Paper and pencil game
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Paper and pencil games are games that can be played solely with pencil and paper. Some paper and penil games (e.g. Gomoku) are abstract strategy games, which are equally well suited to playing as a board game - in this case the defining characteristic will be that once played a piece will not be moved on the board or removed from the board. Others are uniquely suitable for paper and pencil play (e.g. Eat Poop You Cat).
List of Paper and Pencil games
- Consequences
- Dots and Boxes
- Eat Poop You Cat
- Exquisite corpse (surrealist game)
- Hangman
- Paper Soccer
- Race Game Use one or more pens to race
- Racetrack or Vector rally
- The Shannon switching game
- Sprouts
- Tic-tac-toe also known as noughts and crosses
List of Paper & Pencil games usually played with a board
The following games are usually played with a board, but may be played with only a paper and pencil:
- Battleship was played as a pencil and paper game, long before Hasbro came out with a board game version.
- Connect Four
- Gomoku
- Hex
- Mastermind
Other uses
Tabletop role-playing games are sometimes called pencil and paper role-playing games. This qualifier is used to distinguish them from live-action role-playing games and computer role-playing games.