Known games

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47 entries, in the order the knowledge base holds them.

Pig — the dice push not checked yet
Push your luck in its plainest form: after every roll, keep what you have or risk it for more. Change one number, the bust or the target, and the whole table plays more boldly or more carefully.
Three-card Hanabi — hidden hands and clues not checked yet
Hidden hands turned inside out: you see everyone's cards except your own, so the team depends on a few limited clues. It shows how a limit on talking can become the whole game.
The blocking grid — workers fight for spots not checked yet
Worker placement at its smallest: taking a spot denies it to the other player. It shows how turn order and denial create decisions even with no luck at all.
Werewolf-5 — find the traitor not checked yet
A game made almost entirely of what players say about each other. It shows hidden identity, and how a single liar changes every conversation at the table.
Paper auction — bid for the prize not checked yet
Bidding with a budget that never refills: every token spent now is gone later. It shows how players come to price the same prize differently as their money runs down.
Pick-and-pass — the drafting game not checked yet
Drafting: each card you keep is also a choice about what your neighbour gets. It shows how passing cards along turns every pick into a gift or a block.
Last-card-out — race to empty your hand not checked yet
A race where what you hold limits what you can do. It shows hand management, and how one flexible card (the wild) changes every decision around it.
Nim — take the last stone not checked yet
No luck and nothing hidden, yet the winner is often settled many moves before the end by a pattern the players can't yet see. It shows why designers add uncertainty to a game that can be solved.
Raja Mantri Chor Sipahi — find the thief not checked yet
Four hidden roles and one guess: the whole game is reading faces. It shows how little rule a hidden-identity game needs, and how points can give each role a different stake.
Gulaam Chor — don't be left with the Jack not checked yet
One loser, no winner, and almost no choices, yet real tension, carried by a single card that can never pair. It shows how a game can work on feeling more than decision.
Satte pe Satta — build out from the sevens not checked yet
Everyone builds the same rows, and holding a card back blocks the others. It shows interaction through a shared board instead of direct attack.
Dots and Boxes — close the square not checked yet
A rule that lets you move again after closing a box turns a simple drawing game into one of sacrifice and long chains. It shows how one rule can create deep strategy.
Battleship on paper — find the hidden fleet not checked yet
Each yes-or-no answer narrows where the ships can be. It shows deduction on a hidden map, and how the size of the board sets how much luck there is at the start.
Bulls and Cows — crack the code not checked yet
Pure deduction from counted clues. It shows how much information a single answer can carry, and how a guess can be made to learn rather than to win.
Cheat — play face down, lie if you like not checked yet
Every claim may be false, and calling a lie costs whoever is wrong. It shows how risk on both sides keeps bluffing honest.
Spoons — grab a coin when someone makes four not checked yet
A quiet card game that ends in a scramble, with one fewer coin than players. It shows how adding a physical race to a hidden race changes what players watch.
Cram — the last domino wins not checked yet
On boards with even sides the second player always wins by copying. It shows how symmetry can break a game, and how changing the board fixes it.
SOS — write S or O, make SOS not checked yet
Both players write the same letters, so anything you write can help your opponent. It shows how shared pieces create tactics of giving and avoiding.
Three Men's Morris — three in a row, then move not checked yet
Placing pieces, then moving them: a second phase keeps a tic-tac-toe-like game from ending in a draw. It shows phases as a design tool.
Set — three that all match or all differ not checked yet
Everyone looks at the same cards at once, with no turns, so perception wins over planning. It shows simultaneous play, and how a single matching rule can carry a whole game.
3 Quarters — complete the three-quarter circle not checked yet
Every piece placed can complete someone else's circle, so each move weighs your gain against what it gives away, under a 20-second clock. It shows interaction through a shared board, and time as pressure.
All or Nothing — play a slice, win a pizza not checked yet
Completing the pizza early scores fewer points, so waiting is rewarded. It shows how one scoring rule can turn a simple arithmetic race into a game of pushing your luck.
Eleusis — guess the dealer's secret rule not checked yet
The rules themselves are what you discover. Players learn by testing guesses against right and wrong, which is how a designer learns what a rule does. The Rulemaker also feels the balance: a rule nobody finds is as dull as one everyone finds at once.
Mao — the rules nobody will tell you not checked yet
Hidden rules turn every penalty into evidence. It shows how players build a model of a game from feedback alone, and how much frustration a design can carry before it stops being fun.
Nomic — change the rules as you play not checked yet
Changing the rules is the move. It makes visible what every designer does between playtests, and shows that every rule serves someone more than others.
The Mind — play in order, without a word not checked yet
With speech removed, the only channel left is timing. Players build a shared rhythm, which shows how a rule that takes something away can make a new kind of play.
Exquisite Corpse — draw a body nobody planned not checked yet
Concealment makes collaboration surprising. It shows how hiding information between players can produce something nobody could have made alone, and a game with no winner that people still want to play again.
Consequences — a story written blind not checked yet
A fixed sequence of prompts is a story's structure; the players only fill it in. It shows how much of a narrative game comes from its frame rather than its players.
Racetrack — drive a car on squared paper not checked yet
One rule about momentum makes every move depend on the last. It shows how a simple physical constraint creates planning, risk and a track that the players draw themselves.
Sprouts — the drawing that ends itself not checked yet
The board is drawn by the players, and the moves close the board in. It shows how a game can be made of its own map, and how a growing picture can carry the state of a game.
Hex — connect your two sides not checked yet
Every move is both an attack and a defence, because the same chain that connects one player blocks the other. It shows how a geometric fact can rule out draws, and how the swap rule balances first-player advantage.
Sim — don't make a triangle not checked yet
A game about avoiding, not achieving. It shows a misère goal, and a mathematical guarantee: with six dots someone must make a triangle, so the game always ends.
Chomp — don't eat the poisoned square not checked yet
The first player can always win, yet on most bars nobody knows how. It shows the difference between knowing a strategy exists and finding it, which is often where play lives.
Kayles — knock down one pin or two not checked yet
Each move can break one game into several smaller games. It shows how a position can be a sum of separate parts, a way of thinking that helps in designing any game with independent areas.
Quantum tic-tac-toe — marks in two places at once not checked yet
Each move is uncertain until a later moment decides it, and the decision is handed to the opponent. It shows how a game can be built to teach an idea from science, with delayed effects as its main mechanism.
Ultimate tic-tac-toe — your move sends them not checked yet
Each move has two meanings: a mark here and an instruction to the other player. It shows how linking small games turns a solved children's game into one that rewards foresight.
Paper soccer — bounce the ball to goal not checked yet
Every line drawn changes what can be drawn next, and old moves create new ones through bouncing. It shows how a game's history can live on the board and become its strategy.
Mū Tōrere — the Māori star game not checked yet
A board with a single empty point makes every move a question of who gets stuck. It shows how one restriction, the centre rule, can keep a tiny game from being won at once.
Aadu Puli Attam — goats against tigers not checked yet
Two sides with different pieces, different moves and different goals. It shows asymmetric design: balance comes from tuning numbers such as goats needed and capture counts, not from giving both sides the same thing.
Moksha Patam — the board that teaches not checked yet
A game made entirely of chance that still carries a meaning, because every square is labelled. It shows how a board's words can make players read luck as a lesson, and how rules can make an argument.
The Royal Game of Ur — race through the shared middle not checked yet
A race with a shared middle, where luck decides the distance and you decide which piece to risk. It shows how a few special squares, the rosettes, shape the whole flow of a game.
Senet — the journey across thirty squares not checked yet
A game whose rules were lost and had to be reconstructed from boards and texts. It shows that any set of rules is a choice, and how a path, a few special squares and a swap rule can carry meaning about a journey.
Kemps — tell your partner without a word not checked yet
Information has to cross between partners through a hidden channel, while the other team tries to read it too. It shows how a game can be about communication itself, and how a forbidden channel (speech) pushes play into another.
Liar's Dice — bid on dice you can't see not checked yet
Every bid is a claim you can't check without risking a die. It shows how bluffing works when information is shared but hidden, and how a game tightens as each loss shrinks what you know.
Cuttle — the first fighting card game not checked yet
A small deck carrying many card powers, each answering another. It shows how a designer gives every card a role, builds counters into the rules, and makes a race into a fight.
Mendikot — win the tens not checked yet
Trick-taking with a single prize: the tens. It shows how a game can strip a big system down to one thing to fight over, and how partnerships form a silent conversation through the cards played.
Penney's game — the second chooser wins not checked yet
A game that looks fair and isn't. It shows how probability can surprise players, and why designers test balance instead of trusting how a rule looks.