List of abstract strategy games
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An abstract strategy game is a board or card game with perfect information, no chance or physical skill, and (usually) two players or teams.
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[edit] Chess and chess-like games
- Chess (Western chess)
- Chaturaji (India)
- Chaturanga (Indian chess)
- Courier chess (German chess)
- Djambi (modern French chess variant)
- Fortress chess (Russia)
- Four-handed chess
- Hiashatar (Mongolian chess variant)
- Janggi (Korean chess)
- Jeson Mor (Mongolian chess variant)
- Maharajah and the Sepoys (Indian chess variant)
- Makruk (Thai chess)
- Senterej (Ethiopian chess)
- Shatar (Mongolian chess)
- Shatranj (Persian and Arabian chess)
- Shogi (Japanese chess)
- Shogi variants
- Sittuyin (Burmese chess)
- Tamerlane chess (Persian)
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- Other Chess-like games
[edit] Paper and pencil games
(More included further down)
[edit] "n-in-a-row" games
Those marked † can conveniently be played as paper and pencil games.
- Boku
- Check Lines
- Connect Four †
- Connect 4x4
- Connect6 †
- Freedom †
- Gomoku †
- Hijara †
- Kamisado
- Morabaraba
- Morris - Three, Six and Nine Men's Morris
- Pentago
- Pente, a slight simplification of Ninuki-renju
- Qubic
- Renju †
- Rhumb Line †
- Score Four
- Sequence and its variations
- Shax
- Square chess
- Teeko
- Tic Tac Toe † (aka Noughts and Crosses)
- Yinsh
[edit] Stacking games
[edit] Other games
Those marked † can conveniently be played as paper and pencil games.
- Aadu puli attam
- Abalone
- Achi
- Adugo
- Agon
- Alquerque
- Amazons
- Andantino †
- Arimaa
- Armenian checkers
- Astar
- Ataxx
- Awithlaknakwe
- Awithlaknannai Mosona
- Bagh bandi
- Bagha-Chall
- Bear games
- Bizingo
- Blokus
- Blue & Gray
- Brax (game)
- Breakthrough
- Breakthru
- Buga-shadara
- Butterfly
- Camelot
- Catch the Hare
- Cathedral
- Chinese Checkers
- Choko
- Chopsticks
- Cinc Camins
- Conspirateurs
- Crossings
- Crosstrack
- Dablot Prejjesne
- Dala
- Dara
- Dash-guti
- Death Stacks
- Demala diviyan keliya
- Diaballik
- Draughts (also known as Checkers)
- Egara-guti
- Emergo
- En Gehé
- Entropy (1977 and 1994 games)
- Epaminondas
- Fanorona
- Felli
- Fetaix
- Fitchneal
- Five Field Kono
- Four Field Kono
- Fox games, such as Fox and Geese
- The GIPF project games:
- Go
- Gobblet
- Gol-skuish
- Gonnect
- Gonu
- Halatafl
- Halma
- Hare games
- Hare & Tortoise
- Hat diviyan keliya
- Havannah †
- Hex †
- High Jump
- Hive
- Hnefatafl
- Indian and jackrabbits
- Irensei
- Isola
- Italian Damone
- Jarmo
- Jul-Gonu
- Jungle (Dou Shou Qi, The Game of Fighting Animals)
- Kalah
- Kaooa
- Kensington
- Kharbaga
- Khet
- Kolowis Awithlaknannai (Fighting Serpents)
- Komikan
- Konane
- Kotu Ellima
- L Game
- Lau kata kati
- Leap Frog (board game)
- Len Choa
- Liberian Queah
- Lines of Action
- Lotus
- Ludus latrunculorum
- Main Tapal Empat
- Mak-yek
- Makonn
- Mancala and related games
- Martian chess (for two to six players)
- Meurimueng-rimueng-do
- Meurimueng-rimueng peuet ploh or Dam-daman or Ratti-chitti-bakri
- Ming Mang
- Mlynek
- Mozaic
- Mu Torere
- Neutron
- Nim †
- Nine Holes
- Paddles
- Pah Tum
- Pasang
- Pentago
- Peralikatuma
- Permainan-Tabal
- Phutball
- Picaria
- Pong Hau K'i
- Pretwa
- Pulijudam
- Quarto
- Quoridor
- Reversi, also known as Othello
- Rhumb Line
- Rhythmomachy
- Rimau
- Rimau-rimau
- Ringo
- Salta
- Sher-bakar
- Shisima
- Sixteen Soldiers
- *Star †
- Star Wars Tactics
- Stratego
- Sua Ghin Gnua (aka Tigers and Oxen)
- Surakarta
- Sz'Kwa
- Tafl games
- Tant Fant
- Tantrix
- Tapatan
- Tau
- Terhuchu
- Three Musketeers
- Thud
- Tiger and Buffaloes
- Top Secret
- Trax
- Triagonal
- Tsoro Yematatu
- Tuknanavuhpi
- Tukvnanawopi
- Turkish draughts
- TwixT († with modified rules)
- Wali
- Y †
- Yote
- Zamma
