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The Canonical List of Free Print-and-Play Games -- Games Starting with C
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
- [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.
On to D ------->
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