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A tile-based game is a
A tile-based game is a game
A game is a structured form of play (activity), play, usually undertaken for enjoyment, entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator s ...
that uses tile
Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or o ...
s as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three el ...
or entertainment games. Some board games use tiles to create their board, giving multiple possibilities for board layout, or allowing changes in the board geometry during play.
Each tile has a back (undifferentiated) side and a face side. Domino tiles are usually rectangular, twice as long as they are wide and at least twice as wide as they are thick, though games exist with square tiles, triangular tiles and even hexagonal tiles.
Traditional games
*Anagrams
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* Chinese dominoes
* Dominoes
* Mahjong
Mahjong or mah-jongg (English pronunciation: ) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is commonly played by four players (with some three-play ...
Commercial games
* '' Okey'' * '' Quad-Ominos'' * ''Qwirkle
''Qwirkle'' is a tile-based game for two to four players, designed by Susan McKinley Ross and published by MindWare. Qwirkle shares some characteristics with the games ''Rummikub'' and ''Scrabble''. It is distributed in Canada by game and puzz ...
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* '' Rummikub''
* '' Scrabble''
Games using non-rectangular tiles
* '' Bendomino'' * ''Blokus
Blokus ( ) is an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, where players try to score points by occupying most of the board with pieces of their colour. The board is a square regular grid and the pieces are polyominoes. It was designe ...
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* ''Gheos
''Gheos'' is a tile-laying board game designed by René Wiersma. Graphic design and illustration was supplied by Joshua Cappel, and box cover art was painted by Allan Bednar. The game was published in 2006 by Z-Man Games.
Gameplay
In ''Gheos'' ...
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* ''Heroscape
''Heroscape'' (stylized as "heroScape" or "HeroScape") is an expandable turn-based miniature wargaming system originally manufactured by Hasbro subsidiaries from 2004 until its discontinuation in November 2010. Geared towards younger players, th ...
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* ''Hive
A hive may refer to a beehive, an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species live and raise their young.
Hive or hives may also refer to:
Arts
* ''Hive'' (game), an abstract-strategy board game published in 2001
* "Hive" (song), a 201 ...
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* '' Tantrix''
* ''Triominos
Triominoes is a variant of dominoes using triangular tiles published in 1965. A popular version of this game is marketed as Tri-Ominos by the Pressman Toy Corp.
Composition
A triomino is in the shape of an equilateral triangle approximately on ea ...
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Board games
* ''Alhambra
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* ''Azul (board game)
''Azul'' (Portuguese language, Portuguese for ''blue (color), blue'') is an abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game designed by Michael Kiesling and released by Plan B Games in 2017. Based on Portuguese tiles called azulejos, in ''Az ...
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* ''Betrayal at House on the Hill
''Betrayal at House on the Hill'' is a board game published by Avalon Hill in 2004, designed by Bruce Glassco and developed by Rob Daviau, Bill McQuillan, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn Woodruff. Players all begin as allies exploring a haunted house ...
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* ''Carcassonne
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Inhabited since the Neolithic, Carcassonne is located in the plain of the ...
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* ''Domineering
Domineering (also called Stop-Gate or Crosscram) is a mathematical game that can be played on any collection of squares on a sheet of graph paper. For example, it can be played on a 6×6 square, a rectangle, an entirely irregular polyomino, or a ...
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* '' Fjords''
* ''Forbidden Island
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* ''Galaxy Trucker
''Galaxy Trucker'' is a science-fiction board game for two to four players. The game was developed by Vlaada Chvatil, with graphics designed by Radim Pech. The Czech version of the game was released in 2007 by Czech Games Edition, and a Germa ...
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* '' Gold Mine''
* '' Rallyman: GT''
* '' Saboteur''
* '' The Settlers of Catan''
* '' Tsuro''
* ''Tsuro Of The Seas
Tsuro is a tile-based board game designed by Tom McMurchie, originally published by WizKids and now published by Calliope Games.
Tsuro is a board game for two to eight players. To play, players compete to have the last playing piece remaining o ...
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* ''Zombies!!!
''Zombies!!!'' is a tile-based strategy board game for two to six players. ''Zombies!!!'' won the 2001 Origins Award for ''Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game'', and Zombies!!! 3: Mall Walkers won 2003's Origins Award for ''Best Board Gam ...
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See also
* Sliding puzzle {{DEFAULTSORT:Tile-Based Game