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Betting

Betting Mechanics in Board Games

Betting or wagering is a common game mechanic where players allocate resources, like currency or points, predicting an uncertain outcome within the game. The goal is often to amass wealth or points through these gambles to win.

Key Features

Risk vs. Reward: Players must weigh potential gains against possible losses.
Bluffing: Players may deceive others regarding the strength of their position.
Strategic Depth: Intelligent betting can lead to game advantages.
Probability: Understanding odds is crucial for informed decisions.

Common Betting Mechanics

Fixed Bets: Set amounts to enter a game phase, like an ante in poker.
Auction Bets: Players bid on game items or privileges.
Dynamic Bets: Fluent betting throughout play, evolving with game context.

Examples

Poker: Classic card game focused on betting and bluffing.
Camel Up: Players bet on the outcome of a camel race.

Betting adds excitement and strategic complexity to board games, making outcomes partly dependent on players' decisions under uncertainty.

Animals themed games with Betting

Pacific Ocean (Kickstarter Edition)

Schrodinger's Cats

Strategy Game with Betting

Win: Micro Card Game

Dreadful Circus

The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew

Paris - New Eden

Vikings on Board

Lying Pirates: Race for the Pirate Throne (Deluxe Edition)

Great Designers Series, The: Fog of War, The

Bloc by Bloc (2nd Edition) - The Insurrection Game

Houston, We Have A Dolphin!

Bioshock Infinite - The Siege of Columbia

Mighty Monsters

Tokyo Series - Metro

Herbalism (English Edition)

Western Legends - The Big Box w/Wooden Stores

Floating Market

Spartacus: Serpents and the Wolf Expansion Set, The

Betting and Take That games

Heroes of Land, Air, & Sea: Mercenaries Expansion Pack 1

Western Legends

Breaking Bad - The Board Game

Dungeons & Dragons - Three-Dragon Ante

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - A Gemstone Mining Game

Mindbug: Beyond Evolution

Mindbug: Beyond Eternity

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea: Nomads Expansion

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea: Order and Chaos Expansion

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea: Mercenary Pack #2

Guns or Treasure

Three-Dragon Ante: Legendary Edition

Betting games published by Mattel, Inc.

It’s Vegas, Baby!Bring the excitement of Vegas into your home with the newest edition of the best-selling party game in history!In Wits & Wagers Vegas, you don't need to know the answers to win. Anyone can win by betting on other players' guesses to...

Wits & Wagers, the most award-winning party game in history, is now for the whole family!First, every player writes down a guess to a fun question. Then players try to score points by choosing which guess is closest to the right answer. Wits & Wagers...

Bezzerwizzer is a fun party game with a new twist on trivia that includes stealing and tile-swapping for fast-paced gameplay. Gather up your friends and get ready for a fun game night of trivia, tactics, and trickery. No need to be a trivia buff to ...

Family Game with Betting

Mascarade (2nd Edition)

Wits & Wagers - Vegas Expansion

Sly: Micro Card Game

Say Anything (10th Anniversary)

Disney Robin Hood - Sheriff of Nottingham

Fantasy themed games with Betting

The adventure is over, but the party is just getting started! Survie a wild night at the tavern, where you'll roughhouse with your friends, have a few drinks, and try not to pass out go broke. The last player standing wins!But what happens when you're...

Red Dragon Inn 8: Pub Crawl

Congratulations, comrades! You've made it to the World Championship! ...Unfortunately, it's for Russian Roulette. In this press-your-luck bluffing game, earn points by bidding on how many pulls of your gun's trigger you can survive. The more pulls, ...

World Championship Russian Roulette

Betting games published by Kaissa Chess & Games

It's your shot at 45.6 billion Won. Survive six games and you win. The key word is "survive." Because when you lose, you are eliminated.Lead your team through six deadly games. Your team members who survive move on to the next game. Make it through all...

Dare your opponents to tackle the dungeon with less-and-less equipment to fend off the increasing horde of monsters.This push-your-luck dungeon delve tests your courage and shrewd choices.Beat the dungeon twice or be the last warrior standing to win...

One key is a light and smart game for all kinds of players. It provides a fresh new cooperative experience based on visual association and deduction, with uniquely shaped and richly illustrated cards. One key is best played with its free app. It features...

Camel Up: The Card Game brings a new way to enjoy the camel race with a racing deck! While keeping the same excitement as the board game, the card game experience gives the players a little bit more insight and control on the race. Don't forget about...

Medieval themed games with Betting

The latest in our Big in Japan line is Greedy Kingdoms, a collaboration between award-winning designers Hayato Kisaragi and Bruno Faidutti! Bluff past your opponent's defenders to secure the resources needed to build the most lavish Kingdom. Show that...

Natyli is an impulsive young troll who likes to make dolls of her friends and the monsters that she comes across in the dungeons. These aren’t normal dolls, though. They are magical, and she can use them to affect whomever the doll looks like, for good...

You and your increasingly mighty party of adventuring companions have spent all day slogging through the dungeon, killing monsters and taking their stuff. Now you're back in town, healed up, cleaned up, and ready to party at the Red Dragon Inn. Drink...

House of Borgia is a fantastic twist on the classic game of Liar's Dice. Your purpose is to manipulate the Conclave with bribes, poison, nasty rumors, and other dastardly actions.Players will control one of six Cardinals such as the Staunch Fundamentalist...

Betting games published by MEBO Games

The card game Velonimo allows you to depict the merciless struggle in the animal world for the distinctive and highly prized "peas and carrots" jersey rewarded to the best climbing cyclist. This trick taking game features ultra simple rules for an absolutely...

Once upon a time, three big cats became exhausted fighting to be top cat. They agreed to quit the fight and spice up their nine lives with a hot spice eating contest. Alas, everyone was soon cheating, so the cats invented a very hot, often tearful, bluffing...

Downforce is our restoration of Wolfgang Kramer's classic. For nearly 40 years, this card-driven racing game has been the delight of gamers and families. Known by many names - Top Race, Daytona 500, Cleveland Grand Prix - we bring it to you now as Downforce...

Solo / Solitaire Game with Betting

Betting and Simultaneous Action Selection games

Every round, reveal a new card. Simultaneously, all players choose a hand gesture to guess how the card relates to the previous one.Guess the correct value relation and get two points. Guess same suit correctly and get four points. Call one of the three...

Virulence: An Infectious Card Game is an addictively quick and simple card game focused on viruses infecting a host cell - and how they assemble and replicate inside that host cell. Virulence has players take on the role of viruses competing to infect...

Virulence: An Infectious Card Game is an addictively quick and simple card game focused on viruses infecting a host cell - and how they assemble and replicate inside that host cell. Virulence has players take on the role of viruses competing to infect...

Half Truth is a party game for all ages and people, created by legendary game designer Richard Garfield and 74-time Jeopardy winner Ken Jennings. With art by well-known artist Ian O'Toole, the game comes with 500 trivia question cards and each card ...

Novel-based themed games with Betting

Betting games published by Surfin' Meeple China

Western Legends: Fistful of Extras Expansion

Western Legends: Fistful of Extras contains 20 stretch goals worth of content unlocked during the Kickstarter campaign for Western Legends that was held in January 2018. Included are new miniatures and new characters with goals providing more role variability...

Betting games illustrated by Lucas Svedberg

Welcome to Doomtown, where you try to gain control of a western town set in the Weird West of Deadlands. In this world, cowpokes good and bad wield guns, steampunk gadgets, and spells of all sorts, and death is sometimes just a minor inconvenience.In...

Doomtown: Weird West Edition

It’s your chance to take it to the streets of Gomorra and show who runs the most dangerous boomtown in the West. The Weird West!Doomtown is an expandable card game set in the Deadlands universe. Based on the classic collectible game, Doomtown: Reloaded...

Doomtown Reloaded: Doomtown - Reloaded

Party Game with Betting

Guess the number - but don't go too high!Lighten up the mood at any game night, dinner party or couples therapy session. Play it during business meetings, date night at your uncle's funeral - or all three at once!One player reads a question (all answers...

Check out this take on liar’s dice with palm fitted cups and dice with critter characters. Play the classic bluffing and bidding game as is, or take on wild rules variations that make the game more exciting and keep you on your toes. In either case,...

A game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception.This grimoire contains the first 3 editions of Blood on the Clocktower. Each has a unique collection of characters from the worldly to the bizarre, encourages different strategies...

Betting and Market games

Electronic themed games with Betting

Moment of Truth, The

The Moment of Truth game is based on the hit game show. Take a fun and sometimes shocking turn in the hotseat! Can you and your friends survive the truth?

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