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51. Board Game: Carcassonne [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:87]
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Carcassonne
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/carcassonnexboxlivearcade/

Author(s): Sierra Online
BGG ID: 822
Publisher: Microsoft

AI strength:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeepletournament (competes with ranked players)

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeepleProfessional

Operating Systems:
Xbox Live Arcade (requires Xbox or Xbox 360 and XBLA)

Software Types:
stand alone
or
client connects to a central server

Licenses:
Commercial Demo ($10 to buy)

Variants available.
For additional small fees: River, River II, King & Baron
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Eric Lucero
United States

Colorado
If you are have XBox Live, you owe it to yourself to get this game. It really is a fantastic implementation of a truly great game. Carcassonne lends itself really well to a computer/console interface. Side by side play on the same screen is no problem thanks to Carcassonne's mechanics as players don't have to keep anything hidden from opponents. The animations of roads and cities being built when completed are a nice touch, and the automatic score keeping is icing on the cake.

The AI has different difficulty settings to meet your skill level if you don't have anyone around to play with, or hop online and play some human opponents.

Most people browsing this forum are probably looking for free games to play, and I can understand that. However, the production of this version is so well done and it's ability to be played multiplayer all on the same screen makes this (for some) a better and cheaper alternative to the cardboard version of the game. If only they'd release more of the expansions for this game.
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52. Board Game: Carcassonne [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:87]
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JCloisterZone (previously known as JCarcassonne - see here)
http://jcloisterzone.farin.cz/en/

Developer: farin

AI strength:meeplemeeplemeeple Advanced (better than average players)

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeple Average

Operating Systems:
Java
OS-independent

Software Types:
stand alone
client connects to another client

Licenses:
Free

Variants:
JCloisterZone supports following big expansions:

* Inns and Cathedrals (1st expansion)
* Traiders and Builder
* Princess and Dragon
* The Tower *
* Abbey and Mayor *
* Catapult (cards only)

and following small expansions:

* King and Scount
* The River
* The River II
* The Cathars *
* Games Quarterly
* The Cult*
* The Tunnel*

Expansions marked by * can't be played against computer player (in recent version).

The following rule variants are also configurable:

* Tiny city is scored only for 2 points.
* Each city is scored with one farm only.

* The Builder and the pig cannot be played on a volcano.
* Fairy cannot be moved after a volcano placement.
* Princess MUST remove a knight from city.

* Pig herd is present on a farm tile.

* Allow direct barn placement on a farm where another barn is already placed.

* Tunnelise other expansions.

(correct as of version 1.6.4, released 13/06/2010)
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This is completely awesome! AI is tough for me, but not unbeatable. I hadn't ever played more than vanilla Carc plus the River expansion in tabletop before, so it is cool to be able to play a game whenever I want and also to check out the expansions. The interface is simple, but it is definitely user friendly and having the computer keep score takes alot of the fiddlyness out of the game.

meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeeple effort!!! I can't wait to see if they add AI support for the rest of the expansions.
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chaz64 wrote:
I wanted to say thanks for a great program. However, it seems that when I play and have two farmers (in different fields) adjacent to a city, one of them does not score points. I thought that they both would, if I understood the rules correctly?

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The following rule variants are also configurable:

* Tiny city is scored only for 2 points.
* Each city is scored with one farm only.

Is the bottom option what you're seeing?
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Walt,

I'm embarrassed to say that I missed that blush. Just changed it, and farmers scored as I'm used to now.

Thanks for the quick reply!
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fishmountains wrote:

right, but you can't "right click" on a mac. The mac equivelant of a right click is pressing Control while you click, which didn't work.


Well, you can always plug a non-sucky pointing device of some kind into your Mac devil

Alternatively, I find sometime Java will take Cmd-click as a right-click, rather than Ctrl-click. I seem to remember doing this a fair bit with VASSAL.
 
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Stefano Crespi
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Jcloisterzone reached the 2.0b3 stadium.

Great project!
 
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53. Board Game: Carrom [Average Rating:7.03 Overall Rank:608]
Sebastian Sohn
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http://www.kongregate.com/games/games2rule/carrom-king
Kind of like pool/billiards with discs.

Author(s): Games 2 Rule
BGG ID:
Publisher: Kongregate

AI strength: meeplemeeple beginner

Interface: meeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Good

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based
Flash

Software Types:
client connects to a central sever

Licenses: Free
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54. Board Game: Catan Dice Game [Average Rating:5.77 Overall Rank:2973]
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Die Siedler von Catan – Das Würfelspiel
www.playcatan.com

Author(s): playcatan.com
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Publisher: playcatan.com

AI strength:
N/A--solo

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Professional

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based (Flash)

Software Types:
client connects to a central sever

Licenses:
Commercial Demo

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You can play once per day for free.
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Andreas Wesik
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This seems to be Java, not Flash. (Which makes it not work at my locked down wierdly configured computer at work )
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  It turned out the     game had already   been designed by
Sweden

Help, I'm being held prisoner in an overtext typing facility! I don't have much time, they could find out at any m
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Huh. When I try to run this, I get a series of Java prompts telling me the publisher's digital signature is invalid, that the program is potentially harmful, and that I'm advised against running it. Can this be safely disregarded?
 
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55. Board Game: Catan Dice Game [Average Rating:5.77 Overall Rank:2973]
Sebastian Sohn
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Die Siedler von Catan – Das Würfelspiel
bgg files > http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/30649

Author(s): Simon Hilsdorf
BGG ID:
Simon Hilsdorf
Germany
Mannheim
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Publisher: Simon Hilsdorf

AI strength:
N/A--solo

Interface: meeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Good

Operating Systems: Windows

Software Types: stand alone

Licenses: Freeware
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56. Board Game: Category 5 [Average Rating:6.88 Overall Rank:359]
Sebastian Sohn
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http://www.onlinebrettspiele.de/6nimmt/

AI strength: meeplemeeple beginner

Interface: meeplemeeplemeeple Average

Author(s): Thomas Rosanski
Publisher: onlinebrettspiele.de
bgg user id:
Thomas Rosanski
Germany
Duisburg
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Operating Systems: Web Browser based

Software Types: online browser based

Licenses: Free

Variants available.
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Like the tactical variant.
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Seems to be buggy. I played a card that then disappeared. And then after I had played all my cards I was asked to play another one.

Edit: I played on Chrome
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Jeremiah Lee
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Just played it about four times, and had no buggy-issues, so it looks like they've cleaned it up.

Great game, quick 1-round play.
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Mick Sullivan
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I tried this version with Chrome as my web browser and had all sorts of problems: not seeing the cards move into the stacks, cards being played with "undefined" values causing me to take rows when I shouldn't, etc. When I tried it again in Internet Explorer, I had no issues.

Great game, though would love if this version allowed for more than just the 1 round at a time.
 
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SupaGerm wrote:
I tried this version with Chrome as my web browser and had all sorts of problems: not seeing the cards move into the stacks, cards being played with "undefined" values causing me to take rows when I shouldn't, etc. When I tried it again in Internet Explorer, I had no issues.

Great game, though would love if this version allowed for more than just the 1 round at a time.
I play on Firefox, no issues.
And I'd like some multi-round play as well, but I'm content as is. If I -really- cared, I could just keep score on a notepad over rounds.
 
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57. Board Game: Category 5 [Average Rating:6.88 Overall Rank:359]
Sebastian Sohn
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Crawshay 6 Nimmt
http://www.george.crawshay.com/
direct link > http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=6Nimmt

Author(s): Crawshay
Publisher: crawshay.com

AI strength: meeplemeeple beginner

Interface: meeplemeeplemeeple Average

Operating Systems: Windows

Software Types: stand alone

Licenses: Free
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58. Board Game: Caylus [Average Rating:7.97 Overall Rank:11]
Stefano Crespi
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Bologna
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Caylus AI
http://jason.long.name/software/caylus/


by
Jason Long
United States
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania






AI strength:
meeplemeeplemeeple advance (better than average players)

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeple Average


Operating Systems:
Windows


Software Types:
stand alone

Licenses:
Free


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Game is in WIP, but playable.
My personal appreciation goes to the author: great job indeed, Jason.
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Awesome implementation!

The AI doesn't seem too strong though - I'm not a great player but crushed it in 2p by 40VP through careful use of the Gate and the Inn.

Edit: Beat it just using the Gate to overbuild.
 
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sthrjo wrote:
I have played around a little with the game. I see a lot of bugs in the rule-enforcing code: The Lawyer (Notaire) is missing when I want to build using the Carpenter, I can buy twice or more when on the Carpenter, the Build Favor track is broken, I don't get to buy what I should. There should be a forum where bugs can be reported. If a less buggy version is released, it should go straight to the header page under "More Information". It has the potential to become very good!


Does the latest version solves the favour track bug?
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2011-10-23 - Version 0.110, fixes a bug introduced in 0.109 that prevented being able to build from the favor track




Author has provided this contact info only:
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Questions and comments may be sent to jason at long dot name.
 
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I got in contact using the email address thumbsup. The author recognizes the trouble using the build track. I hope a bugfree release is coming. I'm willing to help if there is something I can do except reporting bugs.
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He says any help is welcome, and sure yours is.

good catches Henrik!
 
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2011-12-21 - Version 0.111, fixes a bug introduced in 0.109 that did not allow rebuilding of a building replaced by a residence
 
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59. Board Game: Chainsaw Warrior [Average Rating:5.64 Overall Rank:5432]
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Chainsaw Warrior
http://chainsawwarrior.net

Author(s): Online Games Company
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Publisher: Online Games Company

AI strength:
N/A--scripted

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Professional

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based (Flash)

Software Types:
client connects to a central sever

Licenses:
Free

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In May 2008, Games Workshop will close down this site and Chainsaw Warrior will no longer be playable online.

Erik Mogensen
Licensing and Acquired Rights Manager
Games Workshop
March 2008


Play now while it lasts...
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This game looked so cool so I traded to get a copy. Read the rules and realized that, everything is random: your abilities, how much equipment, how many equipment, where Darkness is and more. Not sure if there is any real choices that needs to be made.

However good theme and is tense--love the chainsaw sound from the online game.
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Link is dead now.
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Siegfried Steurer
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Liggur wrote:
Link is dead now.


which is a crying shame, would have loved to try this
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yann wenz
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does someone have this flash game ?
 
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60. Board Game: Checkers [Average Rating:4.83 Overall Rank:7701]
Jason Monroe
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Found free at http://www.gametableonline.com/
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Kevin Larsen
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Batavia
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CheckerBoard free checkers engine
http://www.fierz.ch/checkerboard.php
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There are almost fewer sites that you *can't* play checkers at. I would recommend Yahoo! Games, myself.
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61. Board Game: Checkers 2000 [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
John Tate
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Checkers 2000 at www.highergames.com. This is a fairly good game, give it a try. Type "guest" as your username and password to try it without signing up for an account.

AI strength:
meeplemeeplemeeple Advance

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Good

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based

Software Types:
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Licenses:
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box shot:
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62. Board Game: Chess [Average Rating:7.09 Overall Rank:245]
Sebastian Sohn
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Thinking Machine -- shows what moves it is weighing.
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/index.html

There are many free strong chess programs out there.

www.playwitharena.com -- feature rich and strong for windows

http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html -- linux frontend for various chess enginge plug in

also use your favorite search engine for Champion Chess, Chenard, Chess Genius, Chess It, KChess Elite, and Rival Chess.
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...and if you're bored of playing normal chess try ChessV at http://www.chessv.com/. With this free open-source program you can play traditional chess as well as the following variants:

Alapo
Almost Chess
Angels and Devils
Archchess
Berolina Chess
Bird's Chess
Cagliostro's Chess
Capablanca Chess
Capablanca Chess, Aberg variant
Capablanca Chess, Paulowich variant
Carrera's Chess
Chess 480
Chess with Augmented Knights
Chess with Different Armies
Chess with Ultima Pieces
Courier Chess
Cylindrical Chess
Diagonal Chess
Diamond Chess
Embassy Chess
Emperor's Game
Eurasian Chess
Exinction Chess
Fischer Random Chess
Great Chess
Great Shatranj
Grand Chess
Grotesque Chess
Janus Chess
Janus Kamil Chess
Kinglet
Ladorean Chess
Legan's Game
Lions and Unicorns Chess
Los Alamos Chess
Modern Kamil
Modern Shatranj
Odin's Rune Chess
Opti Chess (mirror I)
Opulent Chess
Orthodox Chess
Polymorph Chess
Roman Chess
Royal Court
Schoolbook Chess
Shatranj
Shatranj Kamil
Shatranj Kamil (64)
Sosarian Chess
Switching Chess
TenCubed Chess
Three Checks Chess
Ultima
Unicorn Chess
Unicorn Great Chess
Unicorn Grand Chess
Univers Chess

The AI seems good, or is it just that I'm bad at chess? The GUI is functional but nothing spectacular. The good thing is that you can customise the pre-loaded variants to try out your own unique take on chess.
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Tom Dickson
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Apple Mac OS X comes with a very pretty version of GNU Chess.
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Found free on http://www.gametableonline.com/
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63. Board Game: Chicago Express [Average Rating:7.34 Overall Rank:145]
Sebastian Sohn
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Wabash Cannonball
http://wabashapp.com

Developer(s): Moku Games
Board Game Geek ID: none
Publisher: web

AI strength: meeplebeginner
Interface: meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Professional

Operating System: iphone OS
Software Types: stand alone
Licenses: Commercial, $4.99 USD 12-25-2010

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The AI is real weak.

Auction Screen

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I suck at Bingo .... but I don't mind
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Ouch. I almost rushed out and got me an I-phone. Thanks for the picture of the auction. That's really weak
 
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This has had an update that claims to have improved the AI [but I've not yet tried it ]
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Kavu wrote:
This has had an update that claims to have improved the AI [but I've not yet tried it ]


A further update has since been released. On sale this week for $0.99
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Andrew P
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Is this still available in the appstore? Wasn't able to find it.
 
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I own the game, but when I tried to do a search for it, nothing. Using the above link to the website, when I click on the appstore link, it states it is not available in the U.S. Hope this helps.
 
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64. Board Game: Choice [Average Rating:6.47 Overall Rank:2425]
Sebastian Sohn
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Choice -- Sid Sackson game from Gamut of Games
English > http://summsumm.schiffner-tischer.de/old_choice/
German > http://summsumm.schiffner-tischer.de/


Author(s): Christian Schiffner
BGG ID:
Publisher: Christian Schiffner

AI strength: N/A--Puzzle

Interface: meeplemeeple Basic

Operating Systems:
Java

Software Types:
client connects to a central sever
online browser based
stand alone--downlaod and play

Licenses: Free
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Didn't know that this was a Sid Sackson game.

I've been playing it on my Palm under the name "Sigma"

http://www.freewarepalm.com/games/sigma.shtml


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Sam Miller
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Holy cats, I'd almost forgotten about this game; I played it back in high school. Sid described it in "A Gamut of Games"; he simply called it "Solitaire Dice."
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I just spent an hour playing Choice.
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SeƱor Vanilla
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Wow. What a list. I've always thought that playing all the Sid Jackson games would be a good learning experience.
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The requested URL /old_choice/choice.zip was not found on this server.


Too bad it's gone.
 
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65. Board Game: Chrononauts [Average Rating:6.27 Overall Rank:1215]
Sebastian Sohn
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Chrononauts PC -- Java Chrononauts
http://zenith.homelinux.net/chrononauts

Author(s): Michael Barbieri
BGG user ID: none
Publisher: Michael Barbieri

AI strength: meeplemeeple beginner

Interface: meeplemeeple Basic

Operating Systems: Java

Software Types: stand alone

Licenses: Free
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run the file /classes/classes.jar
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Mike S
Netherlands

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BGG ID:815

Designer(note from the website):
This Java version created by Michael Barbieri in compliance with Looney Labs policy and hosted here with his permission (note: based on 1st edition - 1962 is harder to paradox)

Operating Systems:
Java
Windows XP (is what I tested it on)

Variants:
The game contains -Chrononauts
-The early American Chrononauts

Some cards are not included. (e.g. Memo from my future self)
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Scott Woods
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Was able to download and open, no problem.
The game is faithful and very fast.
If you have a problem reading the cards just right-click on them to blow them up.

Perfectly fine translation, but you better know the rules first. This game is ABRUPT.
 
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Walter OHara
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Link appears to be dead today.
 
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Link appears to be dead today.


I just clicked it and it is working for me...
 
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Jeff Feuer
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Do not use the uninstall program to uninstall this game as it'll delete everything in the file where you extract it to. Or make sure that you put the contents in its own folder.
 
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66. Board Game: Cirondo [Average Rating:5.75 Overall Rank:5730]
Sebastian Sohn
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Cirondo

play online flash version:
http://www.cirondo.com

has anyone played this?
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I've played it once and it's pretty simple to learn but has a lot of options. Some moves are obvious but others you need to set up. I'm don't typically like abstracts but this is pretty good.
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Ken H.
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Unfortunately, the AI is amazingly bad. In fairness, I didn't check to see if there were any harder settings, but with the default AI, it's hardly even worth playing.

I hate to be so negative, but I didn't like the interface either. The 3-D diagonal view looks cool, but is too difficult to play -- top down view would have been better.

The game basically amounts to a chess variant on a circular board, where all of your pieces are either pawns or bishops (and pawns can promote to queens if they reach the center). Could be interesting with a more useable interface and AI.
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Roger Magnusson
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Link dosent seem to work.
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Michael Evans
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It looks like the game's publisher, Cirondo Games Company Limited, has gone out of business. The domain name of their website is currently up for sale again.
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67. Board Game: Citadels [Average Rating:7.28 Overall Rank:139]
Aaron Tubb
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Citadels -against other people or bots
3-7 players

AI strength:
meeplemeeple beginner

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeple average

OS: Java

Client connect to central server
Online browser based

Free
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Box shot + This computer game includes the Citadels: The Dark City Expansion


new link: www.citadelles.net
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This plays very fast and it's easy to jump right in. AI is very poor though, I'd say 1-2 stars per these ratings.
 
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Seems to be down right now - of course - the day after I checked it out and liked it.
 
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It seems to be back up and working again now!
 
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vincent neko


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Hi there,

Thanks for the link.

Would you please update the url : citadelles.net

I am also please to announce that I am adding new chars
(currently Abbot, Tax Collector, Alchemist and Navigator)

Cheers
Vince
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68. Board Game: Clans [Average Rating:6.57 Overall Rank:683]
Sebastian Sohn
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Clans

http://www.marquand.net/staticpages/index.php?page=clans

AI strength:
meeplemeeple beginner player

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeple Average

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based
Java


Software Types:
client connects to a central sever
online browser based

Licenses:
Free
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69. Board Game: Clippers [Average Rating:6.67 Overall Rank:976]
Steven De Toni
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Java based standalone game of Clippers by Alan R. Mon
download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/clippers/

Author: Steven De Toni
License: Free, open source
Operating System: Any that supports Java 1.5 or better
Game Type: Standalone A.I game

AI Strength:
2-4 players meeplemeeplemeeple
5 players meeplemeeplemeeplemeeple

Interface:meeplemeeplemeeplemeeple

It uses an advanced Interface to navigate the large game board. You can zoom in/out, drag, or scroll to your destination. Also has track highlighing to show and enforce valid moves.
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Very nice, just played a few games. Thanks for doing this Steven.

Jolly good job.
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Yes, very nicely done!
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This was a great surprise, & I warmly recommend it to all aficionados of computer board gaming. Clippers, the predecessor of Ticket to Ride (& in no way inferior), has been out of stock for several years, so it was doubly gratifying to come across such a simple, functional, & beautiful download version of Alan Moon's early work.

I found the AI excellent, even with 4 players.

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Excellent.
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  It turned out the     game had already   been designed by
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This is an amazingly fun game, but the current AI isn't better than two stars (unless I'm somehow a much better than average player). Once you have a feel for how the bots behave you can win pretty consistently at five players.
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70. Board Game: Clue [Average Rating:5.60 Overall Rank:5617]
Ilya Baranovsky
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Clue
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/338/Clue+-+Master+Detectiv...

Publisher:Mastertronic Group Ltd.

AI strength:

Interface:


Operating Systems:
DOS
Windows (use DosBOX programm)

Software Types:
stand alone
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71. Board Game: Coloretto [Average Rating:7.00 Overall Rank:264]
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http://www.marquand.net/games/coloretto

AI strength:
meeplemeeple beginner player

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeple Average

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based
Java


Software Types:
client connects to a central sever
online browser based

Licenses:
Free
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I know four people, including myself, who are ahooked on the game because of this site, and are buying the real version because of it.
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aquoiboniste wrote:

Are you and I playing the same game?


I'll admit, the UI is a little rough. If I were to reimplement it, it would have a drag and drop interface. At the time, I didn't know how to accomplish that with any success in Javascript. However, I conquered that gotcha with my Ingenious implementation.

aquoiboniste wrote:

There's no indication of which players are still in the round,


The players that have taken their row for the round have the row card placed in the upper left hand corner of their playing area.

aquoiboniste wrote:

the animated cards move along oddly angular paths,


Frankly, I was lazy in implementing the simple math to pull the card in a direct line towards the target location. Didn't figure it was worth the effort.


aquoiboniste wrote:

it's counterintuitive to have to click on the row card rather than in the space next to it where the card will go,


...a valid technical alternative. I thought it more intuitive to click on something you can see as opposed to clicking on 'thin air'. Your mileage may vary of course.

aquoiboniste wrote:

you're required to click several times even to acknowledge moves where you have no meaningful choice,

Agreed, it's lame but again, I was lazy. Nobody was paying me any money to make these aspects better so it just wasn't worth the effort.


aquoiboniste wrote:

the brightly-coloured background distracts from identifying the coloured cards,


A common complaint. I should mute that a bit.


aquoiboniste wrote:

the tower card moving around distracts from seeing what moves the AI opponents made,


I've had other compliments on the moving tower card so I'm caught in the middle.

aquoiboniste wrote:

and finally, the game hung halfway through with the tower card oscillating half-way between the first and second AI opponents, which is just weird.


A known bug if you're fast on the clicking trigger while cards are moving. Sorry about that. I just don't have the time to dig back into it.

aquoiboniste wrote:

I would like to thank Matthew, as all the authors of these games, for taking the trouble to make this applet and put it up on the Web for free. I for one got what I wanted from it, which was to get a feel for how the game plays without having to buy a set, and that's an extremely valuable service to those of us interested in discovering new games.


Excellent. That's why it's up there. My hope is to entice people to buy the physical game. Not to be pedantic but it's not an applet but all Javascript. No Java was used.
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This is SUCH a fantastic implementation

Are you and I playing the same game? There's no indication of which players are still in the round
As mentioned, the card is there....
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the animated cards move along oddly angular paths
I like the way the cards fly back to the player's stacks.
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it's counterintuitive to have to click on the row card rather than in the space next to it where the card will go
hmm.. in the real game, the first thing you do is take a card from the deck (online you click the deck), then you put the card on a row (online, you click on the row)
Seems pretty intuitive to me once you 'learn' it.
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you're required to click several times even to acknowledge moves where you have no meaningful choice
would you rather the AI play your move for you? Then people would complain it did that.
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the brightly-coloured background distracts from identifying the coloured cards
I like the high-resolution background, and have zero problems seeing the brightly-colored cards.
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the tower card moving around distracts from seeing what moves the AI opponents made
I like the tower card showing me who's turn it is. I dislike when AI's skip the computer's turns and make it hard for me to know what they did.
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and finally, the game hung halfway through with the tower card oscillating half-way between the first and second AI opponents, which is just weird.
That's never happened to me.
In fact, it has never crashed or glitched on me once, in probably 75 plays.

I still contend it is a FANTASTIC implementation, even if marquand is humble about your (IMO inapplicable) quiblles.
Multiple people I have shown it to have zero problems with it, either.
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My two cents worth. Love the graphics, never had a problem(s) described above. Lots of entertaining fun....

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This is a really good implementation of Coloretto.
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72. Board Game: Condottiere [Average Rating:6.73 Overall Rank:511]
Mark Crocker
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Westland
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You can play this one against 2 to 5 AI opponents. It's free for 2 weeks, along with another dozen or so games. After that, a fee is involved. I've been wanting to spring this one on my gaming group. Playing here, has imprinted the dynamics of the game in my mind, so I'll have no trouble at all teaching this to others. I don't have much trouble beating the AI opponents, but I don't know if it's my brilliance, or (more likely), the AI weakness. Still quite fun, though.
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Estelle NIZAM
France
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I agree: AI is not very challenging BUT you can play it in the multiplayer mode (for a total of 6 players) and then it's not the same thing...
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
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Condottiere
www.gametableonline.com

AI strength:
meeplemeeple beginner

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Professional

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based
Java

Software Types:
client connects to a central sever
online browser based

Licenses:
Free
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  • Posted Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:03 am
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Jay Adan
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This game (as well as all of the others on GameTable Online) is now free to play. Free registration is required.
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  • Posted Tue Jul 1, 2008 2:22 pm
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73. Board Game: Cosmic Encounter [Average Rating:6.99 Overall Rank:361]
Sebastian Sohn
United States
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Cosmic Encounter Online
www.cosmicencounter.com

AI strength:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeple tournament

Interface:
meeplemeeplemeeplemeeplemeeple Professional

Operating Systems:
Web Browser based
OSX
Windows

Software Types:
online browser based, Macromedia Flash

Licenses:
Commercial Demo

Variants available.

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Can play a full game for free but but have a lmited access different types of aliens.
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I used to be registered for this one and had a great time playing at lunch. The implementation is well done. I cancelled my registration as they seemed to be more interested in creating new aliens rather than implementing the aliens from the old version of the board game. Being a huge Fungus fan I just couldn't wait anymore...

Another bonus (at least when I was playing) was that Peter Olotka was online a lot and was quite fun to play with.
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Adam Osborn
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I've played this one quite a few times, and it is pretty good.
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74. Board Game: Cosmic Wimpout [Average Rating:5.93 Overall Rank:2664]
Jason Monroe
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Found free at http://www.gametableonline.com/
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75. Board Game: Creepy Freaks [Average Rating:5.01 Overall Rank:7225]
Jason Monroe
United States
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Free at http://www.gametableonline.com/
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Sebastian Sohn
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Games that are added to this list must have:

* AI (artificial intelligence)
* If no AI then be a solitaire puzzle
* Enforce the game rules

Why this list?

1) The primary reason I created this list is so people can learn how to play a board games the way the designer and the publisher intended.

When I was new to modern European board games, pre-boardgamegeek era, I played board games with wrong rules because I did know what I was doing--like I said I was new modern board games. Playing by the wrong rules really changed some games to the point they were not fun to play. When you play a SoftBoard game, all the correct rules are enforced so you can play right.

2) The secondary reason is that I want people to be able to try a game before they buy a copy.

Unlike video games, unless someone you know has a copy and wants to teach it, it is hard to try a game before you buy it.

3) The third reason is that one can practice new strategies for a face-to-face game.

Enjoy,

--Sebastian
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SeƱor Vanilla
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How are others avoiding possible problems with using this software?
I'd like to use Sandboxie to isolate programs for protection and complete uninstalling. But am looking for a cheaper alternative.
 
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Jacob Busby
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Excellent list! Thanks! (Now if only we could search on it like a database.)
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Try "Titles Only", one of the options on the bottom right of the GeekList header. Click on the number to get the GL item!
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Jeremy H
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Tall_Walt wrote:
Try "Titles Only", one of the options on the bottom right of the GeekList header. Click on the number to get the GL item!

I didn't even know that was there... thanks!
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