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WORD GAMES DRAWING GAMES OTHER GAMES Bananagrams Telestrations Advanced Monopoly Deal eWordChallenge.ScienceOnTheWeb.net. .JonMarkGo.com. (2-8) Skribbl.io. (2-12) Create room, DrawPhone.tannerkrewson.com. Civ.Rol-Play.com. (2-8) Sign up, PlayMDeal.com. (2-5) Sign up and join (2+) Sign up for a name. Refresh and join Not really bananagrams, close enough. Create share a link, no sign up involved. Similar include (4+) Simplest and best, just share code. then add friends and create a game. game from lobby. Covidopoly.io (2+) is game. Easy-to-join ongoing public games room and share link, sign up to have a name. Sketchful.io (2-64) and Drawasaurus.org (2-20). Can adjust timer, can’t draw in colour. a COVID-19 themed version, share are at Weboggle.info and SerpentineGame.com. Sketchful and Skribbl can have custom words, BrokenPicturePhone.com. Simple, share room game code, no sign up involved. Drawsaurus has other slightly unique settings. Agricola Cyberspaces.app/wordmine features video chat code. No timer, people’s “” visibly backlog. for 8 people, join easily with shared link. Cosel.io. Simple, share a link. 90 sec timer. -Agricola.com. (1-5) Join the same Quiplash isc.ro. (2-4) Sign up, send game invites. Fake Artist Goes to New York game room, don’t have to sign up. There’s many options for online scrabble! Drawception.com. (6, 12, 15) Sign up first. Create QwiqWit.com. (3-12) Virtually just Just One kc-FakeArtistOnline.herokuapp.com. private games and share a link. Can only have 10 Quiplash from Jackbox. It’s free, and can have (3-10) Share game code. No sign up min or 90 sec turns, can’t have simultaneous more players than Quiplash. Share room code. OneWord.games. (3-7) Share Scatagories involved. goes. This site is good for displaying drawings. room name. Don’t have to sign up. Colonist.io. (3-4) Create game and ScattergoriesOnline.net. (2-34) share a link. Catan Universe on Steam Risk Share link. Sign up for extra categories. and mobile is free, but more glitchy. Fishbowl / The Hat Game KeiranKing.com/Gary/ is a simple alternative Warzone.com. (2+). Need to sign up. Can customize maps and rules. Fishbowl-Game.com. (4+) Share with no connecting, just generates new cards. DEDUCTION GAMES ConquerClub.com and WarGear.net are among game code. No sign up involved. Wavelength LiChess.org or Chess.org. (2) Share link, similar sites, though none of these are as simple Out of Context Codenames as playing on Steam/mobile or Pogo.com (2-6). Longwave.web.app. (2+) Share a link, CodenamesGame.com (4+) is the official don’t have to sign up. Chess.com - Has more Taboo OutOfContext.party. (2+). Features various features, sign up needed first, also on mobile. There are variations of Risk called “ ”. no sign up involved. HereToThere.app site. Share link, no sign up involved. No At QDice.wtf (2-8) you don’t have to sign up, at PlayTaboo.com. (2+) Everyone visits same “Build the Story” type games (read the rules for and gjeuken.github.io/telewave/ doesn’t involve cheating possible (can’t peak at key card). site, no connecting. Just generates new words. each one). Share game code, no sign up involved. KDice.com (2-7) you do. At both sites you just connecting, screen share or take screen shots. join a game room, but can’t make games private. Hanabi Backstabbr.com. (2-7) Sign up, Decrypto Hanabi.Live. (2-5) Sign up and join create a game and share a link to join. game from lobby. Simply laid out. SOCIAL DEDUCTION GAMES whoawhoa.github.io/decrypto/. (3-8) No SetWithFriends.com. (1+) connecting, only gives new codes. Screen Dominion Just share a link, no sign up involved. share and digitally note take elsewhere. Dixit The Resistance and Avalon Secret Hitler Dominion.games. (2-6) Sign up and Snakeout.tannerkrewson.com. (5-10) NetGames.io (5-10) is simple, Isolant.Games/en/. (3-16) Register join “table”. Pay for expansions. Liar’s Dice and sign up, then share room code. Simplest site for Resistance, share share game code. SecretHitler.party is also Stratego.io. (2) Simple site, share room code. No extra roles featured, simple, share link or game code. This site can Cyberspaces.app/liarsdice. (2-8) link, no sign up involved. Stratego.com/en/play/ and mission leaders are randomly assigned. uniquely have down to 3 or 4 players. Just share link. Features video chat. Skull has more features, but requires sign up. NetGames.io. Simple Avalon (see below). Secret.Ethanl.ee. Simple site, Share game code. FunNode.com has up to 10 players, Dominoes.PlayDrift.com. (2-4) Just Skull.games. (3-6) Just enter room, share a link, don’t have to sign up. don’t have to sign up but should so your name is join game via lobby, don’t have to sign up. no sign up involved. TheResistancePlus.com. This site is a modified Features Draw, Block, All 5s, All 3s. Tak clone of ProAvalon.com and has multiple displayed. Unlike the sites above this site has a versions of the game (including Avalon). Sign up, traditional game board view. PlayTak.com. (2) At least sign up as join through lobby. Site has small learning curve, Private.SecretHitler.io. More complex. Sign up, Go guest. “Join game” to vs friends. but features voting history and many roles. join via URL or lobby. Features voting history. SITES USED FOR CARD GAMES Online-Go.com. (2) Sign up, join game via lobby. Site has many features. Uno Mafia and Werewolf Spyfall Trickster Cards CardzMania For simpler, see Mattle.online or PlayOK.com. Play.UnoFreak.com. (2-10) Share link Mafia.gg or EpicMafia.com, as well as Spyfall.Adrianocola.com (3+) allows 1 Simplest site! Has 9 different trick- Need to sign up. Add friends to play together. don’t have to sign up. Most sites don’t Werewolv.es. (4+) Sign up, join game room. or 2 spies. Spyfall.tannerkrewson.com based card games. Share room code, don’t have Has 22 different card games. Monopoly allow playing with friends. Can also use Uno app. Features many roles. There’s a bit to understand can enable a 2% chance of everyone to sign up. Also available on app for iOS. Solitaires: FreeCell, Klondike, Webopoly.org (2-4) Share game ID with how these sites can facilitate games. being spies. Netgames.io doesn’t feature roles. • 500 • Hearts • Seahaven Towers, Spider, Yukon or game name. No sign up involved. PaperGames.io At each of these sites, just easily share a room • Bridge • • Spades Pogo.com (need to sign up) and PlayRento.com code, no sign up involved. Trick Games: 325, Barbu, , Hearts, Oh Hell, Site features 4 classic games. Just share link. If Coup • Euchre • • Pinochle, Rung, Sergeant , Spades, Whist (don’t have to sign up) are both more complex the host signs up you can play . (2+) with joining up, but have traditional aesthetics. ChickenKoup.com. (2-6) Simply laid out. Rummies: , Gin, , R. 500 (2) Tic-Tac-Toe (2) Share game code. No sign up involved. Deception: Murder in PlayOK Others: , , President Ultimate TTT at ninjabunny.github.io/mihk/. (4-12) Sign up or play as a nameless guest. One of the Mattle.online No connecting, Forensic Scientist visits bejofo.net/ttt, Inhumane Conditions best classic games sites, more games to come. Sign up or easily join as nameless guest from the just share link. site and screen shares. Need to come Playingcards.io Interrogation.ftWinston.com. up with other ways of assigning roles 17 classic board games: lobby. 6 games: Battleship (2) (2) (2) Share link, no sign up involved. and having murderers communicate to the FS. • • Go • Ludo • Has a few games (, Match Up, Crazy Azul (2-4) (2-4) Connect 4 Chess • Eights, Checkers). Just share a link, no sign up Just share link for Game also found • • Gomoku • Splendor (2-4) Go (2) • Dominoes • Hex • Mill • involved. At this site you can easily design or set game also found at at c4arena.com, NetGames.io • Checkers (few variations) • Monopoly • up and run whatever card game you want with 7 Wonders: Duel (2) en.battleship-game.org. just share link. Simple site, no sign up involved. Share game code or link. Has 6 deduction games. Easy mobile access. • (Solitaire) • Paper Soccer the “custom game” option. It gives you a deck of Century: Spice Road (2-5) As of the release of this list, more games are currently in development, including The Hat Game. cards to play with, as well as the option to make See PlayOK (left) or FunNode for more classic games. 14 card games: your own cards. Manual One Night Ultimate Love Letter Avalon Spyfall Secret Hitler • 3-5-8 • • Hearts • Skat dealing though. You can Werewolf (2-4) (5-10) No original (3+) Has locations (5-10) Doesn’t show • Barbu-King • Durak • Oh Hell! • Spades even set up games with The lists featured above only includes board games found on the web. It mostly excludes game platforms, (3-13) Resistance. but no roles. board laid out. • Bridge • Euchre • Pinochle • Switch game pieces, spinners, so therefore games are generally easier for people quickly to share and play. Some mentioned board See above for alternatives for these last three games • Canasta • and checkers boards! games have a number websites that facilitate them - the list aims to reference the best ones. There are so many board games accessible on the web - this list would be too long if it was listing them all!

ONLINE PLATFORMS BOARD GAME APPS FOR ANDROID & IOS TRIVIA These platforms house multiple games all together. You need to sign up and create an account to play, this generally isn’t much of an obstacle to overcome. Some examples of QuizWitz paid games Board Game Arena Board Games on Steam Tabletopia 7 Wonders $8.50 Host signs up and streams This website has 175 different board UNO! Fluxx Skip-Bo Werewolf and Mafia Chess.com Agricola $8 screen, players simply connect Steam is a free gaming platform. When Has over 800 board games! The games Other apps available Also on web games. The games are well set up and simple to aren’t set up and run for you, instead it provides Carcassonne $8 with their devices to catlab.tv. Need to pay online, everyone needs the same game, so if it Castles of Burgundy $9 follow. Very good site! Some games include: costs money all need a paid copy of the game. you with a simulator that has all the pieces you $44 to play with more than 6. Can create your Evolution Free* own quizzes. Various question types. • 6 Nimmt! • Quarto & Some free games: need for the game on a virtual table. You need to Exploding Kittens $2.90 • • Perudo actively move, turn over, and shuffle all Galaxy Trucker $6.50 • Simply Chess components of the game yourself (which takes a Classic Games • French Tarot • Red 7 For the likes of Backgammon, Reversi, Go, Catan Universe Catan Classic Game of Life $4 Jeopardy Labs • Hanabi • Stone Age • Catan Universe bit to learn). Just interacting with pieces can take Istanbul $12 • (A bit glitchy, also on mobile) Chess, etc. Search for the developer Free, but glitchy Roughly $8 per • Hive • Saboteur a little while as well. Can play some games locally “al factory ltd” also on Steam person, also glitchy Monopoly $6 Host just needs to stream screen and other • Risk: Global Domination players watch and play along. Don’t have to There are better games on the same . Some games require the Pandemic $8 • ($18.50 to remove wait times. Also on mobile) Puerto Rico (iOS only) $4 sign up. Can create your own jeopardy games. available for Premium premium account. Tabletopia has lots of lesser Some paid games: known games, including: Race for the Galaxy $10 members (roughly $6.50 Small World $8 per month). Only one • Euphoria Scythe Kahoot You can get most of these games cheaper on • Houseparty Risk Trickster Hive Splendor $8 person in the party needs mobile. Prices usually range from $10-$25 • Santorini • Spyfall Video chat app with a few Free to play, pay $18.50 Cards Android only, $14 Host signs up on Kahoot.com and premium for all to play. excluding sales. Games include: • Viticulture • Stockpile games - Trivia, Heads Up, to play without wait iOS only, uses BGA Terraforming Mars $12 streams screen, others connect with their Premium games include: Pictionary, account Ticket to Ride $9.50 • Puerto Rico • Axis & Allies 1942 • Cleudo • Pandemic • Railroad Ink • Sub Terra times. Also on Steam also on web devices to Kahoot.it. Can create your own Terra Mystica Through the Ages $15 • 7 Wonders • • Sushi Go! • Galaxy Trucker • Evolution • Scythe • • Secret Hitler This list is considerably sparse. There are so many options, search a game and there’s quizzes. Used a lot for , but does *$8.50 for multiplayer games • Carcassonne • Love Letter • Terra Mystica • Game of life • Terra Mystica • Stockpile • Quips about Christianity probably an app for it! Most decent games either cost money, or exist as glitchy knock-offs. ∞ feature general trivia. Usually multiple choice. • Coup • Lost • Werewolf • Labyrinth: W.O.T. • Terraforming Mars • Monopoly Plus • Ticket to Ride Boîte à Jeux MultiplayerTrivia.com Tabletop Simulator Translates well into English. Pay premium OTHER Players need to sign up. Share link Costs around $30, but has an excellently vast for a few features like hosting to join private game room. Type in written selection! Over 30 thousand various games and games only friends can join. Jackbox Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes answers. Simply laid out, but as of the release People on the same wifi network can’t play with RPG’s! Can even create your own games on the 61 games including: Agricola, Collections of different party games. co-op game that involves one person of this list the site is still in beta and lacks each other unless someone in the game has a Steam workshop. Much like Tabletopia it just Alchemists, Concordia, and Dixit. The host pays for it (ranges $12-$30 per describing a bomb and others instructing features such as choice of categories. premium account. Can currently bypass this if an provides a simulator for you to interact with the pack, different per pack). Platforms include how to defuse. Platforms include Steam, account is just initially created on a different IP pieces. Just slightly harder than Tabletopia with Steam and consoles. Someone with the game mobile, and consoles. Only the host with the network (e.g. create an account on mobile data). regards to understanding the functionality. Can Brettspielwelt streams. Other players don’t need to sign up or bomb buys the game (ranges $12-$22 depending Protobowl buy anything, instead they simply watch and join on platform). Other players just need the bomb play some games locally on the same computer. German site (doesn’t translate well, little harder Create room and share link. “Buzz in” to understand). 60 games including: game with their devices to jackbox.tv. manual found at bombmanual.com. Anyone Happy Meeple playing remotely can’t have turns with the bomb and type answers to the questions being read. Board Space 7 Wonders, Catan, 3 versions of unless they also buy/install the game. Can play as a guest, must play a few games prior Carcasonne, Evolution, Stone Age, Town of Salem There are countless other multiplayer trivia Features 84 mostly abstract games, including Power Grid, and Puerto Rico. sites and mobile apps, including QuizUp, to versing strangers online. 9 quick 2P Similar to Mafia/Werewolf. There’s a games: Lost Cities, Hanamikoji, Level X, Khet, Hive, Container, Euphoria, and bit to understanding with how it runs. Online Collectable Card Games Trivia Crack and Sporcle.com. Circle the Wagons, plus Raging Bulls. Viticulture. Must download a game Vassal Was free, now costs $5-$10 depending There’s so many different options for online CCG’s. . There’s a small learning curve on platform (Steam, web, mobile). Classic Some, like Magic, require payments to be playable. to knowing how to join others online. Old game client that simulates board games. Bit is free on mobile (limited free goes per day). Some, like MTG Arena, require clients to be set up. It’s assumed that for most of these games you’d Yucata to learn with how to download the client and It’d take another list of it’s own to name all options run a video or voice chat service simultaneously games, how to run games, and how to join with (there’s a few good lists online). Here are just 5 for the best experience (e.g. Zoom, Discord). 158 mostly lesser known games. Can play as a Pogo.com Air Console CCG’s played for free on browsers (after sign up). Prices mentioned are in AUD, and many games guest (joining little more complicated). Includes: others. Benefit to Vassal is that there’s over 2000 Currently not the simplest website. Many ads. games available, though many are removed due Website with many different knock-off board mentioned are not authorized implementations. • Red 7 • Terra Mystica Android: Card Hunter Legend of the “Early access experience” has fewer games. Has to copyright. Used lots for playing games. games and video games. Players join with their Netrunner Five Rings As said, this is not an exhaustive list, many more • Port Royal • Puerto Rico 14 very common multiplayer games including: phone as a controller, going on the app or the site CardHunter.com random sites facilitate games! To play a specific • Stone Age • Machi Koro airconsole.com. This site functions best with Jinteki.net Jigoku.online • Boggle • Chess • Scrabble • Risk There are plenty of other platforms available, game, either research and discover if it exists • Castles of Burgundy including Boardgamecore and ZunTzu. Board everyone in the same room, but if you can online already, or get creative, and say, work out • 2 versions of Carcassonne • Canasta • Dominoes • Monopoly • Yahtzee Keyforge Yu-Gi-Oh Games Arena is probably the most accessible withstand the lag then the host can stream TheCrucible.online DuelingBook.com how to play it over video chat! the screen and others can join and play. A few other platforms are already mentioned above. PlayOK.com, CardzMania, FunNode.com, and others. and has the most mainstream games. Happy Board Gaming! Notes collated by Evan Leed 2020