Open Source Python Board Games

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

Play at many electronic darts game (such as Cricket, Crazy Cricket, 321 Zap, etc) with a cheap DIY dart game controled by an Arduino UNO controler, and the pyDarts python game ! Make you own game and share it with the community ! Note that this is NOT a software to manually score while you are playing beside ! This software score by itself but require a converted dart board ! pyDarts is the reference since no other electronic dart game offer so much functionalities !

A multi-player networked clone of the classical Bubble Bobble board game. Throw bubbles at monsters and collect dozens of different bonuses before your co-players! A modernized version running the clients in browsers is available at https://bitbucket.org/arigo/bub-n-bros/

This project is a POSIX-compliant driver for the dgt board from dgtprojects. It is intented at acting as a layer between chess engines and the dgt board.

Players and solvers for the game of Hex.

This basic dice roller application supports 6 different types of dices such as D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20. Clicking on the Roll button rolls these dices. Also pressing the space bar in your keyboard rolls the dice. Useful for board games and RPG games.

glChess is an open source 2D/3D chess interface for the GTK+/Gnome desktop. It is designed to have a clean and simple interface. Games can be played between human players and compatible 3rd party artificial intelligences.

pyKSoko is a clone from Sokoban, yes another one. It was intended as a clone of Ksokoban the old Sokoban clone from KDE 3.5.x but it evolved and has now many features who are not part of the original KDE Sokoban clone. Have fun & give feedback! :-D

written in python 2.7.x and pygame 1.9.1&2 I have not found anything playing with more than 2 childrens with serverals computers. A game easy, addictive, and not too long playing time. So, i made it: an arkanoid / breakout clone which have the particularity to play at 360°. pybreak360.cfg to fine configure outside game. pybreak360_kbd.py for special international keymap. on game, use mouse or arrow keys. press B to start/stop ComputerBootPlayer. press H to see HiScores. press D for LevelDesigner (see in levels/*.level to edit/create fine configured levels as BrickArray, Background, Music, ...) press PAGE_UP, PAGE_DOWN to change level in actual level pack. press SPACE or ENTER for menu. select level pack using menu/F9. play alone or connect up to 4 players via TCP network. select server using menu/F1, connect/disconnect using menu/F10. A good gameplay experience, 12 bricks bonus, more then 90 levels, ... tested on linux, XP, Seven

Minimum resolution is 1600x900. Koxinga is the game similar with board game Jamaica for human vs 5 computer player only. English game rule: https://sourceforge.net/projects/koxinga/files/Koxinga_English_User_Guide.pdf/download Chinese game rule: https://sourceforge.net/projects/koxinga/files/koxinga_chinese_manual.pdf/download 1) Q: Why won’t my piece move? A: You’re probably at a fork. On the map, look for two faint green arrows. Hover your mouse over them— they turn bright green. Click an arrow to choose your path. 2) Q: After a naval battle, why does the game seem stuck? A: If you won, you must choose the loot. Go to the computer that started the battle (or the loser) and pick what to take. If you’re not sure, just press Auto take.

Embark on an epic journey of twists and turns as you dive into the classic game of Snake and Ladder with a modern twist. With a vibrant 10x10 board and 2 to 4 vibrant players, the battleground is set for an exhilarating showdown now with multiplayer support upto 4 players with visual animations of pieces moving on the board! Gather your friends and family for more fun with new updates in game. Now with full screen mode. Download the latest version!

Duo is a Crazy Eight card game (think Uno) written in Python, translated in many languages. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUO DEVELOPMENT NOW OCCURS ON LAUNCHPAD AND THIS PAGE ONLY EXISTS FOR HISTORY REFERENCE.

Mahjong (麻將) is a classic game in china. This game is Taiwanese Mahjong using 16 tiles per player. It coded by pygame.

4st Attack is a gorgeous looking connect-four. And whilst being good looking it's scarily addictive!

BARS is a program for playing checkers. In this program, you can play with a robot of different difficulty levels, train your memory, solve tasks, memorize openings, save games played. Enjoy using it :) source code: https://github.com/Ni3nayka/BARS-international VK-group: https://vk.com/bars_checkers if you have a problem starting the program, try: 1) update net.framework 2) update VS MS C++ WARNING: the program works only with windows x64

Fruit machine game written in python.

Blind Chess also known as "Dark Chess" (暗棋) or "Banqi" or Half Chess , is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4x8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese Chess) board. This application is using Taiwan rule. AI is using basic minimax tree structure and some rules. Advanced algorithm such as Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees and Monte Carlo Tree Search are NOT used. This app is single player vs computer only. For English user, Christakis Giorgios made Software Requirements Specification(pdf file), it will help anyone that downloads this application to understand basic blind chess and use it. You can download this pdf in Files->Specification folder.

ELOcalc is a small GUI/command-line calculator designed to calculate ELO scores (for, e.g., chess).

LuckyWords is an open-source classic word guessing game loosely based on 'Hangman' and 'Wheel of Fortune'. It is targeted for Linux and the KDE desktop, though in principle, as a Python application it is platform independent. LuckyWords depends on Python 3 and PyQt4 and is released under the terms of GPL 3.0. For further information, visit the wiki or our website at www.casualcoding.org.

Educational program for young children (4-7 years old). Its purpose is to teach them to manipulate the mouse by three pleasant activities

Sulk is a computer version of one of Games Workshop's most perfectly conceived games, Space Hulk first edition. Play on a hotseat, against AI Genestealers, or (planned) over the internet.

Carcassonne is (originally) a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German. This application is one of its several implementations bears the base game. There are 72 cards to be deposited to the game board and 7 meeples (or pennants) are available per player. You may play against one or more computer/human players using this game with different selectable computer players' skills. Computer player examines own her step only, so the analysation depth is only 1, trying to gain the maximum available extra points. Turning trace mode on it is possible to play against computer with ultra skill level, where the analysation depth is increased to 2. With this setting the AI is stronger but the gameplay is unbearable slow. It is just for test purpose.

PyScrabble is an online, multiplayer scrabble program written in Python.

My implementation of a Konane AI system using Alpha-Beta pruning search techniques.

PyBawo is a multiplayer implementation of the East African board game, Bao (Bawo) in Python. PyBawo largely implements Bao (Bawo) as played in Malawi with additional rules that eliminate the possibility of infinite moves. PyBawo currently supports local two player games against another human or the computer.