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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.

Betting games published by Devir

Betting and Bluffing games

Vabanque” is a game of bluff and risk taking in the casinos’ world. The title comes from an expression used in an 18th century gambling game called Pharaoh, where players risked winning or losing everything: the ancestor of the “all-in” in poker.Try...

In Cursed Court, players wager their limited influence across the courtly seasons. As the machinations of the nine key nobles are progressively revealed, their fortunes rise and fall.The intrigues of the realm's greater nobility are a subject of fixation...

Witches and Wizards, ready your wands!Open the box of Stupefy!... and discover an immersive game in the atmosphere of the Wizarding World.In this bluffing game created by Ludovic Maublanc, players grab their wands, play cards, cast spells, target their...

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...

Betting games illustrated by Ali Douglass

Betting and Variable Player Powers games

Mascarade (2nd Edition)

Red Dragon Inn 8: Pub Crawl

Breaking Bad - The Board Game

The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew

Red Dragon Inn, The: Allies Expansion - Witchdoctor Natyli

The Red Dragon Inn 5: The Character Trove

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

Bioshock Infinite - The Siege of Columbia

Bloc by Bloc - Uprising (3rd Edition)

Guns or Treasure

Spartacus: Serpents and the Wolf Expansion Set, The

Betting games illustrated by Chad Hoverter

Animals themed games with Betting

In Mint Julep, players draft cards, place bets and then manipulate the race in order to ensure the horse that they want to win ends up finishing the race in a top spot. Be careful where you place your bet because the odds might be against you!Each game...

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...

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...

Betting games developed by John Brieger

Bet and perform actions at the track while the race unfolds in this exciting horse racing card game. Secret bets and clever horse moves are key to winning the most cash at the end of the race! Mechanisms:• Action/Event• Alliances• Betting and Bluffing...

In this stealthy bluffing card game, players protect their hens near the hen house whil using htier fox to gobble up opponents' hens. Are you sly enough to outfox your opponents? Mechanisms:• Betting and Bluffing• Highest-Lowest Scoring• Kill Steal• ...

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 ...

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 games published by 17wanzy (Yihu BG)

Strut your tail feathers in this clever game of gambling and reading the room. Pikoko is a trick-taking card game for serious and casual gamers, featuring a 3-dimensional peacock which holds your cards so that you are the only player who CANNOT see ...

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 Asmodee

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...

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...

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...

THE ULTIMATE BLUFFING GAME: A fast-thinking, push-you-luck, bluffing game that’s a mix between Balderdash and The Chameleon. NO ANSWERS? NO PROBLEM: You don’t need to know lots of trivia — all you need to do is make something up!SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE...

Science Fiction themed games with Betting

Ironrise is a co-operative adventure card game for two to six players in a team vs. team format. Set in the world of Spirel, groups of adventuring Heroes face off against scheming Villains.Mechanically, Ironrise uses cards as assets which must be managed...

The dazzling boulevards and historical monuments of Paris have been enveloped by lush vegetation. The once bustling city hub has been hushed to stillness following an apocalyptic event and your goal is to forge a new future. Equip your shelter, manage...

The clock is ticking. On your every side, agents and double-agents declare their loyalty. But you know that some agents seek the VIP's assassination. Shoot first, ask questions later.In Crossfire, players will use deduction, negotiation, and the limited...

Betting and Set Collection games

Greedy Kingdoms

Dungeons & Dragons - Three-Dragon Ante

Dreadful Circus

Pacific Ocean (Kickstarter Edition)

Queen's Necklace (2nd Edition)

Reviving Kathmandu (Deluxe Edition)

Disney Robin Hood - Sheriff of Nottingham

Three-Dragon Ante: Legendary Edition

Betting games illustrated by Jun Sasaki

Whale to Look

Whale to Look is a game of deduction and betting, unfolding on the deep sea.A bay full of huge whales and orcas, and quite popular among whale-watching tourists, is becoming overrun with tour companies. The whales on the other hand, seem to be enjoying...

Betting games published by Ediciones MasQueOca

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...

These camels have it made in the shade of a giant 3D palm tree! Camel Up, the award winning game about the craziest camel race, just got even crazier! The race now includes new contestants – camels that are so crazy that they start the race running ...

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...

Betting games published by Geekach 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...

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...

Betting and Closed Drafting games

Betting and Simultaneous Action Selection games

Betting and Voting games

A Game of Intrigue, Tactics, & DeceptionAre you loyal to the noble House Atreides or a secret agent for the treacherous House Harkonnen?In this game of tactics and deception, you are secret agents amid the sands of Dune. Your goal is learn the identities...

Houston, we have a Dolphin! is a card-based social deduction game for 3-5 players. It's the board game for all Among Us fans out there!Each player controls a team of up to 4 astronauts with different abilities, possibly fooled by a murderous dolphin...

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...

Math themed games with Betting

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - A Gemstone Mining Game

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

Gempire - Zarmund's Demands

Betting games published by GoKids 玩樂小子

Betting and Worker Placement games

Betting games illustrated by Ramon Puasa, Jr.

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

Betting and Hand Management games

For months you've been planning and gathering forces for the largest invasion of the war. Your opponent knows that you are preparing a major strike, but do they know where? Suddenly you receive reports that as py has gained information about your operation...

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...

A group of monsters is traversing the perils of the castle conquering guard after guard, collecting treasurers along the way, as kings set new rules. You and your fellow players are these monsters in Mighty Monsters.The game is played in rounds equal...

In Ancient times, “Herbalism” was an important medical study. China is especially famous for utilizing ancient herbs to cure diseases. Players take on the roles of novice pharmacists, hoping to find the cure by exchanging information with one another...

Betting games designed by Paul Salomon

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...

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...

Heckin Hounds is a 2-7 player trick-taking game exploring the perils of professional dog walking in the Underworld.Players are given the task of walking Hades' collection of hounds. Do your job too well, and she'll promote you to management - a responsibility...

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,...

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?

Betting games published by Korea Boardgames

Quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger asked, "Is the cat in the box alive? Or dead?" And now, you can too!How many cats are alive on everyone's cards? Or are the empty boxes a better guess? Make bold claims (or bluff) and outdo each other's bids! Do you...

Schrodinger's Cats

Pirate 21 is competitive card game for 2-6 players. Each player tries to get 21 without going over. Sound familiar? It is, but in this version of 21 you have Pirates that can knock an opponent out of the round, Mates & Captains that can swap cards and...

Betting games developed by Jason Washburn

House of Borgia

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 illustrated by (Uncredited)

Minuscule

The peace of the countryside is marred only by the sound of cicadas. Suddenly, a buzzing is heard as the calm of the prairie is disrupted by a line of insects rushing at incredible speed in a madcap race. Minuscule is a racing game with funny bugs that...

Hand Management