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Grid Coverage

Grid Coverage in Board Games

Grid Coverage, often referred to as area enclosure or tile placement, is a board game mechanic where players aim to occupy spaces on a grid to gain points or achieve objectives. Below are key aspects of this mechanic:

Definition

Grid Coverage is about strategically placing game pieces on a predetermined grid in a manner that maximizes a player's control or coverage of the grid while minimizing the opponent's options.

Objective

The typical goal is to dominate more grid areas than opponents, which can result in gaining resources, scoring points, or triggering game-winning conditions.

Examples

Carcassonne: Players lay tiles to construct cities, roads, fields, and monasteries, aiming to claim and complete these with their followers.
Patchwork: Two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) quilt on a personal 9x9 game board by selecting and placing patch-shaped tiles.

Strategies

Success in Grid Coverage often involves a mix of foresight, spatial awareness, and tactical countermoves against opponents' plays.

Variation

Some board games introduce unique twists, such as pieces that affect adjacent areas or variable grid shapes, adding depth to this mechanic.

By integrating Grid Coverage, games encourage spatial reasoning and strategic planning, offering players a balancing act between offensive expansion and defensive positioning.

Grid Coverage games published by Gém Klub Kft.

Regroup new warrior and sorcerer chickens. Arrange your army strategically and defeat your opponents. May the strongest flock emerge victorious! 56 Cards 2 Rules Leaflets Mechanisms:• Card Play Conflict Resolution• Grid Coverage• Pattern Building

Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who else than young naturalists, eager for...

Tic Tac K.O. is a quick-to-learn card game that puts a diabolical twist on Tic Tac Toe, letting you smack your opponents to the side as you claim squares in your quest for victory. These adorable ruthless Dragons and Unicorns won't hesitate to destroy...

Pollution has covered the ruins of past civilizations. Only the Tribes of the Wing remain, flying from tree to tree to clean up the Forsaken Lands.Play as a Guide to those tribes, and use the back of your opponents' cards to optimize each of your actions...

City Building themed games with Grid Coverage

Shake That City

Tiny Towns: Tiny Trees

Castles by the Sea

Princes of Florence

Rebuilding Seattle

Tiny Towns: Architects Expansion

Strategy Game with Grid Coverage

A competitive tile-placement game for 1 to 4 players, where your goal is to create an attractive flower garden!Flower Fields is played over 3 Seasons, each composed of a variable number of rounds. On your turn, you must perform 1 action, either taking...

Simple and tactical at the same time. Qawale finds its inspiration in the piles of pebbles found along paths. Like these meandering stones, prepare to be transported by the many twists and turns of this incredible game. 1 Game Board 9 Light-colored Pebbles...

In Stack'n Stuff, a more streamlined version of Patchwork, players are on the move. However, packing all of your stuff into a moving truck is quite tricky, costly, and time consuming — and the day runs out fast!During the game, the last player on the...

The famous Senate Square in the center of the Finnish capital is surrounded by government buildings, the university, the cathedral and the Sederholm House. The players ´ task is to design pavilions across the square to protect pedestrians in the rain...

Grid Coverage games published by Cranio Creations

In New York Zoo, you are constructing an animal park. Build animal encounters, introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The first player to cover all the construction spaces on their zoo board with Enclosure Tiles and Attractions wins the game...

In Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening and are working two beds with a variety of flowers. Whenever no unplanted box is visible on a bed, you have completed it, then you count your points and replace it with a fresh, unplanted bed. You...

Winter is over! Lush meadows bloom and curious marmots slowly awaken from hibernation. Spring is finally coming into the mountains, making it a perfect time for a hike! Pack a picnic because you will need energy in the race for the edelweiss hiking pins...

Before winter makes its appearance, a particularly warm fall bathes the forest in a golden shimmer. During the Indian Summer, New England blossoms one last time. Treetops are ablaze with countless colors — a living rainbow, from green to orange to red...

Grid Coverage games published by Fractal Juegos

Tiny Towns is a competitive game about building a well-designed township from a shared pool of resources. It uses an innovative mechanism of resource selection where each player receives the same resources in the same order. This is a fast-playing game...

Distant islands with golden treasures - who hasn't dreamed of that?! You are in luck, because the treasure is in your hands. You are holding Silver & Gold: addictive gold by Phil Walker-Harding (Sushi Go, Imhotep, Baren Park).Players must rain Xs down...

Humanity has become more daring when sailing the open waters. More and more pirate ships venture into the forbidden seas, endangering their realms and the fantastic creatures who inhabit them. In Sea Dragons, you will send out your dragon clan to collect...

Grid Coverage and Modular Board games

Love The Castles of Burgundy, but looking for a more approachable and streamlined experience? Look no further! The Castles of Tuscany offers the same tile placement and victory-point-based gameplay in a 45-60-minute experience.Compete to build the most...

Race to the Raft is a cooperative path building and tile laying social puzzle board game for 1 - 4 players.In the game, you play the role of the disorientated island cats who are lost on the smoke-filled island. Nothing seems to be where it once was...

The saga continues! What started off as a simple island adventure has evolved into an ever-developing storyline. From ocean, to desert, and now to the sky, this latest installment takes you to new heights with several novel challenges, including collectively...

What would it be like to plant your own botanical garden?As a late 19th-century aristocrat, you've purchased land, hired a talented gardener, and set out to find the most beautiful flowers in the world. But that alone won't be enough - your visitors ...

Grid Coverage games published by White Goblin Games

In Nimalia, players will compete to design the best animal sanctuary by cleverly placing overlapping cards.Each card has 4 biomes, and each biome contains an animal. Place your cards well to achieve objectives and earn points.Each game will have a different...

Adventurers are lost in the wild land of Arzium and you must go on a quest to find them!• Search the land for coins and wandering creatures. When you find a lost adventurer, they'll join your party!• Buy artifacts with your coins to gain special abilities...

Grid Coverage and Flip and Write games

The Isle of Cats: Explore & Draw

Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig

Grid Coverage games published by GP Games

In this fast-paced, addictive, and easy-to-learn puzzle game, your goal is to fit a set of interlocking tiles perfectly into a specific area. Based on the original hit board game Ubongo, this compact version features 15 colorful plastic tiles, 20 puzzle...

Stretch your mental muscles into the third dimension! In this version of Ubongo, the hit puzzle game, players race to place three-dimensional blocks so they fit perfectly in a specific area on a puzzle card and completely fill a designated three-dimensional...

Ubongo is a fast-paced, addictive, and easy-to-learn geometric puzzle game. Players race against the timer and against each other to solve a puzzle of interlocking shapes. The faster you solve the puzzle, the more gems you get. The player with the most...

Grid Coverage games published by MIPL

A competitive card-drafting, polyomino cat-placement board game for 1 – 4 players (6 with Late Arrivals expansion).You are citizens of Squall’s End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord...

Isle of Cats, The (2020 Edition)

In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the ...

Grid Coverage games published by Pandasaurus Games

A Crowd of Umbrellas Fills the Streets of New York!From above, the colors dance. Perform the required figures and score as many points as possible!In this abstract strategy game, players aim to complete Figures using 4 Umbrellas of the same color. They...

Slide the Umbrellas!Welcome to the cast of "Slidin' in the Rain," the future musical that will make umbrellas swing. Will you succeed in sliding the umbrellas across the stage to achieve the required figures? 1. Select an Umbrella on one of the waiting...

Grid Coverage games designed by Shawn Stankewich

Abstract Academy

Dollars to Donuts

Grid Coverage games edited by Dustin Schwartz

Cartographers: Map Pack 4 - Frozen Expanse, Realm of Frost Giants

Cartographers: Map Pack 6 - Hornhelm, Wasteland Market

Cartographers: Map Pack Collection

Cartographers: Map Pack 2 - Affril, Plane of Knowledge

Cartographers: Map Pack 3 - Undercity, Depths of Sabek

Cartographers: Heroes

Cartographers: Map Pack 5 - Kethra's Steppe, Redtooth & Goldbelly

Cartographers: Map Pack 1 - Nebblis, Plane of Flame

Grid Coverage and Hexagon Grid games

Grid Coverage games illustrated by Klemens Franz

Your town is planning a new bear park...and you have been contracted to build it! Since animal welfare and species-appropriate housing is a matter dear to your heart, you're going to build large enclosures and spacious animal houses.However, it's not...

Easier than patchwork - does that make sense at all?In this offshoot for young and old, everything is a little less complicated: The area to be filled is smaller, there are fewer complicated patches and the game can be played even faster than the original...

Patchwork Express

Grid Coverage and Set Collection games

Grid Coverage and Roll and Write games

Grid Coverage and Area Majority / Influence games

As another sun sets and the pale moon rises over the ancient proving grounds, the bravest and wiliest creatures gather for the Klash - the ultimate test of wits and ability!Kombo Klash is a tactical tile laying and combo scoring game for 2-4 players....

Scientific minds were enthused by the discovery of a new island. The more enterprising among them have mounted expeditions to map this new land, dubbed Misterra. You are leading one of these expeditions.Explore the island. Discover and map its topography...

Bid, bluff and buy up America’s legendary roadside real estate! As one of the five richest people in history, you already own all the big stuff in America. We’re talking the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, The Chrysler Building…you’ve got ‘em all...

Solo / Solitaire Game with Grid Coverage

Grid Coverage games published by Devir

Food, Drink & Cooking themed games with Grid Coverage

Grid Coverage games published by FoxGames

As a skilled artisan, you will use tools-of-the-trade and careful planning to construct a stained glass window masterpiece in the Sagrada Familia.Players will take turns drafting glass pieces, represented by dice; carefully choosing where to place each...

Return to the famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Glory, the third and final of the Great Facades expansions. This modular expansion explores the thrill of competition and rivalry - add everything inside or handpick modules to enhance your crafting experience...

Sagrada: The Great Facades #3 - Glory Expansion

Grid Coverage games published by Galakta

Fantasy themed games with Grid Coverage

Add 4 new cards for more variety to your games Cartographers and Cartographers Heroes! All the cards have thematic tie-ins to Stonespine Architects.

Cartographers: Architects Mini Expansion

Tic Tac K.O. is a quick-to-learn card game that puts a diabolical twist on Tic Tac Toe, letting you smack your opponents to the side as you claim squares in your quest for victory.Join a team of adorable animals or creepy crawlies and stage a battle...

Tic Tac K.O. - Cute vs. Evil

Grid Coverage and Worker Placement games

Roll-and-write pros, newbies to the genre, and dinosaur fans are all in for a galactic treat with the first ever roll-and-write set in the bustling chaos of Dinosaur Island!Rawr n' Write packs a full strategy game experience into a roll-and-write package...

Draft dice to build your circus camp, hire artists and stage grandiose performances in this beautifully illustrated strategy game.The Magnificent is a new unique medium complexity strategy game from the designers of Santa Maria, featuring a unique take...

Delve into the world of Vikings and dabble in trading, hunting, raiding, pillaging, plundering, and raiding some more. Build houses, explore new worlds, and every round, have a feast in Odin's name.In this great strategy game, Uwe Rosenberg lets you ...

Jesus, whom they call the Messiah, enters Jerusalem surrounded by a multitude of followers. Tonight, he will gather with his apostles and friends around a table to share bread and wine.Very few are able to imagine that this will be their last supper ...

Grid Coverage and Dice Rolling games

The city needs your help! The mayor has called on you to create a set of gorgeous parks with greenery to beautify the urban landscape. With a pair of scissors and a plan, use your snipping talents to clip a park full of dazzling multi-colored features...

The Danish city of Copenhagen is traversed by canals and harbors, and part of it – Nyhavn (New Harbor) – is famous for the colorful gabled houses along the water.Players are tasked to finish the façades of new buildings on the waterfront. On a turn,...

Roll your dice to let your balloons go as high as they can - but be careful, if you go too high your balloon may break!

Grid Coverage games published by Bumble3ee Interactive

CULTivate

Play as a cult leader working to fill your compound with followers to help you carry out your agenda. But watch out! Rival cult leaders may try to sabotage you or convert the followers you can't keep in line. You might also garner unwanted attention ...

mostly positive, 71%

20 to 50 minutes

Card Play Conflict Resolution

End Game Bonuses

Pattern Building

Grid Coverage games designed by Andrew Bosley

Tapestry

Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people - your civilization is unique!In Tapestry, you start from...

mostly positive, 72%

Area Majority / Influence