In some sense is Twister a worker placement game?
Limited workers (limbs)- check
Passive aggressive spot selection with varying levels of value as the game progresses - check
Falling over. - check.
It reminded me of how similar action selection is to worker placement.
I’m not sure where this topic will go to be honest. But maybe some other wacky interpretations of mechanics would be fun.
All games are auction games. – (paraphrasing) Mark Bigney
Similar to my observation the other day that (unless something very odd is happening) all RPGs are storytelling games, so regardless of system or anything else, everyone is playing a bard.
Every game is like Mage Knight 
All chess is 3 dimensional chess.
I thought it was a dexterity game… Or when you get to an age, the thing you do to keep the children happy for a bit that will hurt the rest of the evening…
Unless you’re playing with the Romulans.
Always a 4D chess game with them.
(Technically, all Chess is also 4 dimensional… unless you’re playing the Romulans, in which case maybe it’s 5D?).
Allow me to introduce my exciting new Kickstarter project: 12-Dimensional Chess, including a chess board constructed by our engineers in a mind-warping 12 dimensions*, and 32 credible miniatures.
*notalldimensionsusedequally.
Klondike solitaire is the original roguelike, which means any roguelike is actually a Klondikelike.
And since Klondike is a card game, that means rogue(6) is an auction game
All games are economic games, but not every economy has money.
I think you could make the case ticket to ride is a racing game where you simulate synapses firing that tell you to press the pedal.
In Soviet Russia, all games are Party games.
If it is late enough, all games become drinking games…
Boring worker placement games soon become lurker-in-basement games.
Don’t call me Ludo! - Wittgenstein
A Ludwig consists in the name that he displays
