Games With Rondels

Players share Matt Dixon’s mechanical creatures and move them around a rondel, collecting resources. Build up your robots, build pipes, and collect birds and butterflies for points.

Players move around a series of moveable cards, collecting resources to weave dreams.

Players go around a series of spaceports, collecting crystals to earn bonuses and points.

Set sail on a round course through the 17th century Caribbean to take actions or deliver goods to have the greatest influence after four rounds.

Mining cards move clockwise, from shaft to shaft, interacting with the contents. You might find water, you might find gold and ore, or you might find the Red Ball of Fate.

Each player is the leader of a 17th century Scottish clan looking to expand their territory. By moving around a rondel, you’ll collect territory tiles, but you also may be limiting your overall number of turns.

Glen More II: Chronicles

Stefan Feld’s game of the titular wizard and the knights of the round table—a round table that also acts as the rondel for moving knights and taking actions.

Prove yourself to be the greatest builder in the city by going around the rondel that is The Red Cathedral to gather resources , gain favors, and go to market.

Construct buildings, write manuscripts, work the castle, and acquire deeds to gain victory points, all by “going around” the kingdom as you gain influence in the different parts of society.

Move around a modular board, gaining an action and a worker upgrade or powerful bonuses, all as you work to build the great Pyramid of the Sun.

Spread the influence of your order by moving around an upgradeable rondel that dictates your actions in the game.

Uwe Rosenberg’s game about quilting. Choose which polyomino to add to your quilt based on the available pieces each turn, pieces that are set out in a rondel around the scoring board.

You’re a Mallorcan farmer, working to harvest as many tropical fruits as possible, fruits based on your location on a rondel and their location on the map.

Randomly set out a ring of townspeople, then travel from person to person in a clockwise manner to get the resources each one offers. Build factories to receive the goods they produce, build the right combination of buildings to score points.

Brew the best beer as the head of an ancient cloister by collecting the right resources from the common rondel and adding them to your monastery board.

Travel the streets of Edo, meeting the merchants, street vendors, professionals, and artisans while working to find the greatest balance of urban life.

Uwe Rosenberg’s game of zoo building. Travel around the rondel to select polyominoes of animal enclosures to add to your zoo board.