Game mechanics in two distinct ways: Examples of tile mechanics include: "Scrabble", in which tiles are letters and players lay them down to form words and score points; and "Tikal", in which players lay tiles representing newly explored areas of jungle, through which archaeologists (represented by tokens) must move to score game points. Worker placement is a game mechanism where players allocate a limited number of tokens ("workers") to multiple stations that provide various defined actions. The worker placement mechanism originates with board games. Stewart Woods identifies "Keydom" (1998; later remade and updated as "Aladdin's Dragons") as the first game to implement
Words and Music (Canadian game show) name of a person, place, or thing through a series of musical clues. The show's organist George Fiala played a medley of three songs, all of which shared a common word in their title. For example, the medley of songs might be "Blue Moon," "Blue Skies," and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" so the common word is "blue." Once a contestant guessed the correct word, it was placed in a crossword puzzle on the game board. Another set of three songs was played and game play continued in the same manner with each new clue word placed on the crossword puzzle