Free Domino and Tile Games

Freely available domino and tile games


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Freely available domino and tile games, listed alphabetically (click on the game's entry for more info)

[0-9]

  • [18AL] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Alabama.
  • [18GA] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Georgia.
  • [6x5] - Each player must create a pattern of 5 elements, using the same building items and same area. There's a great chance that you're helping your opponent as well while you're trying to create your own pattern.

[B]

  • [Bridges and Boats] - A strategic war game in which the attacker is trying to get soldiers across a major river while the enemy tries to stop them.

[C]

  • [Coral Reef] - Build a calcareous masterpiece without noticing that you’re practicing addition with another marine polyp. Object: To use all of your corals in building a reef.
  • [Country Trains] - This is a tile placement game with additional pieces (trains) that move around on the tiles -- sorta like Carcassonne with a train theme.
  • [Cronberg] - A fast and easy tile placement game for 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up. The object is, during the reconstruction of Cronberg, to control the most valuable intersections with your own family and eventually become Mayor of the newly rebuilt city.

[D]

  • [Dalapapa] - Each player has in hand two reversible dominoes. Each face of the domino is cut in 8 demy-folios - squares cut by their diagonal. By placing his domino, one tries to connect the most edges possible and to close colored surfaces.
  • [Dead Even] - Match three or more dominoes so that the top row value is equal to the value of the bottom row.
  • [Dominox] - Dominox is played on a standard Chess/Checkers board using a standard set of Domino tiles. Using dominoes is a nice touch, and the result is a unique game of tile placement.
  • [Dschunke: Das Legespiel] - The swimming markets of Asia is pulsating with life. Two merchants are putting their goods on display, and will be happy to cover the goods of their adversary in the process. At the end will we see who was the best to present their goods.

[G]

  • [The Gamers Constellation] - Look at the stars, and you'll win if you're the first to spot your own Gamers Constellation. It's easy, it'll always stick somewhere around the silver disk of the moon...
  • [Gods] - You are a God attempting to influence the people of the world and attract them to your religion.

[I]

  • [InterSpace] - InterSpace is a space exploration & exploitation boardgame for 2 to 4 players. Each player assumes the role of a civilization that has grown beyond its home world and is expanding into the Universe.

[M]

  • [micropul] - micropul is a strategic & tactical tile-laying game in which players are scientists trying to extract precious micropul matter from an energy core.
  • [Mosaico] - A strategic tile-laying game: every player is an artist working on the Imperial Mosaic and has to show his skills, putting on the mosaic the tiles the emperor gave him before the other players do it.

[P]

  • [Penguin's Night Out] - You and your opponents take turns moving around the board (made up of dominoes) and altering the board. End your turn in your nest while carrying both of your buddy tokens to be the first penguin group to reach the dogsled into town and win the game. Yippee!
  • [Pirates & Plunder] - Pirates & Plunder is a standalone tile-laying game inspired by Carcassonne. Explore islands, establish trade routes, and engage in piracy on the high seas!
  • [Points Total] - Will you grab the high scoring spots, or will let your tile score high by pointing toward other tiles?
  • [Pokino] - An odd fusion of rummy and dominoes for two or more players.
  • [Puzzle Train] - A puzzle-slide game (similar to a cross between Mississippi Queen and Carcassonne) for 4 players, based on the Puzzle Railroad pc-game by XD Games.

[S]

  • [Space Junkyard] - Fly through a space junkyard & collect parts for your ship -- the player who best improves his ship when all the tiles are used is the winner.
  • [Snake Pit] - The idea of the game is to score points by completing snakes. The longer the snake, the more points you score.

[T]

  • [Tabernacle] - Relive the creation of a settlement in Canada, the way Samuel de Champlain did so many times in the XVIIth century (Quebec, Port Royal, etc.)
  • [Taxi Driver] - Taxi Driver is a board game for 3-7 players, who drive around the city looking for passengers.
  • [The Tide] - You and your friends are collecting shells and cleaning up the beach in this clever tile game.
  • [Tiles] - Players play tiles to try to close areas of their color to score points. The larger the closed area the more points scored.
  • [Tonga] - Players use special dominoes to build islands, the larger the better. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
  • [Toy Train] - You're building a train out of letters -- The goal of the Engine-Driver is to form the longest word he can; on the other hand, the goal of the Braker is to form the shortest word he can.
  • [TriHex] - A deceptively simple strategy game using triangular cards. Match cards to create hexagons in your color, and block your opponents from doing the same.
  • [Turnio] - The chips show on two or four corners quarters of circles or squares. Each player chooses one of these symbols. The players try to place or turn the chips in a way that completes their symbols.

[W]

  • [The Way] - A two player strategy game played on a 5x5 grid of cards, which are rotated and replaced to form paths to move upon. The first player to get to their destination, to find The Way, is the winner.
  • [Wheels of Steel] - Build tracks and transport commodities with up to four different trains in this tile-laying game.

[X]

  • [Xochintlan] - Xochintlan means 'garden' in Nahuatl, former language of the Aztecs. Players will be part of the legend by taking over the Animals' destinies and plan their settlement next to The Human.

[Y]

  • [Yield!] - Your patrol vehicle materializes in Sector 701. If another vehicle appears in Sector 701, your mission is to immediately intercept and destroy it. An intruder is already present! You grit your teeth and step on the accelerator...

[Z]

  • [Ziggurat] - A domino-stacking game for two or four players. Object: To score points by stacking dominoes on other dominoes with matching numbers.

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