Print n Play Games That People Actually Play
Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Okay a bit more of a simple list than my usual ones, but I thought it might be useful.
Its simply a list of print n play games sorted by the number of people who have logged a play of it, ever. Total plays is used to break ties. And rating is used to break more ties.
Obviously this isn't the full story, but there are so many out there that its hard to get a grip on which are actually worth going for and ratings are usually unreliable with so few raters. Newer games will suffer and so will those played a lot by people that don't log their plays.
Some are free, some are not.
Feel free to add to the list with the #plays and #players (click on #plays and it will give you the numbered list) and I'll resort periodically. More info like whether it is free or not would be great.
Updates: If a game's stats (plays/players) has changed significantly then feel free to post an update as a comment. I'll then re-sort it in the list.
Update: I updated the stats on the Top 10 or so. Some of them have significantly different (lower!) numbers. Maybe something has changed in the Games Played data?
Update: Next time I update this list I will delete everything with less than 5 players. This is to clean up the list (so it matches its name) and make it easier for me to update when new games come in and I have to edit the list to move them past all the dead wood.
Please don't add any new games with less than 5 players having logged plays.
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays 125
Players 21
FREE
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays: 70
Players: 21
FREE
Not so much a game as a way of choosing a game and an excellent way to catalogue your game collection!
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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A self-published PnP set in the Aliens universe.
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♫ Eric Herman ♫
United States
West Richland
Washington
I like elephants. I like how they swing through trees.
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PLAYERS: 20
PLAYS: 76 (22 are mine)
FREE
SOLITAIRE
A solo Old West themed print-and-play dice game.
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays 71
Players 20
FREE
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Free boardgame. And soon, very soon, FREE iPad game!
Players: 19
Plays: 109
FREE
2-4P
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Another new one
Players: 19
Plays: 30
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Emmanuel Aquin
Canada
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Quebec
And D-Day Dice, too!
I'm an "A"vatar.
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Players: 18
Plays: 124
Free
Solitaire (some scenarios allow 2 players)
This rather new game (inspired by Zombie in my Pocket) takes place during the Normandy landings of D-Day.
It's been nominated for best Print-n-Play of 2009.
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays: 44
Players: 18
FREE
Solitaire Variant (1-4 Players)
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Red Rook
United States
Tucson
Arizona
Something clever...
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Added to BGG in December of 2008
Plays: 73
Players: 17
Solitaire (hence the name... however, jeRm! came up with a 2-player variant: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/366119)
FREE
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Slawomir Krupa
Poland
Bialystok
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Players 16
Total plays 56
Free PnP. Standard deck. Abstract strategy game.
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Players: 15
Plays: 57
FREE
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Players: 1
Plays: 1
FREE
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Emmanuel Aquin
Canada
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Quebec
And D-Day Dice, too!
I'm an "A"vatar.
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This free print-and-play game of mine just came out (4 days ago), but I'm quite proud of its stats:
Plays 44
Players 14
Plays solitaire or multiplayer.
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Gilad Yarnitzky
Israel
Reut
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Plays: 43
Players: 14
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Nber players: 14
Nber plays: 42
SOLO and FREE
You build a space infantry squad and try to survive through 6 missions. It is very replayable and provides 6 different ennemy families. Very nice system full of atmosphere.
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays 19
Players 13
FREE
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Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim..
United States
Cleveland Heights
Ohio
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PLAYS: 16
PLAYERS: 13
FREE (to build yourself, or you can buy pre-built)
Freely down-loadable from creators website. Looks like a lot of initial cutting out, but I have played other games in the mechanic "family" and they are generally fun.
Also, has a free expansion that many players say is essential: Starship Command II
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays 24
Players 12
FREE
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Players:13
Plays:24
FREE
Each player is running their own lemonade stall. Your goal is to try and run the stall as profitably as possible. The game involves buying supplies to make the lemonade (cups, sugar, lemons and ice) and then selling the lemonade (hopefully for a profit). The amount of lemonade that can be sold and the amount of profit is dependent on the weather and also on the prices charged by your competitors (the other players). While you might sell lots of lemonade by setting a low price you won’t be making much profit! The game takes place over a week (from Monday to Sunday). The person who is able to run their stall the most efficiently is likely to end the game with the most money and win the game!
Not everything will always go to plan though as the weather can change, events (both good and bad) occur and special benefits can be chosen which will influence what you might do each day.
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Andreas Propst
Austria
enzenkirchen
upper austria
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Players: 6 (including myself)
Plays: 41 (including my plays)
In ancient times long gone by, when the veil between the world of the humans and the realm of magic was thinner, allmighty wizards battled each other in epic duels to determine who was the master of sorcery and arcane wisdom. Armed with a Spellbook and with the aid of the enchanted Element-Stones, the sorcerers summoned fantastic Creatures and magical Spells. A wizard who had no more pages left in his Spellbook would eventually have lost the magical battle of wits.
The goal of this free print and play game for two intrepid spellcasters is to reduce the cards in your opponent’s card-deck (or Spellbook) to zero by using the Spells and Creatures in your Spellbook. For each point of damage a Player receives through Creatures or Spells, he or she puts the top card of his or her deck on his or her Discard Pile. Is a player unable to draw a card, he or she loses immediately.
There are currently 4 sets of cards available (the basic-set as well as three different expansion-sets containing 60 cards each). Each month, an all new 60-card expansion-set will be released!
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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Plays: 37
Players: 11
FREE
SOLITAIRE
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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New game
Players: 11
Plays: 34
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Noah Sager
United States
Sebastopol
California
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Great artwork and theme. Think Battle Line with dice.
23 plays
11 players
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I'm surprised this little game isn't already here.
It's a short, light, 1-3 players game, that was designed for Reprint's 4-tile contest in DIY section of the forum. Some say it's luck driven, some try to look for it's strategy aspects. Basically - the more groups you split your team into, the bigger chances of surviving you have, but you never know where Sandworm will head to. It's fun for children too. Worth checking out. I head some fun with it.
Plays 42
Players 10
FREE
SOLITAIRE OPTION
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Posted Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:48 am
Hachiouji
Tokyo
Niedersachsen
i know it would be a lot more Work, but could you instead move them to a list of "Print and Play Games that need Players" or such?
K.
Brighton
E Sussex
i know it would be a lot more Work, but could you instead move them to a list of "Print and Play Games that need Players" or such?
K.
I had a good think about this, but there is probably a good reason they have no plays, especially when some of them have been on this list (and others) for ages.
I've begun the purge.
Edit: Purge completed. I've updated all the scores of all games that previously had less than 5 players, but now had 5 or more. I've deleted any game that had less than 5 logged players.
I've also added the PnP Golden Geek winner and nominees.
I'll get around to re-sorting the list sometime soon.
Fort Myers
Florida
i know it would be a lot more Work, but could you instead move them to a list of "Print and Play Games that need Players" or such?
K.
I had a good think about this, but there is probably a good reason they have no plays, especially when some of them have been on this list (and others) for ages.
I've begun the purge.
BTW, I'm not sure if anyone has told you recently, but thank you for maintaining this list for us.