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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.

Strategy Game with Contracts

Potions of Azerland

Coal Baron (1st Printing)

Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea

Smiths of Winterforge

Lorenzo Il Magnifico (2nd Edition)

Foodies (Last Chance)

Chocolate Factory

Chocolate Factory (Deluxe Kickstarter Edition)

Trekking the World

Downtown Farmers Market

Sagrada: The Great Facades #3 - Glory Expansion

Atelier - The Painter's Studio

Contracts and Modular Board games

Brazil - Imperial

Takenoko (2020 Edition)

Guild Academies of Valeria

Card Game with Contracts

King of the Dice

Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark

Broom Service - The Card Game

Sunny Day Sardines

Kavango (Deluxe Edition)

Kavango (Deluxe Edition)

Splendor Marvel

Taco Bell Party Pack Game

Contracts games developed by Eric Alvarado

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 Devir

Red Cathedral, The

Voyages of Marco Polo, The

City Building themed games with Contracts

Contracts and Network and Route Building games

Great American Mail Race, The

Molehill Meadows

Barrage - The Nile Affair Expansion

Pipeline: Emerging Markets Expansion

Starry Night Sky

Contracts and Increase Value of Unchosen Resources games

Century: Golem Edition

Century: Big Box

Solo / Solitaire Game with Contracts

Merchants of the Dark Road: Patron's Provisions Expansion

Dollars to Donuts

Merchants of the Dark Road (Standard Edition)

SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD (2nd Printing)

Creature Comforts - Maple Valley (Kickstarter Edition)

Raiders of the North Sea

Contracts games published by Arclight Games

Cooperate with members of your extended winemaking family in various different regions around the world as you try to achieve global recognition. Balance the management of your individual vineyard with the combined effort of your fellow players to gain...

Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion

You are bird enthusiasts - researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors - seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats...

Wingspan (with Swift-Start Pack)

Contracts games published by GoKids 玩樂小子

Splendor Duel is a two-player-only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design, while being a bit more complex, dynamic, interactive, rich, tense, and mean.The game features a main board shared by...

In this worker placement game, climb your way to victory through various paths like farming, traveling, participating in the council chamber, and many others. Your family members will live a fulfilling life and might get the chance to get a good place...

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...

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...

Contracts games published by Reflexshop

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...

Sheriff of Nottingham: Merry Men is a collection of expansions for the hit game Sheriff of Nottingham! The expansion is modular in nature, allowing players to add some, or all of the extra content to their games of Sheriff of Nottingham. Modules include...

Beyond the Sea of Mists lies Alula, a mysterious continent. Travel this ever-changing world and discover its wonders. Meet its inhabitants, unveil its secrets, and gain more fame than your competitors.Explore the continent, get quests, and gather the...

Altiplano puts you in the South American highlands, where you must be creative to develop the available resources and vegetation of the high plateau between the Eastern and Western Andes. Learn to thrive by fishing in Lake Titicana, mining ore, breeding...

Contracts games published by Lord of Boards

Contracts games designed by Jamey Stegmaier

This is a modular expansion to any version of Viticulture. What story will you tell as you seek to create the most successful vineyard in Tuscany?Tuscany: Essential Edition includes 3 expansion modules that can be used in any combination: special workers...

Viticulture: Tuscany Essential Edition

Old-world Tuscany awaits your winemaking skill and strategic cunning. You'll plant vines, harvest grapes, age wines, and fill merchant orders to create the greatest winery in Italy!Viticulture is a worker-placement strategy game that allows players to...

Viticulture: Essential Edition

Contracts games published by Stronghold Games

In Amul, each player is a striving merchant, competing for wealth and success. The creative card drafting mechanism caters to swift and simultaneous gameplay, keeping all players constantly engaged. Draft cards from the market to collect goods and valuables...

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 ...

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...

Contracts and Auction/Bidding games

Gutenberg

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...

mostly positive, 70%

Industry / Manufacturing

Auction/Bidding

Simultaneous Action Selection

Contracts and Map Addition games

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 games published by Sleeve Kings

Space Craft

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...

mostly positive, 77%

30 to 60 minutes

Science Fiction

Contracts games published by Hobby World

Rurik - Dawn of Kiev

Rurik: Dawn of Kiev is a euro-style realm building game set in an 11th century Eastern European kingdom and featuring area control, resource management, and a new mechanic - "auction programming."You play as one of several potential successors to the...

mostly positive, 76%

Territory Building

Area Majority / Influence

Auction/Bidding

Contracts games published by Ogry Games

Stonespine Architects - Shrines and Fountains

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.

mostly positive, 79%

Closed Drafting

Hand Management

Pattern Building

Contracts games developed by Molly Johnson

The Cascadia: Rolling series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia. Use...

The Cascadia: Rolling series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia. Use...

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 illustrated by Felideus Bubastis

Nicodemus

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 ...

Two-player Game

Industry / Manufacturing

Hand Management

Contracts games published by Ediciones MasQueOca

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...

Gregor Mendel is the 19th Century Augustinian Friar credited with the discovery of modern genetics. In Genotype, you play as his assistants, competing to collect experimental data on pea plants by trying to control how the plants inherit key Traits from...

Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game