There are many boards for board games. These games do not go out of style, and they are quite entertaining to share with your friends or with your family on those rainy days when you can't do too much outside. Well, if you like them, you can hang out with some titles for your GNU / Linux distro.
So you will not have to buy any board or look for the pieces that you have lost ... simply you install it and start with the fun wherever you are.
Some of the best board games that you can find for Linux for free are:
- GNU Backgammon- This title is a game with simple rules, and one of the oldest games out there, but with deep elements of strategy. You will not need too much time to learn to play, but you will have to make an effort to improve, since sometimes there are complicated situations. It is played in rounds, and the first player to get 5 points wins. The objective is to free your pieces before your opponent, and for that, in the case of the black pieces, you must advance towards the lower right quadrant (the pieces move to the left in the upper part and continue from left to right on the bottom).
- kajongg: is a version of KDE for the ancient Chinese game Mahjong, dating back to the Qing Dynasty. It is a game with tiles similar to those of dominoes, but with very different pictures. Its rules are difficult to learn, but it is quite fun.
- PyChess: chess needs few introductions, everyone knows how it works. This strategy game in terms of movements is also in its digital version with this implementation made with Python.
- scrabble3d- This other game is also a digital version of the famous classic Scrabble and Superscrabble board game. As you know, you can play by placing letters to form crosswords. Up to 4 players can participate and obtain words of up to 7 or 8 letters.
- Triple A: This board game is very popular. It's about building empires in the Risk style. A strategy game in which you start with a small territory and you will gradually take over more lands and countries through your tactics. As for the map, it is based on World War II, Middle Earth, fantasy maps, science fiction, etc.
- Others: There are many other entertaining GNOME and KDE games, such as the Solitaire, KReversi, ... versions, as well as others such as Pentobi, etc.