Dots online — 2 player strategy game (Polish classic)
Surround the opponent's dots with a loop to capture territory. 9×9 up to 25×25. AI, hot-seat, online.
Games to play on paper — 10 pen-and-paper classics, online
The complete list of classic games to play on paper — tic-tac-toe, battleship, dots and boxes, paper football, hangman and more. All free, no install, playable solo vs AI, hot-seat on one phone, or online with a friend over a shareable link.
Paper football online — 2 player pen-and-paper game
The schoolyard pen-and-paper football — bounce off walls, score goals. AI, hot-seat, or online with a friend.
Tic-tac-toe online — 2 player game, free
Play vs AI, hot-seat on one phone, or online with a friend over a link. 3×3, 4×4 and 5×5 boards.
Dots and Boxes online — 2 player game, free
Connect dots with lines, close boxes, score points. Play vs AI, hot-seat, or online with a friend.
Hangman online — 2 player word game, free
Guess the word before the drawing is complete. Solo, hot-seat or online with a friend.
Battleship online — 2 player paper game, free
The classic battleship paper game on a 10×10 grid. Hide your fleet, fire at coordinates, sink the enemy.
SOS online — 2 player paper game
Spell SOS on the board and block your rival. AI, hot-seat on one phone, or online with a friend.
Connect Four online — 2 player game, free
Drop discs into columns, line up four in any direction. AI, hot-seat or online with a friend.
Gomoku online — 2 player five-in-a-row game
The Japanese five-in-a-row classic on a 15×15 board. AI, hot-seat, or online with a friend.
Cities & States online — 2 player word race
Race to find words by letter: country, city, name, animal, thing. AI, hot-seat, or online with a friend.
What makes a great paper game?
Pen-and-paper games share a magic formula: trivial setup (a sheet of paper, one pen, two people), deep strategy hiding under a 30-second rule explanation, and games short enough to play five in a row. PaperPlay keeps that formula intact and adds the things paper can't do — an AI opponent when nobody's around, hot-seat on a single phone, and online matches over a shareable link.
Want to play on real paper?
Every game page also includes a free printable A4 board — generated as a sharp vector PDF — so you can take the paper version anywhere a screen can't go.