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"Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« on: September 16, 2014, 04:32:28 am »
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Dominion was the first deck-building game, and for all of expansions remains to revolve around this mechanics, unlike A Few Acres of Snow or Rococo, which use the mechanics among others.

How about making a list of mechanics and the game that use this mechanics only or as their central theme.

Here's a first shot at it an aggregation of our suggestions mechanics and titles (selected at my whim):

Winning and losing -- Coin toss
Memory -- Memory
Supply and demand -- Executive Decision
Bidding -- Kuhhandel
Area control -- Forum Romanum
Set collection -- Quartett/The Game of Authors/Happy Family
Concurrent moves -- Rock-Paper-Scissors
Bluffing -- Liar's Dice
Roll and move -- Chutes and Ladders
Rock, paper, scissors -- Rock-Paper-Scissors
Press-your-luck -- Pass the Pigs
Trick-taking -- Hearts
Politics -- Mafia
Simultaneously passing single cards around the circle of players -- My Ship Sails
Drafting -- ??

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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2014, 04:51:55 am »
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Bidding - Modern Art / Going, Going, Gone
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2014, 08:09:46 am »
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Roll and move - Candyland
Rock, paper, scissors - Rock, paper, scissors (lizard, Spock)
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2014, 09:05:38 am »
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Memory - Memory Match
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2014, 12:02:16 pm »
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Press-Your-Luck:  Don't Stop
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2014, 12:34:57 pm »
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Press-Your-Luck:  Don't Stop

Do you mean :

Push Your Luck : Can't Stop

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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2014, 03:08:33 pm »
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Roll and move - Candyland

I think Chutes and Ladders qualifies a bit better here.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2014, 06:30:44 pm »
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Seven minutes in Heaven (inspired by the xkcd that I'm too lazy to look up)
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2014, 06:34:19 pm »
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Google is pretty smart.  It's the first result for https://www.google.com/search?q=Seven+minutes+in+Heaven+xkcd

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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2014, 06:41:40 pm »
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Winning and losing -- throwing a coin
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2014, 06:48:06 pm »
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Google is pretty smart.  It's the first result for https://www.google.com/search?q=Seven+minutes+in+Heaven+xkcd

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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2014, 08:27:05 pm »
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Press-Your-Luck:  Don't Stop

Do you mean :

Push Your Luck : Can't Stop

?

Can't Stop, Don't Stop, whatever.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2014, 12:29:33 am »
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Press-Your-Luck:  Don't Stop

Do you mean :

Push Your Luck : Can't Stop

?

Don't stop (don't stop) don't stop the beat,
Can't stop (can't stop) can't stop the beat,
Won't stop (won't stop) won't stop the beat,
And go!
Fixed.

Also,
Bluffing and push your luck: Skull and Roses
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2014, 12:54:15 am »
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Also,
Bluffing and push your luck: Skull and Roses

Also Press-Your-Luck:  Press-Your-Luck

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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2014, 12:56:53 am »
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Making up rules: Calvinball.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2014, 01:06:57 am »
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Being an asshole: 52 card pickup
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2014, 01:26:12 am »
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Being an a******: 52 card pickup

True story:

My dad: "Hey, do you want to play 52 card pickup?"
Me: "What's that?"
Dad: *shoots out a deck of cards*
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2014, 09:27:12 am »
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I fell for that once. I wish I wish I had the perfect response for that back when I was younger.

Asshole: "Hey, want to play 52-Card Pick-up?"

Me: "Sure, how do you play?"

Asshole: *throws 52 cards on the ground*

Me: You win. *walk away*
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« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2014, 12:01:03 pm »
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Being an a******: 52 card pickup

True story:

My dad: "Hey, do you want to play 52 card pickup?"
Me: "What's that?"
Dad: *shoots out a deck of cards*
I've done that to people before. It's great  ;D
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2014, 12:29:31 pm »
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Being an a******: 52 card pickup

True story:

My dad: "Hey, do you want to play 52 card pickup?"
Me: "What's that?"
Dad: *shoots out a deck of cards*
I've done that to people before. It's great  ;D
Asshole.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2014, 03:05:15 am »
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Making up rules: Calvinball.

on a more serious note: Nomic

What's the mechanic in Liar's Dice? It's not quite push-your-luck as you don't try to expand your profit on the risk of losing all but you try to (make your opponent believe you just succeeded to) beat a threshold which rises between turns.

On push-your-luck, I'd rate Pass the Pigs a bit more iconic than (the much more entertaining) Can't Stop.

Also: Trick-taking -- Hearts.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2014, 04:41:39 am »
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Politics -- Mafia

edit: There has been an even more generically politics-involving game called "Conclave" where players play cardinals and vote for the pope. As there is no real benefit in voting for somebody in particular (other than to accelerate the end of a game seen by many as pointless), I don't really know if it should count as a game.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2014, 12:29:20 pm »
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Liar's Dice has bidding, probabilities and bluffing.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2014, 01:26:04 pm »
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Liar's Dice has bidding, probabilities and bluffing.

Have you guys played the card game BS? I think it goes by a number of other names as well. That comes pretty close to a pure bluffing game, although of course there's some other strategy too.
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Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2014, 11:34:20 pm »
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I fell for that once. I wish I wish I had the perfect response for that back when I was younger.

Asshole: "Hey, want to play 52-Card Pick-up?"

Me: "Sure, how do you play?"

Asshole: *throws 52 cards on the ground*

Me: You win. *walk away*

All that means is he made the mistake of playing with his own deck. Never play 52 pickup with your own deck.
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