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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.

Jeux à thématique Animals utilisants Betting

Sly: Micro Card Game

Dungeons & Dragons - Three-Dragon Ante

Pacific Ocean (Kickstarter Edition)

Camel Up: The Card Game

Schrodinger's Cats

Three-Dragon Ante: Legendary Edition

Strategy Game utilisants Betting

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...

Ready to place bets on a race of mythological proportions? Zeus has invited you, along with other divine friends from across the Multiverse, for a little get-together on Mount Olympus. After a legendary lunch and a few pints of Ambrosia, you start wagering...

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...

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...

Jeux publiés par NorthStar Game Studio et utilisants Betting

Jeux illustrés par Chad Hoverter et utilisants Betting

Jeux conçus par Hervé Lemaître et utilisants Betting

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...

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Jeux utilisants Score-and-Reset Game et Betting

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 ...

Guns or Treasure is a speedy game of buccaneering and bluffing!1. Secretly build your ships by adding guns, treasure, or bombs.2.Attack rival ships to steal treasure. But beware! They may have more guns - or even a bomb!3. Whoever captures the most treasure...

Gateway Island and its inhabitants are waiting to introduce you to the wonderful world of modern-day board games! You'll have fun farming, fishing, racing, and doing all sorts of other things. Outsmart and outmaneuver your opponents and find out what...

Jeux publiés par ADC Blackfire Entertainment et utilisants Betting

Jeux publiés par Blackrock Games et utilisants Betting

Velonimo

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...

Ladder Climbing

Jeux publiés par Piatnik et utilisants Betting

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 ...

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...

Dice Game utilisants Betting

Long Shot: The Dice Game

Paris - New Eden

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

Bloc by Bloc - Uprising (3rd Edition)

House of Borgia

Floating Market

Jeux à thématique Folklore utilisants Betting

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

Jeux rédigés par Matthias Wagner et utilisants Betting

Coyote

Once Coyote nearly drowned and lost all his belongings while crossing the river with his animal friends. Poor Coyote became very sad...and jealous.So he challenged the other animals to a game to win their possessions. Being an infamous trickster, Coyote...

Player Elimination

Jeux publiés par IELLO et utilisants Betting

Jeux utilisants Commodity Speculation et Betting

The 18th century was the age of music. Numerous gifted musicians composed heavenly music performed in royal courts and theatres all over Europe, which was passed through the ages. But these timeless masterpieces could not be created without the help...

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...

Black Friday (2023 Edition)

Jeux illustrés par Brian Caleffi et utilisants Betting

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

Jeux utilisants Hand Management et Betting

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...

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...

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...

The shadow of Rome falls over Capua. Spartacus: The Serpents and the Wolf expands Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery with two new Houses, and adds new cunning Schemes, deadly Gladiators and the vicious spectacle of team combat in the arena during...

Jeux conçus par T.L. Simons et utilisants Betting

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

Light the fires of resistance in this groundbreaking, semi-cooperative game inspired by 21st century protest movements, riots and popular uprisings.In Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game, each player controls a faction of revolutionaries—Workers, Students...

Cooperative Game

Area Majority / Influence

Party Game utilisants Betting

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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?

Moment of Truth, The

Jeux publiés par Jordan Draper Games et utilisants Betting

Tokyo Series - Metro

TOKYO METRO is a heavy economic simulation of the metro system in Tokyo, using a unique action placement cycling system, stock investments, speculation, loans, bicycles, grid movement, train riding, and more! Playing 1-4 players and taking 120 minutes...

Territory Building

Area Majority / Influence

Auction/Bidding

Jeux utilisants Simultaneous Action Selection et Betting

Gempire is the strategic hidden-action, city-building board game with different victory conditions virtually every time you play! King Zarmund is holding a grand competition to decide his new capital city! He'll make 3 random demands at the beginning...

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 ...

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 ...

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Sounds Fishy

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...

principalement positif, 70 %

4 à 10 joueurs

Jeux publiés par The Pandemonium Institute et utilisants Betting

Blood on the Clocktower

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...

très positif, 88 %

5 à 20 joueurs

Murder / Mystery

Mystery / Crime

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