Travian

While Travian is a strategy game, with events occurring and resources accumulated in real time, it should not be confused with other types of real time strategy games where actions occur in a highly interactive and fast paced environment. The player starts with a village but seeks to amass an empire.



See a detailed description at Wikipedia.

Or play it online free here.

Scrabble

Scrabble is a popular word game and board game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles.


Read more about Scrabble at Wikipedia.

Play it online free at games.com or at scrabulous.com.

The Princes of Florence

The Princes of Florence is a board game playing in the medieval Florence city. The players should attract artisans, professions, which enriches the city culturally.




Source of the image is: http://blog.pixnet.net/haofeng/post/1177319

Read more about the game at boardgamegeek.com or at brettspielwelt.de.

Play it online free here.

Samurai

Samurai is a board game where the players fight on the four major Japanese islands to increase their influences.
The Samurai won the German Game Prize 4th place award in 1999.

Read more about the game at wikipedia.



Play it online free here. In order to play it you should create an account on the site.

Crokinole

Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to have their discs land in the higher-scoring regions of the board, while also attempting to knock away opposing discs.

More about the rules here.


The soure of picture: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca

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Puerto Rico

Players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean ascendancy. The aim of the game is to amass victory points, mainly by shipping goods to the Old World or by constructing buildings.

Puerto Rico can be played by three to five players, although an official two player variant also exists. There is an official expansion which adds new buildings which can be swapped in for those in the original game. In February, 2004, Andreas Seyfarth released a separate card-game named San Juan based on Puerto Rico and published by the same companies.


The source of image is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Puerto_Rico_setup.jpg.

More about the game read at wikipedia.

Play it online here.
In order to play, you will first need to install the Curl © RTE (Runtime Environment), version 5.0 (or 4.0 or 3.0), available (free) via the Curl RTE download page at www.curl.com for Windows (an 8 meg installer) and Linux (a 16 meg rpm).

Rails-Across-America

Another popular railroad board game available playing online. Your attempt to railroad the United States into falling under your monopolistic thumb, you'll need to build tracks connecting to the many cities present on the map of the US and some in Canada and Mexico. But the goal here isn't really the money you make, but the prestige you gain from building the most and longest lines.



Unfortunatelly I haven't found free version but you could buy it here.
Some cheat codes here.

Ticket to Ride

Easy to play railway building games but with lots of strategies. Connect cities across the USA for high scoring routes. Colorful board and great little trains.

Read more about the game at wikipedia.

And of course play it online.



Source of picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride_(board_game)

Abalone

Abalone is a two-player strategy board game which can be quaintly summarized as "sumo wrestling with marbles", as the objective is to push opposing marbles off the edge of the board. The rules can be mastered in a minute or two, and the flow of the game is fast-paced.





If you would like to know more about the game visit Wikipedia.

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Monopoly

Monopoly is one of favorite games of our childhood. You should collect real estates and establish monopolies or will loose the game. It is really exciting and reach in surprising turns.

Play online free on jgames.com, but it just looks like.



More about the rules here.

It looks more as used to at galagticmag.com.

Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spinoffs, inspired several PC and console versions, and the wooden follower pieces from the basic game (colloquially called meeples, a portmanteau of my people) have become a symbol of European board gaming.


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More about the game and the rules.

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Cartagena

This game tries to reproduce a famous 1672 jailbreak of about 30 pirates from the supposedly impregnable fortress of Cartagena. Each player controls a group of pirates and tries to have all of them escape through the tortuous underground passage that connects the fortress to the port, where a sloop is waiting. As soon as a player has brought his pirates aboard, the sloop sails away and the game is over. In the original game the number of pirates for each player is 6, in the online version you can choose the number of pirates each player will use during the game in a range from 4 to 8.



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Settlers of Catan

The players in the game represent the eponymous settlers, establishing a colony on the previously uninhabited island of Catan. The island itself is laid out randomly at the beginning of each game from hexagonal tiles ("hexes") of different land types each producing one type of resource: ore, grain, wool, lumber, or clay (brick). One hex is desert which does not produce anything.



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Monkey-tetris

Play with the monkeys. Group at least monkeys from the same colour.