Brain Teasers and Board Games
Check out the brain teasers and board games below! They are in alphabetical order. Just click on the underlined word to go to the site and play the game. If you find one you really like, you may want to consider buying the game itself.
Agricola - a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers that sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families.
Azul - players need to plan many steps ahead to out-think the opponents. Players need to smartly fill up their game boards to maximize their scores, however at the same time, be cautious on opponents' threat.
Backgammon - involves a combination of strategy and luck (from rolling dice).
Blokus - an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, where players try to score points by occupying most of the board with pieces of their color.
Catan - The Settlers of Catan is a strategy game where players collect resources and use them to build roads, settlements, and cities on their way to victory. The board itself is variable, making each game a little different from the next.
Chess - play online against a leveled computer, or play multiplayer with another student.
Codenames - a card game for 4–8 players. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team.
Flow Free - Try to connect the dots leaving no open spaces!
Go - a 2 players strategic board game. It's one of the most challenging traditional chess where players compete against each other in conquering territories.
Launchball - Slide, bounce, and spring your way through 30 obstacle-filled courses.
Logic puzzles - choose your grid size and difficulty level, and solve these logic puzzles online! Click to create an X, click again to create an O, click a third time to erase.
Mancala - move stones around the board. If you end with your stone in your scoring area, get an extra turn. Try to get the most stones in your scoring area to win the game!
Mastermind - Try to break the code in 10 tries or less. Put your logic and reasoning skills to the test!
Numbrix - Deductive number puzzle - fill in the numbers (1-81). Each number has to touch the next number. So 1 has to touch 2, 2 has to touch 3, all the way until 81.
Othello - Strategy board game for two players. Each round, a player gets to place one of their colored disks on the board. The goal is to have more of your color than the other player's color at the end of the game. You get to flip over colors that are in between your chips!
Peg-jumping game (similar to Hoppers) - Jump over pegs to remove them. Try to have only one peg left to win the game!
Pic-a-Pix: Create a picture by filling in or placing spaces in the boxes. Each row or column tells you how many boxes need to be filled before there is at least one space. For example, if a row says 9, 2 that means there will be 9 filled in squares in a row, followed by at least one space, followed by 2 filled in squares.
Rush Hour - spatial puzzle where you move cars in order to get the red car out of the lot.
Scrabble - scrabble game you can play online and test your grammatical boundaries of the created words. Can you beat computer intelligence in this online scrabble game? Find out just what you're up to doing with these magic letters and form words that will bring you the most points.
Set - Find sets that are all alike or all different (color, shape, number, fill)
Spice Road - a 2-5 players abstract strategic game. Players compete in harvesting and trading spices efficiently to claim victory.
Splendor - a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most points.
Stratego - a game in which you need to capture the flag of your opponent while defending your own flag. To capture the flag you use your army of 40 pieces. Pieces have a rank and represent individual officers and soldiers in an army. In addition to those ranked pieces you can use bombs to protect your flag.
Sudoku - Number puzzle where you have to have 1 through 9 in every row, column, and box. Choose your difficulty on the left-hand side of the screen (easy, medium, hard, or EVIL!)
7 Wonders Duel - each player leads a civilization and over the course of 3 Ages, constructs buildings and wonders. Each Age card represents a Building which will help the player to strengthen their army, make scientific discoveries, and develop their city.