Master Game List
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Game: Name & Description
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Year | Players | Length | Complexity | Rank | Links | ||
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Petteia
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-100 | 2 | 20 m. | 4 / 10 | 21,706 |
BGG |
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Tic-Tac-Toe
Will you outwit your opponent through superior mental ability to get three in a row?
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-1300 | 2 | 1 m. | 3 / 10 | 30,125 |
BGG |
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Nine Men's Morris
Your goal is to make rows of three to reduce your opponents chances.
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-1400 | 2 | 20 m. | 4 / 10 | 29,823 |
BGG |
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Seven Men's Morris
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-1400 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Six Men's Morris
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-1400 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Three Men's Morris
This ancient game is probably a direct ancestor of the better known Nine Men's Morris as well as Tic-Tac-Toe. It is played on a board of three rows and three columns. Players have three pieces each and take turns first placing then moving their piece
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-1400 | 2 | 5 m. | 2 / 10 | 29,381 |
BGG |
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Chutes and Ladders
Be the fastest to the goal by avoiding chutes and climbing up ladders.
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-200 | 2-6 | 30 m. | 2 / 10 | 30,126 |
BGG |
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Five Stones
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-2000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Hounds and Jackals: Game of the Pharaohs
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-2000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Go
Use stones to control space in this ancient game with simple rules.
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-2200 | 2 | 30-180 m. | 8 / 10 | 233 |
BGG |
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Jiroft
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-2600 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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The Royal Game of Ur
An ancient Sumerian game with alluring craftsmanship and speculated rules.
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-2600 | 2 | 30 m. | 3 / 10 | 6,699 |
BGG |
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20 Squares
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-3000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Backgammon
Quickly roll & move your pieces off the board, but don't leave lone ones defenseless!
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-3000 | 2 | 30 m. | 4 / 10 | 1,639 |
BGG |
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Knucklebones
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-3000 | 2 | - | 2 / 10 | 23,897 |
BGG |
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Marbles
Propel your marble to knock others out of the circle in the original dexterity game.
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-3000 | 1-99 | 10 m. | 2 / 10 | 29,994 |
BGG |
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Mehen
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-3000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Ashtapada
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-350 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Senet
An ancient Egyptian racing game described as a metaphor for the afterlife.
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-3500 | 2 | 30 m. | 3 / 10 | 11,672 |
BGG |
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Fan Tan
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-600 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Five Lines
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-600 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Liubo
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-700 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery – Loot Chest
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1 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Aadu Puli Attam
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1000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Alquerque
Capture or immobilize your opponents dozen pieces on the five by five board.
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1000 | 2 | 10-20 m. | 4 / 10 | 23,737 |
BGG |
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Bagh Chal
Translated as "tigers moving", this abstract strategy game pits tigers vs goats!
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1000 | 2 | 20 m. | 5 / 10 | 8,263 |
BGG |
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El Mundo
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1000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Game of Perga (aka Game of Perge)
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1000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Palet
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1000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Shatranj Kamil
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1000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Zodiac
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1000 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Rithmomachy
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1030 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Kabufuda
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1100 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Oicho-Kabu
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1100 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Chinese Dominoes
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1120 | - | - | 4 / 10 | 21,396 |
BGG |
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Tien Gow (Sky Nine)
A 4-player trick-taking game using a set of Chinese Dominoes.
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1120 | 4 | - | 3 / 10 | 18,332 |
BGG |
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Craps
Roll the dice right and know the odds, and hope you don't crap out!
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1125 | 1-16 | 20-60 m. | 4 / 10 | 29,763 |
BGG |
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Checkers
Players move pieces diagonally to "jump" opponent pieces 'til one side is eliminated.
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1150 | 2 | 30 m. | 3 / 10 | 30,098 |
BGG |
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Fayles
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1200 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets)
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1200 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Qi Guo Xiang Qi
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1200 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Zara
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1200 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Courier Chess
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1202 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Jarmo
Batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, carried this game with him at war to play.
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1227 | 2 | - | 6 / 10 | 20,314 |
BGG |
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Dai Shogi
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1230 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Catch the Hare
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1283 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Four Seasons Chess
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1283 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Grande Acedrex
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1283 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Chu Shogi
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1300 | 2 | 120 m. | 9 / 10 | 15,057 |
BGG |
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Sixe-Ace
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1300 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Patolli
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1350 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Tamerlane Chess
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1370 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Hazard
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1375 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Congkak
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1400 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Fox and Geese
Can eighteen geese outfox a lone predator by trapping the fox?
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1400 | 2 | 20 m. | 3 / 10 | 29,879 |
BGG |
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Italian Checkers
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1400 | 2 | 30 m. | 3 / 10 | 20,398 |
BGG |
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Joudo-Sugoroku
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1400 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Spanish Checkers
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1400 | 2 | 30 m. | 3 / 10 | 24,165 |
BGG |
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Turkish Checkers
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1400 | 2 | 30 m. | 5 / 10 | 19,165 |
BGG |
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Tarock
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1425 | 2-5 | 30 m. | 7 / 10 | 7,254 |
BGG |
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Tarot
Take your cards and bid a contract to win at this game of French Tarot.
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1425 | 2-8 | 30 m. | 5 / 10 | 3,969 |
BGG |
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Karnöffel
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1426 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Pochspiel
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1441 | 2-8 | - | 3 / 10 | 20,269 |
BGG |
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Basset
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1450 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Sho Shogi
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1450 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Uranomachia
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1457 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Chess
Checkmate your opponent in this timeless abstract.
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1475 | 2 | - | 7 / 10 | 451 |
BGG |
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Awithlaknannai
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Dai-Dai Shogi
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Dominoes
The timeless family classic of placing matching tiles.
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1500 | 2-10 | 30 m. | 3 / 10 | 26,830 |
BGG |
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Dreidel
I made it out of clay and when it's dry and ready, oh dreidel I shall play!
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1500 | 2-6 | 10 m. | 2 / 10 | 29,830 |
BGG |
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Droggn
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Fighting Serpents
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Ganjifa
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Glückshaus
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Maka Dai-Dai Shogi
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Mawari-Sugoroku
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Minchiate
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Primero
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Tai Shogi
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Tenjiku Shogi
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Three-Card Monte
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Tobi-Sugoroku
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Tric Trac
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1500 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Laugh and Lie Down
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1522 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Bingo
Get 5 in a row to win! In this classic, mark down what's called out on your board.
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1530 | 2-99 | 60 m. | 2 / 10 | 30,122 |
BGG |
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Lotto
The Ancient Italian game of chance!
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1530 | 2-48 | 30 m. | 2 / 10 | 30,061 |
BGG |
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Landsknecht
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1534 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Piquet
Score card combos and take tricks in this most classic of all trick-takers for two.
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1534 | 2 | 30 m. | 5 / 10 | 14,754 |
BGG |
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Triomphe
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1538 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Charades
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1550 | 2-20 | 30 m. | 2 / 10 | 29,887 |
BGG |
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Ottocento
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1550 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Tenshō karuta
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1550 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Chandal Mandal
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1575 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Metromachia
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1578 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Post and Pair
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1579 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Losing Lodam
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1586 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Lourche
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1586 | - | - | - | - |
BGG |
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Game of Goose
The iconic roll-and-move race game wherein virtue is rewarded and vices are punished.
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1587 | 2-6 | 20 m. | 2 / 10 | 30,104 |
BGG |
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Shogi
Deploy captured pieces for rapid checkmates in Japan's traditional "general's game."
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1587 | 2 | 60 m. | 8 / 10 | 1,789 |
BGG |
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