Paper and pencil games are games that can be played solely with pencil and paper. Some paper and pencil 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). A game is a structured or semi-structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment. ... A selection of coloured pencils. ... <alternateuses> <Image:Paper 450x450. ... Gomoku, go-moku, or gobang (Japanese: 五目並べ, Gomoku Narabe, five points) is an abstract strategy board game. ... An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players. ... Eat Poop You Cat is a party game that has been likened to a cross between Telephone and Pictionary. ...

List of Paper and Pencil games

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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
• Connect6
• Hex
• Mastermind

The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. ... Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is an American toy and game company. ... A board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a board (a premarked surface, usually specific to that game). ... Connect Four (also known as Plot Four) is a two-player board game in which the objective is to be the first to get four of ones own discs in a line. ... Gomoku, go-moku, or gobang (Japanese: 五目並べ, Gomoku Narabe, five points) is an abstract strategy board game. ... Connect6, introduced by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, is a fair and highly complex game. ... Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as a 11x11 rhombus. ... Mastermind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. ...

Other uses

Non-live-action role-playing games are sometimes referred to as pen-and-paper or pencil-and-paper games to distinguish them from computer role-playing games. A live action role-playing game, or LARP as it is commonly known, is a form of role-playing game where the participants perform some or all of the physical actions of the characters they play the role of. ... A role-playing game (RPG, often roleplaying game) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...