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.
Piecepack is a public-domain game system that can be used to play a wide variety of board games, much as a standard deck of cards can be used to play thousands of card games ("A game system is a set of components that function together in multiple games").
 Piecepack has been used by dozens of different game designers to create over 150 different board games and is available from many different manufacturers.
 It was created by James Kyle in 2001.
Imagine is a series of video games primarily for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Windows, and Wii game consoles, released from February 21, 2007 and aimed primarily at girls aged 6 to 14.
 All games are published by French video game company Ubisoft.
 The "Imagine" series of games allows players to take on the role of various occupations, such as a fashion designer, rock star, movie star or teacher.
Philippe Keyaerts is a Belgian designer of German-style board games.
 His two first published games are "Vinci" and "Evo".
 Those two games use the mechanism of allowing the players to spend victory points to improve the characteristics of their play.
 He also invented "Space Blast", a small space battle game.
 Philippe Keyaerts is best known as the designer of "Small World", a 2009 fantasy-themed board game based upon a remake of "Vinci".
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.
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".
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.
Zombies!!!
 is a tile-based strategy board game for two to six players.
 "Zombies!!!"
 won the 2001 Origins Award for "Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game", and Zombies!!!
 3: Mall Walkers won 2003's Origins Award for "Best Board Game Expansion".
Evo: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs is a German-style board game for three to five players, designed by Philippe Keyaerts and published by Eurogames.
 The game won the "GAMES Magazine" award for "Game of the year 2002" and was nominated for the Origins Award for "Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game 2000".
 The game went out of print in 2007, and a second edition was released in 2011.
BoardGameGeek is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 84,000 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games.
 In addition to the game database, the site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and publishes a ranked list of board games.

Question: Which board games allows the most people to play, Zombies!!! or Evo?
Answer: Zombies!!!