¶ Game Rules and Tools

This site has rules blurbs for games I know how to play, as well as a few assorted little widgets. Card games should be assumed to use a standard 52 card deck unless otherwise mentioned.

¶ Quick Links

• Poker Hand ranking chart, along with a list of games that use poker hands.
• My Board Game Collection, with the ability to sort by rules complexity and language dependence.

¶ Partial Site Map

• Card or Tile Games:
  • Climbing Games
  • Mahjong Set Games
  • Poker Hand Games
  • Trick-Taking Games
  • Other Card Games
• Info for Other Types of Games:
  • My Board Game Collection
  • Rules References for Complicated Board Games
  • Rules for Abstract Games
  • Rules for Simple Tabletop RPGs
• Assorted Useful Widgets:
  • Random Wiki Pages, either from Wikipedia (with the option to draw from a specific category), or from the Superpowers Wiki
  • An simple tool which draws from a short list of words. I tried to choose the list to be charadesable.

¶ Related Sites

• Pagat is a fantastic website, which hundreds of in-depth rulesets for all sorts of card games, but it can be a bit too much. Sometimes I don’t need an in-depth history of the game, with fifteen different variants and a detailed explanation of the regionally-favored shuffling technique. Sometimes I just want some bullet points reminding me how to score.
• Kevan Davis’ Freeze-dried Game Pack, which has rules for games in 100 words or less.
• The igGameCenter has a collection concise rules for combinatoric abstract games.

¶ List of Games

• 6-Card Golf (2-4 Players) Build a tableau without high cards.
• Bug (2 Players) Bug:Go::Hive:Chess.
• Checkers Etc. (2 Players) Dameo and other checkers variants.
• Do Dizhu (斗地主) (3 Players) Fight the Landlord. 2v1
• Fishbowl (4+ Players) Multi-stage Charades. AKA 'Celebrities' or 'Monikers'.
• Five in a Row (2 Players) A simple game that I somehow always manage to lose.
• Go (Weiqi) (2 Players) An ancient game of area control.
• GoPS (2-3 Players) Use cards to buy cards, a la For Sale.
• Hearts (4 Players) The hearts are poison.
• Hex / Slither (2 Players) Connect a chain of pieces across the board.
• Homeworlds (2 Players) Tiny pyramid-based space opera.
• Kickball (4 Players) Symetric Do Dizhu
• Kings Corners (2-4 Players) Multiplayer version of Solitairesque stacking.
• Lamarckian Poker (3-6 Players) Evolve your hand over the course of the game.
• Lasers & Feelings Micro Sci-Fi RPG.
• Mahjong Solitaire (1-4 Players) A matching game that just happens to use mahjong tiles.
• No Merci! (3-5 Players) Inverse Bidding
• Ocean's Eleven (2 Players) A simple push-your-luck duel.
• Oh Hell! (3-7 Players) Good for teaching the concept of trick-taking.
• Pyramid Poker (2 Players) Build and then tear down a pyramid to form three poker hands.
• Regicide (1-4 Players) Cooperative Hand Management
• Reno (3-5 Players) Roll dice to claim cards.
• Ricochet Poker (3-8 Players) Poker Without Bluffing
• Ship's Crew (3-5 Players) Cooperative mission-based trick-taking.
• Simple Mahjong (2-4 Players) 🀄Simple Rummy-style game.🀄
• Skull & Roses (3+ Players) Distilled bluffing.
• Spades (4 Players) Play as a team and guess how many tricks you'll win.
• Symple (2 Players) Grow groups of stones.
• Telephone Pictionary (5+ Players) AKA 'Eat Poop You Cat' or 'Telestrations'
• The Devil's Poker (2+ Players) Micro trick-taking. Good for a laugh or as part of another game.
• These People Are Lying (3-6 Players) Making up what a Wikipedia article is about.
• Vizzini's Battle of Wits (4+ Players) Even more distilled bluffing.
• Win, Lose, Banana (3 Players) A micro bluffing game which uses only three cards.
• Zendo (3+ Players) A meditative game of inductive reasoning.