Miscellaneous Free Games

Miscellaneous freely available print-and-play games


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Miscellaneous freely available games, listed alphabetically (click on the game's entry for more info)

[0-9]

  • [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.

[A]

  • [Afrika] - A mancala variant with a distinctive Draughts-like feeling because of its forced winning combinations.
  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [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!
  • [Antagon] - Players command two columns of ants against each other, trying to move to safety the eggs deposited in the nest.
  • [Arena] - A fight with coins in the arena.

[B]

  • [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
  • [Bid] - Trivia meets with brinkmanship in this explosive new party game. Full of fun, tactics and nerves.
  • [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.)
  • [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.

[C]

  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [Consequences] - A simple game for children that results in amusing stories being created.

[D]

  • [The Deck of Boards] - The Deck of Boards set (DoB) is a game system for playing abstract games.
  • [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.
  • [Double-Entendre] - Two clever teams battle it out for the title of 'PunMeisters' in this Pun-Ultimate game of witticisms.

[E]

  • [Elemental Warriors II] - A dynamic, fast-paced duel for two elementalists. Object: Run your opponent out of resources.

[F]

  • [Fairly Tales] - Poison apples, beanstalks, and circumlocution for two or more storytellers. Try to figure out your opponents' secret words without revealing your own.
  • [FIGHT!] - A nim-type game played with spare change.

[G]

[H]

  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [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.

[I]

  • [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.

[M]

  • [The M8 Map System] - Modular hex maps for creating almost any land or land/sea map you can think of.
  • [Metaboo] - A variant of the word-describing game 'Taboo', where players attempt to communicate a word or phrase to their team-mates without using certain words. Where Taboo requires cards that specifically list the banned words, though, Metaboo only requires a book or a random-word-generator, and allows players to say anything they like.

[N]

  • [NANOgames] - Five interesting, playable game that each fit on a business card.
  • [Narrative Meta-Rules for Games] - The purpose of these rules is to add story like elements to otherwise bland miniature and board games.

[O]

  • [Office Gossip] - A game of scheming and intrigue set in an office environment for five to thirteen (or more) players. Similar to Werewolf or Mafia, except that it doesn't require a Narrator and plays well with a smaller minimum group

[P]

  • [Pantomime] - A simple party game where players take turns pantomining actions on cards.
  • [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!
  • [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!
  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [Porky Pies] - Pick the true meaning of an obscure phrase from three possibilities. About 500 phrases are provided....and 1,500 explanations!
  • [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.

[Q]

  • [Question vs. Question] - A brilliant literary invention that is also a game, included by the English playwright Tom Stoppard in his memorable Rosencrantz and Guildestern Are Dead.

[R]

  • [Rumble] - A fast-paced game of superhero combat, with players secretly allocating energy points to attack and defense, attempting to outguess their opponents and knock them out of the game.

[S]

  • [Season Harvest] - A resource gathering game for two or more players in which each player is trying to gather the most fruit.
  • [Seven Pennies] - A quicky diversion for two or more players and pocket change where each player selectively gathers tossed pennies, trying to ending each round with more pennies than any other player.

[T]

  • [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.

[W]

  • [Waving Hands] - A game concerning the imaginary conflict between two powerful wizards in a duel of sorcery. The two opponents perform magical gestures with their hands to create their supernatural weapons - spells.
  • [Werewolf] - A public domain game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves -- will the werewolves devour the villagers, or will the villagers discover the monsters in their midst?
  • [Whakka Mole] - A game of bluffing and brinksmanship for two people looking to vent a little aggression. You get points for whacking your opponent’s moles, and by keeping your moles from being whacked. It’s more strategic than it sounds at first. Trust me.


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