(26 Jan 2003)
3 variants
Visit all four corners and the center
before your opponent does.
(27 Jan 2003)
3 variants
Visit all five red circles
before your opponent does.
AREA (V5.0)
(24 Nov 2004)
12 variants
Occupy a bigger area than your opponent.
(updated 12 Jan 08)
Rabbits build barriers to stalemate the opponent.
(created Oct 09)
1 variant
Russian checkers with towers
(updated 24 Dec 04)
20 main variants - thousands of variations
Chess pieces pop bubbles, but a bubble is created with each move.
Who pops the opponent's bubbles first?
(17 Feb 2003)
40 variants
Chess queens pop bubbles.
Bubbles (friend or foe) pop when both your queens attack them.
Who pops the opponent's bubbles first?
1 variant
Capture your opponent's pieces
by 'bumping' into them.
BUTTERFLY (V1.4)
(updated 4 Jan 05)
4 variants
Move your tokens into your opponent's starting area
(created July 2009)
24 variants
Be the one who can move his cameleon the furthest.
4 randomized variants
Make your rabbit eat most of the carrots
1 variant
Make your rabbit eat all of your carrots
before the other rabbit eats all its carrots.
3 variants (updated 24 Dec 04)
Two cats compete for food.
The variants have more active mice.
Six buttons trigger a few hundred different game variants.
4 variants and 20 variants
(Chase II updated 24 Dec 04)
Increase-the-squeeze type of game
You try to entrap your opponent's king. Other variants use other pieces.
This is also a great game without a computer!
Traditional game
6 variants
The Leopards try to eat all the Cows.
Two of the variants are "16 Soldiers II" and "23 Soldiers".
6 variants (create 4 Oct 07)
Grow double-symmetrical crystals.
Maximaize the area they cover.
2-player game (updated 1 May 2002)
3 variants
Get your tokens to the other border.
Special deflector-moves apply.
2-player game (updated 1 May 2002)
2 variants
Get your tokens to the other border.
Special deflector-moves apply
DICO (V1.1)
2-player game (updated 10 May 2009)
4 variants
Be the first to have a dice on the far rank
DOMINA (V2.1)
2-player game (updated 18 Aug 07)
8 variants
Get one of your dominoes to the other side.
2-player game
8 variants
Capture your opponent's man.
Revolving doors create a changing maze.
(Updated 7/1/01)
2-player game
2 variants (Open and Closed Ducado)
Place tokens to win coins.
This is a game of memory, luck and skill.
(created 18/3/09)
2-player dice-moving game game
4 variants
Be the first to place one of your dice on the far rank.
2-player game
4 variants
Get your tokens to the other border.
Special evasive moves apply.
2-player game
2 variants
Get your tokens to the other border.
Special evasive moves apply.
FADO (V1.0)
2-player game
(created 6 Dec 05)
3 variants
End up with more toppled dominoes than your opponent.
2-player game (updated 26 Dec 2004)
6 variants
Variants 1 and 2 : traditional dice game. Variants 3 and 4: solitaire versions.
Variants 5 and 6 : rules here slightly untraditional.
Two 2-player games and two solitaire games
(updated 26 Dec 2004)
2 GAMES IN THIS PACKAGE, 2 variants each
Try to get 5000 points as fast as possible.
Two 2-player game by Sid Sackson
(implemented 29 Nov 2007)
Maybe the best board game Sid invented.
Traditional 2-player game
1 variant
The attacker has to occupy the fortress with 15 of his men.
Traditional 2-player game
6 variants
The hunters have to immobilise the fox.
Traditional 2- player game
2 variants
Kings jump backwards and forward,
and slide over several empty squares.
Traditional 2-player game
4 variants
When you have only 3 pieces left, you may jump!
In two variants you may never take a piece from a mill.
2-player Reversi-related game
8 variants
Enclosing enemy pieces creates Halfbreeds.
(updated 1 Sep 2007)
2- and 3-player game
selection screen with 3 games.
Halma on the six-pointed star.
Historic 2-player game (updated 5 July 2001)
4 variants
The white Hunns try to enclose the Hnefi (king),
while the Hnefi with the help of his black Hunns tries to reach the border.
Hunns are captured by trapping them between two pieces on rank or file.
(updated 26 Dec 2004)
2-player game
12 variants
Colours control the length of your hop.
HUNGRY SNAKES FOR TWO (V1.1)
(updated 23 June 07)
6 randomized variants
Get your snake eat more apples than your opponent's snake.
JOINTZ FOR TWO (V1.0)
(updated 7 Feb 08)
Make a loop of your colour or connect two opposite borders.
(updated 12 Jan 2008)
2-player game
11 variants
NIM-variant with two moves per player
by Emmanuel Lasker
(updated 1 Nov 07)
Two variants (7x7 and 8x8 board)
Edward De Bono's game never looked that good.
4 variants (updated 26 Dec 2004)
You move your L-piece, then one or two of the neutral squares.
It looks deceptively easy...
2-player game (updated 12 Jan 08)
3 variants
Be the last to remove a pair of tokens.
Both tokens must be orthogonally adjacent to an enemy piece
LONGERWORDS (V1.1)
2-player game (updated 5 Oct 06)
4 variants
Players place more and more letters in each round, making words.
LUDO (V1.1)
1 to 4 players
12 variants (updated 18 Oct 07)
also contains "Frustration" ("Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht")
2-player game
1 variant
Distantly related to Ludo (Pachisi, Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht),
but with some new twists...
MAFFY (V1.0)
2-player game, also very good to play against the computer.
2 variants (15x15, 25x25)
Fill the maze with more balls than your opponent does.
2-player game (updated 26 Dec 2004)
6 variants
Cover the 4x4 board with the nine given 2x2 tiles.
2-player game (updated 02/12/2004)
6 variants
Drop walls to stalemate the enemy mice.
2-player game (updated 27/10/2007)
2 variants
A relative of Checkers.
A captured piece it moved under the capturing piece
and can be resurrected.
2-player game (created 13 Feb 06)
11 variants
Invade your opponent's home turf with all your (remaining) pieces.
2-player game (updated 29 Dec 2004)
1 randomized variant
Turn two buttons over at a time and find the matching pairs.
Indicators at the border show your progress.
2- player game invented by Nagy Laszlo
(updated 24 Mar 2003)
10 variants
Surround the red marble with four of your marbles.
You may only move rows where you have the majority.
2- player game
8 variants
Move your tokens to the other board.
Special pushing moves apply.
2- player game
2 variants
Move your tokens to the other board.
Special pushing moves apply.
game idea by Mark Steere Jan 2006.
2 variant (updated 1 Sep 07)
Reduce opponent's pieces to two or occupy the 3 target positions.
Built 4 corners of rectangle with your tokens to capture a piece.
Traditional 2- player game
2 variants
Place the Queen in the centre and the Guards around it.
"Trapped" pieces are forced to move outwards.
2- player game
2 randomized variants
Race more rabbit tunnels than your opponent.
Very difficult to win against the computer!
RAZZLEDAZZLE (V3.0)
invented by Don Green
15 variants (updated 4 Dec 05)
Carry your ball to the opposite side.
2- player game
2 variants
Each player moves the opponent´s pieces half of the time.
Traditional 2- player game
1 variant
The attacker has to get two of his men into the fortress.
2- player game invented by Nagy Laszlo
2 variants
The Hungarian Rotary Game.
Get your marbles into the center using rotating moves.
2-player game (updated 26 Dec 2004)
1 variant1
This is the standard European version of roulette (no "00")
Traditional 2- player game (updated 12/3/01)
4 variants
Pieces jump backwards and forward,
and Kings are more powerful than in standard Checkers.
1 variant
2-player game (updated 26 Dec 2004)
Two sailing boats in a race to their harbours.
Arrows and colours indicate (wind/current) directions.
First you rotate a square, then you move.
4 variants
Traditional 2-player game
You have to move your 15 different tokens
to places on the opposite side of the board.
1 variant (updated 1 Dec 2002)
2-player game
Keep all stones in a one mixed group
while trying to occupy the square at the opposite end of the board.
Traditional 2-player word game Scrabble,
but with opponent's letters visible.
Also : 2nd variant is a demonstration board.
SCRABWALK (V1.1)
12 variants (created 12 Jan08)
Wordbuilding by seven of your men
wandering around the board filled with letters.
1 variant
(updated Sep 2, 06)
Scrabble-type game on 13x13 board.
A few rules are different; you may write up, down, left or right, for example.
1 variant
(updated Sep 2, 06)
Scrabble-type game on 15x13 board.
A few rules are different; you may write up, down, left or right, for example.
2 variants (2-player and 4-player version)
(created 18/3/09)
Classic board game.
Be the first to move all "castles" to the far rank.
SIMILARITY (V1.0)
4 variant
(created Jan30, 08)
Pick triples of images which have 2 common properties.
14 variants, some randomized
(updated 26 Dec, 2004)
Simple soccer simulation; three board sizes.
The team that shoots three goals first wins.
(updated 26 Dec 2004)
1 variant
Starting from a random setup,
create words by swapping letters.
SQUAREDANCE (V1.1)
(updates 4 April 2004)
6 variants
Rotate lines of coins by a multiple of 45 degrees.
SQUAREDANCE also available on Games Server
9 variants
Two players alternatively place a square
of size 1x1, 2x2 or 3x3
and try to stalemate each other.
2-player games
Lay down 1xn sticks (certain conditions apply).
You win by stalemating your opponent.
2-player game (updated 26 Dec 2004)
3 variants
Lay down 1xn sticks (certain conditions apply).
You win by stalemating your opponent.
STOPLIGHT MANCALA (V1.0)
created by Don Green 2006
implemented Karl Scherer 21 Oct 2006 (updated 23 Oct 06)
2 variants
"Beans-in-bowls" game
Capture 16 stones.
STRAIGHT FOR TWO (V1.1) & STRAIGHT-DIA FOR TWO (V1.0)
(updated 20 Aug 06, created 5 April 05 )
2-player games
60 variants
Walk more straight steps than your opponent.
(updated 20 Sep 07)
16 variants
Now up to 4 cars per player!
8 variants: visit more streets than your opponent;
8 variants: stalemate your opponent
by Florin Ilie and Karl Scherer
3 variants (created 7 Feb 06)
Drop or move a marble and then move one of 4 (out of 5) board layers.
SUMMERWINGS (V1.0)
4 variants (created 30 Jan 08)
Drop images such that adjacent images have at least
two properties in common.
TOPPLA (V1.0)
2 variants (created 8 Sep 08)
Topple 1x1xn polycube bricks.
Delete your oppoenent's 5-cubes or place a 1x1x1 cube on the far rank.
2-player game
2 variants
Visit all four corners before your opponent does.
You have to step alternatively up and down on overlapping carpets.
2-player game
8 variants
Every square that you surround with four walls grows your flower.
Four different board sizes. In variant 5 to 8 you get a free turn for every flower.
This is also a great game without a computer!
(updated 19 Oct 2006)
2 variants
created by Joshua Taylor Dec 05
rewrittten by Karl Scherer Oct 06 on invitation by Joshua
Traditional 2-player game
4 variants
This is a historic relative of 9-Men's Morris