The Toolbox
Game tools
Things that help at the table, whatever is on it — boards to print, score sheets for dice and cards, a clock to keep the turns moving, and editors that turn a position into an image. All free, none of them ask who you are.
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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Keep score
Score sheets for dice, dominoes and cards: keep score in the browser at the table, or print blank pads and use a pencil. Nothing is uploaded and an unfinished game survives a reload.
Dice Score Sheet
Five-dice games: it adds the upper section, applies the 63 bonus and totals every column.
Open toolMexican Train Score Sheet
All thirteen rounds named by their double, from the 12–12 down to the 0–0.
Open toolFarkle Score Sheet
Bank each turn and watch the run to 10,000. Scoring table printed on the blank pads.
Open toolBunco Score Sheet
The whole night on paper: player cards for twelve, table sheets and markers for three tables. All three prizes counted.
Open toolSpades Score Sheet
Bid and tricks in, score out — with the bag counter and the hundred-point penalty nobody remembers.
Open toolHearts Score Sheet
Hand by hand to a hundred, lowest total wins. Twenty-six points a hand, every hand.
Open toolRummy Score Sheet
Hand by hand to 500, with a switch for tables where the lowest total wins.
Open toolCanasta Score Sheet
To 5,000 with the whole point table on the sheet — canastas, red threes, going out. Negative hands allowed.
Open toolFive Crowns Score Sheet
Eleven rounds labelled by their wild card, from threes to kings, not by a number nobody tracks.
Open toolChicken Foot Score Sheet
Every round named by its double, counted down from the top of the set — and the double-blank at 50.
Open toolHand and Foot Score Sheet
Four rounds with their minimums on the line — 50, 90, 120, 150 — plus the pile values.
Open toolGolf Score Sheet
Nine holes, lowest total wins, kings at zero. Fits nine, six and four card Golf.
Open toolBowling Score Sheet
Ten frames with the strike and spare carry-over worked out — the part everybody gets wrong on paper.
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Run the table
Whatever you are playing — cards, dice, party games, boards. The bits that keep an evening moving and have nothing to do with any one game.
Board Game Turn Timer
A clock for two to six players. Count up, a budget per turn, or a chess-clock total — with sound.
Open toolFirst Player Picker
Everyone puts a finger on the screen and one gets chosen. Settles it in three seconds.
Open toolTeam Randomizer
Names in, fair teams out — with a nudge for who has to explain the rules.
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Make diagrams
Build a position on the board, export it as an image for a blog post or a worksheet, and share a link that reopens it exactly. Nothing is stored on a server — the position travels in the URL.
Checkers Diagram Maker
Build any draughts position, export PNG, WebP or SVG, and share a permanent link.
Open toolNine Men's Morris Diagram Maker
Place pieces on the 24 points, mark mills and export the board.
Open toolReversi Puzzle Generator
Build an Othello position, mark the best move, export the question and the answer.
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Work it out
Answers to the questions you cannot get by playing. Type in what is in front of you and find out whether it can be done at all — before you spend an hour finding out the hard way.