Sunday, May 24, 2015

Top Board Android Games for 2015-05-25 Part 5

20. Backgammon Free

★ Top Developer (awarded 2013) ★

Backgammon Free is the best free Backgammon game on Android!

Backgammon is a game of skill and strategy and one of the world's classic parlour games, played for recreation and as a gambling game. Like Mahjong, this is a game that is played in social groups in coffee houses and bars. Historically variants of this game are believed to have originated in Egypt over 3000 years ago, but was picked up by the Romans and then later to India. It also spread to east Asia, but was then largely replaced by Xiangqi (Chinese chess). It is now very popular in the west.

Features:

-- Strong Backgammon AI

-- 5 Difficulty levels

-- Full match play + doubling cube

-- 3 Boards and piece sets

-- Hints, 2 player hotseat and stats

-- Supports touch screen/trackerball

-- Designed for both Tablet and Phone

This free version is supported by 3rd party ads. Ads may use internet connectivity, and therefore subsequent data charges may apply. The photos/media/files permission is required to allow the game to save game data to external storage, and is sometimes used to cache ads.

*Does it cheat? See "CPU Strategy" page + Manual Dice option (use real-world dice) to prove to yourself that it doesn't*

21. Chess - Play & Learn

Chess.com
Play chess with more than 10 million players around the world! Enjoy free unlimited games and improve your chess rating with 50,000+ tactics puzzles, interactive lessons and videos, and a powerful computer opponent. Unlock your inner chess master today!

PLAY CHESS

- Challenge your friends and chat with opponents

- Play real-time blitz or daily correspondence chess

TACTICS PUZZLES

- Solve more than 50,000 puzzles

- Adjusts to your skill level to help you improve

LESSONS

- Thousands of videos and interactive lessons from top Grandmasters

- Interactive tutorials with helpful tips and highlights

COMPUTER

- Adjust the computer's strength

- Analyze your game to learn what went wrong

… AND MORE

- Daily articles by top authors and coaches like IM Jeremy Silman

- Opening explorer helps you learn and play the right openings

- Make friends & send messages

- 20+ gorgeous themes for boards, pieces, and backgrounds

- Detailed performance stats and ratings

- Active community forum

REVIEWS

- "I've tried every chess app out there and the Chess.com app is in a class by itself. It is the only chess app you will ever need, and the best choice if you want to improve!" - Michael

- “Amazing! Play with friends or random people at your skill level. So much fun!” - Playa

- “I use it daily for tactics, live games, and videos on strategy. I love this app!” - Samantha212

- “Great chess app and perfect mobile compliment to an excellent website. Highly recommended for beginners and experienced players alike.” - Brian

- “Makes playing chess against other players from around the world easy and fun.” - Northflow

ABOUT CHESS.COM

Chess.com is built by chess players and enthusiasts who really love chess!

Team: http://www.chess.com/about

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chess

Twitter: http://twitter.com/chesscom

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/wwwchesscom

TwitchTV: http://www.twitch.com/chess

22. Hello Kitty Cafe

Hire your favorite Sanrio characters to help you and Kitty run the day-to-day cafe operations. Turn your cafe into the cutest, coziest and happiest place ever!

With a wide selection of pretty Hello Kitty-themed furniture and decors made available in the Item Shop, you can decorate your cafe as you like it. Rearrange facilities such as tables and chairs to suit your market's growing needs. Learn new delicious recipes as you level up your cafe.

Test your speed and strategic planning! The challenge is to serve food to all your customers quickly and efficiently to keep them from walking out dissatisfied. If your cafe consistently provides good food and great service, a mystery VIP guest might drop by.

Download Hello Kitty Cafe for FREE! It's now available on Google Play. Play now!

** Please note that while the app is free, please be aware that it contains paid content for real money that can be purchased upon users' wish to enhance their gaming experience.You may control in-app purchases made within this app using password protection which can be enabled from the setting page of the Google Play Store app. **

23. Pipe Puzzle

New addictive puzzle. Use your imagination and arrange the puzzle pipes and elbows to create a perfect piping connection between two points.

Find out how much fun could be delivered by the...pipes !

Features:

- 100 levels

- Intuitive gameplay

- Hint system

- HD graphics

24. Domino - classic dominoes free

Dominoes (or dominos) is a board game played with rectangular "domino" tiles. The dominos gaming pieces make up a domino set, sometimes called a deck or pack. The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, colloquially nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its faceinto two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips, nips or dobs) or is blank. The backs of the dominos in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set. Each country has it’s own set of dominoes games: England - muggins, scandinavian countries - Bergen, Mexico - mexican train, Spain - Matador.

The earliest mention of dominos is from Song Dynasty China, found in the text Former Events in Wulin. Dominoes first appeared in Italy during the 18th century, and although it is unknown how Chinese dominoes developed into the modern game, it is speculated that Italian missionaries in China may have brought the game to Europe.

Features:

- eight types of the game (classic dominoes, muggins, naval kozel, jackass, human-human-wolf, kozel, bergen and basic cross), more types will be added in next update (matador, blitz, mexican train)

- 2, 3, 4 players

- friendly user interface

- tough AI, interesting to play with

- global cloud leaderboards to save your progress

- multiplayer game to compete with other players all over the world

General rules of dominoes:

Blocking game

The most basic dominos variant is for two players and requires a double six set. The 28 domino tiles are shuffled face down and form the stock or boneyard. Each player draws seven tiles; the remainder are not used. Once the players begin drawing tiles, they are typically placed on-edge before the players, so that each player can see his own domino tiles, but none can see the value of other players' tiles. Every player can thus see how many tiles remain in the other players' hands at all times during gameplay. One player begins by downing (playing the first tile) one of their tiles. In different games first tiles are also different. In muggins player should start with the highest double (6-6), in bergen the first move should be 0-0. This tile starts the line of play, a series of tiles in which adjacent tiles touch with matching, i.e. equal, values. The players alternately extend the line of play with one tile at one of its two ends. The game ends when one player wins by playing their last tile, or when the game is blocked because neither player can play. If that occurs, whoever caused the block gets all of the remaining player points not counting their own.

Scoring game

Players accrue points during game play for certain configurations, moves, or emptying one's hand. Most scoring games use variations of the draw game. In muggins player must make the open ends of the layout add up to 5 or a multiple of five (5, 10, 15, 20, etc.) In bergen player scores when numbers on the open ends are equal. If a player does not call "domino" before the tile is laid on the table, and another player says 'domino' after the tile is laid, the first player must pick up an extra domino. In "Mexican train" the double zero domino is scored as 7 points.

Draw game

In a draw game (blocking or scoring), players are additionally allowed to draw as many tiles as desired from the stock before playing a tile, and they are not allowed to pass before the stock is (nearly) empty. The score of a game is the number of pips in the losing player's hand plus the number of pips in the stock. Most rules prescribe that two tiles need to remain in the stock. The Draw game is often referred to as simply "dominos".

Enjoy our dominos game with the most comprehensive set of this game varieties!

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