Games

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General

Crossword

Comparison of 73692 published crossword grids - collects daily crosswords from several sources and converts them into .xd, a plain-text format designed for maximum data flexibility. It then compares them against the rest of the crosswords in the corpus, and generates this static website.
- https://github.com/century-arcade/xdtalk

Nomic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm [1]

http://www.agoranomic.org/
- http://pastebin.com/jxxCiY2Y

Cue sports

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carom_billiards

Card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-taking_game

http://svg-cards.sourceforge.net/

Fluxx! and other loony labs

1000 Blank White Cards is a card game, the purpose of which is to create the cards you're playing with. The original version of the game was created by Nathan McQuillan of Madison, Wisconsin. I originally learned about that version of the game here , although that page hasn't been updated in a while. This new edition of the game was created in late 2001 by Riff Conner, and has been extensively playtested by the Discordian Intelligence Agency - Riff Conner, Mark and Kelly Hennies, and David Youtz - along with various guest stars. Several rules guidelines have been added, for the purpose of giving it a more gamelike framework.

http://www.bringyourownbook.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841658

Board

https://boardgamegeek.com/

https://diceygoblin.com/blog/the-full-history-of-board-games/ [2]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/designing-the-best-board-game-on-the-planet/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/cef088ae4e2d

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy

https://www.adtidixon.com/blog/2016/11/19/monopoly

http://blog.jrheard.com/quinto-resurrecting-an-abandoned-board-game

Chess

http://www.chess.com/

http://www.chesspark.com/play/

ChessRoots - Chess opening graph from over 800 million Chess games - [3]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/crosswords/chess/chess-borislav-ivanovs-performance-is-scrutinized.html?_r=0

http://usvsth3m.com/post/58778295395/we-asked-986-british-people-what-they-called-the

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/

http://taaalk.co/taaalk/chess/robert-heaton-josh-summers.html [4]

http://abstractstrategygames.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/singularity-chess.html

http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/monochess.html [5]

http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/MartianChess.html

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/a-chess-firewall-at-zero/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146745

tlcv - Tom's Live Chess Viewer for CCRL Broadcasts on the web!
- https://github.com/jhonnold/node-tlcv

Laser

playlaser.xyz Play Laser Online - [6]

Puzzles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_puzzle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7746822

http://lghttp.38568.nexcesscdn.net/8013252/pdf/uploads/general_content/Rubiks_cube_3x3_solution-en.pdf

Arcade

3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet [7]
- https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball - Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows - The Old New Thing

Mission Pinball Framework - free and open source software that you run on a computer (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc.) to control a real, physical pinball machine. The computer running MPF is connected to a modern pinball control system via USB. (MPF supports several different control systems, including FAST Pinball, P-ROC, Open Pinball Project open source hardware, and Stern SPIKE hardware.)
- https://github.com/missionpinball

Maths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)

Real life group

http://ludocity.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://harrygiles.org/2015/01/26/precariat-a-game-about-getting-by-together/

Clusterfuck! is played in two phases. First, players go around the table and pass each other sexy notes. Once each player has passed notes, everyone closes their eyes and points to the people they want to hook up with with one or both hands. Then, everyone opens their eyes. If two players are exclusively pointing to each other, they score, and each gets one point. If three players are all pointing to one another and forming a threesome they each get three points for their feat of sexual teamwork. The first player (or players) to get three or more points wins the game. A successful threesome immediately ends the game, just like Quidditch.

Roleplaying

http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Main_Page

https://github.com/savagezen/dnd-tools - Interactive CLI tools for Dungeons and Dragons 5e

Other

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566151