Topics: Games : Paper and Pencil

Games played by making marks on paper, whether these are symbols, numbers, or drawings, such as Tic Tac Toe, Dots and Boxes, Hangman, Sprouts, Battleship, or Nim. Popular throughout every culture due to the simplicity of the materials required. Occasionally Board Game variants of the pencil and paper game are published, where the basic elements are pre-formed or preprinted.




Dots and Boxes Dots and Boxes View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
Abstract combinatorial game, usually played on paper, learned by many during childhood.
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Sprouts Sprouts View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
Sprouts is a topological pencil-and-paper game invented in 1967 by mathematician John Horton Conway (who also designed the computer game "Life") and Michael S.
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Tic-Tac-Toe Tic-Tac-Toe View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
In Tic-Tac-Toe, also known as Noughts and Crosses and Ticktacktoe, two players-- one drawing crosses, the other circles-- alternately make their marks in a 3 by 3 grid-like figure.
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