Games & rules

Pieces begin face-down.

Large-board shogi family game.

Play on a 9x10 intersection board with palaces.

Animals have ranks and capture by rank rules.

Play Shogi on a 5x5 board with king, gold, silver, bishop, rook, and pawn per side.

Streamlined xiangqi-family movement.

Khmer Ouk Chaktrang movement with local opening rules.

Captured pieces become pieces in hand.

Players place major pieces freely in their halves.

Thai Makruk uses chess-like pieces with different queen/bishop/pawn behavior.

Play on 9x10 intersections with palace and river.

Goal is to lose all pieces.

Captures explode adjacent non-pawn pieces.

Two players form a team.

The minister moves one square diagonally and the elephant jumps exactly two squares diagonally.

Back rank starts randomized.

Move pieces by FIDE rules.

Normal chess movement, check, checkmate, promotion, and castling rules apply.

Four armies start on an extended board.

White plays a pawn horde; black has a normal army.

Normal chess rules apply.

Each player has a standard set of pieces with no pawns.

The ferz moves one square diagonally and the alfil jumps exactly two squares diagonally.

Normal chess rules apply.

Men move one square diagonally forward on the dark squares.

Play on a 10x10 board with twenty men per side on the dark squares.

Play on an 8x8 board with two full rows of men per side.

Place stones on intersections.

Players alternate placing stones.

Five in a row wins.

Four rows of pits create deep sowing tactics.

Sow into pits and your own store.

Sow seeds counterclockwise.

Twelve stones per side.

Place stones to make mills of three.

Roll dice to enter and move pieces.

Race pieces around a cross-shaped path.

Race seven pieces along a shared path.

Throw four sticks to determine movement.

Four tigers try to capture goats.

Play on an 8x8 board filled with alternating black and white stones.

Ancient Egyptian race game.

Roll dice to move checkers around the board.

Both sides move in the same direction.

Defenders help the king escape.

Asymmetric king escape game.