Ataxxlet - surprisingly tricky game changing piece color by moving next to them
Atoms - Player and computer take turns playing up to four nuclei into a space on a 8x8 board - when the fourth is played, it undergoes fission and spreads nuclei into nextdoor squares, possible starting a chain reaction changing square colors. Same as Automaton Wars below except that this has 8x8 2D board and no animation.
Automaton Wars - same as atoms above, but with a smaller 6x6 3D board, and animation of the chain reactions
Backgammon - excellent with drag and drop and doubling
Backgammon - for (2) players
Backgammon - play against an opponent over the internet - requires registration - has chat room
Battleship - Play against the computer in this Java version of the Milton Bradley game.
Black Box - detect objects using light rays
Black Box - determine the locations of atoms by sending rays in from the edge of the board and seeing where they come out
Bushka Player - game is a variant of draughts or checkers
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Caissa's Web - full service chess site - offers free 30-day trial membership, else $20-$50/yr depending on membership selected
Cathedral - pentominoes-like game starting with a cross-shaped piece being played on the board
Cats and Ladders - like chutes and ladders or snakes and ladders
Challenge Light Blue - take turns with the applet to join two dots in a grid with the idea of enclosing as many squares as possible
Checkers
Checkers - for (2) players
Checkers - this is the version to play - drag and drop, and rather slow animation, but a mean computer opponent
Checkers/Draughts - no computer or network opponents, nice board though
Checkers/Draughts - no computer or network opponents
Checkers/Draughts - no computer or network opponents - play both sides at your screen
Checkers/Draughts Playing Wonder - allows human-human, human-computer, or computer-computer play with variable search depth and some interesting commentary on the algorithm
Chess - for (1-2) players
Chess - java applet that can be set to think for varying times and plays a tough game
Chess Live
ChessWeb - a chess game in progress that you can join and make move(s)
Chinese Checkers Board Game - applet with many awards and three levels of play is worth downloading all the way from Hong Kong
ColorFall - A colorful Java game. Seems to be a cross breed somewhere between tic tac toe and connect four.
Congo - interesting chess variant on a 7x7 board with lions, giraffes, elephants, zebras, monkeys, a river, and crocodiles.
Connect 4 Game - connect four with variable geometry, gravity, and players (human/computer)
Connect 5 - on a 20x20 board
Connect Four (dutch version) - Slick but buggy version with Dutch instructions. Links to many other games
Connect Four - Slick but buggy version with English instructions
Connect It - excellent version with three levels of difficulty and annoying beeping when it beats you
Connect4
DK_Othello - solid version with computer or human opponents with chat, but auto URL forwarding makes this site extremely annoying when trying to back out
Dame - draughts/checkers variant
Diceridoo - slick yahtzee-like dice game
Dominoes
Election97 - British political contest AKA Snakes and Leaders
Emergo - checkers/draughts variant on a hexagonal board
Expert Backgammon For Java - several options, but a slow game and poor graphics
Forinna Row - slick multilevel four-in-a-row game that's very easy until the fourth level
Free Board Games - an extensive collection of original board games created by Emmor Ray Sperry that you can make and play yourself free.
GlassBeadGame - mancala variant
Go - for (2) players
Go - heavy duty site for serious players requires registration and/or membership
Grand Chess Introduction - a chess variant on a 10x10 board with two extra pieces on each side, a marshall (combination of rook and knight) and cardinal (combination of bishop an knight). Can download a shareware W95 program to play the full game.
Hanoi - java Tower of Hanoi game (german instructions)
Havannah - checkers/draughts variant
Hex - for (2) players
HexDame - Dame (see above) on a hexagonal board
IChess Home Page
Iron and Steam - railroad empire-building game played via mail or email but requires you download a Windows program
JavaBang - Gobang in java, or get five in a row
JavaChess
Kalah - mancala-like game in java with variable levels of computer opponent
Labyrinth - java 3D maze game (german instructions)
Let's Play Checkers
Lite8 - simple mancala variant
Lord Of The Rings - a very well-done free make-it-yourself board game based on Tolkein's classic. If you like LOTR or are fed up with mass-produced lowest-common-denominator commercial games and especially if you like to take creative license with the rules, this is for you.
Marcel's WebMind - mastermind
MasterMind
Mastermind
Minesweeper - java sweeper game (german instructions)
Nine Men's Morris - classic board game referenced in A Midsummer Night's Dream - form rows of three men and pound your opponent (take one of his men) each time
Noughts and Crosses - AKA Tic Tac Toe
Othello
Othello
Reversi - excellent java reversi game that counts score and shows possible plays (german instructions)
Reversi - for (2) players
Spacebattle - slick two-player game with chat
Stones - go-like game played on 9x9, 11x11, or 13x13 grid
Tic Tac Toe
Tic Tac Toe - java tic tac toe game (german instructions)
Tic-Tac-Trivia - answer trivia questions correctly to place an X, get it wrong and you get an O
TicTacToe
Tik-Tak Two - Interactive tic-tac-toe game
Twixt - java connect the dots game where you try to connect the two opposite sides of a square and the computer tries to connect the other two sides (german instructions - click in the spaces between the dots)
WaveCatcher - very cool multiplayer java game similar to empire - start with farming, then mine resources, grow and expand, research, and interact with neighboring tribes
WebGammon 2.5 by Steve A. Baker