Card, Puzzle and Board Games

Card and puzzle games are very popular, and Xubuntu has a large collection of such games for you to choose from. A list of some of the more popular games available is given below.

Card Games

  • AisleRiot Solitaire, also known as Solitaire or Patience, is a collection of single-player card games which are easy to learn and fun to play.

  • KPatience is a collection of various patience games known worldwide. Games include Klondike, Freecell, Yukon, forty and Eight and many more.

  • PokerTH is a free variant of the increasingly popular Texas hold'em style of poker. The game offers various card decks and table designs via the PokerTH website.

  • Lieutnant Skat is a two player card game which follows the rules of the German game, (Offiziers)-Skat. The game includes various card decks and a computer opponent can play for any of the players.

Board Games

  • GtkAtlantic is an open-source game client for the Monopoly™-like board games played on the monopd network.

  • Chess is a chess game where you can play against the computer or against other players. Chess detects and uses known third-party chess engines for computer players, and can show the chess board in 2D or 3D. There are several variants of chess available in Ubuntu Software Center.

  • GNU Backgammon follows the rules of the popular boardgame, and supports multiplayer games and games against computer engines as well as other online games.

  • KBlackBox is a logical game of hide-and-seek, inspired by emacs blackbox and played on a grid of boxes.

  • Iagno is a two player game in which players gain the majority of pieces on the board by tactically placing their pieces in order to turn over their opponent's pieces.

  • KFourInLine, or is a two player game which follows the rules of the famous Connect Four™ game. Align four pieces of the same color to win!

  • Mahjongg is a single-player version of the classic tile game. The objective is to select pairs of similar tiles.

Puzzle Games

  • Anagramarama is a fast-paced word game in which you must make as many words as possible from a series of jumbled letters. If you find the longest word possible, you can move on to the next level.

  • Atomix is a puzzle game where you must join up a series of atoms to make certain molecules. However, the atoms can only be moved in certain ways, making complex molecules a challenge to construct. No knowledge of chemistry is required.

  • Sudoku is a popular number puzzle game. Use logic to complete a grid of numbers so that each row, column and large square contains the numbers one to nine.