A game offer (invitation or waiting-room) has two kind of types:
 
Game-Type:

• Go : the standard (non-multi-player) Go game
  
• Team-Go : multi-player-game with two teams playing each other
  
• Zen-Go : multi-player-game with odd number of players taking turns
  

Handicap-Type: game-setting that influences the setup and start of a game; often referred to only as "Type":

• Conventional: see Conventional handicap
  
• Proper: see Proper handicap
   
  
• Manual setting (even or handicap game):
  
  • Nigiri: see Nigiri (even or handicapped game)
    
  • Double: see Double game
    
  • Color Black: player that offers game gets Black color
    
  • Color White: player that offers game gets White color
    
  
  
• Fair Komi (even game): see Fair-komi game
  
  • Open Auction: Fair-komi game with an open auction to negotiate komi
    
  • Secret Auction: Fair-komi game with a secret auction to negotiate komi
    
  • You cut, I choose: Fair-komi game with Divide&Choose, one player chooses komi, the other the color
    
  • I cut, You choose: Fair-komi game with Divide&Choose, one player chooses komi, the other the color