Classification of Games

Criteria

• Sort of Challenge/Skill
1. Games of Skill
• Physical Skill Games
• Mental Skill Games
2. Games of Chance
3. Games of Strategy
4. Simulation Games
• Equipment used
  
  1. Computer
  2. Board
  3. Cards
  4. Tiles
  5. Dice
  6. ...

Other Distinctions

• Game Mechanics
• Number of players
• Chance
1. Deterministic Games
• Chess
• Checkers
2. Stochastic Games
• Roulette
• Chutes
• Deep of Strategy
• Easy to Learn Rules of the Game
• Abstract or Reality
• Elimination of Players