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