Shared ideas, in ordinary language first. The hobby name is the label after the explanation, not the explanation itself.
In some games the table secretly picks which parts of the round happen. In others, one person names a role out loud and everyone follows.
Hobby terms: simultaneous action selection, variable phase order, role selection.
Used by Race for the Galaxy and Puerto Rico.
A card in your hand is either something you build or the cost of building something else. A weak hand is a real stall.
Hobby term: hand management.
Used by Race for the Galaxy. Not written as its own page yet.
Your score and your abilities sit in your own row. There is no shared map to move a piece across.
Hobby term: tableau building.
Used by Race for the Galaxy. Not written as its own page yet.
Each card has two numbers. You rotate it to decide which number is in play, then try to empty your hand in sets.
Hobby term: ladder climbing is the nearest BoardGameGeek label, and it only covers part of this.
Used by dnup. Not written as its own page yet.