Pen and Paper Games For Two Players?

Question

Does anyone have any good pen and paper games? I am going on holiday with my friend soon and we both find the journeys boring! Can anyone help?

Answer 1

play tic tac toe and try drawing a bunch of dots on a paper, like in rows and columns and take turns connecting two dots, then when u make a box put your initial in it. the player with the most boxes at the end wins!

Answer 2

There's consequences

where you write a girls name

then fold it over and pass it along

then a boys name and fold it over, then pass it along

where they met

what she wore

what he wore

what happened next

then at the end you unfold it and see what the story is

if youre imaginative enough it can be pretty funny :)

Answer 3

hangman

tic-tac-toe-- you could get really big with it, instead of the original  9 squares, put more squares

drawing a scene your friend tells you with your eyes closed--this game gets really funny sometimes!!

Answer 4

hang man and tic-tac toe i always play with my friends! lol

Answer 5

Well, I have the perfect game.  It's called "Concentration".  Okay, so first you make a tic-tac-toe chart.  Then, on the left vertical side, list 1 letter in each box for a total of 3 letters.  On the top row, list three different subjects (i.e. animals, states, colors, something there's a lot of).  Then, you and your partner switch boards and try to fill in the blanks.

            <------- States, Animals, Colors

K_I_I_

R_I_I_

S  I  I

See, on the first blank (top left hand corner)

you could put Kansas because it's a state and it starts with K.

Get it?

Glad I could help!

=] Bye!

Answer 6

tic tac toe

hang man

sos

That all i know of

Answer 7

THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!!!!!!

It's called Tri-Bond, or "Play The Word Game" in chat rooms.  It's loads of fun and goes like this:

One person writes down 3 words that can be linked with only one other word - the secret word. Example:

Suicide

Book

Quarter

Now the other person tries to figure out the secret word that you are thinking of that goes with those 3 words.  In this example, the secret word is "Note"

Suicide NOTE

NOTEbook

QuarterNOTE (in music)

It really is a lot of fun. And you can play for a long time.

Instead of taking turns, you each can be making several 3 word 'tri-bonds' for the other to solve and then swap papers.  That way you're both busy making puzzles for the other, then after the swap  you're both solving each other's 'tri-bonds'.

I first discovered this game in an AOL chat room 10 years ago.  A woman was playing it very well and I sent her some other puzzles to solve.  Then we began playing e-mail chess.  She lived in California and I live in Virginia.  Today we have been happily married for 8 years and still play the game when we're waiting in restaurants.

Good luck and have fun!

Answer 8

i like doing an add on picture. First you start out with a stick figure, then you add on things like hair, clothes, a nose, and stuff like that!

Answer 9

tic tac toe

hang man

Answer 10

Connect the Dots.  You make a grid like this:

.   .   .   .   .

.   .   .   .   .

.   .   .   .   .

You can make it as big as you want.  Then you each take turns connecting two dots.  Each person who draws the last line to make a square gets to put their initials in that square and whoever has the most squares at the end wins.  You can also do triangles and a rule is that the lines cannot cross over each other - no X's.

You can buy books of crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, other types of pencil and paper puzzles, and sudoku.  Make your own word search puzzles for each other.  Other games are Hangman and X's and O's.  And here are a few helpful links.  Have fun.

Answer 11

The best pen and paper games i've ever played are the ones my friends and I have made up ourselves.  

1 such example is we will use every letter of the alphabet and see if we can come up with a word for every one with a specific category like Cities, Fruits, etc.  If you're the competitive type you can score based on how many you got the same or different depending on how alike you think.

Hope that helps.

Answer 12

Connect Four

Hang Man

Naughts and Crosses

Thats what I play in my lectures

Answer 13

be an original - tic -tac-toe lol

Answer 14

I like connect the dots, but Hangman can be fun.

Answer 15

connect four

checkers (board game)

chess (board game)

card games

sorry (board game)

clue (board game)

hand games

Answer 16

tic-tac-toe

connect four

hangman

MASH