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.

A prototype for a 3D Goban display, full featured SGF editor, client for IGS-PandaNet and interface for GNU Go. glGo is written in C++ and based on wxWindows, OpenGL and SDL. glGo is available for Linux and Windows.

Players and solvers for the game of Hex.

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!

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.

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.

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/

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 !

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.

Rebus is a captivating portable Windows game where you solve clever visual puzzles. Test your creative thinking and decipher words or phrases from images and symbols.

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

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.

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.

GnomeGo is a gnome HIG compatbile frontend for gnugo. It also features human vs. human play, adds a nautilus sgf file preview and a gnome screensaver playing bundled professional games.

Written in Python 2.7.x and pygame1.9.1~2 compliant (at least) Python 3.4 HOW TO PLAY: keyboard UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, escape to quit increase your score shifting tiles with same number. the value of resulting tile is multiplied *2. CUSTOMISE YOUR GAME: edit py2048.cfg configuration file. you can: -Change Raws and Columns amount. -Change Random range value of new tile. -Limit the maximum tile value. -Limit time allowed for movement. -Enable no movement (a new tile appear even if your movement doesn't shift anything). -Set shift to one step only. -Save the game state when exit (for autoload at start game) -Key config player 2 ect... V0.1.0: -add Small, Medium and Large preconfig Panel Game. -add HiScore for Small, Medium And Large Panel Game -check for close windows as QUIT event. -add Change theme screen BckGnd on score tile. -add counter move V0.1.2: -compliant Pyhton34 -add AI Auto Boot -add 2 players Human/AI (keys A,Q,W,X)

Othello is a classic strategy game, also known as Reversi. Its objective is to finish the game with the greater amount of pieces (circles) of the same color.

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

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

Mahjong (麻將) is a classic game in china. This game is Taiwanese Mahjong.

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.

Play Dominoes against the computer! Play a tile so that the ends add up to a multiple of 5 to get points! Watch out though-- the computer makes the best moves available to it! Operates in command line at present.

Two programs for playing board games over the internet. A board viewer, where all clients see the same image with moveable tokens. And a chat client with calculator and dice roller.

Go-Mo-Cult is an implementation of the board game Gomoku (also known as "five in a row").

PyGo is a Python/Tk application for studying and playing the ancient game of Go.