abstract strategy game Abstract strategy games admit a number of definitions which distinguish these from strategy games in general, mostly involving no or minimal narrative theme, outcomes determined only by player choice (with no randomness), and perfect informatio ...

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board Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * Paperboard * Fiberboard ** Hardboard, a ty ...

, card or other game where game play includes no random chance and provides perfect information. Many abstract strategy games include no theme. Some games can also be played on pen and paper.

Chess and chess-like games

Apocalypse Apocalypse () is a literary genre in which a supernatural being reveals cosmic mysteries or the future to a human intermediary. The means of mediation include dreams, visions and heavenly journeys, and they typically feature symbolic imager ...

* Arimaa *

Chaturaji Chaturaji (meaning "four kings") is a four-player chess-like game. It was first described in detail c. 1030 by Al-Biruni in his book ''India''. Originally, this was a game of chance: the pieces to be moved were decided by rolling two dice. ...

(India) *

Chaturanga Chaturanga ( sa, चतुरङ्ग; ') is an ancient Indian strategy game. While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that it is the common ancestor of the board games chess (European), xiangqi (Chines ...

(Indian chess) *

Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

(Western chess) * Congo *

Courier chess Courier chess is a chess variant that dates from the 12th century and was popular for at least 600 years. It was a part of the slow evolution towards modern chess from Medieval Chess. Medieval rules Courier chess is played on an 8x12 board (i.e ...

(German chess) *

Crazyhouse Crazyhouse (also known as drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess, turnabout chess and schizo-chess) is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or ''dropped'', into the game as one's own. The drop rule resembles tha ...

* Dameo * Djambi (modern French chess variant) * Duell (chess) *

Fortress chess Fortress chess (also known as Russian Four-Handed chess) is a four-player chess variant played in Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries. The board contains 192 squares including the fortresses at its corners. The fortresses contain 16 squares an ...

(Russia) *

Four-player chess Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically made of a standard 8×8 square, with 3 rows of 8 cells each extending from each side, and requi ...

* Hexagonal chess *

Hnefatafl Tafl games (pronounced avl also known as hnefatafl games) are a family of ancient Nordic and Celtic strategy board games played on a checkered or latticed gameboard with two armies of uneven numbers. Most probably they are based upon the Rom ...

(Nordic chess-like game) * Hiashatar (Mongolian chess variant) *

Hive A hive may refer to a beehive, an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species live and raise their young. Hive or hives may also refer to: Arts * ''Hive'' (game), an abstract-strategy board game published in 2001 * "Hive" (song), a 201 ...

(boardless chess-like game) * Infinite chess *

Janggi ''Janggi'' (including romanizations ''changgi'' and ''jangki''), sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar to it, including t ...

(Korean chess) *

Jeson Mor Jeson Mor (English: "Nine Horses") is a two-player strategy board game from Mongolia. It is considered a chess variant. The game is played on a 9×9 checkered gameboard. Each player has nine chess knights initially lined up on the players' first ...

(Mongolian chess variant) *

Ko Shogi Kō shōgi (広将棋 or 廣象棋 'broad chess') is a large-board variant of shogi, or Japanese chess. The game dates back to the turn of the 18th century and is based on xiangqi and go as well as shogi. Credit for its invention has been given ...

(Shogi Variant based on xiangqi and go) * Kruzno *

Maharajah and the Sepoys Maharajah and the Sepoys, originally called Shatranj Diwana Shah and also known as the Mad King's Game and Maharajah chess, is a popular chess variant with different armies for White and Black. It was first played in the 19th century in India. It i ...

(Indian chess variant) *

Makruk ''Makruk'' ( th, หมากรุก; ; ), or Thai chess, is a board game that is descended from the 6th-century Indian game of ''chaturanga'' or a close relative thereof, and is therefore related to chess. It is part of the family of chess ...

(Thai chess) *

Ploy (board game) Ploy is an abstract strategy board game for two or four players, played on a 9x9 board with a set of 15 pieces (2-handed) or 9 pieces (4-handed and partnership games) per player. Pieces have various horizontal, vertical or diagonal moves somewh ...

Rollerball (chess variant) Rollerball is a chess variant invented by Jean-Louis Cazaux in 1998. The game was inspired by the 1975 science-fiction movie '' Rollerball'', specifically the futuristic and violent sport (similar to Roller Derby) portrayed in the film. The boa ...

Senterej Senterej (Amharic: ሰንጠረዥ sänṭäräž or Ethiopian chess) is a form of chess traditionally played in Ethiopia and Eritrea, cousin of international Chess and the last survival form of Shatranj. According to Richard Pankhurst, the game ...

(Ethiopian chess) * Shatar (Mongolian chess) *

Shatranj Shatranj ( ar, شطرنج; fa, شترنج; from Middle Persian ''chatrang'' ) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins are in the Indian game of chaturaṅga. Modern chess gradually developed from this game, as i ...

(Persian and Arabian chess) *

Shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, '' chaturanga, Xiangqi'', Indian chess, and ''janggi''. ''Shōgi ...

(Japanese chess) *

Shogi variant A shogi variant is a game related to or derived from shogi (Japanese chess). Many shogi variants have been developed over the centuries, ranging from some of the largest chess-type games ever played to some of the smallest. A few of these variant ...

s (other shogi-like games) * Sittuyin (Burmese chess) *

Suffragetto ''Suffragetto'' was a board game published in the United Kingdom around 1908 by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and manufactured by Sargeant Bros. Ltd. In modern terms, it was developed to "enact feminist ideology in a hybrid fantas ...

(Suffragettes vs. Police) * Tamerlane chess (Persian) *

Three-player chess Three-player chess (also known as three-handed, three-man, or three-way chess) is a family of chess variants specially designed for three players. Many variations of three-player chess have been devised. They usually use a non-standard board, for e ...

* Trappist-1 *

Xiangqi ''Xiangqi'' (; ), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. ''Xiangqi'' is in the same family of games as '' shogi'', '' janggi'', Western chess, '' ...

(Chinese and Vietnamese chess)

Paper and pencil game Paper-and-pencil games or paper-and-pen games (or some variation on those terms) are games that can be played solely with paper and pencils (or other writing implements), usually without erasing. They may be played to pass the time, as iceb ...
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Bulls and Cows Bulls and Cows (also known as Cows and Bulls or Pigs and Bulls) is a code-breaking mind or paper and pencil game for two or more players, predating the commercially marketed board game '' Mastermind'' and the hit word game Wordle. The game is p ...

* Col (game) * Dots and Boxes *

Hackenbush Hackenbush is a two-player game invented by mathematician John Horton Conway. It may be played on any configuration of colored line segments connected to one another by their endpoints and to a "ground" line. Gameplay The game starts with the ...

* Join Five * Kropki * Labyrinth (paper-and-pencil game) * Notakto * Order and Chaos * Paper Soccer * Phutball *

Racetrack (game) Racetrack is a paper and pencil game that simulates a car race, played by two or more players. The game is played on a squared sheet of paper, with a pencil line tracking each car's movement. The rules for moving represent a car with a certain in ...

* Sim * Snort *

SOS (game) SOS is paper and pencil game for two or more players. It is similar to tic-tac-toe and dots and boxes, but has greater complexity. SOS is a combinatorial game when played with two players. In terms of game theory, it is a zero-sum, sequential g ...

* Sprouts * Tennis (paper game)

"N-in-a-row" games

All-in-a-row games involve placing and/or moving pieces on a game board attempting to create a layout of n of your pieces in a straight line (often n=3, but not always). Positional games involve ''only'' playing pieces, with no movement or captures afterwards. Many of these positional games can also be played as paper and pencil games, and these are marked †. (Generally, 3D games are difficult to play on paper.) : Positional "n-in-a-row" games *

Connect Four Connect Four (also known as Connect 4, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Captain's Mistress, Four in a Row, Drop Four, and Gravitrips in the Soviet Union) is a two-player connection board game, in which the players choose a color and then take tur ...

† * Connect 4x4 *

Connect6 Connect6 (; Pinyin: liùzǐqí; ; ja, 六目並べ; ko, 육목) introduced in 2003 by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is a two-player strategy game simi ...

† * Gobblet *

Gomoku ''Gomoku'', also called ''Five in a Row'', is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a Go board. It is played using a 15×15 board while in the past a 19×19 board was standard. Be ...

† * Grinder * Hijara † * Join Five (aka. '' Morpion solitaire'', ''Cross 'n' Lines'', ''Line Game'') † *

Quarto Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves. The leaves are then trimmed along the folds to produc ...

* Qubic *

Renju ''Renju'' (Japanese: 連珠) is a professional variant of gomoku. It was named renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa (黒岩涙香) on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper ''Yorozu chouhou'' (萬朝報). The name "renju" comes from th ...

† *

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† * Score Four *

Quantum tic-tac-toe Quantum tic-tac-toe is a "quantum generalization" of tic-tac-toe in which the players' moves are "superpositions" of plays in the classical game. The game was invented by Allan Goff of Novatia Labs, who describes it as "a way of introducing qua ...

Tic Tac Toe Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with ''X'' or ''O''. ...

(aka ''Noughts and Crosses'') † * Ultimate tic-tac-toe * Yinsh : Non-Positional "n-in-a-row" games, i.e. games with movements and/or captures * Achi * Boku * Check Lines * Dala * Dara * Kamisado * Morabaraba * Morris -

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, Six and

Nine men's morris Nine men's Morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl in English. ...

Nine Holes Nine Holes is a two-player abstract strategy game from different parts of the world and is centuries old. It was very popular in England. It is related to tic-tac-toe, but even more related to three men's morris, Achi, Tant Fant, Shisima, Pica ...

Pentago Pentago is a two-player abstract strategy game invented by Tomas Flodén. The game is played on a 6×6 board divided into four 3×3 sub-boards (or quadrants). Taking turns, the two players place a marble of their color (either black or white) o ...

* Pente, a variant of Ninuki-renju * Picaria * Shax * Shisima (Rota) * Square chess * Tant Fant * Tapatan *

Teeko Teeko is an abstract strategy game invented by John Scarne in 1937 and rereleased in refined form in 1952 and again in the 1960s. Teeko was marketed by Scarne's company, John Scarne Games Inc.; its quirky name, he said, borrowed letters from Tic-t ...

* Tsoro Yematatu *

Wali A wali (''wali'' ar, وَلِيّ, '; plural , '), the Arabic word which has been variously translated "master", "authority", "custodian", "protector", is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate an Islamic saint, otherwise referred to by the ...

Blockade games

Blockade games primarily involve moving your pieces, following the game rules, so as to block your opponent from having any move they can make. In symmetric blockade games, both players have the same number of pieces with the same movement capabilities. In asymmetric blockade games, players have different numbers of pieces with different movement capabilities—usually one player having a single piece of greater movement range and the other player having multiple pieces of lesser movement capabilities. :Symmetric Blockade Games *

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* Madelinette / "Lost in the Berry Patch" * Mlýnek * Mū tōrere * Pat Gonu * Pong Hau K'i (aka Sua tok tong, Umul Gonu, Gang Gonu or Do-guti) *Tako Judo (Octopuss Wrestling) * Toads and Frogs :Asymmetric Blockade Games * Bear games *

Fox and Hounds Fox games are a category of asymmetric board games for two players, where one player is the fox and tries to eat the geese / sheep, and the opposing player directs the geese/sheep and attempts to trap the fox, or reach a destination on the board. I ...

* Hare games * Koti Keliya

Connection games

connection game A connection game is a type of abstract strategy game in which players attempt to complete a specific type of connection with their pieces. This could involve forming a path between two or more endpoints, completing a closed loop, or connecting all ...

Browne, C. (2005). ''Connection Games: Variations on a Theme''. Wellesly, MA: A. K. Peters. is a type of

in which players attempt to complete a specific type of connection with their pieces. This could involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or connecting all of one's pieces so they are adjacent to each other. Those marked † can also be played as paper and pencil games. *

Bridg-It The Shannon switching game is a connection game for two players, invented by American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory" some time before 1951. Two players take turns coloring the edges of an a ...

, also called Gale † * Blue Lagoon * Crosstrack *

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* Dots and boxes † * Gonnect * Havannah † * Hex † *

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* PÜNCT * Selfo *

Shannon switching game The Shannon switching game is a connection game for two players, invented by American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical e ...

* Slither *

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* *Star † * Tak * Through the Desert * Trax * Trxilt * TwixT († ''with modified rules'') * Y †

Stacking games

* Accasta * Battle Sheep *

Death Stacks ''Death Stacks'' is an abstract strategy board game for two players invented by Stephen Euin Cobb. ''Death Stacks'' can be classified as a variant of the game ''Focus'' by Sid Sackson, published in '' A Gamut of Games''. The Annual ''Death Stack ...

* DVONN (part of the GIPF project, listed below) * Emergo * Focus * Gounki *

Lasca Lasca (also called Laska or Laskers) is a draughts (or checkers) variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941). Lasca is derived from English draughts English draughts (British English) or checkers (Ameri ...

Pylos Pylos (, ; el, Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is ...

Santorini Santorini ( el, Σαντορίνη, ), officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα ) and classical Greek Thera (English pronunciation ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the Greek mainland. It is t ...

* Torres

Annihilation games

''This category is in development, while we re-analyze the collection of games listed under "Other Games".''
Annihilation games have as a central goal the idea of capturing or eliminating all of the opponents pieces before they can capture yours. The rules for how a capture is accomplished vary greatly. A classic example of this category is checkers. Two most common forms of capture are jump (one piece jumps an opponent's piece) and custodial (one piece is surrounded by two or more opponent pieces). We include here both "capture and remove from the board" games and "capture and convert to one of your pieces" games. *

Agon Agon ( Greek ) is a Greek term for a conflict, struggle or contest. This could be a contest in athletics, in chariot or horse racing, or in music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece. Agon is the word-forming element in 'agony', ...

* Alquerque * Apit-sodok * Armenian checkers * Astar *

Ataxx ''Ataxx'' (アタックス) is a strategy video game published in arcades by Leland Corporation in 1990. Two players compete on a seven-by-seven square grid. The object of the game is for a player to have a majority of the pieces on the board at ...

* Awithlaknannai Mosona * Bizingo * Brax *

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Camelot Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as th ...

Canadian checkers Canadian checkers (or Canadian draughts) is a variant of the strategy board game draughts. It is one of the largest draughts games, played on a 12×12 checkered board with 30 game pieces per player. History The game was invented by the French se ...

* Choko *

Cinc Camins Cinc camins is a two-player abstract strategy game from northern China. Although played by children, there is a complexity and uniqueness to the game that adults can appreciate. The game may be related to the Gonu games of Korea Korea ( k ...

Dablot Prejjesne Dablo (also called Dablot Prejjesne) is a family of two-player strategy board games of the Sámi people. Different variants of the game have been played in different parts of Sápmi. Names The word "dablo" is a non-Sámi attempt to write the Sout ...

* Daldøs * Dameo * Dash-guti * Checkers (also known as draughts) * Egara-guti * Fanorona *

Four Field Kono Four Field Kono ( ko, 네밭고누) is an abstract strategy game from Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People ...

* Gala (game) * Gol-skuish *

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* Italian Damone *

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(Dou Shou Qi, ''The Game of Fighting Animals'') *

Jul-Gonu Jul-Gonu (줄 고누 in Korean) is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Korea. It is one of many Gonu games. The game has a relatively small board (4×4 square board), and yet offers a challenge at different levels. The game could be play ...

* Keny * Kharbaga * Kolowis Awithlaknannai (Fighting Serpents) * Kotu Ellima * Lau kata kati * Liberian Queah *

Mak-yek Mak-yek ( th, หมากแยก, ) is a two-player abstract strategy board game played in Thailand and Myanmar. Players move their pieces as in the rook in Chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and interven ...

* Meurimueng-rimueng peuet ploh or Dam-daman or Ratti-chitti-bakri * Ming Mang * Peralikatuma * Permainan-Tabal * Pretwa * Rek (Game), and its variant Min Rek Chanh * Sáhkku * Stay Alive (game) * Satoel * Sixteen Soldiers (aka "Cows and Leopards" or "Sholo guti") *

Surakarta Surakarta ( jv, ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ), known colloquially as Solo ( jv, ꦱꦭ; ), is a city in Central Java, Indonesia. The 44 km2 (16.2 sq mi) city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Su ...

* Terhuchu * Tobit * Tuknanavuhpi * Tukvnanawopi *

Turkish draughts Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: دامە) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other locations around the Mediterranean Se ...

* Watermelon Chess *

Yoté Yoté is a traditional strategy board game of West Africa, where it is a popular gambling game due to its fast pace and surprising turnarounds. A player wins by capturing all opposing pieces. Yoté is related to the game Choko. Rules The game i ...

* Zamma

Counting games

''This category is in development, while we re-analyze the collection of games listed under "Other Games".''
These games involve some aspect of counting, especially to determine the relative outcomes of various alternatives at points along the way. A classic example of this category are the various Mancala games. *

Chopsticks Chopsticks ( or ; Pinyin: ''kuaizi'' or ''zhu'') are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks of Chinese origin that have been used as kitchen and eating utensils in most of East and Southeast Asia for over three millennia. They are held in the ...

Mancala The mancala games are a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some ...

and related games

Positional games

''This category is in development, while we re-analyze the collection of games listed under "Other Games".''
Positional games allow no captures, but require some arrangement of pieces that constitutes a "win". This is a broad category that includes, as sub-categories, both the "All-in-a-row" games and the "Blockade" games. We include here only the positional games that do ''not'' fit into those two categories. *

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* Chinese checkers *

Conspirateurs ''Conspirateurs'' () is a two- or four-player abstract strategy, strategy board game said to have been invented in 18th-century France. Robert Charles Bell believes the game to date from after 1789, following the French Revolutionary Wars, "a pe ...

*Diaballik *Five Field Kono *Halma *Neutron (game), Neutron *Salta (game)#Variants, Pyramid *Salta (game), Salta *Ugolki

Hunt games

''This category is in development, while we re-analyze the collection of games listed under "Other Games".''
In "hunting" games, one player's pieces are "hunting" the other player's pieces, so that one player is trying to capture the second player's pieces, while the second player is trying to avoid captures, arranging their pieces to surround the hunters, to be protected from the hunters, etc. A classic example of this category is Fox and Geese. These games tend to have the hunter playing a "capture" game while the prey is playing a "positional" game. *Aadu puli attam *Adugo *Asalto *Bagh bandi *Bagha-Chall *Buga-shadara *Catch the Hare (aka Cercar la Liebre or Corner the Rabbit) *Demala diviyan keliya *Fox games, such as ''Fox and Geese'' *Hat diviyan keliya *Kaooa *Tiger and buffaloes#Khla si ko, Khla si ko *Komikan *Len Choa *Leopard hunt game *Tiger and buffaloes#Len cúa kín ngoa, Len cúa kín ngoa *Main Tapal Empat *Meurimueng-rimueng-do * Meurimueng-rimueng peuet ploh *Pulijudam *Rimau *Rimau-rimau *Sher-bakar * Sixteen Soldiers (aka "Cows and Leopards" or "Sholo guti") *Sua Ghin Gnua (aka Tigers and Oxen) *Tiger and Buffaloes *Tiger game

Non-combinatorial abstract strategy games

These games include hidden information or set up, random elements (e.g. rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles) or simultaneous movement. *Agricola (board game), Agricola *Ashtapada *Alhambra (board game), Alhambra *Baccarat *Backgammon *Bang! (card game), Bang! *Battleship (game), Battleship *Black Box (game), Black Box *Blackjack *Boggle *Bul (game), Bul *Carcassonne (board game), Carcassonne *Catan *Cluedo, Clue *Concentration (card game), Concentration *Contract bridge *Cribbage *Dark Chess *Dominoes *Dungeons & Dragons *Farkle *Feudal (game), Feudal *Gin rummy *Hearts (game), Hearts *Ingenious (board game), Ingenious *Kriegspiel (chess), Kriegspiel *Liar's dice *Liubo *Lost Cities *Luzhanqi *Mafia (party game), Mafia/Werewolf *Magic: The Gathering *Mahjong *Mastermind (board game), Mastermind *Monopoly (game), Monopoly *Pachisi *Pandemic (board game), Pandemic *Patolli *Pit (game), Pit *Plateau (game), Plateau *Poker (e.g. Texas hold'em, Five-card draw) *Power Grid *Puerto Rico (board game), Puerto Rico *Rock paper scissors *Royal Game of Ur *Rummikub *Scrabble *Senet *Spades (card game), Spades *Stratego *Tâb *Ticket to Ride (board game), Ticket to Ride *Tigris and Euphrates *Tikal (board game), Tikal *Uno (card game), Uno *Yahtzee

Abstract strategy games that depict conquest of the world or entire continents

*Axis & Allies *Diplomacy (game), Diplomacy *Risk (game), Risk

Other games

Those marked † can also be played as paper and pencil games. ''This category is being reviewed, with some games being moved to other named categories. The review is complete through the C's.'' *Awithlaknakwe *Blokus *Blue and Gray (board game), Blue and Gray *Breakthrough (board game), Breakthrough *Breakthru (board game), Breakthru *Cathedral (board game), Cathedral *Chomp *Clobber *Conquest (board game), Conquest *Cram (game) *Crossings (game), Crossings *Octal game#Dawson's Kayles, Dawson's Kayles *Diamond (game), Diamond *Dodgem *Domineering *Downfall (game), Downfall *En Gehé *Entropy (1977 board game), Entropy (1977) *Epaminondas (game), Epaminondas *Felli *Fetaix *Fibonacci nim *Fitchneal *Game of the Amazons *Game of the Generals *The GIPF project games: **GIPF (game), GIPF **TAMSK **ZÈRTZ **TZAAR **LYNGK *go (board game), Go *Grundy's game *Halatafl *Hare & Tortoise *

*Indian and jackrabbits *Jarmo (game), Jarmo *Knight's tour#Variants, Joust *Kayles *Kalah *Kensington (game), Kensington *Khet (game), Khet *Konane *Kuzushi *L game *Leap Frog (board game) *Lines of Action *Lotus (board game), Lotus *Ludus latrunculorum *Makonn *Martian chess (for two to six players) *Mozaic *Nations: A Simulation Game in International Politics *Nim † *Nimber#Northcott's Game, Northcott's Game *Number Scrabble *Paddles (game), Paddles *Pasang (game), Pasang *Patterns II *Ponte del Diavolo *Quod (board game), Quod † *Quoridor *Reversi, also known as Othello *

*Rhythmomachy *Ringo (game), Ringo *Subtract a square *Sz'Kwa *Tafl games *Terrace (board game), Terrace *Three Musketeers (game), Three Musketeers *Thud (game), Thud *Wythoff's game

References

Bibliography * Bell, R.C., (1979), Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, p. 478, which refers to our "Blockade Games" as "Blocking Games". * Drabble, Margaret, (2010), The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws, p. 66. "Irving Finkel, the colourful curator of the Department of Ancient Near East at the British Museum, is an expert on games of the ancient world. All games, he claims, fit into groups -- race games, all-in-a-row games, hunt games, position games, counting games and war games." *D. Hefetz, M. Krivelevich, M. Stojaković and T. Szabó: Positional Games, Oberwolfach Seminars, Vol. 44, Birkhäuser Basel, 2014. *Michaelsen, Peter, (2014) "Haretavl – Hare and Hounds as a board game", in Sport und Spiel bei den Germanen, M. Teichert, pp. 197–216 *Popova, Assia, (1974). "Analyse formelle et classification des jeux de calculs mongols" in Études Mongoles 5, pp. 7–60. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Abstract Strategy Games Abstract strategy games, * Chess variants, *List of abstract strategy games