection | 6.80 | 0.10 |  |
| Economic + Real-time | 6.41 | 0.10 |  |
| Mafia + Role Playing | 6.77 | 0.09 |  |
| Medieval + Transportation | 7.02 | 0.09 | |
| Abstract Strategy + Napoleonic | 5.97 | 0.08 |  |
| Mafia + Wargame | 6.92 | 0.08 |  |
| Action Point Allowance System + Worker Placement | 6.71 | 0.05 |  |
| Memory + Napoleonic | 5.97 | 0.01 |  |
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