CZ:Core Articles/Games

Play (activity): Add brief definition or description Educational game: Add brief definition or description Guessing game: Add brief definition or description Party game: Add brief definition or description Playground game: Add brief definition or description Puzzle: Add brief definition or description Maze: Add brief definition or description Strategy game: Add brief definition or description Game studies: Add brief definition or description  Recreation: Activities intended to take place during leisure time, for pleasure or amusement, including sports, hobbies or games, especially when not done as part of serious competition or for exercise. [e] Alternate reality game: Add brief definition or description Browser game: Add brief definition or description Collectible card game: A card game which requires each player to collect and customise their own deck of cards from a large quantity of game specific cards. [e] Jigsaw: Add brief definition or description Lawn game: Add brief definition or description Riddle: A puzzling statement or question or story which beguiles the mind and causes people to try to solve it by proposing an explanation that makes sense. There is usually a hidden meaning or twist or play upon word meanings which allows a person to decipher the puzzle. The best riddles are simple and when the answer is given, it produces an aha experience described in psychology. [e] Simulation game: Add brief definition or description Wargame: Add brief definition or description Computer and video game genres: Add brief definition or description Playing card: Add brief definition or description Endgame: Add brief definition or description Board games Backgammon: Add brief definition or description Carcassonne (board game): Add brief definition or description Draughts: Add brief definition or description (a.k.a. checkers) Gomoku: Add brief definition or description Mancala: Add brief definition or description Nine Men's Morris: Add brief definition or description Pacheesi: Add brief definition or description Risk (board game): Add brief definition or description Scrabble: Add brief definition or description Senet: Add brief definition or description Shogi: Add brief definition or description Sorry!: Add brief definition or description Stratego: Add brief definition or description Trivial Pursuit: Add brief definition or description Card games Canasta: Add brief definition or description Hearts: Add brief definition or description Pinochle: Add brief definition or description Rummy: Add brief definition or description Solitaire: Add brief definition or description Spades: Add brief definition or description Uno: Add brief definition or description Whist: Add brief definition or description Chess Chess variants: Add brief definition or description Computer and video games Asheron's Call: Add brief definition or description City of Heroes: Add brief definition or description Civilization (computer game): Add brief definition or description Colossal Cave: Add brief definition or description Dance Dance Revolution: Add brief definition or description Elite (computer game): Add brief definition or description Everquest: Add brief definition or description Grand Theft Auto (series): Add brief definition or description Half-Life: Add brief definition or description Myst: Add brief definition or description Pong: Add brief definition or description Pokémon video game series: Add brief definition or description Populous: Add brief definition or description Quake: Add brief definition or description Super Mario Bros.: Add brief definition or description Spacewar!: Add brief definition or description StarCraft: Add brief definition or description The Sims: Add brief definition or description Tomb Raider: Add brief definition or description Ultima Online: Add brief definition or description

Lawn games  Bowls: Add brief definition or description  Croquet: Add brief definition or description Horseshoes: Add brief definition or description Pétanque: Add brief definition or description Skittles: Add brief definition or description Party games Blind man's bluff (game): Add brief definition or description Charades: Add brief definition or description Musical chairs: Add brief definition or description Pass the parcel: Add brief definition or description Puzzles Cryptic crossword: Add brief definition or description Logic puzzle: Add brief definition or description Rubik's Cube: Add brief definition or description Soma cube: Add brief definition or description Tangram: Add brief definition or description Playground games Hopscotch: Add brief definition or description Jacks: Add brief definition or description Jump rope: Add brief definition or description Tag (game): Add brief definition or description Role-playing games Assassin (game): Add brief definition or description Hero System: Add brief definition or description Traveller (role-playing game): Add brief definition or description Vampire: the Masquerade: Add brief definition or description Toys Action figure: Add brief definition or description Doll: Add brief definition or description Educational toy: Add brief definition or description Flying disc: Add brief definition or description a.k.a. Frisbee Lego: Add brief definition or description Meccano: Add brief definition or description Mechanical toy: Add brief definition or description Spinning top: Add brief definition or description Stuffed animal: Add brief definition or description Teddy bear: Add brief definition or description Yo-yo: Add brief definition or description Wargames Warhammer 40,000: Add brief definition or description Other games Acquire: Add brief definition or description Air hockey: Add brief definition or description Bingo: Add brief definition or description Hangman (game): Add brief definition or description I Spy: Add brief definition or description Kakuro: Add brief definition or description Mahjong: Add brief definition or description Pit (game): Add brief definition or description Roulette: Add brief definition or description Settlers of Catan: Add brief definition or description Slot machine: Add brief definition or description Snake (animal)s and ladders: Add brief definition or description Table football: Add brief definition or description Tic-tac-toe: Add brief definition or description Truth or Dare: Add brief definition or description Meta-topics Game complexity: Add brief definition or description Game design: Add brief definition or description Game mechanic: Add brief definition or description Video game controversy: Add brief definition or description