Pencil and Paper Games  This site provides rules and variations for Tic-Tac-Toe, Squares, Sprouts and Othello. Pencil and Paper games are a great way to pass the time when you are in a boring situation and all you have access to is a piece...

Pencil and Paper Games  Sprouts starts with three (or more) dots on a piece of paper. The animation over to the right is playing a game a sprouts. The rules are as follows: The players take turns moving. A move has two parts: drawing...

Dots and Boxes Dots and Hexagons  The winner is the one with the most boxes when all the boxes have been claimed. Usually you'll put your initials in each box you complete as you play the game. You can choose to play on any size grid;...

Sprouts  The day after sprouts sprouted, it seemed that everyone was playing it, at coffee or tea times, there were little groups of people peering over ridiculous to fantastic sprout positions Equipment: Paper and pencil Number of players: 2 The Set-up:...

Noughts and Crosses Tic Tac Toe  The rules are extremely simple. It's so simple it can even be played without pencil paper, I remember playing it as a child drawing it with a twig in the sand. Surprisingly, some game manufacturers succeed in selling this as...