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Games starting with B


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The Canonical List of Free Print-and-Play Games -- Games Starting with B

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.

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

  • [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 bettle 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 Samurai.
  • [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.

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