Bill Holohan
hnefatafl
FREE
Hnefatafl is an ancient board game, dating back at least to the Dark Ages, and with roots in earlier Greek and Roman games. It was played widely across North-Western Europe, wherever the Vikings lived and traded, and there were also Saxon and Celtic versions. It declined in popularity during the...
Jungle
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Jungle is a traditional Chinese board game played on a 7×9 board. The game is also known as The Jungle Game, Jungle Chess, or Animal Chess, and is sometimes called Oriental Chess or Children\'s Chess. A piece can move one square vertically or horizontally, but not diagonally, from its...
Fox and Hounds
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Only the dark squares are used. The four hounds are initially placed on the dark squares at one edge of the board; the fox is placed on any dark square on the opposite edge. The objective of the fox is to cross from one side of the board to the other, arriving at any one of the hounds original...
Nine Men's Morris
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Nine Men's Morris is an abstract strategy board game for two players that emerged from the Roman Empire. This app is designed for use by two humans playing against each other. It records your moves, checks for valid moves, and lets you know when someone has won. Otherwise it lets you get on...
Chessboard Cards
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ChessboardCards is one of the multitude of Patience (or Solitaire) type card games. You have to convert the initial pattern into a chess board arrangement of alternating red and black cards. A move consists of moving a card to the bottom or right of the grid by touching the card. This will cause...
The River
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Your aim is to transport a gnu, a penguin, and a fish to the other river bank. However only one of these will fit in the boat along with you. If you leave the gnu alone with the penguin it will eat the penguin. If you leave the penguin alone with the fish it will eat the fish. Luckily the gnu...
Alternating Coins
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Moving two adjacent coins at a time arrange the six coins so that large and small ones alternate. You have three moves to do so.
TwentySix
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Arrange the numbers on the star so that every row of four numbers adds up to 26.
Sparrow
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Sparrow is one of the multitude of Patience type card games. The 52 cards are dealt in 16 stacks arranged in a 4x4 grid. The stacks in the top three rows each receive 4 cards and the stacks in the bottom row a single card. The aim is to remove all cards from the playing area by matching pairs of...
Honeycomb
FREE
Arrange the seven hexagons on the playing field so that one is in the centre and the others are arranged around it. All touching numbers must be the same.
Match
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The aim of this game is to move the eight pieces on to the board so that only vertices with the same colour touch.
Eights
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Move the pegs into the holes in the centre of the board such that no two numbers joined by lines have a difference of 1.