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Strategy Games(20)
Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on an 8x8 checkered board. It is one of the world's...
Go
Go is an ancient abstract strategy board game for two players. Despite having simple rules, Go is re...
Checkers (English Draughts)
Checkers is a classic two-player strategy board game played on an 8x8 board with alternating dark an...
Backgammon
Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games, combining strategy and luck through dice. Two pla...
Reversi (Othello)
Reversi, also known by the trademarked name Othello, is a strategy board game for two players played...
Gomoku
Gomoku, also known as Five in a Row, is a traditional abstract strategy board game. Two players take...
Mancala
Mancala is one of the oldest known games, with the name referring to a family of pit-and-seed board ...
Hex
Hex is a two-player abstract strategy game played on a rhombus-shaped board of hexagonal cells. One ...
Nine Men's Morris
Nine Men's Morris is an ancient strategy board game for two players. The board consists of three nes...
Oware
Oware is a traditional mancala game from Ghana and the most widely played variant in Africa. It's kn...
Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
Xiangqi is the Chinese variant of chess, played by millions in China and worldwide. The game feature...
Shogi (Japanese Chess)
Shogi is Japanese chess, notable for its unique 'drop' rule - captured pieces switch sides and can b...
Tablut (Hnefatafl)
Tablut is a historical Nordic strategy game from the Hnefatafl family, with asymmetric forces and ob...
International Draughts
International Draughts (also called Polish Draughts) is the most widely played variant of checkers i...
Surakarta
Surakarta is a traditional Indonesian strategy game named after a city in Java. Its unique feature i...
Renju
Renju is the professional version of Gomoku, with special rules added to balance the strong first-pl...
Chinese Checkers
Chinese Checkers is a strategy board game for 2-6 players on a star-shaped board. Despite its name, ...
Halma
Halma is the predecessor to Chinese Checkers, invented in Victorian England around 1880. It's played...
Fox and Geese
Fox and Geese is an asymmetric strategy board game where one player controls the Fox and the other c...
Royal Game of Ur
The Royal Game of Ur is one of the oldest known board games, dating to ancient Mesopotamia around 26...
Quick & Classic(11)
Tic-Tac-Toe
Tic-Tac-Toe (also called Noughts and Crosses or X's and O's) is a simple paper-and-pencil game for t...
Four in a Row (Connect Four)
Four in a Row (Connect Four) is a connection game where two players take turns dropping colored disc...
Paper Soccer
Paper Soccer (or Paper Football) is a pencil-and-paper strategy game where players draw lines on a g...
Dominoes
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular tiles called 'dominoes.' Each tile ...
Dots and Boxes
Dots and Boxes is a classic pencil-and-paper game where players take turns connecting dots to form s...
Nim
Nim is a mathematical strategy game of perfect information. Players take turns removing objects from...
Peg Solitaire
Peg Solitaire (Solo Noble) is a single-player puzzle game involving pegs on a board. By jumping pegs...
Yote
Yote (Yoté) is a traditional strategy game from West Africa, particularly popular in Senegal and Gam...
Konane
Konane is an ancient Hawaiian game often called Hawaiian Checkers. Unlike most checkers variants, th...
Mahjong Solitaire
Mahjong Solitaire (Shanghai) is a single-player matching game using Mahjong tiles. Unlike the real f...
Shut the Box
Shut the Box is a classic dice game of luck and basic probability. Players roll dice and flip down n...
Party & Dice Games(6)
Ludo
Ludo is a classic race board game for 2-4 players, derived from the ancient Indian game Pachisi. Pla...
Five Dice (Yahtzee)
Five Dice (Yahtzee) is a dice game combining luck and strategy. Roll five dice up to three times per...
Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders is a classic children's race game based entirely on luck. Players roll dice and m...
Farkle
Farkle (also known as 10000, Zilch, or Hot Dice) is a push-your-luck dice game using six dice. Playe...
Liar's Dice
Liar's Dice is a bluffing dice game where players make increasingly bold claims about the dice hidde...
Senet
Senet is one of the oldest known board games, played in ancient Egypt over 5,000 years ago. It's a r...
Word & Deduction(3)
Hangman
Hangman is a classic word-guessing game for two players. One player thinks of a word and shows blank...
Code Breaker (Mastermind)
Code Breaker (Mastermind) is a code-breaking game of logic and deduction. One player creates a secre...
Naval Battle (Battleship)
Naval Battle (Battleship) is a guessing game of naval strategy for two players. Each player secretly...
Card Games(15)
Solitaire (Klondike)
Klondike Solitaire is the most famous single-player card game, made popular by its inclusion in Micr...
War
War is a simple card game of pure luck for two players, popular with children. Players flip cards si...
Crazy Eights
Crazy Eights is a shedding card game where players try to be the first to discard all their cards. M...
Mau Mau
Mau Mau is a popular German card game similar to Crazy Eights but with action cards. Certain cards f...
Gin Rummy
Gin Rummy is a two-player card game of skill combining melding and strategy. Players draw and discar...
President (Asshole)
President (known by many names including Asshole, Scum, Capitalism) is a climbing card game for 3-8 ...
Durak
Durak is the most popular card game in Russia. Unlike most card games, the goal is not to win but to...
Cribbage
Cribbage is a classic card game for two players combining luck and skill. Points are scored for card...
Hearts
Hearts is a trick-avoidance card game for four players. Unlike most card games, the goal is to avoid...
Spades
Spades is a partnership trick-taking card game where spades are always trump. Teams bid on how many ...
Euchre
Euchre is a fast-paced partnership trick-taking game popular in the Midwest US, Canada, and the UK. ...
Pinochle
Pinochle is a trick-taking game using a 48-card deck (two of each 9, 10, J, Q, K, A in each suit). P...
Canasta
Canasta is a partnership melding game using two standard decks plus jokers (108 cards). Players coll...
Skat
Skat is Germany's national card game for exactly three players. One player bids to become the solois...
Bridge (Contract Bridge)
Contract Bridge is widely considered the most complex and strategic card game. Two partnerships comp...