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Playbox.fx is a free, ad-free and still growing collection of board games. It is a private hobby project with no commercial goals. It contains Mahjong Solitaire, Draughts, Chess, Go, Halma, Nine Men's Morris and Peg Solitaire. The games can be played against a simple AI or locally against friends. There is a portable version (zip) for Linux. There is an installer (exe) and a portable version (zip) for Windows.

...The goal is to enclose and fill empty areas by building walls around them. Wall ends grow till they reach the game boundary, or another wall, or meet a ball. If a ball strikes an active end, the wall stops growing at that end; if a ball strikes the side of an actively growing wall, both ends stop and the player loses a "life". Each round begins with as many lives as balls: 2 for Round 1, 3 for Round 2, and so on up to Round 15 (which no living mortal has yet reached). The goal for each round is to enclose and fill 75% of the board. Press F1 for a help message that describes the scoring formula and the effect of mouse clicks. ...

Croatian Chess is a collection of various chess variants, starting as a simple and natural enhancement to classical chess and growing ever more complex with each new variant.