The Canonical List

of Free Print-and-Play Games

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The Game-it-Yourself Canonical List of Free Print-and-Play Games

Links to the individual pages for each letter of the alphabet (plus 0-9):

Note: All game descriptions/summaries are taken from either the game's website or from the rules for the game, so any reference to 'I' or 'me' refers to the game designer.

Please report any errors to me at donald.seagraves@gmail.com.

Quick descriptions -- click on the game's title for more info

[0-9]

['Dillos In Austin] - You think road construction is bad in your town? You should try living in Austin. This simulation for 2 to 4 ground-dwelling armored rodents will give you an idea of how confusing the roads in Austin are...
[1000 Blank White Cards] - Draw and play game where players make the cards as the game goes on
[1000 Blank White Questions] - Trivia game where the players make the trivia questions
[10-Die Poker] - A clever little poker game that takes gobs and gobs of dice.
[11 Kings] - A civilization game for 6 or (preferably many) more players.
[12 Disciples] - A religious themed card game for 2 players (no longer available)
[16!] - An abstract game where players drop 3x3 patterns matching those already on the board
[18AL] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Alabama.
[18FL] - 18FL is an '18xx' game set in Florida. 18FL is a small 18xx game, in the style of Mark Derrick’s 'one-state' games 18GA and 18AL, and is intended as a change from the more robust 18xx games often played. (no longer available)
[18GA] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Georgia.
[18Scan] - 18Scan is an 18xx game set in the Scandinavian peninsula of Northern Europe. It includes most of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. (no longer available)
[18US] - A complex 18xx game set in the lower 48 states with a substantial number of alterations to the 'customary' 18xx rules. (no longer available)
[18VA] - an 18xx game set in Virginia as well as pertinent neighboring areas of Maryland and the District of Columbia. (no longer available)
[1930!] - A game inspired by the game Diplomacy that attempts to retain Diplomacy's simple rules and personal interaction, but extending the game play to include aircraft, the political or economic power of countries, and many more neutral countries.
[1st Alamein] - 2-player wargame set in Egypt, July 1942
[2006 World Series for Sports Illustrated Baseball] - If you know how baseball works, you already know most of the rules to Sports Illustrated Baseball! This 'expansion' lets you play out the 2006 World Series -- you don't need Sports Illustrated Baseball to play since everything you need is included in the downloadable file, expect for the dice.
[30] - Solitaire dice game in which you get to throw the dice exactly 30 times. If you are efficient with your early tosses, you can use your saved throws to improve your score.
[369] - An abstract game where you attempt to be the 1 to make more 3 and 6 in-a-rows.
[36d6] - Board game using 36 six-sided dice -- each player tries to capture as many dice as possible
[4-Square] - Unlike the playground game of the same name this is not a game of eliminating. It requires only a standard deck of playing cards without jokers.
[4D Tic-Tac-Toe] - Try to make as many 3 in-a-rows that you can!
[55Stones] - A new one-rank Mancala game from Germany with simultaneous movement and perfect information. Players try to capture most stones. Draws are not possible.
[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.

[A]

[Aardvark] - The Aardvark game's overall objective is based on the idea that people, not cards, should be the friends of Aardvarks.
[Abande] - Attempt to get the highest score by entering new pieces on the board or capturing your opponent's pieces. The main tactical concept of Abande is the 'band' -- all the pieces on board must remain connected. The second game in Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy.'
[Aboyne] - Slide and jump your pieces until you reach your goal on the opposite corner in this abstract game.
[Abrekodibru] - A card game inspired from the traditional Cheat Game. Players are wizards trying to make up some new magic spells.
[Abs-Trac-Toe] - A winnable variant of Tic-Tac-Toe for two modern artists.
[Abstract Crosse] - An abstract version of the game Crosse -- a sort of revserse checkers played on a 10x10 board, with a special center area called the Crosse.
[Abyss] - Slide enemy stones out of the board in this abstract game played on a 5x5 board.
[Accasta] - A 2-player abstract game with a clear, consistent structure -- the game uses stacked pieces, multiple moves, and liberation of previously captured pieces (no piece is ever removed from board during play.) The firts game in Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy.'
[Accelerator] - A runaway maze game for two to four subatomic particles.
[Acies] - A card game simulating a battle between two armies represented by the player's decks.
[Acorn] - Tribes of oak harvesters line a small valley, preparing to plant their trees in the fields below. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Activator] - An abstract game where the object is to occupy the opposing player’s home square for a full turn or reduce the opposing player to a single piece or stack.
[Afriboria] - Miniatures rules to simulate warfare in colonial Africa using color-coded units and taking into consideration the vast difference in quality of weapons used by imperialists and natives.
[Afrika] - A mancala variant with a distinctive Draughts-like feeling because of its forced winning combinations.
[Age of Empires] - Based on Microsoft's PC game Age of Empires. This is a tactical-level abstraction of epic empire building and conquest.
[Age of Heroes] - Age of Heroes puts you in charge of one of the great tribes of antiquity, in a struggle to become the great empire that dominates the ancient age.
[Agincourt] - A sneek peek at GMT's Men of Iron that lets you fight out the Battle of Agincourt between the French and the English.
[Air Traffic Controller] - A logic based game in which you must manage an airport. Each turn you can make one command to an aircraft. Each aircraft then follows this command on the tarmac.
[Airborne!] - The rules and OPFOR from Gators!, but in this game, instead of the USMC, the 82nd Airborne drops in for a visit.
[Akron] - A connection game played with marbles on a square grid, letting players stack pieces over enemy blocks.
[Alchemy ICE] - Noughts and crosses (aka 'Tic-Tac-Toe') with randomized 'symbols' of five different types, played with icehouse pieces.
[Alea] - (aka Tabula) An ancient Roman precursor to Backgammon, this game was known as Alea, meaning 'gambling', but came to be called Tabula, meaning 'board' or 'table'
[Alexander the Game] - A free solo card game set in the ancient world of Alexander The Great.
[Alexius 1113 A.D.] - A short and easy to play campaign that has its own counters, map and battle rules!
[Alien Abduction] - Deduction, role-playing, and uncomfortable probes for two or more aliens -- a new spin on Twenty Questions, where one player is the Abductee and the other players are Aliens.
[Alien City] - The players in this piecepack game are competing builders working to construct the alien city. At the same time they are choosing towers for themselves that they hope will be profitable with lots of close customers and little competition.
[All the King's Horses] - Stalemate your adversary with a set of shared horses.
[All the Ships] - A set of counters for naval battles. If you ever wanted to re-enact Jutland or Leyte Gulf, but your budget for miniatures limited you to the Monitor vs the Virginia, your ships have come in!
[All the Way Down] - It is the dawn of time and the cosmic turtles are gathering. Each turtle wants to be the one at the top of the tower that will eventually hold up the world.
[Alpha Playing Cards] - A card game system that allows you to play several word games. Vowel cards are semi-wild -- each vowel card lets you choose between two vowels.
[Alphabet Runner] - It’s more than just a game – it’s a battle of wits where imaginations are fired and words are the weapons of choice. The alphabet cards are available in upper and lower case Alphabet to download and print out.
[Alphatian Roulette] - The most violent game in the world (after chess, that is). Played with 5 six-sided dice, you attempt to massacre your opponent by inflicting ten points of damage on him.
[Alquerque] - The 'father' of checkers/draughts, dating back to at least ancient Egyptian times -- played on a 5x5 board, in much the same way as checkers/draughts.
[Alva] - Jump over enemy stone while minimuzing the number of your own pieces left on the edge of the board in this abstract games played on a 9x9 board.
[Alzabandiera] - A 'geographical' challenge with questions and answers, and a pizzico of strategy that always fits. Sixty flags to find out how large the world is!
[Anansi] - An abstract game for 2 to 4 players inspired by Tibetan sand mandalas and named after a mythic spider from African folk tales.
[Anaxis] - A tactical space wargame, using ship counters and hex paper. It's moderate in complexity and detail (especially when compared to some other games in the genre.)
[Ancients] - Ancients is a low-complexity tactical combat system, which allows players to recreate virtually any battle from the ancient (pre-gunpowder) world.
[Anchor] - An abstract game played on an 8x8 hexagonal board where you attempt to create 'anchors' that surround the most space on the board.
[Andantino] - Players take turns placing hexagonal tiles in each of two colors. A player wins by surrounding at least one of the opponent's tiles with tiles of ones own color or by making a line of five hexagons of the player's own color.
[Animal Hunters] - A game where players move their pieces (hunters) on a hexagonal desert. Once 4 hunters are next to a hex with an animal, that animal is captured by the player who has most hunters nearby.
[Annuvin] - An abstract game where the number of pieces you have remaining determine how mobile your pieces are. Captures all of your opponent's stones to win
[Antagon] - Players command two columns of ants against each other, trying to move to safety the eggs deposited in the nest.
[Anteel] - A rules-light but tactically serious space wargame, which is totally diceless. In fact, there are no randomizers of any kind, resulting in a game that is all about strategy, rather than luck.
[Antimatter] - An explosive card game for two players. Will your cards make you points, or will they explode in your hands?
[Antipod] - Antipod is a connection game with unequal goals played on the two halves of a sphere. Black wins by forming a chain of black pieces between the antipodal goals of each board half. White wins by preventing a Black win.
[Antshouse] - An Icehouse game. Ants running the gauntlet over a pavement while mean kids tries to splat them.
[Apex] - A connection game for two people that also allows captures and moved. An entry in the 2001 About.com 8x8 Game Design Competition.
[Apostle] - A Christian 'war' game. Build your churches, guard them against false teachings, deal with persecution, and raise up more workers to make more churches.
[Archers] - Invade your enemy's woods with your archers while keeping his archers out of your own woods.
[Archimedes] - Enter your opponent's port while staying out of range of his pieces in this 2-player abstract game.
[Arena] - A fight with coins in the arena.
[Arena (Icehouse)] - A combat game with Icehouse pyramids. By keeping track of, and selecting, the speed of your ship you will move around an imaginable arena for space combat, where the galaxy's aces settle the score!
[Arepo] - An abstract game based on the Latin magic square, currently only available in in Catalan and French.
[Aries] - Push your opponent off the board or into your own pieces with well-planned chain reactions in this 2-player abstract game.
[Armada] - A large fleet of small, fast ships against a smaller fleet of slower, but more powerful warships. Which side will emerge the victors in this battle of the seas?
[Armies at Lutzen] - This game simulates the Battle of Lutzen during the 30 Years War.
[Army Brats] - What could be scarier than military school? How about being one of the new kids? Luckily, you have a cunning plan. You and the other new kids are going to try to get expelled so you can go back to public school with all your friends.
[Army of Darkness] - The game represents the battle at Arthur's castle at the end of the movie Army of Darkness.
[Arrow Cubes] - Capture your opponents cube or force them to stalemate you in this 2-player abstract game.
[The Artifact] - Fantasy heroes band together to recover a weapon that is the only means to destroy an evil Artifact that could end up controlling the world!
[Ascowt] - The exciting world of racing... cows!
[The Assassination Game Le] - Victim -- reach all the Secure Bases and return to the Safe House. Assassins -- eliminate the Victim before he can complete his mission.
[Assault Gun WW2 Miniature Rules] - Free wargame rules for miniature wargaming WW2 large-scale battles. In Assault Gun, one unit is typically either an infantry regiment or a battalion, such as tanks. This means that a large, recognisable, action of WW2 can be fought in a day with a manageable number of units.
[Assault on Belgium] - A free one-turn mini game featuring the German conquest of Belgium in 1940.
[Assembly Line] - Players each control 9 workers on an assembly line. As the products roll by, players will get a chance to score at certain points in the game, based on what product they're working on at that moment. The winner of the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition
[Asteroid] - Solo Table top game based on the Arcade Classic. Although a one player game, it can be adapted for two players.
[Astromachia] - A starship combat simulation boardgame for two or more players, featuring fast, highly interactive play, realistic Newtonian movement, and a strong sense of three-dimensionality.
[Ataxx] - It may look similar to Reversi/Othello, but it turns out to be quite different. Situations are not so easily reversed; strategies are more offensive. Because you must attack, attack and again...
[Atomic] - A game for two that's a real blast! An abstract game with a connection element -- be the player that has the most pieces showing in your color by the end of the game.
[Atoms] - Split molecules into smaller atoms & stalemate your opponent in this 2-player abstract game.
[Attack Vector] - A game of futuristic combat between ships in space that attempts to add some realistic elements to the game, while keeping it fun to play.
[Attangle] - Be the first to build 3 stacks of your color which are 5 pieces high in this 2-player abstract game. The final game in Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy.'
[Attract] - Pieces attract each other in this 2-player abstract game.
[Attraction] - Pieces orbit each other in this 2-player abstract game.
[Axis of Evil - 2007] - So it begins...World War III. Who will ultimately become the great superpowers of the world? Will Europe and America prevail again or will they be consumed by the new Axis of Evil? (no longer available)
[Axles and Alloys] - A free miniatures game about futuristic vehicular combat. Build your car, then send it out to combat other players to see who the King of the Road really is...

[B]

[BAG] - psssst! Hey, buddy. What’s in the BAG?—- a creative thinking word game, minus the letters and words, for two or more players
[Balam] - Each player take the role of a competing king who is building cities on various sites of the thick forest of the Yucatan in the 8th century -- the most prestigious king will become the first emperor of Yucatan.
[The Balkans - 1999] - NATO and US forces feel that the only way to stop the 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo is to launch a ground campaign against Serbian forces. Meanwhile, Russia refuses to sit idlly while an old ally is attacked and begins to bring 'volunteer forces' into the area. Who will win this showdown in the Balkans? (no longer available)
[Barbarian Prince] - Barbarian Prince is a solitaire game of heroic adventure in a forgotten age of barbarism and sorcery.
[Barbarossa Solitaire] - A solitaire game simulating the Nazi-Soviet conflict of 1941 to 1945. Player moves the Nazi forces against a simulated Russian enemy. (no longer available)
[Barnard's Star] - A science fiction war game of the first interstellar war.
[The Barons of Fyn] - The Barons of Fyn is a card based strategy game in which competing players each try to become the most mighty Baron of Fyn.
[Barrier] - Jump around the board & create barriers in this 2-player abstract game.
[The Base Game Set] - A set of simple elements that practically anyone who enjoys games will already own, and which can be easily bought for minimal amounts of money if you don't. It can be used to create your own board-and-card games, or play the ones listed on the designer's website
[Baseball (piecepack)] - A a loose simulation of baseball for two players, played with a piecepack set. There’s plenty of luck involved, but some of the choices managers face in real life are represented here.
[Basic Fleet Combat System] - A minimalist game of starship fleet combat, with an eye to playability.
[Basic Starship Combat System] - A simple, flexible starship combat system, inspired by Star Fleet Battles.
[Battle for Armageddon] - a strategic boardgame representing the conflict between invading Orks and the Imperial world of Armageddon's defence forces. (no longer freely available)
[Battle for Moscow] - Battle for Moscow is a historical wargame of the German Army's struggle to defeat the Soviet Army and capture Moscow in 1941.
[Battle for Paradise] - A strategic board game for two players. The goal is to capture and hold cities on a contested island paradise. Can also be used with the Budget Battlefield tabletop gaming system from Microtactix Games.
[Battle of Berlin] - A two player card game simulating the battle of Berlin (4/3/1945 – 5/2/1945). Players are Russian Generals competing to be the first to capture Berlin.
[Battle of Honey Springs] - A wargame modeling the largest Civil War battle in the Indian Nations.
[Battle of Marignano] - A free wargame about the Battle of Marignano. Takes place during the Italian wars, and simulates a large battle which took place in Italy between the French and Swiss in 1515.
[Battle of Seattle] - A mini-game inspired by the anti-WTO riots in Seattle November 30 - December 3, 1999.
[Battle of Talana Hill] - A wargame simulating the Battle of Talana Hill, the first major clash of the Second Boer War.
[Battle Platform Antilles] - In this solitaire game an elite squadron of Paladin Class assault ships are under your command. Objective: Destroy an artifact battle platform while minimizing losses to your squadron.
[Battle Zone] - Be the first player to have a piece of each of the 10 colors in play cross over and off your opponent’s home row in this fast-paced icehouse game.
[BattleFront] - A free card game set in World War II. The players control opposite factions and face each other in a fight for victory through five different fronts. The more you get, the better your chances of winning.
[Battles: Win or Lose] - Basically an amalgamation of a trading card game and a role-playing game. The object of the game is to beat your opponent Mobs to a pulp.
[Battleship(s)] - Sink your opponent's fleet before he sinks yours in this classic public domain pen and paper game.
[BB-Deathmatch] - What do you do when you have a half dozen friends over to play a miniatures game? You could play one large battle with most of the players bored most of the time, or you could play BB Deathmatch.
[Be Quick!] - Be Quick is a typical 'party game', easy and quick to play, yet the idea behind it allows to stress your fancy gifts, and your boldness as well.
[Bears, Foxes & Hares] - Use your team of animals (a grumpy bear, an impatient fox and a nervous hare) to get to the center of the board first.
[Behind Every Good Man] - It's your job to try and make something out of your man, or at least change him enough that you won't be embarassed taking him out once in a while. (no longer available)
[Berlin] - Attempt to get 12 pieces of the Berlin Wall before your opponents do.
[Beyond the River Don] - A campaign game that takes maybe 30 minutes to create from scratch, with limitless scenarios, a different map each and every time, and has counters representing numerous nationalities and groups.
[Biathlon] - Competitors from the US, France, Russia, Canada, and Italy seek to ski through the course with the fastest time while shooting accurately at three groups of targets.
[Bid] - Trivia meets with brinkmanship in this explosive new party game. Full of fun, tactics and nerves.
[Bid (piecepack)] - An abstract auction game for the piecepack -- be the first to reach 100 points. You get points by winning auctions -- rolling dice determine the rules for each auction.
[Big Brutal Basketball] - A free card game about a basketball match between 2+ players.
[Billiards] - Knock your pieces around the board until you get all your pieces to the other side in this 2-player abstract game.
[Biloba] - A abstract game of custodial capture where captures can cause chain reactions.
[Binary Homeworlds] - The 2-player version of the game Homeworlds
[Bingo Battle] - A luck-of-the-dice piecepack game friendly and fair to all ages, regardless of skill. Players take turns rolling dice, trying to form locked stacks of coins that can later be claimed. Be cafeul, or someone may steal your locked stacks before you can claim them!
[Bivouac] - Slide and capture to occupy your own home base in this 2-player abstract game.
[Black & White] - Move and jump to make a 4 in-a-row or stalemate the adversary in this 2-player abstract game.
[Black Cat] - A simultaneous, real time, high speed card game for two to four players. Object: To build kitty piles consisting of adjacent pairs of cards that add to 10. There are other card sequences that also score points.
[Black Hole Explorer] - What evidence do we have to understand Einstein’s predictions about the strange creatures known as ‘black holes’? Expect the unexpected in this board game and learn how black holes affect the space and time around them.
[Black Pawn Trucking] - You are the sole proprietor of the Black Pawn Trucking Company, a small freight operation trying to compete for goods delivery contracts in a tough economic environment.
[Black Thursday] - You are a New York investor floating an economic bubble that’s about to burst. Suddenly caught in the market panic, you use shrewd trading (and a bit of luck) to get rid of as much stock as possible and avoid jumping out any windows.
[Blam!] - Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers.
[Bleeding Sherwood] - A lunatic named Robin Hood has taken it upon himself to burgle the rich nobles and redistribute their ill-gotten wealth to the ubiquitous Poor. You and your merchant friends have taken it upon yourselves to relieve these simple peasants of their newfound wealth, with such desirable medieval amenities as fyne arte, olde milke, and tropical fyshes.
[Blockade] - In early October // the Snoodles and Kleetches // all frolic and muddle // on kriddle-pop beaches. Object: To get your pieces across the board and on to the other side before your opponent does. Played on a backgammon board.
[Blockade (Icehouse)] - A two-dimensional race game for two players, played Volcano-style. A Volcano board is helpful but not necessary.
[Blockade (piecepack)] - Runner -- try to get one of your four pawns to the end of the board. Blocker -- stop him at all costs.
[Blockdance] - Capture by group pivot moves in this 2-player abstract game of 'blockdancing' stones.
[Blood Diamonds] - A picepack game that pits west African warlords against one another for control of rich diamond fields. Your goal is to acquire as many diamonds as you can and sell them for the highest profits.
[Bloody Mary: Further Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this game you get to relive the politics of middle Tudor England as you strive to secure your candidate for the Throne... and keep your own head.
[Blox] - Blox is a strategy game played with building blocks, such as Legos or Tyco Mega Blocks. Players compete to construct a 3D chain of blocks on a base plate.
[Blue Nile] - Travel thru the Nile until you find a dead end for your opponent in this 2-player abstract game.
[Boer War] - 2 player card game simulating the Boer War 1899-1902
[Bogart] - A push-your-luck type dice game played with 4-sided dice and poker chips.
[Bombardment] - Bomb your path do victory in this 2-player abstract game.
[Bone Barter] - Trade bones with your friends.
[Bones] - Bones is a two player strategy game in which each player tries to be the first to get 5 squares of the their color in a row. Can you deal with the overlapping of pieces better then your opponent?
[Bonga Bonga] - An active game where you bounce a ball across to your partner a specific number of times. (Bonga Bonga has more in common with a game of catch than traditional competitive games. The play process is more important than the objective.)
[Bonsai Samurai] - A nano-game of a duel between two samurai. The game consists of a single card which serves as a somewhat chaotic spinner, which determines the players' options in a weighted rock/paper/scissors-style contest.
[Boom Box] - In Boom Box you are challenged in balancing your Boom Box right and left audio channels.
[Bosconian-D] - Solo dice game based on the arcade game Bosconian by Namco -- attack and destroy the enemy's bases. You must also shootdown enemy missiles, space mines, and asteroids that get in your way.
[Boum!] - Players compete in a closed arena, planting bombs against each other (similar the the videogame Bomberman.) Don't be the first one to blow up!
[Box Hex] - A Hex variant on a three-dimensional 'boxed' topology -- be the first to connect your two opposite segments with a continuous line of colored-in circles.
[Boxes] - The classic pencil and paper games where players take turns connecting dots that are horizontally or vertically adjacent, trying to complete squares.
[Brain Baseball] - The Zombie card game you can play with a standard deck! Originally released in August 1998 as a limited-edition game, made with leftover bid cards from a poorly sorted print run of Give Me The Brain.
[Brain Burn] - A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack similar to the classic 15-puzzle with some aspects borrowed from Ron and Marty Hale-Evans’ Changing Landscapes game 'Easy Slider'.
[Branches & Twigs & Thorns] - An elegant little strategy game for two or four players, a chessboard, and some Icehouse pieces. Players seek to build chains of pieces of their own color and to force their opponents to branch of from opposing pieces of their opponents' colors.
[Breakfast at daVinci’s] - Breakfast at daVinci's is a quick game requiring some observation skills, for 2 or more players.
[Breakthrough] - Winner of the 2001 About.com 8x8 Game Design Competition. Each player -- black and white -- has sixteen counters occupying two rows on opposite sides of the board (exactly as Chess is set up). You win by moving one piece to the opposite side.
[Brewhouse Bash] - You are quietly sitting in a bar enjoying your fungus beer when a fight breaks out. Being an Ork, you simply can’t resist joinin’ in and so a massive scrap develops....
[BrickMech] - BrickMech is a d6-based game where Mechs built of LEGO® bricks vie for ultimate control of the battlefield.
[BrickQuest] - BrickQuest is a game of small-scale fantasy combat, played with LEGO® bricks, similar to HeroQuest, Warhammer Quest, or MageKnight Dungeons.
[Bricolage] - A game for four or more players, who spend chips to create a character description system on the fly. Descriptions are framed by attributes, which are enhanced by Traits, which in turn are found in source material.
[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.
[BrikWars] - BrikWars is a miniatures wargame, which means that players pit miniature models of military units in simulated combat against each other. Unlike more serious wargames, BrikWars is intended for battles between toys, and especially plastic building bricks and other construction toys.
[Bugs!] - An easy to play miniatures game where the bugs are big with an attitude and it's your job to turn them into pink mist before they slice and dice you. Man against bug at the personal level.
[Building Babel] - Players try to build the legendary 'TOWER OF BABEL' while God is out to stop them! (no longer available)
[Bunker Hill] - Card game based on the battle from the American Revolution.
[Bushka] - Here's the odd one out in the Draughts family - not draughts at all really, more of an adopted species. Bushka's way of capture originates in Fanorona. Bushka basically employs the idea of linear-movement and linear-capture to translate the idea of capture by contact into a draughts-like framework.
[Bushi Shogi] - BUSHI means Samurai. In this Shogi variant is only two squares and two pieces, fighting Samurais'.
[Bushido] - A wargame set in feudal Japan. WIll your force be victorious, or does Seppuku await you instead? (currently available in Italian only, but an English translation is on its way.)
[By the Walls of Constantinople] - A game from the One Page Wars series. Four Byzantine galleys try to break through a large contingent of Ottoman vessels and get to the Golden Horn.
[Byte] - Byte is the first really high quality game engineered for Checkers sets. There's no jumping, capturing, connecting, surrounding, racing, in-a-rowing, or any of the usual, tired mechanisms. Byte is a deep game, and skill is hard earned.

[C]

[Café Race] - You are office workers racing downstairs with a cup full of coffee. The player that makes it to the bottom of the stairs and spills the least amount of coffee wins.
[Calculi] - This ancient Roman game is the familiar game of 'Five in a Row,' which was played on the same boards as Latrunculi. Some historians and archeologists have referred to this game as Roman Draughts or Checkers.
[Canadian Salad] - A card game in the Barbu family. Players play trick, trying not to get certain cards. Each round has different cards that you are trying to avoid (12 rounds in all.)
[Candidate] - Two to six players attempt to adapt their own candidate's image to correspond with the desires of the people, while preventing their opponents from doing the same.
[Cannon] - An elegant 2 player game of war, it is easier to learn than chess with the same level of replay you would expect from classic games.
[Canvas Eagles] - Canvas Eagles is a multi-player air combat game set in the time of World War One 1914-1918.
[Capture] - A card game for 2 players. You must capture more cards than the other player by the end of one play through the deck.
[Capture] - (aka Boxes) The classic pencil and paper games where players take turns connecting dots that are horizontally or vertically adjacent, trying to complete squares.
[Capture All Monsters] - Players move around board trying to capture monsters. When a monster is captured, the space is essentially owned by a player as in Monopoly.
[Car Tricks] - A unique car racing game in that no one person controls a specific car. Instead, players try to predict the entire order of finish for all the cars in the race.
[Caravan] - A pick up and deliver game where players trade goods and put up buildings.
[Caravansérail] - Each player is a sheikh ruling a desert kingdom in this game of exchange and negotiation for 6 or 8 players.
[Cardinal’s Guards] - A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack. Move your musketeer around the castle, defeating or luring guards, while searching various chambers, before trying to escape. Will you be able to bring proof of Cardinal Richelieu's treachery to the King in time?
[Cascades] - A 2-player abstract game that models/abstracts the flow of water carving out a mountainside.
[Castle Croquetnole] - An adaptaion of Lewis Carroll's game Castle Croquet for the piecepack. Be the first to successfully invade all of your opponents castles and return to your own castle.
[Castles] - The object of Castles is to collect the most gold over a predetermined number of rounds by placing your castle nearest the most valuable resource tiles and trying to avoid hostile tiles.
[Cat Burglar] - One player is the Environment Master, and the other players are thieves. The thieves have to make it to the end of the city block without getting arrested, but must avoid angry boy scouts, parades, dogs, garbage trucks, cops on horse back, fruit throwing street vendors, flirtatious supermodels, super heroes, etc.
[Catego] - (aka Katego) Reiner's exciting family game from his book Dice Games Properly Explained.
[Catnap!] - It's a lazy, crazy race around the house to end up right back where you started ... doing nothing! Oh yeah, did I mention the evil twins who are out to humiliate and torture you? (no longer available)
[Caveman Dating Game] - The players are a bunch of cavemen competing for the most beautiful women in the tribe. Of course the most desirable women are the most difficult to obtain and hold on to.
[Ceiling Fan Baseball] - The sport you can play with your Ceiling Fan! Basically, this is a game of baseball played with a wad of paper and a ceiling fan. Dumb, but fun!
[Celtic Knot] - A race game with a twist for two to four players, played with a printable board and 6 nickels, dimes, quarters, and pennies.
[Centre Rock] - Each player commands archers, pikemen, and swordsmen in pushing each other around, eliminating their enemies, and generally carrying on in an uncivilized fashion in the name of acquiring and defending The Rock.
[Cephalopod] - Played on a 5 x 5 board, players take turns adding their dice to the board, attempting to capture and place on the same turn. The player who occupies the majority of the board when the board is filled wins.
[Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 (CAM 8)] - Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 is a sub-surface tunnel claiming, giant hamster management game for three, four, or six hyperintelligent psychic whales.
[Chain Reaction] - Whether you're patrolling the front lines, leading a gang of survivors in a "dark future" Wasteland, or rooting out Zombies, yes, Zombies, Chain Reaction provides the rules. Any combat that involves modern weapons can now be recreated in a realistic manner.
[Chameleon] - Players place tiles to forms groups of three or four like-colored tiles to earn points. Use your chameleon wisely to earn more points, and watch out for your opponents wasps, or you'll lose points to the wasp’s owner!
[Chaos] - In this game of controlled chaos, the players compete to capture all ten colors of Icehouse pieces.
[Chaos Chess] - Need a break from the straight-and-unbreakable rules of standard chess? Each card breaks at least one fundamental rule of chess, creating a game that is ever changing - even chaotic.
[Chaos Cruisers] - In the midst of all the chaos of this futuristic race, one wily cruiser will prove to be the fastest, most agile, and most crafty of them all. Who will earn the Chaos Cup?
[Charge at the Alamo] - A game portraying the Mexican assault on the Alamo. The Alamo Compound and six immediate approaches are depicted on a map that can be adequately printed on a single 8/5 x 11-inch sheet.
[Chariots] - A 'history repeats itself' game of racing chariots like in the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, for the piecepack.
[Chasing Cogs] - Your machines are broken and you need to chase down some new cogs to fix them. Trouble is, some one else might beat you to it ... (no longer available)
[Chemin Montagneux] - Trail-blaze a path and be the first to hike your way to the top of your own mountain peak in this piecepack game.
[Chess] - The classic game of skill. What more can I say?
[ChessWar] - A strategic game for two players. It is meant to be played on standard chessboard with standard chess pieces -- it is NOT chess with dice and some extra rules! Instead, it is strategic game played with chess pieces.
[Chicago] - Chicago is an auction game based on a poem by Carl Sandburg. You and your fellow players have come to seek fortune and glory in rebuilding Chicago by engaging in philanthropy to create cultural landmarks -- see who will become the grandest person in Chicago!
[China Moon] - (aka Flower of the Lotus) Frogs competing to bring a lonely duck the most beautiful bouquet of lotuses.
[Chinese Checkers (piecepack)] - This is the classic game Chinese Checkers adapted for play on a square board (or, more precisely, this is the game Halma adapted to play with the piecepack
[Choosy Sushi] - A changing landscapes game for the piecepack. You are a waiter at a very busy (and often times chaotic) sushi restaurant. Deliver the food the fastest, while working with an uncooperative conveyor belt.
[Chou Chèv' Loup] - The wolves eat the goats. The goats eat the cabbage. So far so good. The only problem is that wolves don't like to share, and nor do the goats. Will the cabbage manage to turn things in its favor?
[Christmas Lights] - It’s nice to spruce up the Christmas tree with light even if your brothers and sisters are a little competitive about it. This year you’ll show them how to do it right.
[Citadels] - Each player is in a power struggle to control the most citadels. You fortify your citadels with walls, and guide your warriors in the field of battle to storm other citadels.
[City Council] - A game for the piecepack. Players will develop a new community through adroit manipulation of zoning and transit laws and important city councilors. The player who does this best wins the game.
[City Planning] - The players are the city planners hired to develop Fumblebuck. They compete with each other to create the best-supported Residential, Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial zones in which businesses and families can thrive.
[Clash of Empires] - A Conflict Simulation of the Battle of Magnesia in 190BC between the armies of the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Empire.
[Clay-O-Rama] - A silly game played with modeling clay where players create 'claydonian' creatures, assign them powers, move them around, and fight other 'claydonian' creatures.
[Clear!] - A piecepack game very similar to Bingo in the sense that each player possesses a “card,” which one marks based on a random element. In this case, you are attempting to remove coins based on the roll of 4 dice.
[Cleave] - Slide your soldiers and capture enemies by custody or intervention in this 2-player abstract game.
[Click!] - The players represent two photographers willing to take pictures of neat subjects, like animals, in order to gather the most points.
[Climb On!] - A battle of ascension for 2 players where you try to score more points than your opponent by climbing your largest dice as far up the mountain as you can before the game ends.
[Climbing Man] - What is it about climbing a rock wall? The thrill? The test of body and mind? The satisfaction? Plain craziness??!! A solitaire piecepack game.
[The Club] - You are a Night-club DJ under orders from the Club Manager to keep the clubbers happy. You must entice clubbers on to the Dancefloor (from the Bar Area), then, as the night progresses, on to the Stage.
[CMYK] - A Chinese Checkers variant played with 4-sided dice.
[Coatl] - A vaguely Aztec-themed race around a spiral. Promote your pieces and screw over your opponents with their special abilities.
[Coffee Table Caverns] - Simple fantasy combat miniatures rules, suitable for coffe tables everywhere... (no longer available)
[Coin Collectors] - A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack. Collect all the coins on the 5x5 grid.
[Cold Spell] - Form the most valuable words with cards gathered from the playing field using the Icehouse pieces.
[Cold War] - Cold War is a strategy game of bluff and diplomacy for 3 to 5 players.
[Cold War Naval Battles] - Naval card games for two to six players based on Cold War sea power with an emphasis on action. Originally released as Modern Naval Battles.
[The Colonists of Natick] - Two players compete to colonize the newfound Island of Natick. The first colony to reach 7 victory points will dominate the island and the local music scene.
[Colonization] - As an interstellar explorer your mission is to colonize more planets then the other species before you run out of time. A game for the piecepack.
[Combat Operations (final beta)] - A counter and hex based war game, using a diceless combat system. ComOps is a somewhat generic war game system, that can be used to play many different types of combat.
[Commodore] - Simplistic Napoleonic era sea battle simulation using the Micro-Deck Concept: Easily made minimalist deck.
[Confab] - A conversation-based blank-card game for any number of players; ideally two. It was idly invented for a prize in Round One of BlogNomic, and has been polished slightly for more-than-two-player games since.
[Congo] - A cross between XiangQi and chess, but set in Africa, where the Lion is king. Will his army of Elephants, Monkeys, Zebras, Crocodiles, and Giraffes be able to defeat his enemy on the other side of the river?
[Congo's War 1998 to 1999] - A wargame simulating the events that occurred between August of 1999 and November of 1999, in Central Africa, in the conflict that is known as the great war of the African continent.
[Consequences] - A simple game for children that results in amusing stories being created.
[Conversion] - A funky board game that uses dice as game pieces. Roll a die, place it on the board. If it’s higher than your opponent’s adjacent dice, they’re converted into your dice. Whoever has the highest total results by the time the board is filled is the winner.
[Convocation] - Become the dominant member of your coven by collecting sets of matching animal familiars and enchanted objects.
[Copolymer] - A paper-and-pencil game where players take turns coloring in cells on a paper board, at least one cell per turn. When a 'connection' is formed you must color in at least one more cell while it is still your turn. Once the board fills up, the player who has claimed the majority of cells wins.
[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.
[Coup D'Etat] - Overthrow your enemy by either assassinating him or turning the populace against him --but to do this you'll need to find him! An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Cousin Jonathan] - Being a set of rules for the late American War, 1812-1814
[Cowboys and Indians] - This game is designed to utilize those plastic cowboy and Indians lying around your house and put them to use in an entry-level wargame.
[Coyote Moon] - Players race to be the first to gather and place their spirit stones on the moon totem spaces of the spirit wheel in this piecepack game.
[CrackeD Ice] - An Icehouse game you can play on a CD! An addictive dexterity game in the grand tradition of Don't Tip The Waiter.
[Cripple Mr Onion] - Originally a fictional card game played by characters in Terry Pratchett's novels Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad, but made into a real game by Dr Andrew Millard and Prof. Terry Tao. The rules were approved by Pratchett himself.
[Cro Magnon] - Each player controls a tribe of Paleolithic Homo sapiens. The first player to advance to the Neolithic Age and control the most Territories on the map is the winner.
[Crocodile Hop] - A mad hopping game for the piecepack -- hop your foolish young frogs to victory, while avoiding being eaten by Old Croc.
[Croda] - Invented by the Croation mathematics professor and Draughts master Ljuban Dedic in order to create a draughts game with a smaller margin of draws.
[CromoGnomo] - CromoGnomo is a game for four players, playing in two teams of two players each, that deals with four painter gnomes.
[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.
[Cthulbeque] - Non-euclidean food preparation, based loosely on the Cthulu mythos, for 2 to 5 chefs.
[Cthulhu Boardgame] - Based on the Cthulhu stories by H.P. Lovecraft -- be the first to collect all three Artefacts. Will the good guys win, or will the Monster and the cultists rule the day?
[Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962] - 'Contact Atlanta Command. Execute Operation Scabbards in 24 hours. If we have to fight, then we will choose the time and the place.' The United States was going to war! (no longer free)
[Cube Digger] - A three-dimensional seek-and-find game for two players. Object: To find your opponent's treasure chest and return to your home base without getting blown up.
[Cyber Clash] - Cyber Clash takes place in a virtual world of computer generated tank combat. A multi-player game of up to six people, you must gain upgrades and ammo to destroy your opponents and dominate the Game Grid.

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[Dadama] - A checkers-like game for two that uses dice instead of checkers.
[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.
[Dameo] - A checkers-like game that uses linear (rather than diagonal) movement, with the length of moves being based on the number of pieces on the line.
[Dead Even] - Match three or more dominoes so that the top row value is equal to the value of the bottom row.
[Dead of Night] - A game based on scenarios you might recognize from various zombie films. All the players are on the same side, all working together to survive, although the option to use other players as zombie bait while you grab all the guns and lock yourself in the cellar is there if you prefer.
[Death Angel] - You and the other players are stuck in an abandoned farming community, hunted by a psychotic 21 year old with 10" metal blades bolted through her fingers.
[Decathlon] - (aka Reiner Knizia's Decathlon) Ten games in one! Reiner's ultimate game of armchair athletics, from the 100 Metres to Pole-Vault.
[Decay] - A changing landscapes game for the piecepack. Attack other players and make it harder for them to move, or slowly destroy the board. play. Last player remaining on the board wins!
[Decipher] - Can you crack the code in time? In Decipher, you must figure out your opponent's hidden code before they figure out yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[The Deck of Boards] - The Deck of Boards set (DoB) is a game system for playing abstract games.
[Dédales] - Find a way for Icarus (the yellow piece) to reach one of the 2 Labyrinth exits in as few moves as possible.
[Deduce or Die!] - A deduction game in which the players are trying to find out who among them is a murderer. The actual murderer is as anxious as anyone else to determine the facts of the case, as that will allow him or her to pin the blame on someone else.
[Deduction] - This is a deduction game for the piecepack where you try to determine a missing tile by asking questions about the tiles in the other player’s hands.
[Defiance and Domain] - An abstract strategy game pitting the fiery Rebels against the ever present Imperium. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Delegate Dash] - Players are candidates of the Piecepack Party, seeking its nomination for President of the Republic. Sometimes the game-ending convention brings a surprise!
[Deluxe Memory] - Remembering those matches rewards you with some strategy for two to four players.
[Demonlord] - A game of strategy for two players that vividly recreates the grand sweep of empires in conflict in an age of sorcery and enchantment.
[Depth Charge] - It's time to test what the new crewmen have learned about using sonar. The first team to find the other team's mines wins the trophy; the other will be scrubbing toilets. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Diabolical Doomsday Designers] - Don't just complain about how sorry the world is -- Do something about it! Why not TAKE OVER THE WORLD and have things your way for a change? (no longer available)
[Dice Box] - Object: To place colored dice on a grid in a way that maximizes your points and minimizes the points that you must concede to your opponents
[Dicefest] - A strategic, abstract board game for two, three or four players who must manipulate their dice and get them to the other side of the board to win.
[Diffusion] - A unique, robust addition to the family of Mancala games. Each player owns a set of pits on his side of the board -- his 'block'. Players take turns moving stones from pit to pit. If, at the conclusion of a turn, one of the two blocks is completely vacated, the owner of that block wins.
[Dilbert C.E.O.] - The evil C.E.O. of your company is now dead -- you are one of the employees who seek this position. It doesn't matter how good you get at your job if you are not the first to replace the C.E.O.
[Diner Chess] - A game of late-night deduction and coffee for two or more players wher players try to figure out the secret rules that govern how the other players move pieces on their turn.
[Dino Dig] - Search for specimens and toss mud on two to four paleontologists.
[Dish Pan Hands] - It's a frantically fast paced, and cut-throat battle to say or do ANYTHING, if only it keeps you from having to scrub those pots and pans! (no longer available)
[Divine Nuke Wrath] - The end of days draws near. The ruler of the Pantheon will be whomever has the most devout followers in Heaven. A quick co-op / competitive game of anarchy and destruction for 3 to 4 demigods.
[Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.] - Now you can live the life of King Henry the VIII and give your six wives the same fates.
[Djarhun] - A fantasy board game -- players move around the board, find items, and slay monsters. When a player is powerful enough, they may try to claim the Book of Avrakar. Whoever brings the Book to the predetermined location, is the victor.
[DNA] - The object of DNA is to possess the greatest value of Icehouse pieces at the end of the game.
[Dogfaces in Space] - A simple individual-level battle set in the near future. Choose the size of your battle, then fight it out.
[Dogs Do]- Take contol of the yard by weeing in strategic positions. Use your wee to claim ownership of bones, sausages, and comfy spots, and ensure that in the end you dominate the lawn, so the other dog will clear off.
[Domino Derby] - A quirky little racing game similar to games like 'Sorry' or 'Pachisi' using dominoes. (no longer available)
[Dominoids] - You control a small 'Dominoid' colony -- microscopic creatures that spend their time just swimming around, breeding, and eating -- in this 2-player piecepack game.
[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.
[Don-Cha] - Figure out your opponent's words before he deduces yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Don't Touch My Booty!] - A silly little pirate game for 2 players! The Goal? Arrrgghh! To be the pirate with the most booty at the end of the game, of course! This is done by creating rows of 3 or more coins.
[Doodads] - “I’ll trade you a cabbage and some duct tape for your toddler.” A game about trading and building for 3 to 5 players.
[Dots and Dashes] - (aka Boxes) The classic pencil and paper games where players take turns connecting dots that are horizontally or vertically adjacent, trying to complete squares.
[Double Blind] - Deduce your opponent's secret pattern and complete both it and your own secret pattern in this interesting deduction game.
[Double-Entendre] - Two clever teams battle it out for the title of 'PunMeisters' in this Pun-Ultimate game of witticisms.
[Doubloon Lagoon] - Doubloon Lagoon is an exciting game of exploration and chase for two to four players.
[Dragon’s Hoard] - The hero who escapes the dungeon with the most treasure wins in this Icepack (piecepack/Icehouse) game.
[Druid] - Two sects of Druids want to build a monument on the same sacred site, however there is some conflict -- should the monument track the sun to worship the passing days or from the North to the South to worship the passing seasons?
[Druid's Duel] - You’re a druid competing with other druids in a shape changing contest to display your wits and prowess. The druid who best adapts to the tactics of his or her opponents becomes the new head of the Circle.
[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.
[Duel of Questions] - A brilliant literary invention that is also a game, included by the English playwright Tom Stoppard in his memorable Rosencrantz and Guildestern Are Dead.
[Dueling Nobles] - Dueling Nobles is an innovative and strategic card game that plays similar to a collectible card game, yet only requires a single deck of playing cards, 6-sided dice, and counters.
[Dungeon] - Captured and incarcerated, your only goal is to escape the underground prison you find yourself in. As you search for the hidden route to freedom, you must overcome the underworld's hostile inhabitants and dangerously unstable passages.
[Dungeon Crawl] - A piecepack game. After building the dungeon, players move their characters around the dungeon seeking treasure. Monsterous denizens and deadly traps pose hazards, but defeating these challenges earns experience useful for later encounters.
[Dungeon Plungin'] - A fantasy board game of exploration and adventure -- you build a party of adventurers, then build a dungeon as you go. Every game is different as the number of variables is huge.
[Dungeons Dark and Dangerous] - Dungeons Dark and Dangerous is a fantasy wargame where war-parties search for adventure and treasure. The game is played with fantasy miniatures and wargame terrain.
[Duodecim Scripta] - An ancient Roman game whose name means 'Twelve Lines.' The object was to get all one's pieces across the board to the final square, much like modern Backgammon
[Duodecim Scriptorum] - (aka Duodecim Scripta) An ancient Roman game whose name means 'Twelve Lines.' The object was to get all one's pieces across the board to the final square, much like modern Backgammon
[Dvorak] - Dvorak is a card game where all of the cards start out blank; players choose a theme, make up enough cards to get started, shuffle and deal, then add further cards to the game as the game progresses.

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[E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers] - The Icehouse game of Martian Chinese Checkers -- chinese checkers with Icehouse pieces.
[Earth Expects] - A highly detailed set of tactical space combat rules which emphasise skill over firepower, representing battles within the solar system between ships capable of manoeuvre at sub light speed.
[EasyShip] - Simple naval-battle rules for 20th-century ships. Minimal record-keeping and critical-hit-centered rules bring large battles into the realm of possibility, while preserving most of each ship's details.
[EasyStar] - Starship design and tactical battle. Easy to learn, but dozens of options keep the game from becoming predictable. Up to 20 ships per player, multiple ship sizes and weapon types, carriers, flagship advantages, and more.
[Economy Class] - An air travel-themed game of strategy and luck for 2-3 players.
[Edgehill] - This is an easy, introductory game on the first battle of the English Civil War. Easy to understand and fast playable (less than an hour), using a chit drawing leader activation procedure that makes the game different each time you play it.
[Edges] - Everyone on Mars is too busy playing Icehouse , so the Brigands of the Canals are seizing the canals, and making the farmers pay them for water.
[Elasta] - Players try to push the Battle Line forward untill it reaches the opponent's ground line. The basic mechanism in this game was also used in the commercial game Caribbean. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Elemental Warriors II] - A dynamic, fast-paced duel for two elementalists. Object: Run your opponent out of resources.
[ElfBall] - A fantasy miniatures sports simulation that is rich in tactical stimulation, but streamlined in play. It's the kind of game for those nights when you'd like to play something, but don't want to commit to a traditional fantasy sports simulation.
[Embargo] - A strategic game of territorial control and sharing. Move your pieces like chess rooks, trying to get to the opposite corner of the board. Uninterrupted lines between your pieces form imaginary walls that no pieces, not even your own, can cross. That’s it!
[Emergo] - It is for elimination games what Go is for territory games. Emergo is not a Draughts variant and trying to see it as one will hamper one's understanding.
[Empires] - Basically, each player owns four territories. Four territories that belong to other players. So, once someone lays down the first strike, everyone starts attacking everyone in the hopes of regaining their four territories.
[Epic: Warlords] - A strategy wargame of a vast scope, dealing with the rise and fall of civilizations over hundreds of years, and the terrible battles and wars between the races of Elves, Goblins, Dwarves, and Man.
[Epidemic] - Epidemics are striking the world! How many will you be able to complete before the outbreaks are contained? (no longer available)
[E.S.P.] - E.S.P. is a game for two players, playing powerful ESPers (persons gifted with mental powers).
[Evil Stevie's Pirate Game] - This is a game, involving elements of both roleplaying and tactical combat, in which grown men and women sit on the floor and push toy pirate ships around, going 'Arrrr!'

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[Fact Party] - Discovery, revelation, and cooperation for any number of wanderers and a library.
[Factories] - Factories is a game of building and challenges. Your goal is to produce one of each resource. The first player to do so wins.
[Fairly Tales] - Poison apples, beanstalks, and circumlocution for two or more storytellers. Try to figure out your opponents' secret words without revealing your own.
[Fairy Bucks] - A Magical Auction in Fairyland for 2-5 Players.
[Fallout Warfare] - Fallout Warfare is a small scale skirmish wargame with roleplay elements and character/unit customization.
[Fattoria] - Gasp! What’s up? A group of pretty animals have lost their colours, will you help them come back out?
[Fauna] - 'Fauna' was originally inspired by the traditional Chinese 'Animal Game'.
[Felix Sex] - An ancient Roman game similar to Backgammon. The marvelous thing about this game is that the words tended to spell out clever sentences -- the name means 'Lucky Sixes'
[Festival Climbers] - Players will take the roll of a team of climbers that must race to the top of the temple to ring the bell and start the village's celebration.
[Feudal Warfare] - 1:5 scale Feudal-era rules for 25mm size miniatures intended for use at conventions (simple set of rules, a referee running the event, traditional 2-sided linear battle.)
[Fields of Battle: Primitive Combat] - A combat tactics and strategy game set in a pre-gunpowder era.
[FIGHT!] - A nim-type game played with spare change.
[Final Decrees] - Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.
[Fire Drill] - Pieces are moved in the fashion of the robots in Ricochet Robots, with the goal being to align four of your pieces in a row.
[First and Ten] - Detailed simulation of American football. Real-life teams are rated based on statistics. Player(s) choose offensive (and defensive) plays, then results are determined through dice and chart lookups.
[First Blood: The Guadalcanal Campaign] - A wargame based on the Guadalcanal Campaign in World war II, suitable for beginners.
[Five Sides] - Five sides is a throw back to your early days of playing games. When all you had was a pen, some paper, and time to kill during study hall.
[Flip] - A dice game where the object is to drive your opponent out of dice.
[Flix Flax] - A Rock-Paper-Scissors like game played on a 3x3 board.
[Flotilla] - A simple startship combat game. Now you can really play fleets of 50+ ships in only a few hours.
[Flower of the Lotus] - Frogs competing to bring a lonely duck the most beautiful bouquet of lotuses.
[Flying Swordsmen] - The Yin and Yang forests have gone mad. Their swordsmen are fighting to either convert or kill each other in the endless bamboo forest. Mind your head, here come Flying Swordsmen!
[Forsooth] - You must determine the distribution of wealth in the region by figuring out which residents are honest, which are liars, and whic are 'diplomatic' (sometimes liars, sometimes honest.) An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Fort Knox] - A game for 3 to 5 players, who will have to prove their ability to find clues the hard way...stepping in the shoes of the 'unknown robbers.' (No longer available)
[Forts] - All is not peaceful in Fortland -- everybody on this square-shaped continent is trying to invade everybody else! The only answer is to build forts.
[FotoCaccia] - Fotocaccia is a visual memory game. In a few seconds you have to memorise the opponents’ pets. Enrich your treasure as much as you can.
[Frames] - An abstract game played by two players on a Go board with its pieces. A finalist in the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[The Franco Prussian War of 1870] - The Franco Prussian War of 1870 is a 2 player card game simulating the Franco-Prussian War.
[Free at Last] - Free at Last is a card driven game that simulates the conflict between the Black civil rights movement and the White segregationists in the South in the 1950s and 60s.
[Free Market] - A trick-taking game where the person who wins a round of bidding gets to choose partners. Partnerships surely will not last for more than a couple hands in a row, making for Strange Bedfellows as the saying goes.
[FreeStyle] - FreeStyle is a game of competition in a swimming pool for 2 to 8 players.
[Freeze] - When is getting a king bad? When you're playing Freeze -- because your kings become sitting ducks

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[Galaxy Grid] - Four remote controlled gS3 Tanks manuever the grid attempting to disable opponent tanks. Command your tank to victory! (no longer available)
[Galeone Galeotto!] - Enrole your pirate crew and sail away to conquer the seas. Don’t forget to charge up your cannons to engage your enemies.
[Game of the 5 Fields] - A game that could be considered a version of Chess at a strategic scale. It's an abstract version of the expansion of the civilizations during antiquity.
[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...
[Garden Gnome Wars] - A scirmish-level, 'miniatures' wargame played with.... garden gnomes. This game is designed to get gamers outside the house to get some fresh air and engage in some physical activity.
[Gators!] - A modern amphibious operation, with helicopters, swimming armored-personnel carriers, LCAC's, Harrier jets, and all the other equipment a real Marine Expeditionary Unit uses. Includes rules for two scenarios.
[Generatorb] - Played on a diamond-shaped board (an 8x8 board turned 45 degrees), this game challenges players to capture their opponent's Orb-Generator Core.
[Generic Counters] - Sheets of land-unit counters, for other people's game rules in almost any era. Heavy on infantry and cavalry, but armor and other modern units are also represented. Seven different colors, so you can get the armies you want.
[Generic Space Combat 2] - GSCII is a miniatures game that allows players to design their own ships, from the tiniest star fighter to the largest dreadnought.
[Get Thee to a Dentist] - You didn't brush. You didn't floss. Now only your dentist can repair the damage. But can she keep up with the damage your opponents are causing?
[Ghoulash] - An action-adventure game for two players, played entirely on paper.
[Giant Freaking Worms!] - What better way to terraform a planet than using giant freaking worms to do it for you? They’re big, efficient and pretty dumb too.
[Gladius et Sarissa: Cynoscephalae, 197 BC] - A simulation of a classic battle between the Roman manipular legion and a Hellenistic force descended from the army of Alexander the Great.
[Glak] - Players try to enclose as much territory as possible using their stones and walls present on the board by adding new stones and moving the ones already on the board.
[Glider-Pit Gladiators] - Leonardo DaVinci's flying machines meet the Roman Coliseum.
[Glik] - Players try to transport all their pieces from their starting to home positions while blocking opponents.
[Global Supremacy] - Ever been bored on a rainy (or sunny) day and thought, 'Wouldn't it be neat if I had possession of a 20 megaton nuclear warhead?' If so, this is the game for you.
[Gnaqush] - It’s not just the nickname of the game’s designer – it’s what you’ll do with your teeth as your carefuly-laid plans get thwarted and blocked over and over again in this strategic Icehouse game for 4 players.
[Gnome Sweet Gnome] - Recruit the bravest gnomes, make unbeatable combinations of three cards and destroy the opponent’s defense to conquer the land of the four elements!
[Gnostica] - An abstract territory based war game. Tarot cards make up the often-changing board, and players use Icehouse pieces to represent minions that control those territories.
[Gridlock] - An abstract strategy game for 4 players, played with Icehouse pieces -- end up with the most pieces pointing in your direction, with as many pieces as possible lined up in a single column.
[Go Forward Rugby] - A boardgame version of Rugby.
[Go*Mofasta] - Get 8 stones in a row by playing the right cards -- but each card forces you to play stones of your opponent's color as well!
[Gobbler] - One player has two pieces (Gobblers) that attempt to eat as many of the other player's 60 pieces (Littles) as possible. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Goblin] - A fantasy game of raiding and plunder for two players. Each player takes a turn at playing the Goblin King, leading raiders into the peaceful valley, pillaging and burning. The other player maneuvers the farmers and the Baron's troops in a desperate attempt to stave off the raids.
[Gods] - You are a God attempting to influence the people of the world and attract them to your religion.
[Godsend] - A minuatures wargame where players take the roles of gods, competing to determine which of the is the king of a fictitous world called The Verse.
[Golem] - Players allocate resources to orientation, movement, harvesting, and regeneration in an attempt to be the first to reach 30 points. The winner of the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Gosix] - You're trying to control 4 of the 7 hexagons. The trick is: whenever you get control over an hexagon, you lose some of the pawns that made you win.
[Gorilla Warfare] - Gorilla Warfare is a primal game of explosive jungle combat. Every player controls a team of four gorillas; armed with bulging muscles, bad tempers, and explosive Banana Grenades. The object? To be the king of the jungle, of course.
[Grav Armor] - A fast-moving game of future armored warfare for 2 players.
[The Green Pipe] - Find the holes in your opponent's secret pipeline before he finds the holes in yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Grizzly] - Running for your life will never be more fun! A spine-chilling wildlife adventure for 2-6 players aged 10+
[Grunt, Growl, and Tear] - A zany game of combat with paper doll monsters for two to four players.
[gUFO] - Is this an alien invasion? Shall the base launch an alarm and shot the approaching targets, or there is only the risk to wake up the general for a harmless... owl?

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[Hack & Sack New Jersey] - The alien Krylons invade the Garden State! Spaceships disgorge hordes of Cossacks and Roman-style legions; Jerseyite biker gangs and accountants fight back.
[Hailstorm] - A quick, easy, luck-based game intended to feel vaguely like craps or roulette, played with Icehouse pieces.
[Hangman] - The classic public domain pen and paper game. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.
[Harvest the Wind] - A microgame of tactical combat in the 19th Century American West.
[Heaven and Hell] - (aka Himmel und Hölle) A battle between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Who will be the better general?
[Henry VIII: Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this rambunctious but historically accurate game you scheme and connive to win influence with the King, so that your faction will control his chosen heir and rule all England when the King dies.
[Die Herren aller Länder] - Who is President Bush? Too easy? Then try to guess who is Jan-Peter Balkenende or Gloria Arroyo. Who can guess politicians best is the winner.
[Hex] - The classic connection game John 'Beautiful Mind' Nash invented independently, along with Piet Hein (six years earlier).
[Hexagonal Black Box] - Determine the location of the 'atoms' in this hexagonal version of Black Box. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Hextris] - The object of this Icehouse game is to be the first to form three connected groups of five pieces of your color.
[Hidden Empires] - Hidden Empires is a game for 2 to 6 players where each player assumes the role of an ant colony.
[Hide & Guess] - Form 'secrets' by selecting 5 black chess pieces from a complete chess set by hiding them behind a screen. Guess your opponent's secrets first! An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[High Noon] - A memory game for two steely-nerved gunslingers. Recall the sequence of cards played on an ever-growing stack.
[The Highest Ground] - A band of mercenaries from Earth have been transported by aliens to another planet to conquer the local population that is made up of knights, Roman Legions, pony riding barbarians and Egyptian pharaohs.
[Himmel und Hölle] - A battle between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Who will be the better general?
[Homeworlds] - Take on the role of a space-faring civilization that's become embroiled in an epic, galaxy-wide struggle between Good and Evil.
[Hoplomachia] - Hoplomachia covers the period of the Peloponesian War through to the Theban War. Includes Satrapal Persian armies and lists for the city states of Greece, and even the Thracians! Totally new and innovative system geared specifically for the period.
[Horror House] - House of Horrors is a haunted house card game. Players play both terrifying monsters and foolhardy explorers in a bid to see who can stay in the house the longest!
[The Horsemen of Buzkashi] - A card game for 2-4 adventurous horsemen which simulates the national pastime of Afghanistan.
[Hotspots] - A free modern wargame representing conflicts between smaller third-world nations you can printout and use, or play others by email.
[House of Doors] - Players try to lock each other into a small space by swinging doors. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[House Rules -- The Game] - A strategy game where you don’t need to be lucky, but just to get used to the continually changing rules in order to win.
[Housewarming] - A game about moving in and settling down for 2 to 4 friends. End the game with the 'homiest' house by furnishing it with comfy furniture, stylish decor, hosting cool parties, and having interesting pets.
[Höyük] - A game of building and placement played without a board. The replica of a village is built on the table using small square pieces representing houses.
[Huzzah!] - It's that time again. Renfair season. Time to put on your tights and trot out your tired old act at the Merrie King James Faire. If you don't please the crowds, and Richard the faire director, the faire is going to fire you. Pleasing both Richard and the public is going to be pretty tough. So say goodbye to your dignity and scream a boisterous 'Huzzah!'

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[I Want Candy!] - All the fun of a pinata, with none of the screaming, accidental concussions, or clean-up. For two to six hyperactive greed-crazed kids (or kids at heart).
[Ice Age] - It's mastodon herding season, and you and the other hunters from your tribe have managed to spook a few of them into a box canyon. Now all you have to do is kill a few for the coming winter.
[Ice Market] - Players in Ice Market do not take turns. Once the 5-minute timer starts, swap and trade for all you're worth until the timer stops. You may swap anything that you possess: cards, pieces, information, etc. Your goal is to end the game with the pieces worth the most points.
[Icehouse] - The original game to play with your elongated pyramids -- This bizarre little game completely does away with the concepts of turn sequence and structure, as it doesn't use turns, or rounds, or anything else to break up the action.
[Icehouse Pieces] - Icehouse pieces are more of a game system than a game, since over a hundred games can be played with Icehouse pieces. Some of the more popular games include Gnostica, Zendo, Volcano, IceTowers, and the original game Icehouse.
[IceSickle] - The Martian Peg Game -- similar to the solitaire games in which you capture pegs by jumping over them with other pegs.
[IceTowers] - A high-speed game of pyramid stacking, played without turns on any flat surface
[IceTraders] - You are the commander of a fleet of starships -- will you play cooperatively, allying yourself with the Good side to fight Evil, or will you be Evil, intent only on the destruction of your fellow players?
[Il Ribaltone] - A game on Italian politics. It focuses players' attention to the intrigues and machinations that made the Italian governments so weak during the First Republic.
[Impasse] - An abstract strategy game designed for a Checkers set. While borrowing the equipment of Checkers, and being influenced by the game of Checkers, Impasse is really not a Checkers variant. There is no jumping or capturing.
[Imperial Ambitions] - A simple space warfare game. The scale of the game, however, is limited only by the size of the maps the players want to build and the number of counters they want to make.
[Imperium Romanum Lite] - A province based simulation of Ancient Rome and her struggles, both internally and with surrounding foes.
[In the Shadow of Byzantium] - An easy to play game of the conquest and reconquest of Medieval Greece!
[Indiana Jones Card Game] - Welcome to the exciting world of Indiana Jones. The player with the most Artefacts when the last card is drawn, wins the game. This is an unauthorised, unofficial game produced merely for the entertainment of fans.
[Indivisible] - A card game for 2-4 players -- Think Go Fish, but with strategy...
[International Philosophy Grudgematch] - A boardgame simulating a football [soccer] match between teams of French and German Philosophers.
[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.
[Interstellar War] - A science fiction strategic war game set in a universe that the players themselves could define, rather than be forced into a setting.
[Invader] - A game based on a kind of videogame very common in the early 80s: the invasion of the Earth by a fleet of alien ships. The hopes of the Earth reside in the ability of a lone space warship, which has the task of decimating the invaders.
[Ironbow II] - A new and innovative concept in miniatures gaming. Complete with Counters for Byzantine, Turkish, Crusader, Syrian and Armenian armies. The game is now expanded to cover all the states and expeditions in the entire eastern Mediterranean, and the regions around the Holy Land.
[Island] - You represent the survivors of one ship that smacked into another at sea. Both sunk. The other player is the survivors of the other ship. Anyway, there's this little teeny rock of an island, and only enough space for about 10 people to stand there.
[Island of D] - A free one player role playing fantasy adventure card game. No bookkeeping, no token, just you and the cards and a die and an adventure !!
[Island of D 2: The Shadow of Dawn] - The sequel to Island of D. A free one player Fantasy Adventure Card Game. No bookkeeping, NO DICE, just you and the cards and a token and an adventure !!
[Itty Bitty Battles] - Itty Bitty Battles is a generic fantasy combat game that can serve as a drop in battle simulator for your favorite RPG or just as an interesting diversion in its own right.

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[Jam Doodle] - One part art, one part communication. For two or more players. Object: To describe a drawing composed of basic figures accurately enough that your partner can draw it.
[Jewels in the Sand] - Only the Sultan knows what things are 'jewels.' Everything else is sand in the desert. The Jewel Thief devises sieves to sift jewels from sand. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[John Bull] - A Free set of miniatures rules for the War of 1812, representing company level actions of roughly 150-800 men per side, provided with full colour graphics.
[Joker's Gambit] - A game for those who don't play with a full deck! Using a limited number of cards (some with special abilities) each player tried to back the other into a position where they cannot move. (no longer available)
[Joust] - Joust is a very brief two player game themed around jousting, inspired by En Garde and Pico.
[Jovian Syzygy] - A dance with Jovian moons for 1 to 4 players
[Juggernauts] - You're the Commander of a massive, sprawling, dynamically reconfigurable battle platform. Your goal is to use your Juggernaut to defend your territory by incapacitating your opponent's Juggernaut so your ground forces can approach it safely and overwhelm it.
[Jungle] - A Bonazai Game (played entirely on a single card) for 2 players -- try to gather fruit while staying away from the snakes!
[Junks: the Tile Placement Game] - (aka 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.

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[Kabalam] - Play cards from your hand that equal the compounded sum of the packets in this card game based on Hebraic Cabala.
[Kaiju] - Kaiju is a board game in which the player plays the role of a giant monster similar to famous japanese daikaiju eiga like Godzilla or Gamera. (no longer available)
[Kardinal und Koenig - Das Kartenspiel] - Europe, the center of power in the 12th century. Influential Orders struggle for supremacy. By collecting Land cards, you can establish cloisters, bring advisors to council meetings, and improve your network of roads.
[Katego] - Reiner's exciting family game from his book Dice Games Properly Explained.
[Katmandou] - The players are men of influence, who direct archaeologists, and other special characters, in order to accumulate a maximum of fame, as represented by points, by searching archeological sites in the valley of Katmandou.
[Katt and Mowz: The Cartoon Catastophes] - Katt and Mowz have been in the cartoon business for more years than you can shake a stick at (and they know ... they've shaken a lot of sticks!) Nothing is too Good or too Bad to come between them ... except maybe a chance at FINALLY becoming famous! (Not to mention Clubs, Anvils, and a Steam Roller or two!) (no longer available)
[Kidult: The Game] - Goal of the game: to build up the word Kidult using 6 dice.
[Kiki and Bun-Bun] - Celebrate your glee or vent your cynicism in this two-player checkers variant inspired by the online comic Sluggy Freelance by Pete Abrams.
[King of Pearls] - Players compete to build structures -- however, the player who uses less stones each turn builds fisrt. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Klin Zha] - Also known as Klingon Chess -- the object of Klin Zha is to capture your opponent's goal or make it impossible for your opponent to move legally.
[Knatsch - Das Turnierspiel] - Once a year the king organizes a gigantic tournament. The participants argue about the favor of castle and about the profit of castles. But the life as knights is, as well known, not completely harmless. Who has too many wounds has no hope for total victory by itself. The player with most points of fame wins the tournament.
[Knights (Shared Pieces Competition)] - Players move the knights around the board and collect points for landing on squares that have never been visited before. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Knucklebones] - Perhaps the most popular game played among the Romans. It resembled the game of dice except that sets of marked bones were used, called tali or knucklebones.
[KokkoKid] - The hunting has began, but our crocodiles are not very smart...that's right, they are only able to go straight and imagine this, they do not know how to stop... Will you be able to help your little fish arrive to their destination safely with your die, some cunningness and a touch of luck?
[KokkoThrill] - In KokkoThrill you must bring to safety your little fish to the lake of tranquillity through the Kokkodrilli's swamp.
[KromoSauri] - Who knows which colour dinosaurs were? Nobody! So have fun and colour them as you wish! Rules to 6 different games that can be played with the included dinosaur picture cards.
[Kronus Pyramid] - Enter the Kronus Pyramid is search of the Kronus Jewel. Beware of the Guardians -- and watch out for trap doors!

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[La Guerre de l'Empereur] - La Guerre de l'Empereur is a game of maneuver and battle between the forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and six other nations that both opposed and supported him at various times in the years between 1805 and 1815.

not truly free -- see entry

[La Mafia] - A fascinating multiplayer game on the history of the mafia phenomenon and its inteconnection with political and economic power in Italy from the end of World War II until the present day
[A Lamb Between Two Lions] - A board game for 2-6 players that attempts to represent some of the action of Buzkashi games held at festivals in northern Afghanistan.
[Lanza] - Using cards to indicate the direction your pieces are going, capture your opponent's King, Queen, and Jack to win. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Latrunculi] - The ancient Roman game's name means 'robber-soldiers' or 'mercenaries' and was the most popular thinking man's game in the Roman Empire.
[Leader of the Pack] - Do you have the HEART to CLUB down your opponents? Watch Out! ... they might just give it back in SPADES! A little gem of a game for all you DIAMONDS in the rough. (no longer available)
[Leave No Man Behind] - This game takes advantage of Icehouse pyramids’ stacking ability to create a mix of Chinese checkers and macho “leave no man behind” wartime bravado.
[Leetown and Elkhorn Tavern] - A detailed microgame covering the American Civil War battles of Leetown and Elkhorn Tavern.
[The Legacy of Kings] - The game (set in the AD&D Birthright world) covers the grand strategic conflict for the continent of Cerilia. One player is the game moderator and also controls the Awnsheglien. The other players act as regents of the various realms.
[Leviathan] - If I tell you Leviathan is a cross between 'Go Fish' and a non-collectible 'Magic: the Gathering', you will instantly know pretty much everything you need to know about this game.
[Liar!] - Try to guess the card in the middle of the table -- but don't get caught lying! The winner of the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Lines of Action] - A game from Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games -- get all your pieces into a single group that is connected if All the pieces in the group form an unbroken chain of horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent pieces.
[Lilypad] - Two tiny fairies try to race across a pond filled with frogs and turtles without getting wet, and the first one across wins.
[Little Fantasy Wars] - A miniatures wargame inspired by H.G. Wells' 'Little Wars' that doesn't use dice or use random events.
[LNL - Laplace, Newton & Lagrange] - A game of ship to ship combat in outer space. Using a unique movement system that forces players to deal with momentum, and a fast and simple combat system, LNL is a great addition to the space game genre.
[Lock ‘n Load: Band of Heroes] - A wargame system that features "more game and less guff" -- set in the hedgerows of Normandy. Although a squad-based game, single men also make a difference - Leaders, heroes, medics, and even chaplains inspire their men; leading them to feats of heroic bravery.
[Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam] - Designed primarily for the modern era, the series will eventually include settings from World War II to Mark's upcoming science-fiction novel.
[Lockhaven: Fate of the Irish] - A famine has wiped out all means of survival for the local Irish people. Four families have risen up from the devastation. Each family has entrusted their eldest son to wander the vast lands to loot and steal what he can to build his family's fortune.
[Loom] - A combination of Go stone placement and Embargo wall creation mechanics. You could call it Embar-go! Ha! Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. Enjoy the veal.
[Loser] - Players will pick up and lay out cards, attempting to match four or five cards of the same value. If a player manages to do so, and secretly communicates it to his partner, they win the round.
[Loser's Game] - A trick-taking game for 3 or more players that favors the underdog.
[LOST: The Card Game] - Based on the hit ABC TV show LOST, you are one of the survivors of the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 which crash-landed on an island in the pacific. All players must carry out events to discover the secrets of the mysterious island.
[The Lost Pueblo of Doctor Green] - Someone has stolen the Pueblo! Can you guess who it is? A simple card-passing game with a strong bluffing element.
[Lost Treasures] - A simple two player game where each player must hire a party of adventurers to retrieve the treasure from a forgotten dungeon.
[Lotusblume] - (aka Flower of the Lotus) Frogs competing to bring a lonely duck the most beautiful bouquet of lotuses.
[Louis XVI] - The king is trying to escape from the people; the people are trying to capture him. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Lowcy Zwierzat] - (aka Animal Hunters) A game where players move their pieces (hunters) on a hexagonal desert. Once 4 hunters are next to a hex with an animal, that animal is captured by the player who has most hunters nearby.
[Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum] - (aka Duodecim Scripta) An ancient Roman game whose name means 'Twelve Lines.' The object was to get all one's pieces across the board to the final square, much like modern Backgammon
[Lunch Rush] - The players are competing fast-food franchises in a food court. Each player must first entice a customer to eat in her restaurant and then feed that customer to his particular satisfaction. If you can't feed a customer to his satisfaction, you lose points.

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[The M8 Map System] - Modular hex maps for creating almost any land or land/sea map you can think of.
[Macadam] - Macadam was born on the street and now spreads out on the web. It's an easy strategy board game. This game looks alike football or basketball: you simply need to bring your pawns in your opponent side and 'score' a goal.
[Mafia] - (aka Werewolf) A public domain game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves -- will the werewolves devour the villagers, or will the villagers discover the monsters in their midst?
[Magic Spell] - A combination of Concentration and Scrabble, set in a 'magician's school'. For three or four students of the mystical arts.
[Magneton] - Magnetic forces in action. This game requires careful planning and deep thought. The runner-up in the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition.
[Malaya: V-Mail Postcard Game #1] - This 5x8 inch postcard game recreates the Japanese invasion of Malaya -- Can you, as the British commander, slow the Japanese advance? Or will the Japanese succeed in capturing Singapore?
[Manic Minelayers] - Litter the playing field with mines to trap your pitiable opponent in this two-player strategy game. Triumphant laughter is optional.
[Marea] - You and your friends are collecting shells and cleaning up the beach in this clever tile game.
[Marchands d'Empire] - (aka Merchants of Empire) Each player is a rich merchant trying to extend his influence in the religious, political and economic spheres; the stakes are nothing less than the Emperor's favour. (No longer available)
[Martian Backgammon] - A variation of backgammon, played with Icehouse pieces
[Martian Chess] - Martian Chess is a chess-like strategy game in which location, rather than piece color, determines which pieces you may move.
[Martian Mud Wrestling] - A 2-player Icehouse Game with 3 rules. Not a lot like mud wrestling, but what can you expect from martians?
[A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945] - Covering the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country.
[Matrix] - A simple abstract game played on a board that has a 3x3 area in the middle with the numbers 1 through 9, plus 3 blank spaces adjoining each side of the board. The object of the game is to reach all 9 numbers by creating 'matrixes'.
[Maven] - Every player is given the same 25 letters, in the same order, and they compete to make the most of them.
[The Mayor of Hooverville] - Who will eat the most food? Who will wear the least tattered clothes? Who will live in the finest hovel? Who will become The Mayor of Hooverville?
[Maze of Good & Bad] - A solitaire card game not unlike those 'Choose your own adventure' game books -- explore the maze with single player mode, or duke it out in a two-player Duel Battle! Choose from 13 possible characters, good and bad!
[Mecha Dice] - A free Mecha Combat dice game. Each player uses special dice to represent their M.E.C.H.A (Machine Enhanced Combat Hazard Armor).
[Merchants of Empire] - Each player is a rich merchant trying to extend his influence in the religious, political and economic spheres; the stakes are nothing less than the Emperor's favour. (No longer available)
[Mental Disorder] - Imagine yourself, an eccentric psychopath, being diagnosed with schizophrenia and having the opportunity to submit to toxic lifetime maintenance medication every day for the rest of your life.
[Mesopotamia: Birth of Civilisation] - Mesopotamia follows the rise and fall of twenty nations from the Sumerians to the Persians over two thousand years of history.
[Metaboo] - A variant of the word-describing game 'Taboo', where players attempt to communicate a word or phrase to their team-mates without using certain words. Where Taboo requires cards that specifically list the banned words, though, Metaboo only requires a book or a random-word-generator, and allows players to say anything they like.
[MetalTalon] - A futuristic wargame with dynamic pieces for 2, 3, 4, or 6 players. Essentially, this is a space warfare miniatures game using pocket change in place of little spaceships.
[micropul] - micropul is a strategic & tactical tile-laying game in which players are scientists trying to extract precious micropul matter from an energy core.
[Micrun] - A simple set of rules to play races with models of cars, trucks, race cars... you got the idea.
[Middleman] - Players take the part of traders dealing in tins of some commodity -- buy and sell with the object of ending the game with more money than your competitors.
[Midnight Banshees] You're one of four Banshees racing to be the first to collect five skulls from the surrounding tombs.
[Mine-Shaft Gap] - A game that simulates a battle for resources on, above, and under the surface of a lifeless but treacherous planetoid. Tunnels can cave in nd market forces are unpredictable. The resource making your planet rich today might be better off greasing the treads of your tanks tomorrow!
[Mini Mao] - A simple but rapidly-inflating card game for three or more players, in which the winner of each round is allowed to add a new rule to the game. All such rules are kept as closely-guarded secrets, however, and their effects must be deduced by the other players through observation and experimentation.
[Mini-Combat] - Mini Combat is a generic rule set for massive battles using small scale miniatures. The rules are generic enough to play historical, fantasy and sci-fi battles. It is also possible to play across genres.
[Minizoomerz] - The minizoomerz^TM board game puts you in control of your own minizoomerz^TM racer. Competing for fame and glory over countless minizoomerz tracks and circuits across the globe.
[Miskatonic Madness] - Miskatonic Madness takes place at the fabled Lovecraftian University -- Play the Investgators or the Cultists, save the day or summon your dark god!
[Missions? Impossible!] - 'Missions? Who ... Us? Impossible!' It's time to go out on a limb and invest yourself in a scheme that's just so absurdly crazy it might even work! Or not ... (No longer available)
[Missle Match] - Dominoes are put to creative use as missiles (one number is the missile power; the other is the travel distance) in this game. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Mitchell: The Card Game] - The adventures of a boozy, puffy-faced detective... Will Mitchell's tireless technique and bottomless hunger find you guilty? Or will you be fortunate enough to fly under his immense, sloppy radar? Only clever cardplay and a sense of humor will keep you safe... from Mitchell.
[Modern Naval Battles] - (aka Cold War Naval Battles) Naval card games for two to six players based on Cold War sea power with an emphasis on action. Released for free as Cold War Naval Battles.
[Monkey Trouble] - A huge catastrophe has happened during the reception the Countess organised in her garden! Koko the little monkey has escaped and is handing out the Countess's unmentionables!
[Monster in the Cabbages] - Monster in the Cabbages is a quick-playing dice game for two to five cabbage harvesters. Your goal is to harvest as many cabbages as you can.
[Moriarty] - A deduction game in which two players each choose one of four colors and then try to determine which color their opponent has chosen. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[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.
[Mozaika Numernabisa] - A game loosely based on a scene form Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra where Numernobis is showing a mosaic he's building.
[Mundialito (Gold Cup)] - Move your pieces, push and jump over your opponents pieces until you score a goal in this Icehouse game.
[Mysteres] - Three to eight players compete among themselves in order to find the solution of a famous 'mystere'. The treasure of Templars, the secret of Abbee Sauniere, the Sacred Grail, the mistery of Sphynx, Atlantis, Mu, etc. etc. All most famous great misteries are present.
[Mythfire] - Build an army of centaurs, harpies, griffons, and giants, then bash your opponents into the ground.

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[NANOgames] - Five interesting, playable game that each fit on a business card.
[Napoleon at Chattanooga] - Napoleon at Chattanooga (NaC) is a painstakingly-researched, meticulously accurate simulation of Napoleon's campaign in the Tennessee Valley. It is also a two-player game of exploration and conquest in the Solar System, which is also painstaking but not necessarily accurate.
[Napoleon at Waterloo] - Napoleon at Waterloo is a simulation of the battle between the French under Napoleon and the Anglo-Allied and Prussian forces in June 1815.
[Narrative Meta-Rules for Games] - The purpose of these rules is to add story like elements to otherwise bland miniature and board games.
[Navigator] - Investigate and explore with two to four detectives and a map. Goal: Discover your opponents’ hideouts before they find yours.
[Neptune Ruler of the Sea] - Will you get the crow? Or perhaps the trident? Both will help you collect cards in this unusual card game for 3-8 people.
[Net Y] - A vaiant of the game Y, there are three superimposed, interdependent instances of Y which are played simultaneously.
[Nelaxtam] - Invade the island and contol as much of it as possible before your adversary does. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Nibelungenlied] - An interesting game played on a triangle-based board based on The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem written in Germany about 1200AD. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Ninja Golf: 18 Holes of Death!] - You're a ninja at the 'Jade Tee' golf championships. The winner of this tournament will bring great honor to his or her house (and get some super-sweet merchandizing deals to boot!). Do you have what it takes to win in the cutthroat world of Ninja Golf?
[Nitro] - A free card game about FORMULA 1 (F1) racing for 2+ players. The more the players, the more exciting the play will be.
[Numa] - Roman and Arabic numerals are key in this abstract game designed by the maker of Octi. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Numernobis' Mozaic] - (aka Numernobis' Mozaic) A game loosely based on a scene form Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra where Numernobis is showing a mosaic he's building.

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[Obnoxio] - Put the board together as a 3x3 grid in anyway you like, as long as the 'WIN' tile is in the center of the board. The object is to be the first player to the center of the board.
[Office Gossip] - A game of scheming and intrigue set in an office environment for five to thirteen (or more) players. Similar to Werewolf or Mafia, except that it doesn't require a Narrator and plays well with a smaller minimum group
[Ogre Lite] - OGRE is a tactical ground combat games set in the not-so-distant future.
[Oh No, There Goes Tokyo!] - A multi-player combat game in which each of 2-4 players controls a segment of Tokyo under attack by the dreaded Godran, Self-Appointed Emperor of Monsters.
[OP-Position] - Players attempt to capture 4 checkers of one color or 6 checkers total. However, movement around the outside of the board is governed by the die that moves about in the 5x5 center, and pieces of opposite color move in opposite directions.
[Operation Iraqi Freedom] - A wargame based on the the second Gulf War. Rules for solitaire and two-player play; in the solitiare game the player represents the Coalition forces.
[Operation: SEALION-1940] - Hitler approves plans for an upcoming invasion of the United Kingdom. A plan called Operation: SEALION. The invasion of the United Kingdom is about to begin! (no longer available)
[Operation Whirlwind] - Operation Whirlwind is a historical game on street battles between Hungarian rebels and Soviet invaders in November 1956.
[Orbital Battle] - Space and land war in a solar system where the planets move in their orbits, changing the game map every turn.
[OrkoMondo] - You will be in the shoes of the Dwarves Commander, the Commander of Elves, of Humans or Orks trying to get the absolute domination of a 'midland' divided in 36 territories and crossed by a river... may it be the Dreamland?
[Outpost Gamma] - A game of science fiction combat for two players that captures the tension and rapid-fire action of high versus low-technology combat in a hostile environment.
[Over-Draughts] - The ONLY Game of High-Finance, Big Risk Banking and Corporate Take-Overs all played out on a Wee little Board. (no longer available)

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[Package War!] - Players take on the role of package shipping moguls determined to dominate the industry and crush the competition. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Pagoda] - Warring Confucian tribes battle for control of a sacred mountaintop. Features a whimsical reincarnation scheme.
[Pantomime] - A simple party game where players take turns pantomining actions on cards.
[Panzer Grenadier] - We’ve got everything you need here to play the Panzer Grenadier series, with some (well, a lot of) assembly required.
[Paranoid Delusions] - In the game, each player adopts simultaneously two roles: the 'Paranoid', a lone conspiracy nut, and the 'Enemy', a network of real or unreal groups hiding a nefarious secret. There are two ways to win the game, and part of a winning strategy is attacking yourself!
[Pass The Ewe] - A relatively simple five-suited card game for three to six players and a highly-contested female sheep. You vie with your opponents for control of the ewe by bidding like-suited cards from your hand. The more heavily-contested the ewe is, the more points you get for claiming it, creating an interesting approach-avoidance tension when you’re actively pursuing the ewe.
[Path of Pharaohs] - As a rite of passage, young pharaohs seek to build new pyramids at the 13 locations of ancient ruins starting in southern Egypt winding their way to the to the Northern point of the nation near Alexandria.
[Payout!] - A “race to the end” board game where you race around the board collecting money. If you land on a vault with coins in it, you get the coins. If you land on a space without coins in it, you have to put coins in. When you get to the board's end, you get to sit in a vault and take all of the coins that go in it.
[Peep War] - Lead your jellybean and marshmallow chick army to victory against one to five of your friends in Peep War: The world’s first edible war game.
[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!
[PerkyGoth] - A game of social balance for 2 to 4 players. End the game with the highest average Perky and Goth rating and the smallest difference between the two.
[Petri] - Multiply and spread in this strategic territory-claiming, piece-elimination game with a strong dose of chance for two to six organisms.
[Petteia] - This ancient Roman game is the original version of Latrunculi -- the objective is to either capture or immobilize all the enemies stones.
[Petting Zoo Gangsta] - The object of this game is to be the last one standing at the petting zoo.
[Phantom Vortex] - You're one of four Phantoms racing around a crumbling Druidic Temple, hoping to be the first to take control of the VORTEX (which controls all space and time, binds the universe together, and picks up FM radio like you wouldn't BELIEVE)!
[Phwar] - An abstract game in which Each player owns four negative particles (electrons), four positive particles (positrons) and one neutral particle with zero charge (neutron).
[piecepack] - Flexible. Portable. Affordable. Public domain. The piecepack is a set of boardgame parts that can be used to design and play a wide variety of games.
[Pikemen] - Will your pikemen attack or defend? It's up to you in this game played with Icehouse pieces.
[Pipelayer] - A pen and paper game played with two grids of dots that are slightly offset from one another. To win, a player must make a continuous connection from one side of the board to the other.
[Pirateer] - Vast treasure, fast ships and cutthroat rivals await you on the seas of Pirateer, the fast-paced strategy game where fortunes turn on pirate skullduggery and a roll of the dice.
[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!
[Pitter Pattern] - Pattern placement and deduction for two to four players. Object: Place tokens on a board to match patterns on your card or (even better) on your opponent’s card.
[Playground Commandos] - Pogosticks vs. skateboards -- and watch out for the trash cans -- in this clever duel. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Plug Inn] - Players compete in a 'Macro-Game' by placing their tokens on a board composed of hexagons. Every hex of the game contains a 'micro-game' that a player must win in order to place a token in the hex.
[Pocket Rocket Racers] - The first in a series of games that can be carried in your wallet! This is a wild rocket race across your tabletop!
[PocketCiv] - A Solitaire Civization game that's compact enough to play on a plane. Hopefully. Well, maybe not, but it's close...in it's most basic form. Winner of The Gone Gaming 2006 Board Game Internet Awards: Best Downloadable Board Game
[The Pod Racer Miniatures Game] - This game lets you use miniature figures of Star Wars Pod Racers to run your own pod races.
[Points Total] - Will you grab the high scoring spots, or will let your tile score high by pointing toward other tiles?
[Poker Squares] - Using the same 25 cards, players compete to score the most points by making Poker hands both vertically and horizontally on a 5x5 grid.
[Pokino] - An odd fusion of rummy and dominoes for two or more players.
[Polarity] - Using knights, rooks, and queens, push and pull stones on the board -- make lines of three or more and collect 10 stones before your opponent does.
[Polywars] - In this light tactical wargame, the players pit forces of dice against each other in mortal combat. There are no miniatures; the dice themselves fight their own battles. Now they can enjoy the glory of battle and so can you!
[Pomota] - A board game abstraction of tactics-genre video games combining elements of Tactics Arena Online and Greg Stolze’s NoCoPo -- factions from various aspects of pop culture, from B-movies to comics to anime, battle each other for no good reason at all.
[Por'rika] - The Schelati (amphibians) lay eggs in the Sacred Waters. But the Sacred Waters are in the prime hunting territory for the Ser'ra (large birds of prey). An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Porky Pies] - Pick the true meaning of an obscure phrase from three possibilities. About 500 phrases are provided....and 1,500 explanations!
[Postcard from the Revolution] - A postcard that includes the board, counters, rules and historical background of a single battle from the American Revolution. Plus, it is perfectly legal to send through the mail.
[Praetorian] - The police try to hunt down an assassin in this exciting hunt. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Praxis] - A chess variant that incorporates the Zen philosophy of opposing forces defining the Way.
[President] - Can you use two Secret Service agents to move the president through an extremely hostile crowd?
[Princes of the East] - A complete campaign for the period immediately after the First Crusade! Choose a state, build an army, a privy council, a spy ring, find loyal and mercenary generals. It's all here.
[Prisoner Cell Block H Card Game] - Be the first to get all your inmates out of prison. This is an unauthorised, unofficial game produced merely for the entertainment of fans
[Procession] - Using pawns to create paths, be the first to guide your queen to the other side.
[Project: Utopia] - The concept itself is still under design, but the game engine is ready to play. Basically, a race known only as 'Metal Demons' have invaded the surface of a typical fantasy world.
[Psi Squad] - A logic game for three or more players. Object: To end the game with the most status by guessing the keys to the other players cyphers while keeping your cypher's keys as much of a mystery as possible.
[Pulling Strings] - The first player to 'pull' stacks with a total of at least 5 pieces onto any combination of his home intersections wins. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Punch!] - Will you land your carefully planned punches on target? Will you be able to block your opponent's punches? Will you be able to outbluff your rival? Can you knock him or her out before the end of the match?
[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.
[Psyco!] - (English title: Mental Disorder) Imagine yourself, an eccentric psychopath, being diagnosed with schizophrenia and having the opportunity to submit to toxic lifetime maintenance medication every day for the rest of your life.

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[Q.A.X.] - Interesting stock-market & trading game for 2-4 players. Make the most profits by buying, selling and clever, tactical moving and trading!
[Q.U.L.E.] - A board game version of the classic computer game, M.U.L.E. -- battle to make the most of your time on a harsh planet.
[Quadrant Z] - A paper and pencil game of galactic warfare. How will you win -- by occupying the most of the galaxy, by capturing your enemy's home base star, or by completely destroying your enemy?
[Quadrature] - If you form a rectangle with 3 of your pieces and one of your opponents pieces, your opponent's piece is converted into one of yours. If you kill enough enemy checkers to leave your opponent with two or less checkers on the board, you win. Also, if you can get three of your checkers onto the enemy 'home plate', you win.
[Quadruple Agent] - A game of espionage gone horribly awry for 4 players. Object: To guide a hopelessly befuddled secret agent back to your territory.
[Quest for a Girlfriend!] - Tonight you are on a Quest... a Quest for a Girlfriend! (no longer available)
[Question vs. Question] - A brilliant literary invention that is also a game, included by the English playwright Tom Stoppard in his memorable Rosencrantz and Guildestern Are Dead.
[Qurush] - You’ll flip for this 3-D puzzle game for two or four players. Slide and flip cubes on a shared game board to create your secret pattern. Don’t get squished!
[Qwijit] - Two abstract strategy games where you place stones on a grid. In the first, you are attempting to capture the Qwijit stone in the center of the grid. In the second, you want to place more stones than your opponent.

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[Raffut à Faeris] - You're leading a Mafia Group and you're trying to bend the rules your way during Election Day in Faeris.
[RAMbots] - Similar to RoboRally, each player controls a single RAMbot, and will lay out strings of instructions which tell the RAMbot how to move and shoot beams of colored energy. The first player to tag four goals in a specified order wins the game.
[Rangers!] - The rules and OPFOR from Gators!, but this time, it's the Army Rangers' turn.
[Rat Hot] - (aka 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.
[Rattenscharf] - (aka 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.
[Rebellion] - A 2 player card game of strategy, betting, and intrigue. Each player represents the leader of a war-torn nation in the midst of a civil war.
[Red Actions] - Miniatures rules for the Russian Civil War. The basic unit of the game is the platoon, which is composed of somewhere between 20-50 Red Gangsters or White Interventionist Dupes.
[Red Dwarf: The Card Game] - Based on the long-running British sitcom, the card game translates the core of the show - adventuring to avoid boredom - into a two player icon-matching race.
[Reiner Knizia's Decathlon] - Ten games in one! Reiner's ultimate game of armchair athletics, from the 100 Metres to Pole-Vault.
[Ren] - A free 2 player abstract strategic boardgame. Players alternate turns placing their stones on the board, trying to score points by forming groups (ren) of 4 or 6 stones in a row or box formation.
[Renaissance Man] - Are you and one to three other multi-talented friends as nifty as my friend Ben? Play Renaissance Man and find out!
[Renfield] - Mmm, Bugs. You can't eat just one. Renfield is what the Gravediggers of Parts Unknown play for money, when they're not scavenging body parts for Science. It's a gambling game about parts, tools, gravestones, and bugs. Yummy, delicious bugs.
[Reviser] - A new twist on the classic game Othello/Reversi. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Richthofen] - Richthofen is a WWI Air Combat Card Game. You play the part of a famous fighter pilot ace, taking to the skies to engage your enemy in the life and death struggle of air combat.
[The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Card Game] - The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology has created a set of game cards illustrating basic developmental biology concepts.
[Ringmaster] - This game recreates the strategic battles between the good and evil armies of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. The battle mechanism is based on the play of special cards. No dice are used.
[Road Cycling Tour] - A road cycling simulation intended to be flexible enough to simulate any multi-stage road cycling event.
[Robo Battle Pigs] - Imagine Richochet Robot with lasers, or even Robo Rally with pigs. An extremely creative use of the 8x8 game board.
[Robot Maze Race] - Each player tries to program their robot to maneuver through a disorganized warehouse without bumping into too may crates or walls on the way. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Rock, Paper, Scissors, Inc.] - No longer satisfied with being a child's pasttime, Rock, Paper and Scissors have all gone into business against each other: Rocks Inc., Paper Inc., and Scissors Inc. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Rock, Scissors, Paper] - A two player pure abstract board game which mixes 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' with Chess and Capture the Flag.
[Rocketball] - A no-hands, no-feet, no-touching game of soccer for two players and a screaming-hot ball.
[Roll Out the (Gun) Barrels] - Well, here's a very cheap way to simulate large battles without having to deal with maps and counters and fifteen hours per turn. Also includes variants for fantasy/medieval battles (ROtGB: Mediveval Strife) and for space opera-style star battles (ROtGB: Star Strife).
[Rollerball] - Players use their workman, whose job it is to run around and make changes to the ring, to help them get a ball that is travelling the concentric rings around the board to pass ovet their base for points.
[Roman Backgammon] - (aka Tabula) An ancient Roman precursor to Backgammon, this game was known as Alea, meaning 'gambling', but came to be called Tabula, meaning 'board' or 'table'
[Roots and Shoots] - An abstracted territory control game in which you are plants searching for delectable nutrients and hoping for rain before the others encroach.
[Rotationary] - A single-player puzzle game. Comparable to the Rubik's Cube(TM), each move causes a chain reaction. Before making a move each result must be considered. Unlike the cube, though, there are no wrong moves; it is possible to solve a puzzle at any state. Also unlike the Cube, the game is expandable.
[The Round Table] - (aka die Tafelrunde) Draco leads 'die Tafelrunde.' He shares out the incomes of the daily adventures. Therefore all heroes try to be his favourites.
[Royal Ace-assin] - Face cards are royal figureheads. Numbered cards are influential members of the royal court. The Aces are royal assassins. There are 3 "years" of play. At the end of the 3 years, the assassins are sent out.
[Royal Carpet] - Designed by Don Green (designer of Octi), Royal Carpet challenges players to move two kings off the far edge of the board.
[Royal-er Game of Ur] - Inspired by the Royal Game of Ur, modified it to be played with more standard components and with a slightly different twist. The goal is to move all your dice to the ending space before your opponent, using your opponent's own dice as speed boosts along the way.
[Rumble] - A fast-paced game of superhero combat, with players secretly allocating energy points to attack and defense, attempting to outguess their opponents and knock them out of the game.
[Run, Hamster, Run!] - An accelerating game of science and survival for two to five experiment subjects. Object: To be the last hamster left in play. The best way to do this is to avoid falling into the Alligator Pit at the end of the Conveyor Belt.
[Run Hippy! Run! The Boardgame] - As a Captain of Industry, you will exploit the people and resources of the world to advance your corporation, all the while plotting to crush any dissent.
[Runaround] - A race game with a twist for two players. Be the first player to get 5 “runs” by passing a piece over your starting space 5 times. Be careful! The “U” shaped board can cause you to swicth places with an opponent, for good or for bad!
[Rungs] - Far away, in the land of Elm, there is a majestic tree reaching up to the clouds. Legend has it that he who successfully reaches the top of this giant will gain untold fortunes and become ruler of a vast unknown land.
[Rush N'Crush] - In a post-apocalypse future (à la Mad Max), with scarce resources and few individuals, the survivor clans resolve disputes through ritualised racing instead of open warfare.
[Russian Civil War] - A free historical card game simulating the Russian Civil War. One player is the Red/Communist, the other player is the White/Tsarist.
[The Russian Portfolio] - A wargame involving the German's Army Groups Centre, North, & South with their intrepid Minor Allies versus the Soviet Russians during the beginning of the Russian Campaign.
[RYB] - Mix colors with dice to capture goals from two to five players. Object: To complete Goal cards and gain points by rolling different combinations of colored dice.

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[S-P-O-N-G-E: Fight the Evil] - In the game, each player is a SPONGE Historian, helping out on an investigation in a Cthulu-esque world. The Historian position at SPONGE is often a short-lived one. The object of the game is to last longer than any of your fellow Historians.
[S.A.B.O.T.] - Fast land battles meant for a big battlefield, with dozens of kinds of tanks, armored cars, grav tanks, walkers, and others.
[S.L.O.B.S. III] - The Simple Large Outer-space Battle System - 42 spaceships on a side, 10 ship types plus fighters. Easy rules, quick set-up, no record-keeping, large-scale mayhem.
[Saoirse!] - To build scoring sets of dice – pairs, threes and fours – of 'suits' associated with Irish Republican history.
[Saving Private Checkers] - Checkers with an explosive twist for two players. Kinda like a cross between normal checkers and the D-Day invasion....
[Saxon Shore] - A game that simulates the warfare and politics of Britain after the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century AD. Two to five players struggle to become the dominant kingdom of the British Isles
[Schlock Attack] - A two-player checkers variant inspired by the online comic strip Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler. Object: To be the last player with checkers on the board or to meet your special victory conditions.
[Scoop!] - A fast-paced game of competitive journalism for two to six players.
[Scribe] - A pen and paper game where players try to form 'glyphs' on nine 9x9 mini grids. Wherever you leave your mark will determine where you play next! Capture the most mini grids and win.
[Search Diver] - Search Diver is a microgame involving dive planning and underwater search.
[Season Harvest] - A resource gathering game for two or more players in which each player is trying to gather the most fruit.
[The Second Korean War - 2009] - Will the communists drive the Allies into the sea or will the American and South Koreans press on past the Yalu and bring total peace to the region? (no longer available)
[Settlers of Catan: Paper and Pencil] - Settlers? as download print-and-play? Oh yes. When you print the main PDF you find the resources, the rules (in german) and 4 boards. (4 more available in a separate PDF). Cut out the resources (wood, wheat, sheep, ore, brick) and the robber and you're ready to play.
[Seven Pennies] - A quicky diversion for two or more players and pocket change where each player selectively gathers tossed pennies, trying to ending each round with more pennies than any other player.
[Shangzhou-Gold] - A cyberpunk-themed tile-laying and territory acquisition game with significant resource management, bidding, territory conflict, and negotiation elements.
[Shannon] - An elegant abstract game inspired by Sudoku and Triple Triad, a CCG mini-game in Final Fantasy 8 -- you place dice on a chess board, converting your opponent’s dice to your color hoping to score the most points at the end of the game.
[Share & Share Alike] - A game of shifting loyalties for 4 players. Players attempt to manipulate the market so that they have the greatest value in shares by the end of the game.
[Sharks and Jets] - This is a tactical combat game based on the musical West Side Story (no, really). Gang members attack by snapping their fingers, singing and performing dance moves. All combat is resolved on the Choreography Results Table.
[Sherbie vs. The Silverfish] - A light-hearted game of insecticide and stress for three to five players. Amass an army of silverfish and send them to torment Sherbie, or grab a paper towel and some bug spray and attempt to defeat the insectile menace.
[Shift] - A quick game of shifting and swapping cards for three or more players.
[The Shining] - The Shining is a game based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
[Shrine] - A playing card game in which the objective is to remove all cards from the other player’s Shrine. During the play of the game, players may add cards to their Shrine, remove cards from the other player’s Shrine and play special cards and combos to help them win the game.
[Sibling Rivalry] - The sibling rivalry between you and your brother is legendary. This game gives you a chance to show him who's better in battle.
[Silent Dark] - A traditional miniatures wargame set in the 25th Century with an extremely flexible rules system that is easily converted to many genres, from Super Heroes combat to Fantasy..
[A Simple Game] - A tic-tac-toe-like game played on a 4x4 board.
[Single Stone Latrunculi] - (aka Petteia)This ancient Roman game is the original version of Latrunculi -- the objective is to either capture or immobilize all the enemies stones.
[Slings and Stones] - A strategy boardgame which can played using a chess board, with 4 pawns and 12 checkers. Pawns represent the slings, and checkers represent the stones.
[Slipmax] - A dynamic game of gain an loss played on an ever-changing board for two to six players.
[Sloppy Seconds] - A trick-taking game where the object is to score the second most number of points in each suit. Also, the secord suit to be broken in in each hand is the trump suit.
[Smallville: The Board Game] - Agents of the evil Kryptonian Zod have arrived on Earth and have disguised themselves as Clark Kent -- they want to convince Clark Kent’s friends and family that THEY are the real Clark so that they can banish the real Clark. With him gone, the Earth will be theirs.
[Snake Pit] - The idea of the game is to score points by completing snakes. The longer the snake, the more points you score.
[Snowblind] - How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents’ pieces than your own? Figure out the answer in Snowblind, a quasi-strategic Icehouse game for 4 players.
[Solarii] - You lead one of the Nation of Solarii. Your goal is at the same time to be the only master of some planets, and also to share other planets with your opponents.
[Solo Dungeon Bash] - On your own and stuck for something to do? Try this free Hack and Slash Solo Dungeon Crawl. You only need six sided dice pen and paper and of course the free rules from the game's website. It's simple, it's fun, it's free.
[Sorcerer's Apprentice] - An ever-changing checkers game for two players and an Icehouse set. Object: To end the game with the most magic hats in your Hat Rack. Gain magic hats by capturing your opponent's pieces. You can put hats on your pieces to grant them special powers.
[Soul Influence] - Take on the role of a recruiter for Heaven or Hell in this card game of soul acquisition!
[Sovereign Seas Lite] - Sovereign Seas Lite is a nautical combat war game which simulates the period from 1860-1870.
[Space Colony Cheeses] - Can you build a successful dairy colony on another planet? Build barns, ice-cream warehouses, power plants and veterinary modules.
[Space Insurrection] - A game of interstellar conquest. Gain the loyalty of all ten worlds or eliminate all enemy units from the map.
[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.
[Spanish Fury] - A complete system of warfare for 16th Century Europe Including Large & Small scale land warfare modules, one for Naval warfare, a Campaign, and Siege Game!
[Speckles] - Players add poker chips of five different colors to the 8x8 surface, trying to form a line of four that begins and ends with their own color.
[Spellcycles] - Create mysteeeerious patterns to cast mysteeeerious spells on two to five mysteeeerious players.
[Sprawl] - A game of strategy, resource management, planning, and diplomacy for three to eight players, played with a chessboard and Icehouse pieces.
[Sprouts] - An abstract line-and-dot pen and paper game. The strategy in Sprouts lies in using your lines to divide the paper up into parts that trap dots.
[Spyhunting] - A spy is trying to travel from one corner to the opposite corner and back, the hunter is trying to shoot the spy before that happens. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[StapleWars] - A game which combines action games, which involve moving parts (along the lines of Mousetrap or Weapons of War) and strategy games, which involve building and conquering, (like Risk or Axis and Allies) in one. All units and structures are made out of HEAVY DUTY staples, which can be found at any hardware store.
[Star Smuggler] - A solitaire game of tense adventure in the far future. For each event, you, as star smuggler Duke Springer must make the decisions which will make you huge profits -- or may cost you your life.
[Star Viking] - A game of interstellar raiding and plunder for two players. Using a unique system of 12 mapboard tiles to represent the various star systems in the Outrim sector, it captures the tense uncertainty and the sudden, flashing battles of an interstellar war.
[Star Wars: Stolen Plans Card Game] - Players must acquire, and then keep possession of, the droid (R2 unit card), which is carrying secret plans. The player with this card when the deck has gone wins the game. This is an unauthorised, unofficial game produced merely for the entertainment of fans.
[Starfighter Combat] - A game of tactics and intuition, players strive to out-maneuver and out think their opponents -- the players may control single Star fighters or entire squadrons.
[StarMarines] - If you've ever been intrigued by that game of futuristic land combat by a company whose name rhymes with 'Hames Nerkslop,' but were put off by the cost of figures or the time and skill needed to paint them, this game might be just the ticket.
[Statements] - The Enron Game! You and your friends are part of a major corporate malfeasance scheme, together you build up lots of money, blow the whistle on each other and desperately try to get as many beans as possible before the feds catch wind of the cover-up.
[Steel and Crystal] - An easy solo game of conquest on a fantasy land. You are the General of your Empire and your mission is simple: defeat the enemies of your Emperor.
[Steppin' Stones] - You're Stuck in the Muck and there's only one way out ... lay out a series of stepping stones and run your way across. (no longer available)
[Stocking Stuffers] - A rummy-type game pesented as a Christmas present to the gaming community for Christmas 2004.
[Stratelite] - The goal of this card game is to collect ore. To do this, one has to invest in ore exploitation and various other constructions (defense and attack ships or technologies) on randomly acquired satellites.
[Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: The Card Game] - A free card game about the famous computer game for 2 players. Fight for victory using your favourite player: Blanka, Guile, Balrog and all the others.
[SuperGuys] - Create your own 4-person team of superheroes with dozens of possible powers, then fight for the right to defend the city!
[Subzero] - Roll your snowball and shoot them 'fast and furious' over your opponents. Move, hit, avoid the flying snowballs.
[Supersurf! Championship Sky-Surfing in the World of Judge Dredd] - A game of championship-level sky-surfing, or power-boarding, in the world of Judge Dredd. Race your surfer to the finish line, braving dangerous obstacles, at great heights and great speeds through one of 2000AD’s Mega-Cities.
[Surveyors of the Galaxy] - A game where players are flying spaceships in a scientific race to discover and survey the most star systems. After all players run out of fuel, the player who discovered the most systems wins.
[Survival Terror] - A free game inspired by George A. Romero's zombie movie series (Night of the Living Dead, etc.)
[Sword and Sail] - Embark on an ancient time of political and military upheaval as great empires struggle for world power. A game that combines civilization building, strategic planning, wargaming, and empire building all in one!
[Symbio] - The words 'surround' and 'consume' are very important in this creation themed around biological processes.
[Symbiote] - An organism-swapping card game for three or four players. Object: To end the game with the most points in symbiotic pairs and royal symbiotes, ideally while hosting the symbiote. Keeping control of the symbiote makes it easier to gather royal and paired symbiotes.
[Synapse] - Synapse is a two-player game where players race to arrange their cards into scoring positions. Like many real-time games, the play of the cards is fast and furious, then the scoring takes a little while as players figure out who actually won! (no longer available)

[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.)
[Table Top Troopers] - Go and dig all those Little Green Army Men out of the back of the closet, dust them off, and begin the battles all over again. (no longer available))
[Tabletop Freeze Tag] - The nickel is 'it' and attempts to freeze the pennies by bumping into them. The pennies try to stay away from the nickel and unfreeze any frozen pennies by bumping into them.
[Tabula] - An ancient Roman precursor to Backgammon, this game was known as Alea, meaning 'gambling', but came to be called Tabula, meaning 'board' or 'table'
[die Tafelrunde] - Draco leads 'die Tafelrunde.' He shares out the incomes of the daily adventures. Therefore all heroes try to be his favourites.
[Takat] - A game of stacking strategy. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Tako] - Based loosely on a mathematical game called Tsianshidsi, Tako is a fun little game.
[TaleSpin: The Card Game] - A fan-created game based on the Disney animated cartoon. Can you be the first to deliver your cargo and claim the title of Cape Suzette's fastest shipping company? Or are you planning on stealing it all to increase the wealth and legend of the Sky Pirates?
[Tali] - (aka Knucklebones) Perhaps the most popular game played among the Romans. It resembled the game of dice except that sets of marked bones were used, called tali or knucklebones.
[Tanbo] - Tanbo crudely models a system of plant roots. Roots which are growing, competing for space, and dying. To win, a player must eliminate all eight of his opponent's roots.
[Tangled Webs] - The Bugs are taking up arms (and they've got a lot to take up!) against their long time oppressor - the Spider. No more having to watch where you're flying! No more being left hanging! No more being eaten! This time it's personal! (no longer available)
[Taxi Driver] - Taxi Driver is a board game for 3-7 players, who drive around the city looking for passengers.
[Technopoly] - A game for two or more players, Technopoly sees robot workforces inventing and building machines, discovering and mining the raw materials required to construct and fuel them, and trading both machinery and materials with other organisations.
[The Ten Thousand - 2000] - The German chancellor has demanded the disarmament and the immediate removal of all US military personnel in Central Europe. However, Lt. General Al Malin, refuses to disarm without a fight and leads a bold, yet desparate plan to invade Germany, recover the nuclear weapons, and march his units to the North Sea to uphold American military honor. (no longer available)
[Teotlatolli - The council of the gods] - Representing the antagonistic forces of the Aztec cosmos, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, the players have to get the other gods on their side in the council of the gods.
[Thin Ice] - Sort of like Jenga, but with Icehouse pieces. This quick party game pits your balancing skills against that of others, allowing you to build piles up from three base pieces, but not allowing any easy stacking.
[The Things] - A game for three or (ideally) more players, and simulates the paranoid members of an antarctic research facility being overrun by - or conquering - an invasive shapeshifting, human-killing alien.
[Thinking in Circles] - A game of intuition and second-guessing for two players. Object: To set three adjacent circles to your color, or to get three adjacent circles to match your secret shape sequence. You do this by outguessing what your opponent will play.
[Three Musketeers] - An abstract game where you can either stalemate yourself or make 3 musketeers-in-a-row.
[Tic Tac Doh!] - A game similar to Tic-Tac-Toe played with Icehouse pieces. Players attempt to get three same-sized pieces in a row on a grid that is formed as the game is being played.
[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.
[Tim and Tam] - A lovely amusing children & family game for 2-8 players. Tim Tomato and Tam Paprika take you to the market to sell fruits and vegetables. Who gets paid most for the fruit and vegetable cards wins!
[Timber Wars] - This strange war game uses bits of wood as the units. Not as crazy as it sounds!
[Time Jump] - Who can guess the other's plans? Who's fooling who? You better stay 'cool' flying through the dimensions...and be aware of the nasty timeholes!
[Tipped Tacs] - Tipped Tacs is a game of tic-tac-toe using die faces as the instrument of victory. The die are not placed individually on the grid as in normal tic-tac-toe, but 'tipped' based on strategy.
[TLC (Toad and Lizard Carnage)] - It seems that the Beer companies have been spying out your marsh as a possible location for their next Super Bowl commercial. There’s only one problem, they say the place is just too crowded. (no longer available)
[To A Pulp] - Fast-playing, simple pulp-gaming rules that use free downloadable paper counters and four kinds of map sets (included).
[Tokar's Arcana] - Tokar's Arcana is a simple, yet in-depth game of strategy and warfare. For the most part, it plays very similar to Chess.
[Tonga] - Players use special dominoes to build islands, the larger the better. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Torpedo] - Each piece is a naval ship, all placed on the field of play in a mad rush. Then the small ships shoot torpedoes, then the medium ones, and then the large ones. The player with the most pips of ships left at the end is the winner.
[Tortellini Football] - A game of American football, using a piece of tortellini pasta as the ball. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Towers of Terror] - Who says engineers can't be warriors? Join with them as they hit the training grounds that will one day prove their 'metal' (and wood, and gears, and ...) (no longer available)
[Towers of Wyoming] - I used to play Lincoln Logs like this: Build towers just to knock them down with two to four players. Object: To construct a Tower of cards—a pile containing only one suit—faster than the other players, or to be the last player in the game.
[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.
[Treefort Nations] - Today, as the sun rises over the Great Wood, a feeling of determination accompanies it. All the monkeys feel certain that when the sun sets in the evening, the ultimate ruler of the trees will have been determined, once and for all...
[Triad] - Triad is an abstract board game for three players which features an interesting move mechanic; the players dictate move order as the game progresses.
[The Triangle Game] - A game of pure strategy in which the combatants maneuver their stones around a triangular board to their home base. A self-balancing game, the power can shift in an instant between the three players.
[Triangulate] - Players begin with 8 tokens each, spread around the edge of a regular chess board. Each person attempts to be the first to have 3 of their pieces grouped together on a single square of the board.
[Tricky Tiles] - A game of tile laying, similar in may ways to the game Blokus, played with triangular tiles on a hexagonal board. (no longer available)
[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.
[Tris] - It’s a little bit Connect 4 and a little bit Tetris, and a whole lot of abstract strategy board game. Gadzooks!
[Trolly Car] - A game for 2-6 players in which two trolley lines compete to be the first to cross contested intersections.
[Tropa] - (aka Knucklebones) Perhaps the most popular game played among the Romans. It resembled the game of dice except that sets of marked bones were used, called tali or knucklebones.
[Trumplestiltskin] - A game for three to four (five?) players and a Pinochle deck.
[Tumblewords] - It’s like a cross between that game where you make words with tiles and that game where you drop checkers into a vertical grid.
[Tumbling Down] - Grab control of the important stacks by placing your piece on top. But don't let your opponent capture your tallest tower. An entry into the About.com: 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition.
[Turn or Burn] - Turn or Burn is a fast-paced game of space fighter combat for 2 to 8 players.
[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.

[U]

[Unbreakable] - A game of futuristic ground combat for 2 players. Each player assembles a platoon, then the platoons meet in combat where they unleash terrible powers of overwhelming destruction. But thanks to amazing leaps in materials technology, the battlefield of the future will no longer be a dangerous place (for the combatants).
[Uncontrolled Squid] - Who’s afraid of the big, bad squid? I’m sure you know two to eight (or even more) players who aren’t. Object: Establish your supremacy over all other squid cults by retaining the favor of the Squid Totem for three rounds.
[Undercut] - It's an auction game played with Icehouse pieces where the players score points based on sets of similar pieces, but the twist is that the player with the lowest score wins.
[Universal Combat System] - The Universal Combat System is an expandable miniatures battle system. The UCS is a system of combat rules meant for any number of players in an infinite amount of settings.
[Unlur] - An abstract strategy game played on a hexagon-shaped tesselation of hexagons with eight hexagons on each side. The winner of the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[The Unnamed Game] - A game in three phases – resource gathering, trading, and creation – for three to five players. Gather resources to purchase FX to help your workers create Constructs. The player with the most Constructs at the end of the game wins.
[Unternehmung 25: V-Mail Postcard Game #2] - The second V-Mail Postcard Game chronicles the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. Can you, as the Germans, make a lightning-fast assault and capture Belgrade? As the Yugoslavs, can you derail the German timetable and buy time for the Allies to react? It's all up to you.
[Up and Over] - A quick card game (similar to Cribbage) of summing and limits for two to five players.

[V]

[V-Attack] - You are in charge of breaking through the wall of your enemy’s city to allow the entry of your battalion to take over. While you are attacking the walls of your enemy, they in turn are attacking you. Victory belongs to him who enters the city first.
[Vamanos] - A speedy game for 2 or more players. Players will race to make scoring sets of five cards by combining pictures and colors in different ways.
[The Venture] - There are many different Events that can occur in the Kingdom of Somerset. Your goal is to build Factions of Characters at the game's three main Locations in order to complete those Events.
[Vietnam Conflict - 1969] - What if the American military had decided to launch an invasion of North Vietnam to force them to sue for peace? Could things have turned out differently or would things have been made even worse? (no longer available)
[Volcano] - A clever, puzzle-style game in which players move 'caps' around on top of a group of volcanoes, triggering eruptions which cause colored streams of lava to flow out across the playing field.

[W]

[Warbands] - In the game Warbands you are represented by a hero-mage figure controlling a party of a few or maybe a dozen characters on a battlefield. This complete party is called a warband.
[WarpQuest] - An abstract game system that depicts goal driven scenarios. Each player controls a collection of Units who are attempting to be the first to reach an objective and bring it back to the start.
[Warp Skirmish] - An abstract Wargame system that utilizes a mix of board, card, dice and unit elements to create a system with chess-like strategy, fog-of-war uncertainty and module expandability.
[Warriors in Antiquity] - A strategic game where players become sovereign generals of mighty armies that fought many centuries ago on battlefields of the ancient world. The result of the game, whether the history would repeat or change, depends entirely on the players.
[The Wars of David] - Israel is a small but prosperous kingdom led by David son of Jesse, her greatest king and a skillful warrior. Israel will need that skill, because her every border adjoins a hostile nation.
[Waving Hands] - A game concerning the imaginary conflict between two powerful wizards in a duel of sorcery. The two opponents perform magical gestures with their hands to create their supernatural weapons - spells.
[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.
[The Way of the Warrior] - A solo system to simulate small tactical war operations. Is not aimed at a specific period: the base version of the rules is set on WWII but is quite easy to introduce new periods/themes.
[Web of Power - The Card Game] - (aka Kardinal und Koenig - Das Kartenspiel) Europe, the center of power in the 12th century. Influential Orders struggle for supremacy. By collecting Land cards, you can establish cloisters, bring advisors to council meetings, and improve your network of roads.
[Werewolf] - A public domain game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves -- will the werewolves devour the villagers, or will the villagers discover the monsters in their midst?
[Westminster Abbey or Glorious Victory!] - A simulation of the The Battle of Cape St Vincent (14th February 1797)
[Whakka Mole] - A game of bluffing and brinksmanship for two people looking to vent a little aggression. You get points for whacking your opponent’s moles, and by keeping your moles from being whacked. It’s more strategic than it sounds at first. Trust me.
[Wheels of Steel] - Build tracks and transport commodities with up to four different trains in this tile-laying game.
[Whigs & Scalps] - A simulation of The French & Indian War (1754-1760)
[Whistling Death] - Whistling Death covers the entire Pacific War and primarily features aircraft from the USN and IJN, with a few USAAF and JAAF planes for variety.
[Winter Pause] - Winter has arrived. The soccer fields are ruined, either muddy from rain, slippery from snow or frozen hard as a rock. Not the best of times for a good game of soccer. But the real freak will not be stopped by such trivialities. He will find himself a fine warm gymnasium and play there.
[Wizard's Garden - The Alesalitis Plant] - Wizard's Garden is a game about planting and harvesting. Players take turns planting (placing game pieces) from a common seed basket (the pile of game pieces).
[Word Squares] - (aka Maven) Every player is given the same 25 letters, in the same order, and they compete to make the most of them.
[Wordfinger] - The players take turns placing their fingers on the board. Each time a player places a finger on the board, he calls out a letter. The first player to 5 points wins.
[Wrath of the Ancients] - Use all of your divine powers, the proper timing, and a little luck from the Fates to forever DOOM this civilization... just as you have so many ungrateful civilizations before it! (no longer available)
[World War III - 1988] - With approximately 20,000 Soviet-made tanks in Europe and over 1 million men under arms moving into the Fulda gap and other choke poinst along West Germany, NATO may be in for the fight of its very existence as each nation involved is both hunter and prey. (no longer available)
[World War III: Arctic Front - 1989] - World War III is over. Or is it? Moscow has surrendered, but Siberia defies the cease-fire and has enlisted the aid of China to hit the American-led UN force in a deadly suprise attack. (no longer available)
[World War III: Asian Front - 1989] - American forces seek to maintain a cease-fire between China and the new republic of Sibir (Siberia). The truce collapses, and China and the United States, the post-Cold War's two superpowers, are at war. (no longer available)

[X]

[X-Com: Tactical] - A tabletop war/board game based on the popular X-Com: UFO Enemy Unknown (UFO Defence), computer game by Microprose.
[Xenocide] - Xenocide is a sci-fi skirmish level minature wargame. I will make it open to any miniatures. It is entirely d10 based, and you ought to get at least 10 of them.
[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.
[Xtropolopoquetl] - Four Olmec boulder statues are demanding sacrifices of pure elements. A pyramid of offerings has been placed between the statues. The statues are picky and will only eat elements they favor, so it is your job to feed the statues every last morsel of their favorite element.

[Y]

[Y] - A classic connection game played on a 10x10 triangular hexboard.
[Yangsh] - Two players try to make rows of 5 markers by flipping them to their own color. When you succeed in making 5-in-a-row, you must take the row and one of your pawns off the board, making it harder for you to make the next 5-in-a-row.
[Yenta] - Yenta is based on a game by Aaron Richards called 'Stoopid Cupids,' sort of a cross between Liar's Dice and Go Fish.
[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...
[Yin-Yang] - Claiming territory is the goal here, as players stake out their claims on a 6x6 board. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Yukk!] - The object is to clean your plate first. But watch out for other players switiching plates, feeding the dog, and getting your parents upset.

[Z]

[Zagami] - An Icehouse game of Martian microbial life for four players. Each player controls a single-colored colony of microbes. Only one colony will survive the long journey from Mars to Earth. Will it be yours?
[Zarcana] - A game of war, journeys, growth, life, and death. Icehouse pieces are your minions, spreading out across a world composed of tarot cards
[Zendo] - A game of inductive logic in which the Master creates a rule and the Students attempt to discover it by building and studying arrangements of pyramids. The first student to correctly state the rule wins.
[Ziggurat] - A domino-stacking game for two or four players. Object: To score points by stacking dominoes on other dominoes with matching numbers.
[Zombie Nightmare] - Your goal is to get Jeff (your alter ego) safely through a cemetery infested with zombies. Will you make it? Or will you end up.... zombie food?
[Zombie Plague] - A simple to learn game about bashing zombies.
[Zombie Rancher] - A post-zombie apocalypse game of entrepeneurisim for two or four players.
[Zombie Wars] - In the sleepy town of Smallton, the zombie lors will settle their grudges once and for all, pitting their shambling hordes against each other in a battle for dominance.

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