Board Games by Vanikar

Online multiplayer board games from across the centuries, on one beautiful table. Play live with friends and family, or against the computer. Board Games by Vanikar brings Snakes and Ladders together with the ancient boards it grew from, the Tamil classics, Backgammon, Mahjong, dice games and a trading game that runs from medieval caravans to the stars.

SIXTEEN GAMES
• Snakes and Ladders: the modern game, on seven boards
• Paramapadham: the Tamil elder, played through the night of Vaikunta Ekadasi, thrown with stick dice
• Gyan Chaupar: the game of knowledge, seventy-two squares
• Gyan Bazi: the Jain board of eighty-four squares, the vows for ladders and the passions for snakes
• Shatranj al-Arifin: the chess of the gnostics, a hundred squares along the Sufi path
• Dhayam: the Tamil race on a cross, thrown with the dayakattai, cutting what you land on
• Aadu Puli Aattam: goats and tigers. Three tigers hunt, fifteen goats crowd them in
• Pallanguzhi: the Tamil sowing game of pits and seeds
• Mancala: the sowing game played around the world
• Backgammon: race your checkers home with two dice
• Mahjong: the classic tile game for four
• Sea Battle: hide your fleet and hunt down your opponent's
• Reversi: outflank and flip, and watch the board change hands
• Farkle: roll six dice, then bank your points or push your luck
• Yatzy: five dice, three rolls a turn, thirteen boxes to fill — hold, roll the rest, and score where it counts
• Guilds to Galaxies: buy what you land on, build up your groups and collect the rent, on boards from the 1400s to the stars

PLAY YOUR WAY
• Practice against the computer, no connection needed
• Create a private board and invite friends with a simple code
• Sign in with Google, Apple or email, and pick up your account on any device; your record follows you

MADE FOR THE TABLE
• The traditional stick dice on the classic boards, with their throws named
• How to Play for every game, and the rules built in
• Your game waits for you between visits
• No ads. Not now, not ever.

PREMIUM
Start with a 14-day free trial with full access. After the trial every game here needs Premium: the three free games that stay free forever are card games, in Card Games by Vanikar. Premium is billed monthly or yearly through your Google Play account. Cancel anytime in your Google Play settings; your subscription stops at the end of the current period.

ONE SUBSCRIPTION · ALL THREE APPS
One Premium subscription unlocks every Vanikar app: Board Games, Card Games and Chess & Checkers by Vanikar. Buy it once, in any of them, then sign in to the others with the same account. Everything is already unlocked, with nothing more to buy.