Open Source Windows Board Games

Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

Pioneers is an emulation of the board game The Settlers of Catan, which can be played over the internet.

A arcade game. You drive a toy wood engine in many levels. You must collect all the coaches. This game looks like the game snake.

jDip is a tool for mapping, managing, and adjudicating Diplomacy games. It has a simple but powerful graphical interface, with a richly customizable map display. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris are supported. Over 25 variants are supported.

ChessDB is a free open-source chess database for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ChessDB is based on code from Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ - a project for which there have been no updates for several years. In

Sudokuki is a free graphical SUDOKU game: Sudokuki solves even the most difficult sudoku grids for you - Generate a sudoku - Play sudoku - Print a sudoku... Available in 17 languages. Just download and play! You can also play with arabic or chinese numbers. Sudokuki is Free Software developed in Java. Have fun!

Winboard 4.5 32-bit is a free Windows accessible Chess program that works automatically with the JAWS or the free NVDA screen reader. It is for the blind, low sighted or those who can not use a mouse. It provides vocal announcements of position changes and other selectable board conditions. Blind players also use a separate "tactile chess board". Winboard 4.5 has full keyboard access to move pieces and run menu items. Partial sighted players use high contrast mode and adjust board, piece, most font sizes and colors. Available languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Russian. Games may be viewed, modified or saved in standard PGN format. Two Chess engines supply play and grand master strength move analysis. Connect to the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) and play humans. Modify verbosity in screen reader configurations and in the Winboard "Sound" dialog under the "General" menu. Find all documentation in the "doc" folder under the Winboard directory of your C drive.

It is a Shogi - Japanese Chess - game made in Java, where you can play against one of 3 AI's of your choice. Or against a friend.

The Nimzo_3d GUI is a chess program for Windows 7 - 11 It is an enhanced version of the Tarrasch Chess GUI written by Mr Bill Forster, with many additional features. It has a simple, easy to use interface, so it is ideal for novice players or inexperienced computer users. It also has more advanced features for expert users. So if you just want a casual blitz game against the computer, or to automatically analyse one of the famous games from chess history, it can perform these tasks and many more. It has a choice of a classical 2d screen view or realistic 3d graphics powered by DirectX Anyone who wants to add new features to the program should download the file < Nimzo_3d_v4_build.7z> from the < Files > < Build> section. This package contains Visual Studio project files and C++ source code files. Alternative Nimzo 3d Chess GUI website with other downloads, including 32-bit versions - https://nimzo-3d-chess-gui.infinityfreeapp.com

The project is to make a site with a program to learn chess for children of 6-12 years old. The program wil run in an applet and linked to a MYSQL database. Hans Nuijen is the creator of the method how to learn the game playful.

CompWebChess 2 is an open source web-based chess program and application which allows you to play chess over the internet in a turn-based setting, using PHP and MySQL. Home Page: http://www.trimBrain.com

An implementation of Dragon Chess (by Gary Gygax) for PC

Duo is a Crazy Eight card game (think Uno) written in Python, translated in many languages. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUO DEVELOPMENT NOW OCCURS ON LAUNCHPAD AND THIS PAGE ONLY EXISTS FOR HISTORY REFERENCE.

JBoggle is a Java implementation of the popular wordseeker game Boggle.

This project contains source and documentation of the Oliver bot playing on Tantrix.com

PloneChess plans on providing chess-related websites that use Zope, CMF and/or Plone the necessary tools to easily view, upload and play PGN (Portable Game Notation) games and display and manage several types of chess tournaments (round-robin, swiss).

Risk has been renamed to Domination.

Tacticon is a new turn based board game, that can be seen as the new kind of chess. The software is build with Java3D and it can be used to play tacticon with 2 players. Computer player is not build yet, because of the complexity of the game.

Get accross as quick as possible. Only, make sure no fences get in your way in this board game!

jChecs is an open source Java chess program, designed to introduce the basics of computer chess programming concepts.