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.
Lost Cities is a 60-card card game, designed in 1999 by game designer Reiner Knizia and published by several publishers.
 The objective of the game is to mount profitable expeditions to one or more of the five lost cities (the Himalayas, the Brazilian Rain Forest, the Desert Sands, the Ancient Volcanos and Neptune's Realm).
 The game was originally intended as a 2-player game, but rule variants have been contributed by fans to allow 1 or 2 further players, causing Reiner Knizia himself to later provide semi-official 4-player rules.
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".
Alan R. Moon (born 18 November 1951) is an author of board games, born in Southampton, England, and currently living in the United States.
 He is generally considered to be one of the foremost designers of German-style board games.
 Many of his games can be seen as board game variations on the travelling salesman problem.
A Gamut of Games is an innovative book of games written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969.
 It contains rules for a large number of paper and pencil, card, and board games.
 Many of the games in the book had never before been published.
 It is considered by many to be an essential text for anyone interested in abstract strategy games, and a number of the rules were later expanded into full-fledged published board games.
Totopoly is a commercial board game, based on the events leading up to, and during, a horse race.
 Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is based on a double-sided board, with each side representing a different half of the game.
A lost city is a settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.
 The locations of many lost cities have been forgotten, but some have been rediscovered and studied extensively by scientists.
 Recently abandoned cities or cities whose location was never in question might be referred to as ruins or ghost towns.
 The search for such lost cities by European explorers and adventurers in Africa, the Americas, and Southeast Asia from the 15th century onwards eventually led to the development of archaeology.
This page explains commonly used terms in board games in alphabetical order.
 For a list of board games, see List of board games.
 For terms specific to chess, see Glossary of chess.
 For terms related to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems.
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.
In the popular imagination lost cities are real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that have fallen into terminal decline and been lost to history.
 Most real lost cities are of ancient origins, and have been studied extensively by archaeologists.
 Abandoned urban sites of relatively recent origin are generally referred to as ghost towns.

Question: Are Lost Cities and Totopoly both considered board games?
Answer: no