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Contracts in Board Games

What Are Contracts?

Contracts in board games are tasks or objectives that players can fulfill to gain rewards. They often require collecting specific resources or combinations thereof.

Gameplay Implications

Contracts add a strategic layer, pushing players to make decisions based on resource management, timing, and prioritizing different actions to maximize their payoff from fulfilling contracts.

Examples

Ticket to Ride: Players complete routes based on their destination tickets, akin to fulfilling contracts.
Lords of Waterdeep: Completing quests that require specific resources, representing contracts, earns players points and other benefits.

Contracts games illustrated by Małgorzata Parczewska

The printing press was an invention that required remarkable skill to operate efficiently. In Printing Press, your task is to fulfill printing orders, which you earn fame points for completing. Prepare yourself for a fast and dynamic gameplay experience...

As a 15th-century printing pioneer, you will compete for the fame of your printing house. Take on the role of one of the historical characters and fulfill your customers' orders and your patron's expectations. Print your books and add refinements. Improve...

At the scrap yard on the outskirts of the city, four eccentric scientists rummage through piles of useless trash. They are competing to see who is the best rocket designer. The task is not easy, and the materials are limited. Which eccentric researcher...

Contracts games illustrated by Jason Washburn

Public Market

Head out to sea and fish to fulfill contracts in order to gain points and emerge as the winner in this tile-laying, engine-building game.In Public Market, players bid on and draft tiles to play into an ice chest. Once the ice chest is full, players ...

Fishing / Angling

Auction/Bidding

Contracts games published by Portal Games

Brazil: Imperial is a midweight strategic board game for 1-4 players introducing a new concept of the “euro X" game—combining a euro game, in which players collect and manage resources, with a 4X game, where players explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate...

Brazil - Imperial

Far beyond the farthest mountains, a valley overflowing with resources awaits you. Collect, build, optimize - and build a perfect Little Town in your image!The double-sided board and vast selection of buildings are the starting point for an incredible...

Dice Game with Contracts

King of the Dice

Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark

Red Cathedral, The

Guild Academies of Valeria

Voyages of Marco Polo, The

Cascadia: Rolling Hills

Cascadia: Rolling Rivers

Sagrada: The Great Facades #3 - Glory Expansion

Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game

Contracts and Hand Management games

Sheriff of Nottingham - Merry Men Expansion

Great American Mail Race, The

Stonespine Architects - Shrines and Fountains

Space themed games with Contracts

Contracts games published by Gigamic

Contracts games illustrated by Noah Adelman

Card Game with Contracts

Broom Service - The Card Game

Taco Bell Party Pack Game

Painting themed games with Contracts

In Canvas, you play as a painter competing in an art competition. Players will collect art cards, layering 3 of them together to create their own unique Painting. Each card contains a piece of artwork as well as a set of icons used during scoring. Icons...

Take on the role of an artist managing an atelier, or art studio, during the 19th century. Roll dice, manage your assistants, collect needed paint, and complete famous works of art. Will you be a prolific artist completing many works for your patrons...

Atelier - The Painter's Studio

Contracts games published by Braincrack Games

Ragusa

Set in the Renaissance city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) in the 15th century, Ragusa tasks players with building the city, its walls, and making use of its growing economy to find their fortunes.The turn-by-turn gameplay is simple: pace houses between spaces...

Solo / Solitaire Game

Commodity Speculation

End Game Bonuses

Contracts games published by Intrafin Games

Barrage is a resource management and strategic placement game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity of precious water, and deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected...

The Nile Affair is a new thematic map for Barrage for 2-4 players with new mechanics (Irrigation), which includes 1 map board, 2 punchboards and the rules.

The Taming of the Red Planet Has Begun!Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise the temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water...

In Woodcraft, players take turns choosing one of seven actions, which become more valuable the longer they remain unchosen. These actions are used to manipulate dice representing wood that can be cut, gilded, purchased, or even grown.Manage your workshop...

Contracts games illustrated by Caleb Wilson

Add something extra to your Merchants of the Dark Road experience, including a new type of commission and hero!Mechanisms:• Contracts• Dice Rolling• End Game Bonuses• Follow• Hidden Victory Points• Highest-Lowest Scoring• Market• Pick-up and Deliver•...

Merchants of the Dark Road: Patron's Provisions Expansion

The Lantern May Fade, but the Coin Still ShinesThe dark season has arrived. Money is tight, but opportunity is around every corner. And while the road is costly, the rewards are great! For these adventurous merchants, fame and fortune don't wait for ...

Merchants of the Dark Road (Standard Edition)

Economic themed games with Contracts

Rurik - Dawn of Kiev

Century: Golem Edition

Chocolate Factory

Chocolate Factory (Deluxe Kickstarter Edition)

Pipeline: Emerging Markets Expansion

Century: Big Box

Contracts games published by Zvezda

Contracts and Connections games

Harvest our abundant resources, develop a transport network, and construct new buildings. Our foggy valley needs you, and we'll reward you handsomely!Cooperate with each other on a short-term basis to open new pathways and share resources, but keep your...

Ticket to Ride is a charming board game where players build train routes across North America. Its rules are simple: you either collect train cards, claim routes between cities, or draw destination cards that set new route-building goals. It's a blend...

Play as Mika the Mole, a furry adventurer with a love for treasure and juicy worms in this flip & write board game. Strategically tunnel across flower-filled meadows by rotating, and flipping tunnel tiles to expand your molehill home. Make connections...

Managing a successful food court is hard work. Foodies flock to food courts with the tastiest offering, so you'd better brush up! Can you tell a rissole from a risotto? Do you add falafel to your fajitas? Oooh, how about some bratwurst-stuffed baozi?...

Contracts games published by Surfin' Meeple China

Contracts and Tile Placement games

Dollars to Donuts is a puzzly, resource management tile-laying game for 2-4 players. Donuts need to be made whole! In Dollars to Donuts players take turns purchasing tiles to match donut halves and to fill their boards, making the most delicious spread...

Dollars to Donuts

It's your favorite time of the weekend - grab your coffee for a trip to the downtown Farmers Market! But today's trip might require a little more thinking than usual!1. Line up your 8 challenge tiles.2. Each turn, position your ingredients at the intersection...

Downtown Farmers Market

Contracts games published by Lacerta

Coal Baron The Great Card Game is a chance to immerse yourself in the dark world of coal mining as you extract coal from pits, load coal to wagon trains, and then rail your coal off so that you can fulfill orders and make a fortune. This standalone ...

Coal Baron - The Great Card Game

The players are craftsmen in medieval Europe, creating coal, tools, clothes and much more. The player who builds buildings which benefit from each other and manage their production chains best will gain the most victory points and become a master craftsman...

Oh My Goods! (2019 Edition)

Contracts games published by Deep Water Games

Strategy Game with Contracts

Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigious mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it the jewel of the archipelago. Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most prestigious city of them all, using resources...

People refer to this vast place only as "the Desert" since no one remembers what was here before. The golden age of human beings has long passed. Now there is only sand, and the only hope is in the humidity.Travelers cross the desert that stretches from...

Animals themed games with Contracts

Sunny Day Sardines

Kavango (Deluxe Edition)

Kavango (Deluxe Edition)

Video Game Theme themed games with Contracts

Minecraft: Heroes of the Village

Adventure and fun await in this cooperative Minecraft game! Can you protect the Village from raiding Illagers? Explore the world, collect Blocks, fight Mobs, and build defensive buildings before marauding Illagers invade. Your helpful animal companions...

Children's Game

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Contracts and Worker Placement games

1856: The first tea estate is inaugurated in the Darjeeling area. Quickly enough, more than eighty others will follow. In this refined and endearing game, one to five players will relive this major moment for the tea industry.Through strategic placement...

The cavernous halls of Winterforge echo once more with the roar of fire and the ring of steel. The six legendary guilds compete for the favor of the royal family, a favor that brings with it a contract of unrivaled value, the Royal Centenary Contract...

Win the Crown and Succeed the King of Emara!Use your actions and councilors to your advantage. Make the best tactical and strategic decisions, and become Emara's greatest benefactor.1. On each of your turns, send out one of your councilors and decide...

Contracts and Variable Set-up games

An Italian Masterpiece loved by gamers all around the world in a new complete edition.In Lorenzo il Magnifico, each player takes the role of the head of a noble family in a city during the Italian Renaissance to gain more prestige and fame — that is...

Bad CompanyBuild your own gang and customize it to suit your plans. Gather resources to complete heists and money to recruit new gang members. And make sure you escape the police! A unique and fun game from the award-winning designers of Automania and...

Take on the role of a fox mystic casting spells and collecting enchanted items in a magical moonlit forest! Nocturne is a beautiful puzzly game for the whole family. Each time you play you will encounter different Twilight and Moonlight goals, Concoction...

Contracts games published by Бельвіль

In Splendor, you lead a Renaissance merchant's guild. Your only objective: prestige! At the beginning of the game, you have a small stash of gems with which you'll build a commercial empire. Your tokens allow you to acquire mines, ships, and artisans...

Bring together a team of super heroes and prevent Thanos from ending the world! The Infinity Stones are scattered throughout the Multiverse. Use their essence to recruit heroes and villains and gain Infinity Points.Assemble the Avengers, acquire locations...

Splendor Marvel

Contracts games published by Kronos Games (Krogam)

Embark on an exhilarating journey through the bustling streets of Yokohama, where tradition meets modernity and opportunity awaits at every turn. Yokohama is an immersive board game that invites players to step into the vibrant world of 19th-century ...

Gold West is a delicate balance of resource management and area control. Build your mining empire while vying over the precious metals of the frontier! Carefully manage your supply tracks and refine the right resources at the right times to keep a step...

Contracts games published by Pixie Games

Contracts games published by Bombyx

The players take the role of courtesans of the Nippon emperor. They take care of his Giant Panda by growing a bamboo plantation. Mission: to farm parcels of land, irrigate them, and have green, yellow or pink bamboo grow. In turn, they see what the ...

Takenoko (2020 Edition)

Nicodemus Gideon, a handyman at the dream factory, is retiring! For the last 352 years, he has repaired the fascinating machines from the Bric-a-brac, essential for producing resources and charcoalium. Assistance interested in his position must face ...