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| BattleTech | A wargaming franchise originally by FASA. | notifications | 1984 / 2018 | 42 games |
| Dungeons & Dragons | Based on any edition and/or any campaign setting of the D&D RPG system. | notifications | 1974 / 2022 | 244 games |
| Magic: The Gathering (MTG) | A collectible card game by Wizards of the Coast about near-immortal (and often insane) demigods called Planeswalkers who traverse a multiverse and able to shape reality itself to their will. | notifications | 1996 / 2015 | 28 games (5 characters) |
| 4-ball pool game | Played with 2 cue balls, 2 object balls & no pockets. Points awarded for ball strikes. Best possible shot is every ball striking the other 3 (6 hits). | notifications | 1993 / 2002 | 4 games |
| Baccarat (Baccara) | A card game commonly played at some casinos. | notifications | 1978 / 2000 | 29 games |
| Bank Card Game (Polish Bank;Russian Bank) | 5 or 6 players bet & upturn a card of 3 card hands until all are shown hoping to beat other card by players or dealer until dealer shows an 8 or less. | 0 game | ||
| Battleship (Schiffe versenken;Bataille navale;Battaglia navale) | Based on the board game "Battleship". | notifications | 1970 / 2020 | 139 games |
| Belote | French card game played with a 32-card game. Traditionnaly 4 players but has 2 and 3 players variant. | notifications | 1985 / 1997 | 4 games |
| Big Six Wheel(Money Wheel;Dice Wheel;Big Wheel) | A wheel divided into radial segments spun so a random segment is indicated by a stationary marker. Less often, the marker spins. Commonly for gambling | 0 game | ||
| Bingo | Played on a 5x5 (usually) grid of random numbers (usually). The caller draws numbers from a basket & players mark those numbers on their grid. First to get a predetermined pattern wins. | notifications | 1980 / 2000 | 40 games |
| Bingo, UK variant (90 ball bingo;Commonwealth Bingo) | Played on a 9x3 grid of random numbers. The caller announces randomly selected numbers & players mark them on their grid. 1st to get 1 or 2 lines, or every number on their card, wins. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Bingo, USA variant (75 ball bingo) | Played on a 5x5 grid of random numbers. The caller draws numbers from a basket & players mark those numbers on their grid. First to get a predetermined pattern wins. | notifications | 1984 / 2000 | 13 games |
| Blackjack card game | Blackjack (also 21), a card game played against the dealer. Dealer & each player gets 1 up, 1 down, & try to take cards totaling 21 or less, no more. | notifications | 1975 / 2018 | 345 games |
| Board games | Any tags that describe a board game or something that originally was a board game. | list_alt | 0 game | |
| Car Wars (Auto Duel;Duel Track) | A grid and tokens RPG that focused on inter-vehicular combat by Steve Jackson Games. Trademarked by Texas Instruments. | notifications | 1985 / 1988 | 7 games |
| Card games | list_alt | 0 game | ||
| Casino games | list_alt | 0 game | ||
| Checkers (Draughts) | notifications | 1975 / 2016 | 151 games | |
| Chess | An abstract strategy board game. The modern variant was invented sometime in the Middle Ages in Europe. | notifications | 1970 / 2021 | 738 games |
| Chess variant | Any form of chess, whether directly inspired by chess or one of its ancestors. | notifications | 1976 / 2021 | 19 games |
| Chinese checkers (Chinese chequers) | A strategy board game invented in the 19th century in Germany as a variant of Halma. Despite the name, this is not Chinese in origin nor a variant of checkers. Sometimes even mislabeled as Chinese chess. | notifications | 1983 / 2015 | 15 games |
| Connect 4 (Four in a Row;Plot Four;Four in a Line;Connect Four;Puissance) | A variation of Gomoku (Connect 5) with less strict rules (rows can be longer than the specified number). | notifications | 1979 / 2013 | 101 games |
| Craps | A gambling game played with dice | notifications | 1970 / 2012 | 84 games |
| Crazy Eights | notifications | 1979 / 2010 | 20 games | |
| Cribbage | Combination board & card game | notifications | 1980 / 2007 | 65 games |
| Crosswords (Crossword Puzzles) | Players acquire words, usually in the form of guesses or hints or trivia questions, & then apply them to blank rows & columns that cross each other. | notifications | 1976 / 2010 | 132 games |
| Cryptogram | A type of puzzle where player tries to turn encrypted piece of text back to its original form. Commonly uses substitution ciphers. | notifications | 1978 / 1992 | 5 games |
| Culbertson card game | notifications | 1 game | ||
| Daifugō card game and variants (大富豪;Daihinmin;大貧民;Big Two;Tien Lien;Presidents & Assholes)[dai hin min] | Originally a japanese card game (Daifugō or Daihinmin) that has some Chinese (Big Two and Zheng Shangyou), Vietnamese (Tien Lien) and Occidental (Asshole) variants. Plays with a 52-card deck (+2 jokers on some variants), for three or more players. | notifications | 1983 / 1999 | 5 games |
| Dice games | Games where dice are the sole or central component. | list_alt | 0 game | |
| Dominoes (Dominos) | Uses the domino gaming pieces. | notifications | 1980 / 2015 | 73 games |
| Dots and Boxes | Dots and boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players. | notifications | 1978 / 1983 | 4 games |
| Euchre [Eucre] | Trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards. | notifications | 1984 / 2004 | 8 games |
| Fox And Hounds | A traditional game where each player has asymmetric pieces and moves, played on a chess board. (Not a chess variant) | notifications | 1980 / 1982 | 4 games |
| FreeCell solitaire | A variant of patience, a solitaire card game. Notable difference from Klondike is that all cards in play are upturned instead of only the top one. | notifications | 1979 / 2015 | 15 games |
| Go Fish card game (Old Maid card game) | notifications | 1982 / 2010 | 21 games | |
| Gunjin Shōgi | Japanese board game that plays more like "Stratego" than the traditional Shōgi. | notifications | 1989 / 2002 | 4 games |
| Hanafuda (花札) | Hanafuda are playing cards of Japanese origin, used to play a number of games. The name literally translates as 'flower cards'. [i](Source: Wikipedia)[/i] | notifications | 1982 / 2015 | 65 games |
| Hangman | notifications | 1970 / 2016 | 174 games | |
| Hearts card game. | notifications | 1980 / 2010 | 37 games | |
| Higher & Lower card game | notifications | 1983 / 1990 | 10 games | |
| Hoo Hey How (魚蝦蟹;Fish-Prawn-Crab;Fish Prawn Crab) | A dice game originating in China. Often used in gambling. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Hylocynate card game | notifications | 1 game | ||
| Jigsaw puzzle | A type of tiling puzzle. | notifications | 1981 / 2024 | 137 games |
| Kelly Pool game | 2–15 players, 4–6 optimal. Each gets a secret ball #. The lowest # must be stuck for every shot. The winner is the 1st to have their # sunk [i]by anyone[/i]. | notifications | 1993 / 2008 | 2 games |
| Keno | Gambling game mixing bingo & lottery. Players buy cards of #s (80), marks up to a limit of #s (15), random #s are chosen, & players paid for matches. | notifications | 1978 / 1999 | 35 games |
| Khet (Deflexion) | Like chess WITH LASERS! Players move or rotate pieces on a gridded playfield to reflect their laserbeam(s) to destroy their opponent. Invented in 2005 | notifications | 2014 / 2015 | 4 games |
| Lottery | Drawing lots for prizes. | notifications | 1985 / 2023 | 14 games |
| Mahjong (mah-jongg;麻將;麻将;麻雀;マージャン;Mājan;Mah Jong) | Popular Asian board game. Normally played with four players, but two player mahjong variants are also very common in video games. | notifications | 1979 / 2018 | 650 games |
| Mancala (Kalah;Oware;Congkak;Omweso;Üneetugaluulakh;Bao;Sungka;Igisoro;Uneetugaluulakh;Awari;Awalé;Awélé) | An ancient sowing or 'count-and-capture' game that involves two players moving many 'seeds' (gamepeices) to the ending areas. | notifications | 1976 / 2014 | 46 games |
| Mastermind (Master Mind) | Based on the logic puzzle game "Mastermind". | notifications | 1972 / 2010 | 215 games |
| Mau Mau card game | notifications | 1987 / 1999 | 8 games | |
| Mensch ärgere Dich nicht | Popular German board game. Aggravation in the USA. | notifications | 1988 / 1992 | 10 games |
| Mille Bornes card game | notifications | 1979 / 2003 | 24 games | |
| Miniatures games | Any tags that describe a miniatures game or something that originally was a miniatures game. | list_alt | 0 game | |
| Monopoly | A board game published by Parker Brothers in 1935, a variant of the few decades older The Landlord's Game. | notifications | 1970 / 2014 | 97 games |
| N-puzzle | A sliding puzzle. | notifications | 1979 / 1989 | 10 games |
| Neutron Board Game | A strategy board game played on square grids. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Nim | Mathematical game of 2 players alternately removing 1 or more objects from 1 of 3 heaps. In traditional play, last move loses. 'Normal play', it wins. | notifications | 1970 / 2008 | 86 games |
| Nonogram (Paint by Numbers;Griddlers) | A logic puzzle. | notifications | 1995 / 2020 | 50 games |
| Pachinko (パチンコ) | A Japanese gaming device used for amusement and prizes. Although the machines were originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine. (Source: Wikipedia) | notifications | 1980 / 2016 | 178 games |
| Pai Gow | A gambling game played with dominoes. Not to be confused with the card game that is loosely based on it. | 0 game | ||
| Pai Gow Card Game(Pai Gow Poker) | A gambling card game loosely based on the Pai Gow game played with dominoes. | 0 game | ||
| Pairs(Memory;Concentration;Pelmanism;Shinkei-suijaku;Pexeso) | A simple memory game where player usually has a number of face down cards where they turn over two of them, memorize what they are, and turn them back down, repeating until they turn around a pair and remove them from the table until no cards remain. | notifications | 1976 / 2003 | 129 games |
| Patience solitaire (Klondike;FreeCell) | A family of solitaire games played with cards which includes variants such as Klondike and FreeCell. | notifications | 1978 / 2015 | 133 games |
| Peg solitaire (Solitaire;Brainvita) | Peg solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. [i]--[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_solitaire]Wikipedia[/url][/i] | notifications | 1973 / 2013 | 73 games |
| Pinochle | A type of card game. | notifications | 1978 / 1989 | 5 games |
| Pitch | A type of card game. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Poker card games | Variety of cards where matched values, matched suits, runs, & combinations of them are sought & often bet to be of higher value than another's hand. | notifications | 1975 / 2020 | 443 games |
| Poker: 5-card | A poker rule variation where hands consist of only 5 cards. | notifications | 1975 / 2016 | 23 games |
| Poker: 7 card | A poker rule variation where hands consist of only 7 cards. | notifications | 1982 / 2004 | 12 games |
| Poker: Aces Wild | A poker rule variation where aces are used as wild cards. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Poker: Chicago | A non-gambling poker variant where the object is to accumulate score based on winning hands. Hands that are less probable to obtain score higher. | 0 game | ||
| Poker: Deuces Wild | A poker rule variation where deuces (2s) are used as wild cards. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Poker: Draw | A poker rule variation where players can discard cards from their hand to be dealt replacement cards. | notifications | 1975 / 2003 | 17 games |
| Poker: Jokers Wild | A poker rule variation where joker cards are used in the deck as wild cards. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Poker: Low Chicago | A poker variant. | 0 game | ||
| Poker: No Wild Cards | A poker rule variation where no wild cards are used. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Poker: Omaha (Omaha hold 'em) | Poker variation where exactly 4 cards are dealt to each player that must use exactly 2 plus exactly 3 of exactly 5 community cards to construct a hand | notifications | 1999 / 2005 | 7 games |
| Poker: One-eyed Jacks are Wild | A poker rule variation where one-eyed jacks (the jack of spades and the jack of hearts) are used as wild cards. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Poker: Other Variations | Other variants of of the card game of poker not covered in UVL tags are included. | notifications | 1980 / 2005 | 15 games |
| Poker: Texas Hold'em | Poker variation dealing 2 cards per player face down, 5 community cards. A check, bet or fold can occur between each deal. 2 cards per player (bet) 'the flop' 3 (bet) 'the turn' 1 (bet) 'the river' 1. | notifications | 1989 / 2017 | 12 games |
| Ponjan(Donjara) | A kids version of the table game mahjong played in Japan | notifications | 1996 / 2009 | 6 games |
| Qphrenics card game | notifications | 1 game | ||
| Red Dog Card Game(Yablon;Acey Deucey;Red Dog Poker) | A gambling game with suitless rankings of 3 card hands. Notable for small number of possible hands (2744), relatively easy to calculate odds, & overall 3.155 to 1 odds in the house's favor. | notifications | 1978 / 1997 | 9 games |
| Risk | notifications | 1979 / 2016 | 65 games | |
| Rotation Pool Game | A similar game to 9-ball but using all 15 balls and players score point. | notifications | 1981 / 2002 | 8 games |
| Roulette | Gambling with a spun wheel of red & black numbers on which a moving ball is tossed against many possible bets of various odds on a corresponding chart | notifications | 1970 / 2018 | 116 games |
| RPG systems | list_alt | 0 game | ||
| Rubik's Cube | Games based on the Rubik's Cube toy or any of its variations. | notifications | 1980 / 1995 | 38 games |
| Rummy | Rummy is a group of card games that includes Gin Rummy, Canasta, Rummy and Mah Jong. As mahjong games are much more common, they have their own group. | notifications | 1981 / 2005 | 29 games |
| Scrabble | A traditional word game | notifications | 1981 / 2013 | 58 games |
| Scratchcards (Scratch Offs;Scratch Tickets;Scratchers;Scratchies;Scratch-its;Scratch Game;Scratch-and-win;Instant Lottery;Pull-Tabs;breakopens;break open cards;strip tickets;nevada tickets;pickles) | Gambling game pieces containing concealed results are purchased in the hope that the results will be worth more than the purchase price of the game piece | 0 game | ||
| Shanghai solitaire (Mahjong solitaire;Computer Mahjong;TaiPei;The Turtle;Kyodai;Moraff's) | Shanghai is a solitaire game concept, played with Mahjong tiles instead of cards. | notifications | 1981 / 2016 | 143 games |
| Shisen-Sho | Shisen-Sho (四川省 Shisenshō; "Sichuan Province"), sometimes referred to as 'Shisen', 'Four Rivers' or simply 'Rivers,' is a Japanese tile-based game which uses Mahjong tiles, and is similar to Mahjong solitaire (aka "Shanghai"). | notifications | 1989 / 1991 | 18 games |
| Skat card game | notifications | 1983 / 2013 | 19 games | |
| Slitherlink (Fences;Takegaki;Loop the Loop;Loopy;Ouroboros;Suriza;Dotty Dilemma) | A logic puzzle by Nikoli. | notifications | 2000 / 2008 | 5 games |
| Slot machine (Fruit machine;Poker machine) | A type of gambling device | notifications | 1970 / 2018 | 475 games |
| Solitaire | Family of single-player tabletop games, including patience, Mahjong solitaire, and peg solitaire. | notifications | 1973 / 2017 | 294 games |
| Spades card game | notifications | 1978 / 2004 | 12 games | |
| Sudoku (数独) | A simple logic puzzle. | notifications | 1999 / 2019 | 52 games |
| Table football (Foosball;Fussball) | notifications | 1980 / 2012 | 17 games | |
| Tangram (七巧板) | Traditional dissection puzzle that originated from China. | notifications | 1984 / 1998 | 7 games |
| Tarot (Tarocchi;Tarock) | notifications | 1982 / 2010 | 21 games | |
| The Game of Life (LIFE;The Checkered Game of Life;Jinsei Game) | Board game created in 1960 by Milton Bradley. | notifications | 1976 / 2010 | 28 games |
| Tic-Tac-Toe (Noughts and Crosses) | Games based on the pencil-and-paper game "Tic-Tac-Toe", also known as "Noughts and Crosses". | notifications | 1970 / 2020 | 220 games |
| Trente-et-Quarante (Red and black;Rouge et Noir;Thirty and Forty) | A gambling card game. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Trivial pursuit | A trivia game played on a board with a large number of pre-defined questions on cards. | notifications | 1984 / 2015 | 44 games |
| Truc[Truco;Truque;Truquiflor] | Trick-taking card game for 2 to 6 players, mostly played in France and Spain. South American versions of this game are more elaborated and called Truco, Truque or Truquiflor. | notifications | 1 game | |
| Uno | Card game played with a specially printed deck. | notifications | 1987 / 2017 | 19 games |
| Video Poker (Poker Machine) | Video Poker is a combination of [gametag=poker]poker[/gametag] and [gametag=slotmachine]slot machine[/gametag]. | notifications | 1978 / 2005 | 107 games |
| War card game | notifications | 1982 / 2005 | 4 games | |
| Word Search(Word Find;Word Seek;Word Sleuth;Wonder Word) | Hidden words made from adjacent letters on a grid are to be found by the player. | notifications | 1978 / 1987 | 7 games |
| Xiàngqí (象棋;Chinese chess;Elephant game) | A chess variant from China. The board uniquely has 'Palace' & 'River' areas that modify or restrict the movements or points of some pieces | notifications | 1985 / 2009 | 19 games |
| Xyology Card Game | notifications | 1 game | ||
| Yahtzee (Yams) | A game played with dice. Players try to get points by rolling straights, matched sets & selected numbers to fill a list. | notifications | 1973 / 2009 | 105 games |
| Zebra Puzzle (Einstein's Puzzle;Einstein's Riddle) | A logic puzzle misattributed to several people. | notifications | 1991 / 2003 | 4 games |
| Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (ADND;AD&D) | Based on the 2nd edition of the D&D pen&paper RPG. | notifications | 1978 / 2022 | 183 games |
| Backgammon board game | This tag indicates the game is based on backgammon or includes a game based on backgammon. | notifications | 1970 / 2023 | 344 games |
| Bagh-Chal | Games based on the Nepalese board game "Bagh-Chal" and its variants. | notifications | 2 games | |
| Blood Bowl | A fantasy football miniatures game related to Warhammer Fantasy Battle but not part of it. | notifications | 1995 / 2015 | 11 games |
| Classic Dungeons & Dragons (DnD 1st Edition) | Uses the first edition of the Dungeons & Dragons P&P role-playing system. | notifications | 1974 / 2015 | 7 games |
| Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition | Based on 3rd edition D&D ruleset, first to abandon the THAC0 system that was iconic of the previous editions. | notifications | 2000 / 2021 | 29 games |
| Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition | Fourth edition of D&D that introduced short (~5min) rest along with making abilities and powers have uses per encounter rather than per day. | notifications | 2006 / 2008 | 4 games |
| Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition | Fifth edition of D&D that changed balance significantly by bounding much of the numbers and bonuses to be all under ten, character progression was also limited to proficient or not rather than ever increasing skill. | notifications | 2014 / 2016 | 5 games |
| Game of the Amazons (El Juego de las Amazonas) | A two-player abstract strategy game played on a chess board. | notifications | 1998 / 2002 | 3 games |
| Go (碁;囲碁;いご;Igo;圍棋;围棋;Wéiqí;바둑;Baduk) | An East Asian abstract strategy board game for two players originated in ancient China, usually played on a board with 19x19 grid though other sizes are used as well, with players placing black and white pips at the grid intersections. | notifications | 1978 / 2016 | 150 games |
| Gomoku (五目;ごもく;Five in a Row;Connect 5;Pente;Gobang) | A board game traditionally played with Go pieces on a Go board where the winner is the player who gets an unbroken row of exactly five stones horizontally, vertically or diagonally. | notifications | 1975 / 2014 | 74 games |
| Halma (ἅλμα) | Based on the board game "Halma" and its variants. Originating in 1880s, USA. A game of perfect information for 2-4 players typically on a 16x16 board. | notifications | 1987 / 2000 | 4 games |
| HeroQuest[Hero Quest] | Based on the HeroQuest board adventure game by Games Workshop. | notifications | 1991 / 2016 | 12 games |
| Klaverjas | Card games based on "Klaverjas" and its variants. Some variants and other names include: "Klaverjassen", "Klaberjass", "Bela". | notifications | 1988 / 1992 | 5 games |
| Nine Men's Morris | Games based on the board game "Nine Men's Morris" and its variants. | notifications | 1985 / 2016 | 25 games |
| Nurikabe(Cell Structure) | A logic puzzle by Nikoli. | notifications | 2011 / 2012 | 2 games |
| Pachisi(पचीसी) | An Indian board game. | notifications | 1989 / 2015 | 2 games |
| Pathfinder Role-playing Game | A d20-based tabletop pen & paper role-playing game, based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Open Game License. The default campaign setting is Golarion. The franchise has expanded to books, comics, and such since. | notifications | 3 games | |
| Renju (連珠;Lianzhu) | A professional variant of Gomoku with extra rules for the starting player (black) and a more complicated start. | notifications | 1980 / 2001 | 11 games |
| Reversi (Othello) | Two-player board game played on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinctly opposite sides. | notifications | 1977 / 2015 | 309 games |
| Rock–paper–scissors | Rock–paper–scissors is a hand game usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. | notifications | 1973 / 2019 | 25 games |
| Settlers of Catan | Video game adaptations of the Settlers of Catan board game. | notifications | 2000 / 2008 | 9 games |
| Shōgi (将棋;しょうぎ;Japanese chess) | Shōgi, or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. [i](Source: Wikipedia)[/i] | notifications | 1983 / 2017 | 163 games |
| Simon | Originally an electronic rhythm and memory game, identifiable by its circular design with 4 colored sectors, created in 1978 by Lenny Cope. | notifications | 1978 / 2014 | 53 games |
| Space Hulk (Space Crusade;Star Quest) | Based on the Space Hulk board game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where players controlled a Space Marine Terminator squad to search through "Space Hulks" for lost information and/or technology. | notifications | 1992 / 2018 | 28 games |
| Talisman: The Magical Quest Game | Based on the Talisman board game, designed by Robert Harris and originally published by Games Workshop. | notifications | 1985 / 2014 | 4 games |
| Thirty-One | Games based on the card game "Thirty-one" and its variants. | 1 game |
| Brag card game | Three card brag and all its variations. | notifications | 1983 / 1985 | 3 games |
| Bridge card game | notifications | 1970 / 2017 | 136 games | |
| Game of Chance | Any game that is heavily or entirely influenced by random chance rather than the player's skill. | notifications | 3 games | |
| Jetbikes | Player encounters jetbikes, motorcycle-lookalikes capable of flight. | notifications | 2011 / 2020 | 5 games |
| Miniature game | Based on any kind of miniature game, such as miniature wargames. | notifications | 1995 / 2016 | 35 games |
| Stratego | An abstract board strategy wargame. | notifications | 1983 / 1998 | 11 games |
| Three-card Monte(Find the Lady;Three-card Trick) | Gambling game played with three cards (or variant with cups) in which the player has to find a specific card among three face-down playing cards. | notifications | 1989 / 1991 | 3 games |
| Towers of Hanoi | notifications | 1973 / 1999 | 52 games | |
| Traditional Tie-in | notifications | 1981 / 2015 | 44 games |