A tile-based game is a

game A game is a structured type of play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or video games) or art ...

that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for

gambling Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of Value (economics), value ("the stakes") on a Event (probability theory), random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy (ga ...

or entertainment games. Some board games use tiles to create their board, giving multiple possibilities for board layout, or allowing changes in the board geometry during play. Each tile has a back (undifferentiated) side and a face side. Domino tiles are usually rectangular, twice as long as they are wide and at least twice as wide as they are thick, though games exist with square tiles, triangular tiles and even hexagonal tiles. Modern games may use unconventional non-tileable shapes such as the curved-shaped Bendominoes, or use many different shapes that together tile a surface such as the polyominoes in Blokus.

Traditional

* Anagrams * Chinese dominoes *

Dominoes Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ''ends''. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called ''Pip (counting), pips ...

* Khorol * Mahjong

Commercial

* '' Okey'' * '' Quad-Ominos'' * '' Qwirkle'' * '' Rummikub'' * ''

Scrabble ''Scrabble'' is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a Board game, game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, re ...

Using non-rectangular tiles

* '' Bendomino'' * '' Blokus'' * '' Gheos'' * '' Heroscape'' * '' Hive'' * '' Tantrix'' * '' Triominos''

Board games

* '' Alhambra'' * '' Azul (board game)'' * '' Betrayal at House on the Hill'' * '' Carcassonne'' * '' Domineering'' * '' Fjords'' * '' Forbidden Island'' * '' Galaxy Trucker'' * '' Gold Mine'' * '' Rallyman: GT'' * '' Saboteur'' * '' The Settlers of Catan'' * '' Tsuro'' * '' Tsuro Of The Seas'' * '' Zombies!!!''

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Traditional

Commercial

Using non-rectangular tiles

Board games

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