Game Inventors Are People Too
- Lines of Action, a board game by Claude Soucie
- Cups, a mancala variant by Arthur and Wald Amberstone
- Crossings, a board game by Robert Abbott; later turned into Epaminondas
- Lap, a complex progeny of Battleships by Lech Pijanowski
- Three Musketeers, a board game by Haar Hoolim; notably, this game and the character in it was once used as the mascot for the Zillions of Games software product
- Paks, a playing card game by Phil Laurence
- Skedoodle, a pencil-and-paper game by Father Daniel
- Knight Chase, a board game by Alex Randolph (inventor of games like TwixT)
- Origins of World War I, a historical pencil-and-paper game by Jim Dunnigan which teaches players history
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