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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.

Party Game with Betting

Wits & Wagers - It's Vegas, Baby!

Wits & Wagers - Vegas Expansion

Moment of Truth, The

Betting and 4X games

Power of your heroic army with these hungry mercenaries waiting to be hired into the battle.Mechanisms:• Action Points• Area Majority / Influence• Betting/Wagering• Deck, Bag, and Pool Building• Take That• Variable Player Powers• Worker Placement 4 Miniatures...

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea offers players the reminiscent feel of classic RTS games.BEAUTIFUL MINIATURES and 3D CARDBOARD CONSTRUCTS; in this game offers 80 highly detailed miniatures across 4 color specific factionsTake to the skies; Test your valor...

Heroes of Land, Air & Sea offers players the reminiscent feel of classic RTS games.BEAUTIFUL MINIATURES and 3D CARDBOARD CONSTRUCTS; in this game offers 80 highly detailed miniatures across 4 color specific factionsTake to the skies; Test your valor...

Betting games published by Alderac Entertainment Group

Card Game with Betting

Mascarade (2nd Edition)

Dungeons & Dragons - Three-Dragon Ante

World Championship Russian Roulette

Mindbug: Beyond Evolution

Mindbug: Beyond Eternity

Reviving Kathmandu (Deluxe Edition)

Guns or Treasure

Betting games published by Popcorn Games

Racing themed games with Betting

Betting and Worker Placement games

Betting and Player Elimination games

Red Dragon Inn 8: Pub Crawl

Breaking Bad - The Board Game

The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew

Welcome to the Dungeon

The Red Dragon Inn 5: The Character Trove

Schrodinger's Cats

Betting games illustrated by Roland MacDonald

Western Legends is an open-world sandbox tabletop adventure for 2-6 players set in the American Wild West. Players assume the roles of historical figures of the era, earning their legendary status in a variety of ways: gamble, drive cattle, prospect ...

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...

This beautiful box was designed to hold all of your Western Legends content in one place for easy setup.Includes: 6 Player Card Trays Gambler Track Tray 2 Poker Chip Trays 6 Player Component Shells 2 Shell Tray Racks Token Tray A Token Tray B Token ...

Betting and Closed Drafting games

The crazy moped riders are ready to race with their souped-up mopeds! Knowing that neither your courage nor your health insurance lets you take part in such a dangerous race, you and your friends instead choose the safe way of enjoyment and start betting...

Cherry blossoms fallStrength and honor shape the landThe sun is risingSet in legendary feudal Japan, Rising Sun places players in control of the great clans, gathering by the mighty Kami to reshape the lands and return them to their honorable, spiritual...

Betting games published by Albi

In this new breed of Camel race, bet on the Camel you believe will finish first, or last, or even in the middle of the pack! you never know which card will come up, but you can cleverly select some to influence the race ever so slightly and thus become...

Say Anything is about you. You get to decide how witty, weird, or wild you want to be. Each round, players answer a question like "What would make next weekend more exciting?" or "When's the worst time to burst out laughing?" After the answers are revealed...

The king has died without any descendants. Throughout the realm, the most influential families try to seize power through conspiracy, cunning,...and blood. You are the head of one of these families.1. Play your cards face down to prepare your dirty schemes...

In Lady Alice a game of intrigue, flair, bluffing, and mischief the players are the Baker Street Kids, children under the tutelage of Sherlock Holmes who must deduce the culprit behind the kidnapping of Henry Morton Stanley as well as the time and place...

Solo / Solitaire Game with Betting

Plan and push your luck as the action unfolds in this tense race of 8 horses. You'll buy horses, place bets, influence race movement, and utilize special abilities.The dice determine which horses move and the actions available each turn, so be ready ...

Foxes have an incredible ability to observe, calculate, and plan. Can you do the same? In Foxy, your memory and observation skills will be pushed to the limit. Can you remember all the animals you've seen? Only the most cunning player will win! • Reveal...

In Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, each player controls a faction of revolutionaries—Workers, Students, Neighbors, or Prisoners—fighting against the police in the streets of a city that changes with each game. Build barricades, clash with police, occupy districts...

Playable in 1 hour. For 1 to 2 players. Innovative Civil War game with hidden movement, solitaire game engine, using military maps. Designed by Maurice Suckling. Chancellorville 1863 uses many of the concepts from Freeman's Farm 1777. What stays basically...

Betting games designed by André Zatz

Play Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Gemstone Mining Game and push your luck as you collect valuable gems from the mine and earn bonus points by discovering gem combinations from Snow White objectives. Based on the popular Quartz game play ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - A Gemstone Mining Game

Your new favorite addition to your family games collection is here with the Disney Robin Hood Sheriff of Nottingham Game! From CMON and Spin Master Games, this bluffing strategy board game is for everyone ages 10 and up. You will need 3-5 players and...

Disney Robin Hood - Sheriff of Nottingham

Vikings themed games with Betting

Prepare your clan of Vikings for the season of exploration!Your objective is to set sail on board the ships best equipped for a successful voyage. Before you embark, you will need to win the favor of the strongest Vikings by offering them barrels of...

Vikings on Board

The raid is over, and the victorious Vikings gather in the chieftain's tent to divide the spoils of war! Piled high on a massive oak table are the best treasures taken during the raid: gleaming gems, shiny swords, fine armor, and magical artifacts! Once...

Math themed games with Betting

Betting games illustrated by Drew Tucker

Doomtown: Weird West Edition

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...

very positive, 93%

Alternate History

Area Majority / Influence

Hand Management

Betting and Variable Player Powers games

Betting games illustrated by JJ Ariosa

In the tabletop game BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia, players will play as either the Founders or the Vox Populi and will build up an army to fight for control of Columbia by taking ground and completing important objectives. At the same time...

Bioshock Infinite - The Siege of Columbia

Floating Market utilizes polyhedral dice, worker placement, and dice speculation to create a unique and accessible experience for gamers of all levels. The rules and turns are simple and intuitive and the game teaches quickly, making it perfect for ...

Floating Market

Betting and Simulation games

Black Friday (2023 Edition)

In this game, try to gain as much gold as possible by dealing in shares before the huge stock market crash. Try to earn enough cash by cleverly buying and selling shares, so you can spend it on the coveted precious metal. If you are the best in manipulating...

mostly positive, 71%

Commodity Speculation

Betting games designed by John Cooper (II)

Pyramid Arcade

Pyramid Arcade is a complete game library in one box. Inside, you'll find everything you need to play 22 different games, each of which uses the Looney Pyramid gaming pieces in a different way. The games in this arcade range from easy to complex, from...

1 to 10 players

Area Majority / Influence