The Dice Tower's Definitive 33 Tabletop Game Categories
Featured in episode 25.
| Category | Example Games | |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Abstract Strategy (Abstract War) | Chess, Gipf, Checkers, Daimyo, Stratego |
| #2 | Area Control | El Grande, Alexander the Great, Wongar |
| #3 | Auction | Boomtown, Modern Art, Aladdin's Dragons |
| #4 | Bluffing | Liar's Dice, Poker, You're Bluffing |
| #5 | Collectible Card Games / Expandable Card Games (CCG, TCG, ECG) | Overpower, Magic the Gathering, Blue Moon, Netrunner |
| #6 | Civilization or Empire Building | 7 Ages, Mare Nostrum, Twilight Imperium 3, History of the World |
| #7 | Cooperative | Arkham Horror, Vanished Planet, Shadows over Camelot |
| #8 | Deduction | Clue, Mystery of the Abbey, Zendo, Mastermind |
| #9 | Dexterity | Jenga, Topple, Carabande |
| #10 | Exploration | Lost Valley, Goldland, Eureka, Entdecker |
| #11 | Financial | Acquire, Union Pacific, Big Deal |
| #12 | Heavy Euro Strategy | Puerto Rico, Goa, Java |
| #13 | Kids | Candyland, Gulo Gulo, Right Turn Left Turn |
| #14 | Memory | Monkey Memory, Mamma Mia, Delta IV |
| #15 | Miniatures | Warhammer 40K, Warzone |
| #16 | Negotiation / Trading | Chinatown, Pit, Settlers of Catan, Basari |
| #17 | Party / Trivia | Apples to Apples, Trivial Pursuit, Time's Up, Pictionary |
| #18 | Political | Kremlin, Road to the White House, Diplomacy |
| #19 | "Push Your Luck" | Lost Cities, Can't Stop, Yahtzee |
| #20 | Puzzle | Turbo Taxi, Fresh Fish, Ricochet Robot |
| #21 | Race | Catagena, Formula De, Ave Caesar, Circus Maximus |
| #22 | Real Time | Brawl, Halli Galli, Affenraffen |
| #23 | Roll-and-Move | Life, Monopoly, Pay Day, You Must be Bonkers! |
| #24 | RPG Board Games | Doom, Return of the Heroes, Duel of Ages |
| #25 | Rummy / Set Collecting | Wyatt Earp, Ticket to Ride, Time Pirates |
| #26 | Sports | Pizza Box Football, Stratamatic Baseball |
| #27 | "Take That" | Family Business, Guillotine, Bang! |
| #28 | Train | Age of Steam, 18xx, Voldampf |
| #29 | Trick Taking | David and Goliath, Spades, Hearts, Atlantic Storm |
| #30 | Wargames - Operational | Sword of Rome, Bitter Woods |
| #31 | Wargames - Tactical | ASL, Memoir '44 |
| #32 | Wargames - World Scale | Axis and Allies, Europe Engulfed |
| #33 | Word | Scrabble, BuyWord, Word Jam |
