List of fictional games

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This is a list of fictional games, that is games which were specifically created for works of fiction, or which otherwise originated in fiction.

Many fictional games have been "translated" to the real world by fans or ludophiles by creating pieces and rules to fit the descriptions given in the source work. For example, unofficial versions of Fizzbin can be found in reality, and Mornington Crescent is widely played in online forums.

Contents 1 Billiards games 2 Board games 3 Card games 4 Role-playing games 5 Sports 6 Other games 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Billiards games

• Dom-jot - Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Grav-Pool - Red Dwarf
• Pond - Discworld
• Quantum Pool - Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod

[edit] Board games

• 110th Congress the Game - Last Call with Carson Daly
• Angela's Ashes the Game - MADtv
• Azad - the novel The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
• Citizenship - The Simpsons
• Clam Traffic Jam - "Grift of the Magi" episode of The Simpsons
• Cobra Pult - Homestar Runner
• Color Wheel Roulette Stupid Home Edition! - Homestar Runner
• Counter-Feet - Magyk board game played in the Septimus Heap series.
• Coupling - "Bed Time" episode of Coupling
• Crapple - "The Five Diamonds (aka A Hard Act to Follow)" episode of Stroker and Hoop
• Cyvasse - George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
• Dejarik - played on the Millennium Falcon by R2D2 and Chewbacca in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Rules (fan-created),
• Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence - Ren and Stimpy
• Doplimcy (a parody of Diplomacy) - File 13
• Dotcomopoly - from the "Dotcomopoly!" article by Dave Itzkoff in the Ferbruary 2001 issue of Maxim magazine.
• Double Cranko - a game made up by Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt on the TV series M*A*S*H, combining checkers, chess, poker and gin rummy. A checker cannot be "kinged" (as in checkers) if it is "in check" (as in chess), and if a player has a gin hand, both players have to drink from the distillery in their tent, "the Swamp." When Radar O'Reilly asks how to play, Hawkeye says, "Bishops are worth three jacks, checkers are wild, and you have to be 21 or over to open." When Hawkeye plays Colonel Potter, he uses an apparently strange move, and the Colonel asks B.J., "Is that in the rules?" B.J. replies, "What rules?" Hawkeye then says, "I think you're ready for Triple Cranko!"
• The Dutchman's Treasure Hunt - SpongeBob SquarePants
• Edna Krabappoly (a fictionalised version of Monopoly) - The Simpsons
• Eels and Escalators (similar to Snakes and Ladders) - SpongeBob SquarePants animated TV series
• Energy-Shortage Game - The Simpsons
• Escape from Zyzzlvaria - the futuristic board game played in many Duck Konundrums
• Euthanasia - Robot Chicken animated TV series
• Exclusive Possession (a fictionalised version of Monopoly) - Discworld
• Flounder - File 13
• Founder - File 13
• Frisk (a parody of Risk) - File 13
• Galip-onoply (a fictionalised version of Monopoly) - The Simpsons
• The Game of County Seats - "Grift of the Magi" episode of The Simpsons
• The Game of Fencing - The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
• The Game of Lent (parody of The Game of Life) - The Simpsons
• Gobble - a word game, File 13
• Goblin's Teeth - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
• Gringo - Mad Magazine - Board is combination parody of Monopoly and Scrabble
• Grounder - File 13
• Handyland (a parody of Candy Land) - File 13
• Hippo in the House - The Simpsons
• Hungry, Hungry Oprahs - The Man Show (redesigned Hungry Hungry Hippos game with the hippos replaced by Oprah Winfreys)
• Icehouse - The Empty City by Andrew Looney (an example of a fictional game that now exists as a real-world one)
• Immigrants out - MadTV
• Interstellar Pig - in the novel of the same name by William Sleator
• Jetan - a chess-like strategy game from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel The Chessmen of Mars
• Jumanji - from the book and movie of the same name
• Jurvy-Skat - Homestar Runner
• Kadis-kot - Star Trek: Voyager
• Kaissa - Kaissa - and related variants - is a chess like game described in John Norman's (Dr. John Lange) World of Gor. Various rules exist, but the object is always to capture the opponents Home Stone, a non capturing piece that is limited to one space moves and is placed on the board after play has begun.
• Klin Zha - Klingon game from the Star Trek novel The Final Reflection (not considered part of the current canon)
• Klunk - Smallville
• Lab Rats - Episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (a pseudo-Clue game)
• Land Baron (a fictionalised version of Monopoly) - DC Comics
• Latrotabuli - Pastel Defender Heliotrope
• LIVING (parody of LIFE) - South Park
• Logos - "Bad Words" episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (a pseudo-Scrabble game)
• Manopoly (a parody of Monopoly) - File 13 and For Better or For Worse
• Marshgammon - from How I Met Your Mother episode Game Night
• Misery Date - mentioned on Ren and Stimpy (parody of Mystery Date)
• Monopolyopoly - mentioned on 'The Colbert Report a game where every square is a different version of Monopoly.
• Monotony (a parody of Monopoly) - Green Acres TV series; also mentioned on Ren and Stimpy
• Neurosis - Rugrats
• No Go (a parody of Go) - File 13
• No Mo Homos - MadTV
• Nuke 'Em - Robocop
• Pai Sho - Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Personality Chess - from The Tar-Aiym Krang, by Alan Dean Foster
• Plunder - File 13
• Polish Checkers (a parody of Chinese checkers) - File 13
• Pounder - File 13
• Priceopoly - The Price is Right (Showcase prop)
• Purecheesi - Ren and Stimpy (parody of Parcheesi)
• Rasta-Monopoly (a fictionalised version of Monopoly) - The Simpsons
• Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos - The Simpsons (thinly disguised version of Hungry Hungry Hippos)
• Regicide-[A strategy game within the Warhammer 40,000 background, particularly in Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn series]
• Rice-a-Roni - MADtv
• The Running Man home game - The Running Man
• Scot Free - board game based on the Kennedy assassination, The Kentucky Fried Movie
• Scrabbleship - A combination of Scrabble and Battleship a game Lisa claims makes no sense. The Simpsons
• Scramble (a parody of Scrabble) - File 13
• Scribble (a parody of Scrabble) - Green Acres TV series; also mentioned on Ren and Stimpy
• Sounder - File 13
• Spank the Monkey - Rockos Modern Life
• Stars and Comets - in Andre Norton novels
• Stealth Chess - chess variant played in the Assassins' Guild, in which pieces move invisibly, Discworld
• Stone The Sinners, MADtv
• Surgeon - A Operation clone - House
• Super Twister - Son of the Mask
• Taasen - Unicorn Jelly
• Tadek - A game in Farscape that involves building holographic columns while pushing game pieces around a board, as in chess. This game can be used for gambling.
• THE SHOW! Stupid Home Edition! - Homestar Runner
• Three Cornered Pitney - Mad magazine
• Throws - The White Rose novel by Glen Cook: Throws was essentially four-player checkers. The board was four times the usual size. Players played from each side. An element of chance was added by throwing a die before each move. If a player’s throw came up six, he could move any combination of pieces six moves. Checkers rules generally applied, except that a jump could be declined.
• The Good Samaritan - The Simpsons
• Thud - a Chess-like game of Trolls and Dwarves appearing in Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name.
• Tool Time - Home Improvement
• Tower of Cows - Arthur
• Travel-Up - Starship by Brian W. Aldiss (1958) (Non-Stop in British editions)
• Trivet Pursuit (a parody of Trivial Pursuit) - File 13
• Truck Dodgers (a parody of the Buck Rogers board game) - File 13
• Two Decades of Dignity - Family Guy episode Petarded
• Uncle Wriggly (a parody of the Uncle Wiggly board game) - File 13
• Vivisection - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - An Operation-like game where the player dissects real rats
• Vlet It's a strategic sort of game involving a complex landscape board, small figurines, rolls of dice and card draws to determine fates and outcomes, etc. - Triton (novel)
• Waterloo - Psychonauts
• Welfare - MadTV Parody of Monopoly
• Who Killed Who? - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Parody of Clue.
• Wizard Chess - Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Zaggle! The Fun Phonics Game - from the Missing School installment of the webcomic Perry Bible Fellowship
• Zathura - from the book and movie of the same name
• Zuffstaffle Geese Fighters - Computer Gaming World

[edit] Card games

• Alliances - Beggar's Banquet (1997, ISBN 0-441-00434-2 ), by Daniel Hood.
• Cabbage (a parody of Cribbage) - Green Acres TV series
• Crabbage (a parody of Cribbage) - File 13
• Cripple Mr Onion - Discworld (Note: Fan rules have been created, but are not official, and use ordinary playing cards rather than a Discworld "Caroc" deck.)
• Cups - game invented by Chandler as an excuse to give money to Joey - Friends TV series
• Damage - from the Iain Banks novel Consider Phlebas
• Diamondback - Cerebus by Dave Sim
• Dos (a parody of UNO) - File 13
• Double Fanucci - Zork computer game
• Dragon Poker - The MythAdventures books by Robert Asprin
• Duel Monsters - Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Exploding Snap - Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Fizzbin - Star Trek
• Go Johnny Go Go Go Go - The League of Gentlemen
• Pazaak - Star Wars. Played in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
• Pyramid - Battlestar Galactica (1978) series
• Sabacc - Star Wars
• Speed Card Game - a card game featured in the game Xenogears
  • Sphere Break - from the Final Fantasy X-2 video game
• Tall Card - a card game played in the TV series Firefly.
• Tegwar - Bang the Drum Slowly (the novel by Mark Harris, also a film) It is a game basically designed to separate a sucker from his cash. The letters stand for "The Exciting Game Without Any Rules." When the characters in the film play the game, they appear to be making things up as they go along.
• Tetra Master - a card game in Final Fantasy IX played with cards depicting monsters and characters from the game. (An interesting sidenote: This game was eventually produced as a real collectable card game in Europe. But makes its first appearance as a fictional game in FF9)
• Three-Dragon Ante - Dungeons & Dragons
• Tongo - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV series
• Tonk - The Black Company series by Glen Cook
• Tragic: The Garnering (a parody of Magic: The Gathering) - Fallout 2
• Triad - Battlestar Galactica (2004) series
• Triple Triad - a card game in Final Fantasy VIII played with cards depicting monsters and characters from the game.
• Whis - a card game in Tales of Eternia played with cards depicting the five elements.

[edit] Role-playing games

• Battlin' Bakeries (a "roll-playing" game) - What's New
• Black Dog - (A parody of White Wolf, a popular role-playing game within the universe its based on) - World of Darkness
• Bunchin' & Bankin' - File 13
• BURPS, the 'Boring Universal RolePlaying System' (plus the BURPS Blue Collar worldbook and the supplements BURPS Mundane Tech, BURPS Itty Bitty Bestiary, and BURPS Folks) - Roleplayer #23
• Clunkin' & Clankin' - File 13
• Coin Toss Dungeon - What's New
• Crunchin' & Baggin' - File 13
• Dungeon of Soap - What's New
• Dungeons & Dinobonoids - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Dungeons & Dungeons - Zork
• Dunkin' & Gaggin' - File 13
• Dwarflord: The Conquest - Lizzie McGuire
• Escape From C'thulu - What's New
• From Space - Absurd Notions
• Goryhawk (a parody of Greyhawk) - Dork Tower
• Gunships & Galleons - File 13
• HackMaster (and its many spinoffs) - Knights of the Dinner Table
• Hobby Shop of Doom - What's New
• Home & Hearth - What's New
• Hunchin' & Braggin' - File 13
• Luncheons & Flagons - File 13
• Mage: The Ascription (a parody of Mage: The Ascension) - Dork Tower
• Mazes and Monsters - novel/TV movie of the same name
• Monster World - Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Munchin' & Draggin' - File 13
• Nudgin' & Taggin' - File 13
• Ol' Quadim (a parody of Al-Qadim) - Dork Tower
• Painscape (a parody of Planescape) - Dork Tower
• Pixie: The Stomping (a parody of Changeling: The Dreaming) - Dork Tower
• Punchin' & Packin' - File 13
• Spongin' & Slackin' - File 13
• Stanchions & Wagons - File 13
• Sunken & Saggin' - File 13
• Traps & Treasures - Absurd Notions
• Vampire: The Groveling (a parody of Vampire: The Masquerade) - Dork Tower
• Vampires: The Game About Vampires (ditto) - Absurd Notions
• Vegetable Wars - What's New
• Warhamster (a parody of Warhammer) - Dork Tower
• Werewolf: The Apothecary (a parody of Werewolf: The Apocalypse) - Dork Tower
• Wizards and Warlocks - The Greatest American Hero
• Wizards and Warlords - The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes
• Wizards & Warriors - DC Comics
• The World - a very popular MMORPG in the .hack anime series.

[edit] Sports

• 43-Man Squamish - fictional college sport from Mad Magazine
• Aargrooha - Troll football, traditionally played with a human head, Discworld
• Aeroball - futuristic version of basketball played with jet packs in the 2000 AD strip Harlem Heroes
• Anbo-Jitsu - from Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Apopudobalia - encyclopedia fictitious entry
• Assassin's Guild Wall Game - " a cross between squash, urban rock climbing and actual bodily harm", Discworld (named after the Eton Wall Game)
• BASEketball - from the movie of the same name
• Blernsball - 30th century version of baseball, Futurama
• Blitzball - Final Fantasy X, also a game created by Phineas in the novel, "A Separate Peace."
• Blood Bowl - Warhammer Fantasy
• Brockian Ultra-Cricket - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• B'tduz - A game in which two dwarfs stand a few feet apart and throw rocks at each others' heads. Discworld
• Bungee Ball - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
• Calvinball - A game where there are only 2 rules: players can make new, ridiculous rules at will, and you can never play the same way twice. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• Centrifugal Bumble Puppy - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Churling - Kids in the Hall
• Croquet using flamingos as mallets - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Crossball - a tennis-like game from The Vorkosigan Saga
• Electro-Magnetic Golf - from Brave New World
• Escalator Squash - from Brave New World
• Eschaton - the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Farnarkeling - created by John Clarke, in the 1980s Australian TV comedy show The Gillies Report. It was played on a field called a grommet in periods called umlauts, with players 'warbling vigorously' with 'the bevelled orb'. Dave Sorensen was 'the hope of Australian farnarkeling'.
• Fightball - the basketballish game played by the gangs in the Fightball card game
• Five Bar Gate - A game reminicsent of both squash and ice hockey from the comic book Cerebus.
• Fizzball - Involves hitting beer cans with bats or other sticks, with no points or competitive elements, popularized in Sam & Max comics
• Flonkerton - created by Jim in the Office episode, Office Olympics.
• Frungy - played by the Zoq-Fot-Pik in Star Control II
• Futuresport - from the movie of the same name.
• German batball - from Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan
• Gravball - Mentioned by Spartan John-117 in the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach
• Guyball - Ball game invented by Green Wing's Dr Guy Secretan.
• Hadaul - from Jack Vance's Demon Princes book The Face
• Hussade - from Jack Vance's Alastor series.
• Ja'La dh Jin - from Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series.
• Jiggly Ball - from Scrubs' My Jiggly Ball episode.
• Jugging - from the movie The Blood of Heroes
• Kasaba ball - from the show Jungle Cubs in the episode 'Kasaba ball'.
• Killball - referenced several times in the book The Running Man, but not described much
• Kohlii - from Lego's Bionicle franchise.
• Kosho - from the TV series The Prisoner
• The Game - From Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series of novels. Includes almost all known games and competitions; winners of the yearly Tourney get to become Citizens.
• Laserball - from the movie The Fifth Element
• Lifting - Popular extreme sport, similar to surfing, but in the air; practitioners ride "reflection boards" on waves of "Transparence Light Particles". From anime/manga series Eureka Seven.
• The Maze (or Glide) - from The Maze Game by Diana Reed Slattery
• Motorball - from the Battle Angel Alita manga
• Nib - an exceedingly violent sport mentioned in the Starship Titanic novel and computer game.
• Parrises Squares - an athletic, full-contact sport in Star Trek
• Podracing - violent vehicular racing sport from Star Wars
• Pokémon Battle - tactical battle between two trainers and their teams of Pokémon. Pokémon attack with various moves until the other is KO'd or unable to battle.
• Pokémon Contest - beauty pageant-like offshoot of Pokémon Battling that focuses more on appealing to a panel of judges with visually-dazzling moves.
• Pro Thunderball - from Upright Citizens Brigade
• Pyramid - a ball game played on a pyramid-shaped court in the new Battlestar Galactica series
• Quantum soccer - from Greg Egan's "Border Guards"
• Quidditch - from Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Quodpot - from Quidditch Through the Ages by J.K. Rowling
• Real Foosball - from I Am Weasel
• Riemann Surface Tennis - from Brave New World
• Rollerball - from the movie of the same name
• Sky-surfing - appearing in numerous Judge Dredd stories.
• Spheda - A golf-like game from the PlayStation 2 adventure game Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2).
• Springball - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Star Racing - low-to-medium altitude hovercraft racing sport from Oban Star-Racers; superficially similar to Podracing
• Taking the Stone - In Farscape, a game played by the youth of an unnamed royal cemetery planet. The game consists of jumping into a deep well, and chanting while falling. A sonic net at the bottom of the well, sustained by the participants voices, cushions their fall. When the youth reach the age of 22 cycles, rather than grow old and be deformed by the planet's radiation, they stop chanting part way into the leap and die against the rocks. This death is called Taking the Stone.
• Thunderball - Full contact basketball with a hockey-like playing area, and encouragement of wrestling, fighting and general manhandling of other players.
• Timmyball - Fairly Odd Parents
• Transcontinental Road Race-Death Race 2000
• Triad- a contact sport with elements of football and basketball from Battlestar Galactica (1978) series
• Troll Ball - from supplementary material published for the RuneQuest roleplaying game and other Glorantha references.
• Ultimate Robot Fighting - "Raging Bender" episode of Futurama
• Walnut Hockey - "Rose Is Rose"
• Wizard Squash - also called Real Squash (similar to real tennis), a much more leisurely game than ordinary squash, except that the ball may rebound off a wall it hasn't hit. Discworld
• Zero-G Football - Red Dwarf sitcom
• Zero-G Kickboxing - Red Dwarf sitcom

See also List of fictional sports teams

[edit] Other games

• Barbarian Invaders (a clockpunk arcade game, paroding Space Invaders) - Discworld
• Bob-stones a form of guessing game played by the rabbits in book Watership Down by Richard Adams.
• Chula - in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Move Along Home
• Cock, Muff, Bumhole - in Nathan Barley, a variation of Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Dabo (a roulette-like game at Quark's) - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Deemo - A gambling game from Farscape that is lost if the player does not cheat well.
• "The game" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game" - head-mounted virtual reality game
• The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse's novel of the same name
• Gobstones - Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, a marbles-like game where players are sprayed with foul-smelling liquid when they lose.
• House Rules Parcheesi - Ozy and Millie, a game similar to Calvinball but with predefined rules (only it's never explained what they are). The Zen idea that one must learn to let go of concrete ideas and objectives is very close to the dragons' hearts, so a game of House Rules Parcheesi only ends when a player accepts the current location of the roll of duct tape as being equally valid to the "goal," and serenely stops trying to move it. Whether the player then wins or is being rewarded for not-winning is ambiguous.
• Mornington Crescent - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue radio comedy programme
• Moules ("a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises") - Discworld
• Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 - a side-scrolling video game depicted in an animated movie of the same name
• Pooh Sticks - Winnie-the-Pooh
• Questions - Verbal game played in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. [1]
• Quis - a building game from the Saga of the Skolian Empire novels by Catherine Asaro involving the laying down of geometric solid shapes (dice) in various combinations. The game rules contain encoded knowledge of one of the former empires in the novel series.
• The Quizzing Device (a water-driven, clockpunk quiz machine) - Discworld
• Roshambo - while RoShamBo is actually rock-paper-scissors, in South Park, two male competers kick each other in the testicles as hard as they can. The last competer standing is the victor.
• Sej – a dicing game played in Serpent's Reach.
• Shibo Yancong-San (Tile-based Agatean game, similar to Mahjong, name translates as "Cripple Mr Onion") - Discworld
• Sim Sandwich - The Simpsons (A parody of the omnipresent "Sim" games)
• Sink: A game generally played by Discordians (and people of much ilk). The rules are defined in the Principia Discordia. ^[1]
• Sphere Break - Final Fantasy X-2, a mathematical game in which coins of differing values are used to break a numbered sphere.
• Tri-Dimensional Chess - first seen on Star Trek, and was later developed into a real game.
• Trolls and Bridges - A game in the Known Space universe used to recruit military officers into an underground command structure.

[edit] See also

• List of games with concealed rules

[edit] References