Print-and-Play

Free games you can print yourself

Need some games to spice up your sheltering at home? Make sure you have plenty of ink in your printer and try some of these.

Games from publishers:

• Jellybean Games (give Hidden Panda a try – I was a Kickstarter backer)

Hidden Panda, a social deduction game about saving baby pandas (Jellybean Games)

• Good Little Games

• PNP Arcade

• Expedition: The Roleplaying Card Game (a card-based RPG with a companion app and a bunch of online content)

• Asmodee

Timeline Classic (and the whole series of Timeline games) could easily find it's way into your History classroom.

Browse through these lists (may contain some repeats):

• 10 Best Print & Play Tabletop Games You Can Make At Home from thegamer.com

• 49 Free Print & Play Games from booored.com

I'll be adding to these as I come across more.

Here are some tips that I've learned about print-and-play games:

• make sure you have plenty of paper and printer ink; cardstock works best

• if you really want them to last, laminate and/or store them in deck boxes (similar to these)

• paper cutters make the job go much faster

• I don't live in a town with a copy shop, but I would imagine that that would be handy

• teachers, try using your district's printing department (maybe admin will even pay for them🤞🏽)

My main game shelf is actually looking pretty well-organized these days :)

Print-and-play games have been around forever – teachers know this better than most – but with the rise of Kickstarter, I've seen them become more and more common. Print-and-play allows game creators to crowd-test ideas, get samples of finished games out to potential backers sooner, and create rewards at lower funding levels.

Whatever the case may be, put "free" and "game" together, and you've got my attention!