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Traditional games from cultures around the world - playable in your browser, free, no account required.

Vietnam

Bầu Cua Tôm Cá

Bet on six symbols as three dice determine your fate in this Tết classic.

Vietnam

Ô Ăn Quan

Sow seeds across the board and capture your opponent's pits in this Vietnamese mancala.

Vietnam

Tiến Lên

Race to empty your hand before your opponents in Vietnam's most beloved card game.

West Africa

Oware

The ancient Akan strategy game of sowing, capturing, and counting - played for 7,000 years.

Aztec Mesoamerica

Patolli

Race your pieces around a sacred cross-shaped board using bean dice in this ancient Aztec game.

Maya Mesoamerica

Puluc

Race 5 pieces across 11 spaces, capturing enemies as prisoners, in this ancient Maya stick-dice game.

South India

Pallanguzhi

Sow shells counter-clockwise and capture on 4 in this ancient Tamil mancala.

Madagascar

Fanorona

Capture all enemy pieces using unique approach and withdrawal moves in this ancient Madagascan strategy game.

Norse / Viking Age

Hnefatafl

Escort the King to a corner or capture him - an asymmetric Viking war game played across Scandinavia from 400–1000 AD.

China

Hong Kong Mahjong

Build 4 sets and a pair from 136 tiles in the classic Cantonese tile game. Pung, Chow, Kong, and win with fan scoring.

Mughal India

Ganjifa

Play all 96 hand-painted circular cards in this ancient Mughal trick-taking game - trump, follow suit, and claim 24 tricks.

Ancient Rome

Ludus Latrunculorum

The Roman "Game of Mercenaries" - capture enemy pieces by sandwiching them on a grid, with a powerful Dux leading each side.

Indian Subcontinent

Pachisi

Race four pieces around a Mughal cross-board using cowrie-shell dice - the ancestor of Ludo and Parcheesi.

Xinjiang, China

Xinjiang Fangqi

Form 2x2 squares of stones to capture enemy pieces in this ancient Silk Road strategy game from Xinjiang.

Latin America

Cachos

Shake the cup, make your bid, call the bluff - a classic Latin American Dudo-style dice game.

Philippines

Filipino Dama

Capture forward and backward, crown your Dama to slide the full diagonal - Philippine draughts with a tactical twist.

Korea

Yut Nori

Korea's beloved Lunar New Year race game — throw four wooden sticks and race your horses around the board.

Ecuador

Cuarenta

Capture pairs and sequences with a 40-card Spanish deck in Ecuador's beloved national card game.