Print & Play
Print a game and play it
24 boards and sheets to print at home or for a whole class. Pieces to cut out, the rules on one page, A4 and US Letter. No account, no email address, no watermark, and nothing to pay.
Print and play
Printable game boards: print one, cut out the pieces and play at the kitchen table. Every set comes with a one-page rules sheet, in colour or in an ink-saving version for a class set.
Printable Chess Board
A full-page board with coordinates, all 32 pieces to cut out and the rules on one sheet.
Open toolPrintable Nine Men's Morris Board
Board, men to cut out and rules — Three, Six, Nine or Twelve Men's Morris in four styles.
Open toolPrintable Morabaraba Board
The southern African mill board — with the diagonals most printouts leave off. Twelve cows a side and rules.
Open toolPrintable Reversi Board
A full-page Othello board, all 64 discs on one sheet, rules on another. Or just bring 64 coins.
Open toolPrintable Pachisi Board
The Indian cross game Ludo was made from: twelve castles, the Charkoni, four arms of twenty-four.
Open toolPrintable Ludo Board
The full cross board, sixteen pawns and the rules. Bring a die — everything else is on the sheets.
Open toolPrintable Gomoku Board
A 15×15 grid for five in a row, thirty stones a side — or skip the scissors and use a pencil.
Open toolPrintable Checkers Board
Print a full-page board, cut-out pieces and one-page rules — colour or ink saver.
Open toolPrintable Senet Board
Thirty squares, four throwing sticks to cut out and fold, and the rules. Ten counters and you are playing.
Open toolPrintable Mancala Board
Print a Kalah, Oware, Congkak or Toguz board in four styles, seed counts included.
Open toolPrintable Alquerque Board
The medieval ancestor of draughts, with the diagonal pattern drawn right — 25 points, 24 men.
Open toolPrintable Surakarta Board
All eight corner loops in their right places, in two colours. The board nobody can draw by hand.
Open toolPrintable Shisima Board
The Kenyan pond: nine points, six men, one-minute games. The quickest set to cut out.
Open toolPrintable Peg Solitaire Board
The 33-hole English cross, coin-sized holes and a rules sheet. Also playable for two.
Open toolPrintable Tangram
Seven pieces to cut out, plus life-size sheets for all thirteen convex shapes — same scale throughout.
Open toolPrintable MENACE Kit
All 304 matchbox labels for the 1961 machine that learns noughts and crosses. Nobody else prints them.
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Play with a pencil
Games that need nothing but a printed sheet and something to write with. No pieces to cut out, no board to fold — the kind you want in a waiting room, on a long journey or in the last five minutes of a lesson.
All of them, one print job
Tick the games you want and print the whole stack at once — eight games, nine sheets, no email address. The thing other sites charge for.
Open toolSea Battle Grids
Two grids per player and a fleet to tick off — the pencil-and-paper game of hiding ships and calling squares.
Open toolFour in a Row Boards
Four board sizes, counters to cut out and the odd/even rule on the back — the sizes change the game, so they are all here.
Open toolDots and Boxes Grids
Join the dots, close a box, go again. Three sizes, plus a sheet of four small grids for quick games.
Open toolHangman Sheets
Gallows, word slots and an alphabet to cross off — two, three or four games to a page.
Open toolTic-Tac-Toe Sheets
Six big grids, twelve, or twenty-four for a whole class. The one to keep in the glovebox.
Open toolSprouts Sheets
Two rules, three dots and a game that always ends. Four boards a sheet, room to draw.
Open toolShut the Box Sheets
The pub game without the wooden box: numbers to cross out, two dice, and the exact odds of shutting it.
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What you need
A printer and paper. That is the whole list. Every sheet here is designed to work on plain white A4 or US Letter from an ordinary home printer — no card stock, no colour cartridge, nothing trimmed to size.
For the boards with pieces, something a little stiffer helps — the back of a cereal box glued behind the piece sheet turns cut-out counters into ones that do not curl. It is not required. Coins work for half these games and always have.
Colour or ink saver?
Every sheet comes in both. The coloured versions look like the board they are imitating — wood grain for chess, ochre earth for mancala, pale blue rules for the pencil games. The ink saver versions drop the fills and print outlines only.
Ink saver is not the cheap compromise it sounds like. A class set of thirty costs almost nothing, a coloured pencil shows up far better against plain white, and it is the version to choose if you are laminating: a dry-wipe pen wipes cleanly off an unprinted background and smears on a tinted one.
For a classroom
These sheets are yours to print as many times as you like, for a class, a club or a holiday scheme. There is no licence to read and nobody to ask.
The practical advice from teachers who use them: print the ink saver version, laminate one set rather than reprinting every term, and keep counters in envelopes taped to the back of the board. For a full class, the paper games pack is the one to reach for — eight games in one print job, and none of them need pieces at all.
Which board for which age
The pencil games start youngest: tic-tac-toe from about four, dots and boxes and four in a row from about five. The guide to games you only need paper for goes through all eight with an age for each and explains what makes them worth playing.
The boards with pieces suit six and up. Nine men’s morris and alquerque are the two that teach the most for the least explaining, and mancala is the one that will still be being played in a month.
Play the same games on a screen
Most of these boards have a playable version here too, against a computer opponent or a friend online — useful when there is no printer, and useful for learning the rules before you cut anything out. Start from the board games, or from the full toolbox if you also want score sheets, a turn timer or a diagram editor.