Online Board Games
Bridges
by Dick Christoph. Complete your line across the board before the computer completes his. A challenging mental exercise! | Chess
LCHESS has been the predecessor of ChessPartner, as a design study a Java version has been derived from it. Is has not been fully ported, just a small part of it ! A program written in Java is much slower than a program written in C or assembler, thus the playing strength will be much less as well. Click on a white piece and drag (i.e. holding down the clicked button) it to where you want to move it. |
Connect4
by Sven Wiebus. Drop your counter into a column; the computer then drops its piece also. Object is to create a row of 4 across, vertically, or diagonally, of your own color. | HareAndHounds
by MazeWorks. A 19th-century board game invented in France, also called The Military Game. It was popular among French army officers during and after the Franco-Prussian war. Martin Gardner in Scientific American says it 'combines extreme simplicity with extraordinary strategic subtlety.' |
Hex7
by MazeWorks. An elegant game of strategy invented in the 1940's, Hex is no longer available commercially but has recently seen an increase in popularity. | Mastermind
by Karl H�rnell. The object of this game is to guess the sequence of four colored pegs the computer has selected at random from the circled colors in the right field. |
Othello
aka Reversi. A derivative of the classic 'Go', your objective is to fill the board with your color by surrounding your opponent. | TacTix
by MazeWorks. Created by the brilliant Danish inventor Piet Hein, TacTix is a variation of Nim, one of the oldest of mathematical games. |
