title: Connection game
Splendor (board game)
Olympiacos F.C.
Location-based game
Blokus
Tile-matching video game
Creature type (Dungeons &amp; Dragons)
Hero Honda Splendor
Psychosis (video game)
Artillery game
sentences: A connection game is a type of abstract strategy game in which players attempt to complete a specific type of connection with their pieces.
 This could involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or connecting all of one's pieces so they are adjacent to each other.
 Connection games typically have simple rules, but complex strategies.
 They have minimal components and may be played as board games, computer games, or even paper and pencil games.
Splendor is a multiplayer board game designed by Marc André and first published in 2014 by Space Cowboys.
 Players are gem merchants of the Renaissance buying gem mines, transportation, and shops.
 The game was nominated for the 2014 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year).
Olympiacos F.C. (Greek: ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. )
, also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiakos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. (Greek: Oλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς , transliterated "Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlo̱n Peiraió̱s", "Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus"), is a Greek professional football club, part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus.
 Their name was inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Alexander the Great, encompass and symbolise the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the Olympic ideal of Ancient Greece.
A location-based game (or location-enabled game) is a type of pervasive game in which the gameplay evolves and progresses via a player's location.
 Thus, location-based games must provide some mechanism to allow the player to report their location, frequently this is through some kind of localization technology, for example by using satellite positioning through GPS.
 "Urban gaming" or "street games" are typically multi-player location-based games played out on city streets and built up urban environments.
 Various mobile devices can be used to play location-based games; these games have been referred to as "location-based mobile games", merging location-based games and mobile games.
 Examples of such games include geocaching, BotFighters, "Ingress", and "Pokémon Go".
Blokus ( ) is an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, invented by Bernard Tavitian and first released in 2000 by Sekkoïa, a French company.
 It has won several awards, including the Mensa Select award and the 2004 Teacher's Choice Award.
 In 2009, the game was sold to Mattel.
A tile-matching video game is a type of puzzle video game where the player manipulates tiles in order to make them disappear according to a matching criterion.
 In many tile-matching games, that criterion is to place a given number of tiles of the same type so that they adjoin each other.
 That number is often three, and these games are called match-three games.
In the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, creature types are rough categories of creatures which determine the way game mechanics affect the creature.
 In the 3rd edition and related games, there are between thirteen and seventeen creature types.
 Creature type is determined by the designer of a monster, based upon its nature or physical attributes.
 The choice of type is important, as all creatures which have a given type will share certain characteristics (with some exceptions).
 In 3rd and 3.5 editions, type determines features such as hit dice, base attack bonus, saving throws, and skill points.
The Hero Honda Splendor is a motorcycle manufactured in India by Hero Honda.
 It has an electronic ignition and a tubular double cradle type frame with a 97.2 cc engine.
 The engine is based on the Honda cub C100EX with a similar bore and stroke of 50mm X 49.5mm.
 s of 2009 , Splendor models were selling at a rate of one million per year.
Psychosis ("Paranoia" in Japan) is a side scrolling shooter type game for the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
 It was released in 1990 by NAXAT Soft, which also released the games "Alien Crush" and "Devil's Crush" (two pinball type games.)
 When released it was praised for its colorful graphics and original backstory.
 It was released on the Wii Virtual Console in all nations in 2008.
Artillery games are early two or three-player (usually turn-based) video games involving tanks fighting each other in combat or similar.
 Artillery games are among the earliest computer games developed; the theme of such games is an extension of the original uses of computer themselves, which were once used to calculate the trajectories of rockets and other related military-based calculations.
 Artillery games have been described as a type of "shooting game", though they are more often classified as a type of strategy video game.

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 A connection game is a type of abstract strategy game in which players attempt to complete a specific type of connection with their pieces.
 This could involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or connecting all of one's pieces so they are adjacent to each other.
 Connection games typically have simple rules, but complex strategies.
 They have minimal components and may be played as board games, computer games, or even paper and pencil games. 

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 Splendor is a multiplayer board game designed by Marc André and first published in 2014 by Space Cowboys.
 Players are gem merchants of the Renaissance buying gem mines, transportation, and shops.
 The game was nominated for the 2014 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year). 

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 Olympiacos F.C. (Greek: ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. )
, also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiakos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. (Greek: Oλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς , transliterated "Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlo̱n Peiraió̱s", "Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus"), is a Greek professional football club, part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus.
 Their name was inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Alexander the Great, encompass and symbolise the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the Olympic ideal of Ancient Greece. 

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 Blokus ( ) is an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, invented by Bernard Tavitian and first released in 2000 by Sekkoïa, a French company.
 It has won several awards, including the Mensa Select award and the 2004 Teacher's Choice Award.
 In 2009, the game was sold to Mattel. 

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 In the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, creature types are rough categories of creatures which determine the way game mechanics affect the creature.
 In the 3rd edition and related games, there are between thirteen and seventeen creature types.
 Creature type is determined by the designer of a monster, based upon its nature or physical attributes.
 The choice of type is important, as all creatures which have a given type will share certain characteristics (with some exceptions).
 In 3rd and 3.5 editions, type determines features such as hit dice, base attack bonus, saving throws, and skill points. 

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 The Hero Honda Splendor is a motorcycle manufactured in India by Hero Honda.
 It has an electronic ignition and a tubular double cradle type frame with a 97.2 cc engine.
 The engine is based on the Honda cub C100EX with a similar bore and stroke of 50mm X 49.5mm.
 s of 2009 , Splendor models were selling at a rate of one million per year. 

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 Psychosis ("Paranoia" in Japan) is a side scrolling shooter type game for the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
 It was released in 1990 by NAXAT Soft, which also released the games "Alien Crush" and "Devil's Crush" (two pinball type games.)
 When released it was praised for its colorful graphics and original backstory.
 It was released on the Wii Virtual Console in all nations in 2008. 

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 Artillery games are early two or three-player (usually turn-based) video games involving tanks fighting each other in combat or similar.
 Artillery games are among the earliest computer games developed; the theme of such games is an extension of the original uses of computer themselves, which were once used to calculate the trajectories of rockets and other related military-based calculations.
 Artillery games have been described as a type of "shooting game", though they are more often classified as a type of strategy video game. 

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Answer: board game