In worker placement games you have a small team of pieces, often called workers or meeples, and on your turn you place one onto a spot on the board to take the action it offers. Each spot can usually only be used by one player, so once someone claims the bakery, the quarry, or the marketplace, it is gone for that round. The tension comes from reading what everyone else wants and grabbing the action you need most before it disappears. Once everyone has placed their workers, you take them back and do it all again the next round, planning a little further ahead each time.