eurogame
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of board game originating in Germany, characterized by simple rules, short to medium playtimes, indirect player interaction, abstract physical components, emphasis on strategy over luck or conflict, and economic themes.
noun
Alternative form of Eurogame.
Example Sentences
- "In America, where classics like Monopoly dominate, Eurogames still have an avidly geeky following."
- "No other Eurogame has had the same impact that Settlers [of Catan] had."
- "The game [Settlers of Catan] achieved a huge success: it received the “Game of the Year” award of the German game critics, and it was the first “eurogame” to become widely popular outside Germany, […]"
- "Costikyan specifically describes eurogames as a genre that “prizes strategy and planning,” yet, perhaps surprisingly, it is rare to find examples of eurogames that do not contain some element of chance."
- "Magnum Sal is a eurogame about exploration of a salt mine (second oldest still operating salt mine in the world)."
Etymology
From Euro- + game. The term was coined by Dave Howell in 1995 while he was working at Wizards of the Coast, as an alternative to the then-standard term German game.