Pen and paper games

Pen and paper games

Start over

in Entertainment & Media

Ask me questions… about games | about me

Question by kevan

953 plays | 27 games
Topic added by kevan

loading…
  • 1.
    Pipelayer

    Pipelayer

    Pipelayer is a game played with two grids of differently-shaded dots that are slightly offset from one another.

    To win a player must make a continuous connection from one side ...

  • 2.
    Hangman

    Hangman

    Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.

    The ...

  • 3.
    Battleships

    Battleships

    Battleships is a guessing game played by two people. It is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game and predates World War I in this form. It ...

  • 4.
    Tic-tac-toe

    Tic-tac-toe

    Tic-tac-toe, alternatively called noughts and crosses, is a pencil-and-paper game for two players, O and X, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid, usually X going ...

  • 5.
    Word Squares

    Word Squares

    Everyone draws a 5x5 grid. The first player calls out a letter. Each player writes that letter into one of the 25 available squares.

    Moving clockwise, the next player then ...

  • 6.
    MASH

    MASH

    MASH is a game, commonly played by young children, intended to predict one's future. Mash stands for mansion, apartment, shack (variations include street and sewers), or house.

    powderedtoastman
    Pros: Good for immature kids. Cons: The fact that everybody gets different results each time is ...
  • 7.
    Col

    Col

    Col is a pencil and paper game, specifically a map-coloring game, involving the shading of areas in a line drawing according to the rules of Graph coloring. With each move ...

  • 8.
    Paper Telephone

    Paper Telephone

    Paper Telephone is a party game based on the multiple-contributor exquisite corpse concept, utilizing both written words and sketches; it can be seen as a cross between Telephone and Pictionary ...

  • 9.
    Nomic

    Nomic

    Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through ...

    mottley
    Pros: Intellectually challenging. Can generate some great discussion and wacko rules Cons: Start of game needs co-operation. Takes a long time (days!!), ...
  • 10.
    The Hipbone Game

    The Hipbone Game

    The HipBone Games are board games in which players link one fact or idea with another, claiming points for each link.

    Like a good conversation between friends, a HipBone Game ...

    kwayne0404
    Pros: This game seems very simple at first, but can get very complicated, giving a wide range ... Cons: People playing need to be able to sit still and ...
  1 2 3   

Displaying 1-10 of 27 games