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Many of the euro style games are positive sum - you add points at the end and see who had the most but each person built up during that time.

Powergrid and Agricola are two examples.



Exactly. Not many euro games are actually zero sum. Most benefit from positive sum interactions.

Settlers of Catan would be a good example with positive sum trading.


Yep! I find that many of them can be played with children by just ignoring the scoring; the process of building and expanding is fun enough. At some point, they will naturally start to notice that their line is longer than their brother's, and then you can introduce scoring.




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