Open Source Python Board Games for Linux

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.

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 !

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/

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.

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.

PyScrabble is an online, multiplayer scrabble program written in Python.

Players and solvers for the game of Hex.

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.

This is an auxilary tool for the naval tabletop wargame 'Flying Colors: Fleet Actions in The Age of Sail', by Mike Nagel. With 'Flying Colors Assistant', players can easily keep track of the status of their ships (condition, damage, etc.) and automatically perform them most frequent complex game calculations, such as firing cannons or applying damage. The program checks the game tables, computes dire roll modifiers, etc., helping the player to focus less on game rules and more on game tactics. The Flying Colors Assistant it is not a replacement to the board game. It is just an auxiliary tool to help players run their games faster. Check out the project wiki for more information, a complete list of features, installation instructions, and so on: http://sourceforge.net/p/fcassistant/wiki/

Horizon is a 10x10 draughts program created by Feike Boomstra.

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.

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)

Go Siege is a transformation of the ancient Chinese game of Go into a massively multiplayer online game in which hundreds of players can compete simultaneously.

MKGI Chess Club is a chess playing server with a pure Web interface. It features complete player profile management, full html email notification with embedded board display. It also includes an interface to match against chess engines such as gnuchess.

Parchis Game in OpenGL. It has GPL license. There are Linux and Windows versions.

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

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

Fruit machine game written in python.

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.

The exciting and complex text-based online Battletech game as developed and actively used by Battletech 3030MUX and others.

The Felo rating system provides an objective fencing strength estimate for each individual fencer in a group, just like the Elo rating in chess. This program calculates the Felo numbers by analysing a bout result list created by the user.

Py Connect Four is the Connect Four game you've always wanted! (some exceptions apply :-p). This is the classic 2 player game, where each player puts his/her piece in, and the first to get four in a row wins the round. This game keeps track of the s

Volity is a platform for Internet-based multiplayer games. ****MIGRATED TO GITHUB**** Please see: https://github.com/jmacdotorg/Volity

Library for manipulating hexagonal grids. Supports arbitrary areas and paths. Routing algorithms: find best path, find movement horizon. Output as SVG - which you can easily convert to PNG or JPG. Interface from C++, Python and JavaScript.

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