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Contracts

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 developed by Krzysztof Jurzysta

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...

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...

Exploration themed games with Contracts

Brazil - Imperial

Minecraft: Heroes of the Village

SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD (2nd Printing)

Starry Night Sky

Solo / Solitaire Game with Contracts

Strategy Game with Contracts

Foodies (Last Chance)

Downtown Farmers Market

Contracts games published by Lucky Duck Games

Contracts games published by Maldito Games

Contracts and Simultaneous Action Selection games

Own the best ice cream truck in the neighborhood! Summer has come to your neighborhood! Try to fulfill all the ice cream orders around town before your opponents!Adds new scoring mechanics to the hit flip and fill Welcome To… Comes with new city plan...

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...

The Easter Egg Hunt has begun!Spring has come to your neighborhood! And there’s nothing like a little competition during a holiday season… Race to collect the Easter eggs around town before your opponents. Adds new scoring mechanics to the hit flip ...

Add 7 new cards for more variety to your games of Stonespine Architects.This new chamber cards include 3 shrines allow you to swap two chamber cards and 4 fountains move a market token from one chamber to another.

Contracts games designed by Bruno Cathala

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...

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 ...

Contracts and Area Majority / Influence games