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, two sowing games, backgammon, mahjong, sea battle, reversi, the dice games farkle and yatzy, 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. Fourteen pits, seventy tamarind seeds, and a turn that keeps going • Mancala: the sowing game as it is sold. Sow round into your store; a last seed home is another turn • Backgammon: fifteen checkers round the board and off, on two dice, with hits and the bar • Mahjong: draw, discard and call, and go out on four sets and a pair — two to four at the table • Sea Battle: ten ships hidden on a grid of ten. Call a square, hear hit or miss, sink the fleet • Reversi: outflank a line and it turns to your colour; the most discs on a full board wins • Farkle: six dice, set the scorers aside and roll the rest — or bank before a farkle takes the turn • 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 • Two to four players at the race games, Guilds to Galaxies, Mahjong, Farkle and Yatzy; two at the hunt, the sowing games, Backgammon, Sea Battle and Reversi • 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, a line on each board, and the rules built in • Your game waits for you between visits • No ads. Not now, not ever. ONE SUBSCRIPTION, ALL THREE APPS Premium here is Premium in Card Games by Vanikar and Chess & Checkers by Vanikar too. Sign in with the same email and password and everything is already unlocked — nothing more to buy. PREMIUM Start with 14 days of full access, free. Unlock everything (every board, online play, and every Vanikar game to come) with a Premium subscription, billed monthly or yearly through your App Store account. Cancel anytime in your App Store settings; your subscription stops at the end of the current period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://vanikar.games/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://vanikar.games/privacy/