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Draughts – comprehensive draughts (checkers) game

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Draughts is a comprehensive checkers/draughts game featuring 16 international game variants, multiple AI difficulty levels

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Pentobi – computer opponent for the board game Blokus

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Pentobi is a computer opponent for the board game Blokus. It has a strong Blokus engine with different playing levels.

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Scrabble3D – highly customizable Scrabble game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Scrabble3D is a highly customizable Scrabble game that not only supports Classic Scrabble and Superscrabble but also 3D games and own boards.

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PyTraffic – Rush Hour board game clone

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

PyTraffic is a Python version of the board game Rush Hour. The goal of the game is to get a red car out of a six-by-six grid.

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Mahjongg – solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Mahjongg is a solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg. The objective is to select pairs of similar tiles.

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KShisen – solitaire-like game played using the standard set of Mahjong tile

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

KShisen is a solitaire-like game played using the standard set of Mahjong tile but with only one layer of scrambled tiles.

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KMahjongg – tile matching game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

KMahjongg is a mahjongg solitaire game for KDE. Mahjongg is a famous ancient chinese puzzle game. It’s a free and open source game.

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Kigo – implementation of the popular Go game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Kigo is an open-source implementation of the popular Go game.

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KFourInLine – board game for two players based on the Connect-Four game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

KFourInLine is a board game for two players based on the Connect-Four game.

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gnubg – strong backgammon game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GNU Backgammon (gnubg) is a strong backgammon program (world-class with a bearoff database installed).

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Free and Open Source Board Games

Kajongg – classical Mah Jongg for four players

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Kajongg is the classical Mah Jongg for four players. Kajongg comes with a ruleset for classical chinese as played in Germany.

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Bovo – Gomoku like game for two players

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

In Bovo you need to connect five of your own pieces in an unbroken row vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

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