Rules of classic games
The full rules of games you play with a board, a deck of cards or a few dice. Each page also has the common variants and answers to frequent questions.
Board games
- Ludo Players: 2-4 A dice race game for 2-4 players. The first to bring all four tokens home wins.
- Chess Players: 2 A board game for two players: move your 16 pieces and checkmate your opponent's king.
- Checkers Players: 2 A board game for two. Jump your opponent's pieces until they cannot move.
- Backgammon Players: 2 A race game for two with dice: bring your 15 checkers home and bear them off first.
- Go Players: 2 A board game for two: place stones, surround territory and capture your opponent's stones.
- Nine men's morris Players: 2 A strategy game for two: line up three pieces to make a mill and take your opponent's pieces.
- Mancala Players: 2 A game for two with seeds and a board of pits. Sow, capture and fill your store.
- Reversi Players: 2 A board game for two. Trap your opponent's discs and flip them to your colour.
- Chinese checkers and Halma Players: 2, 3, 4 or 6 A race across the board for 2-6 players. Be the first to jump your pieces into the opposite corner.
- Fox and geese Players: 2 A board game for two. One fox hunts a flock of geese, and the geese try to trap it.
Card games
- Thousand Players: 2-4 (best with 3) A trick-taking card game for 2-4 players: bid, declare marriages and race to 1000 points.
- Macau Players: 2-4 (more with two decks) A card game for 2-4 players. The first to get rid of all their cards wins.
- Rummy (Polish remik) Players: 2-4 (more with a third deck) Polish rummy for 2-4 players, with two decks and jokers. Make runs and sets. Cards left in your hand cost you points.
Dice games
Tile games
Paper and pencil games
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