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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4345750" data-attributes="member: 6533">CarcassoneCataanEl GrandeGames with variable maps, trading, scoring, and downplayed agonistic components versus something like Risk or Monopoly.Which isn't to say they aren't competitive.  A husband and wife I know refer to Carcassonne as divorce in a box.The term Eurogame came to have a lot of significance in the US because prior to the advent of Cataan in the US market games had sort of stagnated.  There were:Party Games - Had a lot of variety but not much innovation and though the genre had lots of appeal not individual game did.Traditional American Games - Scrabble, Monopoly, and so forth.  Also, toy based games like Connect Four or Mousetrap.  Scrabble's great but nothing had happened here for decades.The Fading Legacy - Avalon Hill and other Wargame manufacturers chugging along.  There was some innovation and variety here but the basic experience and assumptions of game play rarely changed.  Getting into them was difficult and most games were really static.  Even Diplomacy with it's variety of strategies and personal relationships still just had the same map.  The relationship between Germany and Britain might change but Britain's basic problems would be the same from game to game.Cataan really opened all of this up.</blockquote>