Keep three printed pages and two pens in your glove box. When your phone dies on a road trip or you are stuck in a power outage, you have 100 games waiting.
These are deterministic solitaire games with win/loss conditions based on perfect play. – A 12×12 grid of dots. You draw a lighthouse (a dot with a cross). From it, you cast beams (straight lines) that travel until they hit a “rock” (a dot you choose to black out). You must black out exactly 3 rocks per turn. If a beam never reaches a rock, you lose. It’s a spatial logic puzzle that feels like Minesweeper designed by Euclid. 100 strategic games for pen and paper pdf new
Caution : Older, lower-quality versions from 2015–2020 still circulate. The “new” PDF is dated , includes 30+ previously unpublished games, and has clearer diagrams. Keep three printed pages and two pens in your glove box
, whose book of the same title is a cornerstone for this hobby. While his classic collection dates back to 2002–2004, the community continues to adapt his "pure strategy" concepts into modern digital and PDF formats. Key Strategic Pen-and-Paper Games – A 12×12 grid of dots