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Strategy13 games
BackgammonThe dice decide your moves. Bring fifteen checkers home and bear them off first.CheckersDraughts on 8×8. Men capture backwards, kings fly, and you must take the most.ChessThe classic strategy game. Develop your pieces, build threats and deliver mate.DiceFive dice, three rolls a turn and thirteen boxes on your sheet — each filled once.DominoesMatch tiles and score whenever the open ends add up to a multiple of five.Draughts 100International draughts on a 10×10 board with 20 pieces per player.Go / BadukSurround territory and your opponent's stones on the board.LudoRace your pieces home before your opponents.MahjongJapanese riichi: draw, discard and call tiles. Build four sets and a pair.MakrukThai chess with its own pieces and movement rules.Turkish DraughtsA draughts variant with moves and captures along rows and columns.Word TilesBuild connected words, use colour bonuses and make the most of seven letters.XiangqiChinese chess with a river, palaces and cannons.
Cards15 games
3-5-8Every hand gives you a target: three, five or eight tricks. Take tricks to meet it.Barbu-KingPolish Hearts with different contracts and its own scoring.BlackjackBeat the dealer. Play your hand.BridgeBid a contract with your partner, then play it out with the dummy's hand face up.CanastaMeld seven cards of a rank. Two decks, four jokers and a discard pile taken whole.DurakAttack, defend and shed your cards to avoid being the last player holding them.Gin RummyDraw and discard until your hand falls into sets and runs. Then knock.HeartsAvoid points: hearts cost one, the queen of spades thirteen. Or take them all.MakaoMatch the pile, fight back with function cards and empty your hand first.PanShed your cards by playing them onto the shared pile.PinochleA partnership game of bidding, melding and taking tricks.PokerTwo cards in hand, five on the table. Bet your chips and win with the best hand.SkatWin the bidding and play alone against the table. The skat can change it all.SpadesBid tricks with your partner, then take exactly that many. Spades are trumps.TysiacBid what you can take, then take it. A king and queen of a suit set the trump and score.
Solo Games8 games
2048Slide tiles and merge matching numbers. Reach 2048, then keep going.Color LinesArrange at least five balls of one color in a line.CrosswordsSolve clues and fill the grid with intersecting words.Mahjong SolitaireMatch exposed pairs and clear the entire board.MinesweeperReveal safe squares and flag mines using the numbered clues.NonogramsFill cells to match the numbers by each row and column and reveal a picture.Spider SolitaireArrange eight complete suits, from King down to Ace. Choose one, two or four suits.SudokuFill the grid with digits without repeating them in any row, column or box.
Party4 games
CategoriesOne letter, six categories. Find original answers before time runs out.Draw & GuessOne player draws the word, the others guess. One shared canvas, points for speed.MafiaSecret roles, night-time choices and a village vote. Find the mafia first.QuizThe same questions for everyone. Points for right answers and speed.