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Games starting with P


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

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

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

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