They are usually made from injection-moulded plastic, but can also be made from a zinc-alloy metal. Cubesĭungeons and Dragons dice with D20 in the centreĭice are a really common piece in board games. Magic: The Gathering doesn’t come with counters so I like to use small glass beads with a flat back so they don’t roll off the table.ĭice are also a popular counter option where players just rotate the dice to show the current number. For example, to track the number of turns before a special ability becomes active. In the deck-building card game Magic: The Gathering, some cards ask that a counter be placed on the card at certain points. If there is a counter on every space, the ancient one is summoned. For example, the counters pictured above are in Arkham Horror: Call of Cthulhu (more details on Amazon) a counter is placed on the ancient one’s track each time a gate to the other world is opened. They are used to keep track of the numbers in a board game.Ĭounters may be used to keep track of how many times something has happened in a game. They are made of cardboard, plastic or wood. The coins in the picture are from Small World (check it out on Amazon).Ĭounters on an ancient one in Arkham Horror: Call of CthulhuĬounters are small, usually round board game pieces (although they can be any shape). In a new game coins are often on a chit sheet and need to be pushed out. They tend to have different numbers on them representing the value. Usually made of cardboard, coins represent currency in games. When the chits have been pushed out they will usually be called tokens, markers, tiles or whatever their component type is.Ĭhits are hugely versatile and are used for all kinds of things – a person’s units, power ups, resources – anything really. People are more likely to use the word ‘chits’ when referring to the chit sheet. You need to push the chits out of the cardboard sprue before you can use them. When you unbox a new game for the first time, the chits are usually on a printed sheet of cardboard and are partially cut out. They are usually made of cardboard with a lighter density than the main game board. Character sheet/boardĬhits are small pieces of cardboard that come in all kinds of shapes. The Draw Pile from which people draw new cards and the Discard Pile where players place cards after they have used them. There are two main types of decks in a typical game. The cards held by a player are called their hand (shortened from ‘hand of cards’).Ī group of cards in a game forms a deck. For example, it is common for cards to cause a random game event, for them to represent bonus items used by a player, or represent monsters in the game. They tend to have individual designs on the front of each card and a standard design on the back.Ĭards are usually protected with a thin layer of plastic laminate to stop the ink from wearing away when they are handled and to stop them from sticking together.Ĭards can be the only component in a game such as Sushi Go! (see on Amazon) Or cards can be a part of a board game with other components.īecause cards can be shuffled and dealt at random, they are often used in game design to introduce an element of randomness and chance to a game. CardsĬards in games are usually square or rectangular and have slightly rounded corners which makes them feel nice to hold. See my article, Board Game Boards – What They Are Made From and Why for more info. Then the back and sometimes front sides are then wrapped in textured art paper and a protective coating is applied to it. The board has the printed board design glued to the front.
In Kodama: The Tree Spirits it is used to track the progression of the turns in the game.īoard game boards are usually made from a binding board, the same type of cardboard that hardback book covers are often made from. In Carcassonne the board is used to track a player’s score. Some boards are used to track scores or other game elements. Arkham Horror: Call of Cthulhu is one of my favourite games, but it takes up a huge amount of space! In the new edition, the board is made from interlocking tiles instead of one large fold out board so the game takes up less table space. Some game boards are very large and need a big table to play them on. It tends to be placed in the centre of a table so that it is easy for players sitting around it to access it to play game pieces.
The board is usually square or rectangular and is what the game pieces are played on. Although, games without a board such as Cards Against Humanity, are often included in the board games category. The board is where board games get their name from. See my affiliate disclosure.īut there are some generic names which go across all games. If you click a link and buy something, I may get a commission.
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