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.