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.
Junta is a board game designed by Vincent Tsao published, as of 1985, by West End Games.
 Players compete as the corrupt power elite families of a fictional parody of a stereotypical banana republic (specifically "Republica de los Bananas") trying to get as much money as possible into their Swiss bank accounts before the foreign aid money runs out.
 Fighting in the republic's capital during recurrent coup attempts encompasses most of the game's equipment, rules and playtime.
 This game-within-the-game is however actually tangential to the players' main goal.
Tikal is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.
 The theme of the game is that of adventurers exploring parts of a Central American jungle in which artifacts and temples are discovered.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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".
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.

Question: Are both Junta and Tikal considered board games?
Answer: yes