Dots and Boxes Analysis Basic analysis of extremely simple games. Work up from these games to master strategies for larger arrays of dots.

Dots and Boxes Online Play Dots and Boxes Online.

Dots and Boxes Tutorial A structured set of tutorials that lead you through the tactics of Dots and Boxes.

Dots and Boxes Freeware Download a Dots and Boxes program. This is very hard to beat on its higher levels.

Dots and Boxes This is a review of a book devoted to the finer points of dots and boxes. Those in the know have described dots and boxes as "the richest childhood game" in terms of the complexity of its analysis in combinatorial game theory. The article contains a summary of the basic tactics.

Amazons Homepage Amazons is a chess variant which is extremely easy to learn but very difficult to master. It is a very simple yet very satifying game.

Amazons Program The easiest way to learn how to play Amazons is probably to download the program from this site and have a go.

Play against your computer.

British Chess Federation

Tim Mann's Chess Pages. These feature a large amount of material about how to play chess over the internet and how to obtain free chess playing software.

Arasan Chess. Freeware chess program. There are loads of links to chess programs on the web. Some are better than others!

Demonstration Board Chess board for use with interactive whiteboards.

Sudoku page on the Mathematical Association of America's website.

British Go Association. Go is the oldest hardest and best board game in the world, ever, honest.

Introduction to Go These pages provide a tutorial in the basics of the game.

Kiseido Go Server Play Go online. All you need to play Go against players from all over the world. (This won't come through the school's firewall but should work on a home PC. Talk to your parents.)

Jellyfish AI Go playing freeware to download and play against.

Demonstration Board Go board for use with interactive whiteboards.

Caravel Games DROD is the acronymn for Deadly Rooms of Death. The Rooms of Death are a 30 level dungeon full of cockroaches which you must annihilate. This requires some serious thinking even on the easiest levels. You can design your own levels using the game editor which comes with the download.

Winadv21 This is the archetypal computer game. This is where it all began. You have to explore a huge cave system whilst fighting monsters and stealing treasure. There are lots of versions of this game available. Just type colossal cave adventure into google. Try drawing a map as you go!
This is a huge archive of ancient games. You want the winadv21.zip file near the bottom of the page.

Dungeon Index How to construct a simple single player dungeon adventure using HTML and graphics. This is much easier than you might think.

In the Logo programming section you will find notes on how to write multiplayer games. There is help with using Logo to write HTML on the fly and communicate with other players.
If there is enough interest next year then we will construct a MUD.

Rush Hour Sliding piece game played with tankers and cars. Will the red VW Beetle ever escape!!!

Box World Totally addictive box moving game. This isn't the version in the picture as the link has died this one works at present.

There are a huge number of games that can be played on boards made from rows of squares. Pieces are allowed to slide and some times hop over other stones.
Several sets of rules are possible.

Slider Game Analysis Analysis of sliding piece games.

Slider Game 1 Sliding piece game played with one row of 8 squares and two pieces per side.

Slider Game 2 Sliding piece game played with two rows of 8 squares and two pieces per side.

If you are in school then the firewall might not let you get at these games as they are written in Java. You will also need to have an up to date version of the JavaVM running on your system.

An excellent version of the ancient arcade classic 'Pong' written by Luke in year 9.
The program even allows you to use chop and spin on the puck.

You need to have Flash installed to be able to play this file.