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The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. Although popularized in the United States as a commercial board game, first published in 1931 by the Starex Novelty Company of New York under the name of "Salvo", it is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game and predates the First World War in this form. It was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy".

You can play Battleship for free online from games.adoption.com here.
The rules for this particular version are:

Start by picking a box in the grid on the left. If it is blue it is a miss. If it is red, that means you hit a portion of a ship. Click the boxes around a hit until you have destroyed an entire ship. The first player to destroy all of the other player’s 11 ships wins.

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The Game of Life

March 26th 2008 12:15

The original Game of Life board game has been around in various forms since the 1860s. The modern version began in about 1960. If you liked or think you would like the board game then the new online version if definitely for you! You can download and play the Game of Life now from download-free-games.com here.

The online version of the Game of Life is proving to be extremely popular. Below are just a couple of reviews from people who have tried it.

The game of life is a game that you will so love! It is for everybody so you don't have a chance not liking it. You pick out certain things then drive around in a car around...."your life". On which squares you land on it means Depending on how well and how fast you complete the game that's how it's decided who wins. At the end you choose all these different things. And since "your life" changes every time you won't get bored. It's a game that you can keep playing over and over again!

This game has the coolest features, great pictures and animations. It is just like the real board game, only better because you can play with a computer player and you don't have to clean everything up when you are done playing. The first time I tried the game of LIFE I thought it was fantastic I ended up playing over and over. I also think this is one of the best interactive games on the internet, you should try it!!

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Checkers

March 24th 2008 12:05

Checkers or Draughts is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves. One player has dark pieces, and the other has light pieces. Most commonly, the board alternates between red and black squares. Pieces move diagonally and pieces of the opponent are captured by jumping over them.

Rules:

Board - The board is an 8×8 grid, with alternating dark and light squares, called a checkerboard (in the US, in reference to its checkered pattern, also the source of the name checkers). The playable surface consists of the 32 dark squares only. A consequence of this is that, from each player's perspective, the left and right corners encourage different strategies.
Pieces - The pieces are usually made of wood and are flat and cylindrical. They are invariably split into one darker and one lighter colour. Traditionally, these colours are red and white. There are two kinds of pieces: "men" and "kings". Kings are differentiated as consisting of two normal pieces of the same colour, stacked one on top of the other. Often indentations are added to the pieces to aid stacking.
Starting Position - Each player starts with 12 pieces on the three rows closest to their own side, as shown in the diagram. The row closest to each player is called the "crownhead" or "kings row". The black (darker colour) side moves first.
How to Move - There are two ways to move a piece: simply sliding a piece diagonally forwards (also diagonally backwards in the case of kings) to an adjacent and unoccupied dark square, or "jumping" one of the opponent's pieces. In this case, one piece "jumps over" the other, provided there is a vacant square on the opposite side for it to land on. Again, a man (uncrowned piece) can only jump diagonally forwards, and a king can also move diagonally backwards. A piece that is jumped is captured and removed from the board. Multiple-jump moves are possible if, when the jumping piece lands, there is another piece that can be jumped. Jumping is mandatory and cannot be passed up to make a non-jumping move, nor can fewer than the maximum jumps possible be taken in a multiple-jump move. When there is more than one way for a player to jump, one may choose which sequence to make, not necessarily the sequence that will result in the most amount of captures. However, one must make all the captures in that sequence. (Under traditional draughts rules jumping is not mandatory. If it is not done, the opponent may either force the move to be reversed, huff the piece or carry on regardless.)
Kings - If a player's piece moves into the kings row on the opposing player's side of the board, that piece is said to be "crowned" (or often "kinged" in the US), becoming a "king" and gaining the ability to move both forwards and backwards. If a player's piece jumps into the kings row, the current move terminates; having just been crowned, the piece cannot continue on by jumping back out (as in a multiple jump), until the next move.
How the Game Ends - A player wins by capturing all of the opposing player's pieces, or by leaving the opposing player with no legal moves.

You can play Checkers or Draughts for free online from Flyordie.com here. Sign up for free and join one of the open rooms.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article English draughts.

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Trivial Pursuit

March 17th 2008 10:22

Trivial Pursuit is a board game where progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge, and popular culture questions. The game was created in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a sports editor for the Canadian Press, and Chris Haney, of Welland, Ontario, a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game. With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.

As of 2004, nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Northern Plastics of Elroy, Wisconsin produced 30 million games between 1983 and 1985.

Dozens of question sets have been released for the game. The question cards are organized into themes; for instance, in the standard "Genus" question set, questions in green deal with "science and nature". Some question sets have been designed for younger players and others for a specific time period such as the 90s.

You can play Trivial Pursuit bring on the 90s for free online from GameFools.com below. You can also download the full version which has 4,000 different questions.

Trivial Pursuit (R) Bring on the 90s
Test your 90's knowledge in this special version of the popular trivia game.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Trivial Pursuit.

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Battle Chess

January 23rd 2008 10:35

Battle Chess is a computer game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. The game itself was inspired by the 3D chess sequences from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Futureworld.

There are 35 animations including movement, prelude to battle, and the combinations of battle itself (the latter often being rather brutal). The rook, for example, turns into a rock monster and kills a pawn by crushing him. Some battle sequences like Knight versus Knight or King versus Bishop are direct references to the black knight fight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the short battle between Indiana Jones and a swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The game can be played against a human opponent or against the computer's artificial intelligence (AI). The game has an opening library from over 30,000 moves.

You can now download and play the classic version of Battle Chess for free from DosGamesOnline here.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Battle Chess.

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Yahtzee Deluxe

November 16th 2007 11:03

The object of Yahtzee is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. A game of Yahtzee consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.

Each of the scoring combinations has a different point value, some of which are fixed values and others of which have the cumulative value of the dice. A Yahtzee is a five-of-a-kind and holds the game's highest point value of 50

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Risk II

October 12th 2007 12:05

The new, Risk II game online at Great Day Games brings you to the edge of world domination! The popular board game returns in this Risk 2 computer game with more action than ever before. Remember organizing your forces in Risk the board game? Prepare to 'rumble' with nearby combatants in the online Risk II game as you get your armies in order.

This classic Risk II game brings all the components together including exciting, new map options, realistic and all-new Risk II graphics as well as intense game battles. Be the aggressor -it's ok. You have to Risk it

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Internet Scrabble Club

September 26th 2007 13:04

The Internet Scrabble Club, or ISC, is an online gaming site where Scrabble players compete in real time against other humans or computer programs. It was created by "Carol" in the 1990s as a school project. The ISC now has approximately 200,000 members, including several world and national champions.

Potential players must go to the home page here to download the interface program, WordBiz. They must also create an online handle and password

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Peg

March 2nd 2007 14:26

The goal is to remove pegs from the board by jumping over each peg with another peg; this removes the "jumped" peg (similar to Checkers jumps).
Click and drag with the mouse to move a peg.
Only horizontal and vertical jumps are allowed

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MahJong Connect

February 15th 2007 15:11

Mahjong, which has other english spellings including Mah Jong, Mahjongg, Mah-Jongg etc, is a game that originated in China. It is a game of skill, strategy, intelligence, calculation and luck. Depending on the variation which is played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in success. In Asia, Mahjong is extremely popular. It is also becoming more popular all the time in the western world, especially online.

MahJong Connect is a different style of Mahjongg, where you need to match two tiles by connecting them with a pathway. Pathways are formed by tiles touching or being on the same edge of the group

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Backgammon

November 30th 2006 23:59

Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice and the winner is the first to remove all his pieces from the board.

The game is essentially a race, and luck plays a measurable role, but backgammon offers a significant scope for strategy. With each roll of the dice, a player must choose between numerous options for moving the checkers, and plan for possible counter-moves by his opponent. Opportunities for raising the stakes of the game introduce more strategic intricacies

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Risk - Free Online Game

September 29th 2006 02:19

Risk is a commercial strategic war board game produced by Parker Brothers. It was invented in the early 1950s by the French movie director Albert Lamorisse.

Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players. It is played on a board depicting a stylized political map of the Earth, divided into 42 territories, which are grouped into six continents. To start, each player rolls one die. The player who rolls the highest number plays first and the sequence goes clockwise. Each player in turn places an army on a territory to claim it until all territories have been claimed; following this, the players position among their territories the armies remaining from their starting number of armies

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Monopoly

September 28th 2006 05:22

Middopoly is a Java game very similar to Monopoly. This game has several minor changes such as Free Parking is replaced with Student Parking and Jail is replaced by a Hospital, however none of these affect the basic rules.

When you begin the game, choose the number of players, then what token each player wants to use. Everything is very self explanatory once you get started, you can do everything that can be done in a real game of Monopoly

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