Santorini is an abstract strategy board game for 2-4 players designed and released in 2004 by Gordon Hamilton and republished via Kickstarter in 2016 by Roxley Games.
 Inspired by the architecture of cliffside villages on Santorini Island in Greece, and primarily designed for two players, the game is played on a grid where each turn players build a town by placing building pieces up to three levels high.
 To win the game, players must move one of their two characters to the third level of the town.
Word board games are those games played on a board as players of the game attempt to construct words that use a scoring system.
 The player with the highest score wins the game.
 Many if not most board games are also available as software programs and online.
 Online word board games can be organized so that the player is playing against other people or the game can be played against an automated program acting as an artificial intelligence.
 Players of some word board games organize themselves into associations, clubs, and tournaments.
Francis Tresham is a United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s.
 Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997.
 His "1829" game was the first of the "18xx" board game series and some of his board games have inspired Sid Meier computer games such as "Railroad Tycoon".
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Cosmic Encounter is a science fiction–themed strategy board game designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977.
 In it, each player takes the role of a particular alien species, each with a unique power to break one of the rules of the game, trying to establish control over the universe.
 In 1992, a new edition of "Cosmic Encounter" won the Origins Award for "Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame of 1991" and placed 6th in the Deutscher Spiele Preis.
 The game was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design "Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame" in 1997.
Bear games is a category of board games of which many have historical roots in the Roman Empire.
 They were played in parts of the Empire as far away as Turkey and France and are still played today, especially in Italy.
 All of the games are two-player abstract strategy board games.
 Normally, the game is played with three hunters and one bear on a patterned board.
 It bears similarity to the hunt games such as the Fox games, Rimau-rimau, and Bagha-Chall, however, there are no captures involved.
 The three hunters are trying to hem in the bear, and block its movements.
Robert Charles Bell (1917–2002) was the author of several books on board games, most importantly "Board and Table Games 1 & 2" (reprinted as "Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations").
 This work won the Premier Award of the Doctors' Hobbies Exhibition, London.
 He was instrumental in popularizing traditional games, and is acknowledged as one of 11 "principal sources" in David Parlett's "The Oxford History of Board Games".
David Parlett (born 1939) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "The Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "The Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print.
 Parlett also invented a number of board games, the most successful of which is Hare and Tortoise (1974).
 The German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) in 1979.
Days of Wonder is a board game publisher owned by Asmodee Group since 2014.
 Founded in 2002, Days of Wonder distributes its games to 25 countries.
 It specialises in German-style board games and have branched out to include some online games.
 Days of Wonder has published games in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Polish, Danish, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Greek.
 Days of Wonder was co-founded by Eric Hautemont, Pierre Gaubil, Mark Kaufman & Yann Corno.
 Under the guidance of the company's Creative Director, Cyrille Daujean, the company quickly made a name for itself as a publisher of board games with top notch components and gorgeous designs.
Roxley (also styled Roxley Games, or Roxley Game Laboratory) is a Canadian game development and publishing firm located in Calgary, Alberta.
 Their games include Super Motherload, Steampunk Rally, Santorini (a reimagining of 2004 release Santorini by designer Gordon Hamilton), and the upcoming Brass: Lancashire (a reprint of 2007's Brass by designer Martin Wallace) and its sequel, Brass: Birmingham.
 Roxley ran a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign for Santorini which raised $700,524 and is in the middle of a Kickstarter which is projected to break that record again.

Question: Are Santorini and Cosmic Encounter both board games?
Answer: yes