Catur
Western chess, international chess
Enam jenis buah, satu raja, dan lima belas abad orang mencoba memecahkannya. Aturannya sepuluh menit; sisanya seumur hidup.
Blinky Games
Panduan permainan: aturan, sejarah, dan strategi
Setiap permainan punya empat halaman: panduan lengkap, aturan, sejarah di baliknya, dan strategi untuk menang — dengan diagram untuk bagian yang sulit dijelaskan dengan kata.
29 Permainan116 PanduanGratis, tanpa daftar
The chess family
Xiangqi
象棋 Xiàngqí
Cannons that capture by jumping, a river across the middle, and generals who may never leave their palace. Chinese chess is sharper than the game it shares an ancestor with.
Shogi
将棋 Shōgi
Captured pieces change sides and come back. That one rule makes shogi the sharpest member of the chess family, with almost no draws and no safe simplification.
Catur rimba
鬥獸棋 Dòu Shòu Qí
Gajah mengalahkan singa dan singa mengalahkan harimau — tetapi tikus menjatuhkan gajah. Delapan binatang berperingkat, dua sungai, dan tiga perangkap di depan setiap sarang.
Asian classics
Go
圍棋 Wéiqí · 囲碁 Igo · 바둑 Baduk
Permainan papan tertua yang masih dimainkan dengan aturan aslinya, dan boleh dibilang yang paling dalam. Lima aturan, tanpa pengecualian, dan lebih banyak kemungkinan posisi daripada atom di alam semesta.
Gomoku
五目並べ Gomoku · 連珠 Renju
Five stones in a line on a Go board. Simple enough for a child, and so favourable to the first player that two separate rule systems exist to fix it.
Surakarta
Roundabouts
Two rules and one extraordinary idea: pieces capture by racing around the board's corner loops — a mechanism found in no other traditional board game.
Congkak
congkak · congklak · dakon
Scoop the seeds, sow them one by one, and chain your free turns. The Malay world's branch of mancala, and a game of pure arithmetic.
Conquer
Kepung Titik
Squared paper, two colours, and one idea: ring your rival's dots and the territory is yours. Known as Точки in Russia and Kropki in Poland.
Western classics
Dam (checkers)
Draughts, English draughts
Langkah diagonal, lompatan wajib, dan raja bermahkota. Cukup sederhana untuk anak-anak, dan cukup dalam sehingga membuktikan hasilnya seri butuh delapan belas tahun komputasi.
Backgammon
Tables, tavli, nard
A 5,000-year-old race where every roll is luck and every choice is skill — and the doubling cube turns the whole thing into a question of nerve.
Reversi
Othello
A minute to learn, a lifetime to master. Outflank to flip — and discover that having more discs in the middlegame usually means you are losing.
Nine Men's Morris
Mills, Merels, Mühle, Nine Man Morris
Place nine men, line three in a row, and take an enemy man each time you do. A game carved into Roman stone, Viking ships and cathedral cloisters.
Royal Game of Ur
Twenty Squares, the Game of Twenty Squares
Buried in a Mesopotamian royal tomb 4,500 years ago, dug up with no instructions, and brought back to life by a cuneiform tablet. It is also a genuinely good game.
Ludo
Parcheesi, Parchís, Mensch ärgere Dich nicht, Pachisi
Lempar enam untuk mulai, larikan empat bidak mengelilingi salib, dan pulangkan lawan ke titik nol. Permainan balap paling banyak dimainkan di dunia.
Chinese Checkers
Sternhalma
Hop your marbles across a six-pointed star. Neither Chinese nor checkers — a German star board for an American game, renamed in New York in 1928.
Dots and Boxes
La Pipopipette, Squares, Paddocks
A children's doodle invented by a French mathematician in 1889 — with a rigorous theory of chains, loops and sacrifices that most players never suspect exists.
Card games
Bridge
Contract Bridge
An auction, a contract and thirteen tricks to prove it. The deepest card game there is, and the bidding is a language you can spend a lifetime learning.
Hearts
Black Maria, Black Lady
Every heart costs a point and the queen of spades costs thirteen. A trick-taking game where winning tricks is the last thing you want — unless you take all of them.
Gin Rummy
Gin
Ten cards, two piles and one decision every hand: cash a small win now, or hold out for gin and risk the undercut.
Big Two
鋤大弟 · 大老二
Thirteen cards each, the 2 above the ace, and poker hands played as single units. Shed everything before the other three do.
Solitaire
Klondike, Patience
The game that taught the world to drag and drop — and a card puzzle where the deal matters more than anything, but careful play still decides most winnable hands.
Modern games and puzzles
Stratego
L'Attaque
Forty pieces, all face down. A French battle game patented by a woman in 1908, and one of the last classic games artificial intelligence managed to crack.
Battleship
Sea Battle, Salvo
Hide a fleet, call your shots, and learn how much better a good search is than a lucky one — about fifty shots a game.
Connect Four
Four in a Row, Captain's Mistress
Jatuhkan keping, susun empat sejajar. Dipecahkan dua kali dalam bulan yang sama pada 1988 — dan pemain pertama menang, tetapi hanya dari tengah.
Sudoku
数独 Sūdoku
Satu aturan yang diucapkan tiga cara, tanpa hitung-hitungan, dan tak pernah perlu menebak. Diciptakan pada 1979 oleh arsitek Amerika yang namanya tak pernah dicantumkan.
Crossword
Crossword puzzle, cryptic crossword
A grid, some numbers, and clues that cross. Invented to fill space in a newspaper in 1913 and still the most played word puzzle in the world.
Minesweeper
Mine Sweeper
Every number is a constraint. Flags are optional, deduction is not — and the puzzle is formally as hard as any problem in NP.
Tilt Maze
Labyrinth, marble maze, ball maze
Tip the board and let gravity do the moving. The hard part is not finding the route — it is stopping.