Tile-based game

A tile-based game is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling 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 rectangular, twice as long as they are wide and at least twice as wide as they are thick. Other games exist with square tiles, triangular tiles and even hexagonal tiles. Modern games may use unconventional non-tileable shapes such as the curved-shaped Bendominoes, or use many different shapes that together tile a surface such as the polyominoes in Blokus.

Traditional Anagrams Chinese dominoes Dominoes Khorol Mahjong – Traditional Chinese tile-based game played with a set of 144 tiles.

Commercial Okey Quad-Ominos Qwirkle Rummikub Scrabble

Using non-rectangular tiles Bendomino Blokus Gheos Heroscape Hive Tantrix Triominos

Board games

Alhambra Azul (board game) Betrayal at House on the Hill Carcassonne Domineering Fjords Forbidden Island Galaxy Trucker Gold Mine Rallyman: GT Saboteur The Settlers of Catan Tsuro Tsuro Of The Seas Zombies!!!

See also Sliding puzzle

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