Card & Board Games
Can’t Get Enough Detective TV?
Now you can become a detective at home, as now two of Australia's longest running and highest rating television crime programs are now available as games you can own in your home!Distributed by Blue Opal, the brand new Law & Order board game and CSI:NY jigsaw puzzle are now available in game and toy stores and selected major retailers throughout Australia.
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Computer Games page for online play of some of these games.
Note: If you are going to play games online you should have an unlimited Internet access plan from your ISP and only local telephone call charges, not STD or timed call charges.
Backgammon
Backgammon information, rules, game news and game analysis, expert matches, backgammon tournament information, the international backgammon club list, book reviews, glossary, online leagues, software, strategy, tournament photos and stories.
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Bingo
Play online, clubs, and lots more about bingo, with links to other bingo sites.
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Chinese Checkers
Play this classic game online - needs java enabled.
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Bridge
- Australian Bridge Federation. Links to State/Territory associations and local clubs, masterpoints, international associations and shops.
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- Great Bridge Links. Many links, including online play. Check costs and sign-on procedures. A huge bridge resource.
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Chess
- Australian Chess Federation. Scoreboard and ratings, news, info on events, links and more.
Go there - New in Chess. Your link to the chess world with over 2100 links.
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Cribbage
MVP Cribbage 2.2. One of the best cribbage games featuring many different functions, this shareware has a five cow rating from Tucows.
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Crosswords
- @boutSeniors daily crossword. There's a new one every day.
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- ClueMaster. Hundreds of crosswords, wordsearches, letter logic and other word puzzles here.
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- Crossword Express. This is a shareware site which allows you to make your own puzzles. You can download a demo version and then you can register if you want the complete working version.
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- Crossword Puzzles. Here's a site for every crossword fan, with a huge number of links.
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- Crossword Solver. Search for words and solve a word by entering the letters you know and the length of the word.
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Draughts
Extensive site including tactics, tournaments, FAQs, draughts software, games in PDN format, and links to more sites, mainly devoted to draughts, but also checkers.
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Five Hundred
- Background, rules, variations, play, scoring and links.
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- juliannegiffin.com allows you to play 500 online against your friends or the computer, and it's free.
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Jigsaw Puzzles
- B-Jigsaw. This is the electronic version of the classic jigsaw puzzles, with pieces shaped just like the real thing. B-Jigsaw allows you to make your own jigsaw puzzles with your own photos or pictures, in BITMAP or JPEG files. You can download this shareware or have a 10 day free trial.
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- PuzzleFactory.com. Play online for free, plus download puzzles for free to play offline. This site has all sorts of other puzzles: maze puzzles, word puzzles, bricks, memory games and more.
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Mah Jongg
- FAQ 4b. This is a comprehensive listing of links on all aspects of Mah-Jongg.
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- Green Dragon Mahjongg is written in Javascript so you can play online. Rules and scoring are included as are the combinations and special hands.
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Number and Word Puzzles
Here's an Australian site with free worksheet and interactive number puzzles and word puzzles, including crosswords. Standards are from kids up. Solutions included.
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Scrabble
- Scrabble Australia. From the Australian Scrabble® Players Association (ASPA). Go to their website for clubs, dictionaries, word lists, strategy and coaching, tournaments, online play, and more:
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- SOWPODS Scrabble® Site. Software, ratings, word lists, links to clubs, puzzles, tournaments, online play.
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