# Paperoom

> Free printable paper games made in the browser by Yunus Emre Vurgun: 40 game makers (bingo and lotería, sudoku, mazes, crosswords, Stop, board games with cut-out pieces, score pads and more), 8 on-screen table tools, guides and stories about games from around the world. Six languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and French.

- Every sheet is generated on the visitor's device. Word lists, titles and prompts are not uploaded, stored on a server or sent to an AI service. No account. A4 and US Letter, large print, black-ink printing, PDF download or browser print, answer keys where a game needs them. Installable and usable offline.
- Every page has a Markdown version: add `index.md` to its URL (for example https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/sudoku/index.md). Localized pages live under /es/, /ar/, /pt/, /zh/ and /fr/.
- Machine-readable catalog of all games, tools, articles and pages in six languages: https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/api/games.json
- Deterministic local JavaScript interface (runs in the caller's browser or Node, not an HTTP service): https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/developers/ · schema https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/api/schema.json
- Games are for recreation and learning; no wagering. Several players can win at once; players agree the rules.

## Games

### Bingo & calling games
- [Bingo](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/bingo/): Word bingo on 3 × 3, 4 × 4 or 5 × 5 cards, or classic 75-ball number cards, with a caller sheet for each set.
- [90-ball bingo](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tombala/): Independent 90-ball tickets with three rows, nine columns and 15 numbers each, plus a caller sheet for the 1–90 game.
- [Lotería](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/loteria/): Mexican lotería for your own names: print tablas of 16 with a numbered caller's deck, then play with beans.

### Puzzles with answers
- [Word search](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/word-search/): Word searches from 8 × 8 to 18 × 18 with easy, medium or hard directions, an answer key and a page for long lists.
- [Crossword](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/crossword/): A criss-cross grid built from your own answers and clues, with numbered squares, an optional word bank and an answer key.
- [Maze](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/maze/): Printable mazes with a marked entrance and exit, from small grids to huge ones, each with an answer page.
- [Nonogram](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/nonogram/): Fill in squares to match the numbers and reveal a hidden picture. Choose 5 × 5, 10 × 10 or 15 × 15, with answer keys.
- [Secret code](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/secret-code/): A cryptogram for your own phrases: every letter becomes a number or a symbol, with a few letters given to start.
- [Sudoku](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/sudoku/): Number puzzles from gentle 4 × 4 grids to classic 9 × 9, each with exactly one solution.
- [Word scramble](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/word-scramble/): Shuffled letters for every word or phrase, with answer boxes, optional hints and a numbered answer key.

### Pencil & paper games
- [Battleship (sea battle)](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/battleship/): Two grids per sheet: hide your fleet, call out squares and sink the other player's ships on paper.
- [Bulls and cows](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/bulls-and-cows/): A code-breaking game for two: guess your partner's secret number from the A and B clues, with optional solo practice.
- [Dice score sheets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/dice-scores/): Score sheets for five-dice games (Generala, Yams, a yacht card) and Ten Thousand. Up to eight players, typical points.
- [Dots and boxes](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/dots-and-boxes/): Square dot grids for two to four players: draw lines, claim boxes and add up the score on a printed table.
- [Exquisite corpse](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/exquisite-corpse/): A folded drawing or story where each player adds one part without seeing the others.
- [Hangman](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/hangman/): Guess the secret word one letter at a time, tracing a figure for each wrong guess. Use your own words or blank rounds.
- [Letter grid](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/letter-grid/): Find words by linking neighbouring letters in a square grid. Choose the size, the shortest word and a points box.
- [Paper soccer](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/paper-soccer/): A pencil game on squared paper: draw lines from dot to dot, aim for the goal and never reuse a line.
- [Stop (categories game)](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/stop/): Pick a letter, write one word for each category, and score points for answers nobody else wrote.
- [Tic-tac-toe](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tic-tac-toe/): Printable boards for noughts and crosses: classic 3 × 3, a big 6 × 6 version and an ultimate board of small boards.

### Board games to print
- [Alquerque](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/alquerque/): A two-player game of moving and jumping on a five-by-five board, with a starting-position diagram and 24 counters to cut out.
- [Checkers, draughts and chess boards](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/checkers/): Hatched dark squares for checkers, international draughts or chess, with coordinates and pieces to cut out.
- [Gomoku and Go boards](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/gomoku/): Five-in-a-row boards and Go boards from 9 × 9 to 19 × 19, ready for pens, coins or beans.
- [Game of the Goose](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/goose/): A printable 63-square Game of the Goose with classic special squares, or your own challenges on every square.
- [Hex](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/hex/): A rhombus of hexagons where each player joins their own pair of edges. A game of Hex can never end in a draw.
- [Ludo](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/ludo/): Four coloured yards and a race round the cross. Print the board, counters and a paper die, then roll for a six.
- [Mancala (Oware, Kalah, Congkak)](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/mancala/): Two rows of pits and a handful of seeds. Print oware, kalah or congkak boards, with optional seed tokens to cut out.
- [Nine men's morris](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/nine-mens-morris/): Choose a morris variant, print one or two boards per page, and cut out counters for two players.
- [Royal Game of Ur](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/royal-ur/): A race game from ancient Mesopotamia: a 20-square board with rosettes, each player's route and pieces to cut out.
- [Snakes and ladders](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/snakes-and-ladders/): A fresh board every time: choose the number of snakes and ladders, then print counters and a fold-up die.
- [Xiangqi](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/xiangqi/): Chinese chess on a printed 9 × 10 board, with 32 cut-out pieces and a legend for the seven kinds of piece.

### Cards & paper crafts
- [Prompt cards](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/cards/): Printable prompt cards for charades, drawing or conversation, six, nine or twelve to a page, with dashed cut lines.
- [Dominoes](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/dominoes/): Dotted double-six or double-nine tiles, or word-loop tiles that teach any question and answer pair.
- [Paper fortune teller](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/fortune-teller/): Fold a cootie catcher with four colours and eight fortunes you write yourself. Each copy uses a different order.
- [Memory pairs](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/memory/): Matching cards for every age: write your own pairs, print them with matching backs, then mix them face down and play.
- [Paper dice](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/paper-dice/): Cut out cube nets and fold your own dice: classic dots, numbers, or any words you choose, from 1 to 24 dice.
- [Raffle tickets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/raffle-tickets/): Numbered raffle tickets with stubs for the draw. Set the first number, how many tickets and your prize.
- [Scavenger hunt](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/scavenger-hunt/): Printable checklists and find-and-draw sheets for parties and classrooms. One sheet per team, optionally shuffled.
- [Score sheets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/score-sheets/): Score pads for card and tile games: a plain table for any game, or a tally board for truco, with a few common presets.
- [Telephone: write and draw](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/telephone/): A whisper-style game on paper: each booklet passes from writing to drawing and back, then the last panel is compared with the first.

## Table tools
- [Coin flip](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/coin/): Flip a coin on screen and keep a tally of heads, tails and streaks.
- [Dice roller](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/dice/): Roll up to six dice, from d4 to d20, and hold the ones you want to keep.
- [Letter picker](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/letters/): Pick a letter for Stop, Basta or Le petit bac, with letters you can include or leave out.
- [Number caller](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/number-caller/): Call bingo numbers at random, 75-ball or 90-ball or any range, with no repeats and a board to mark.
- [Scoreboard](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/scoreboard/): Keep score for up to 12 players, with quick +1 and +5 buttons, custom amounts, round history and undo.
- [Spinner](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/spinner/): Spin a wheel to pick a person, a category or a forfeit from your own list.
- [Team maker](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/teams/): Paste a list of names and split it into random teams, by number of teams or people per team.
- [Round timer](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/tools/timer/): A countdown for game rounds, with presets, a custom time and a gentle chime.

## Guides
- [Planning an activity hour with older adults](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/activity-hour-with-older-adults/)
- [Paper games for family gatherings and holidays](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/family-gatherings-and-holidays/)
- [How to fold a paper fortune teller](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/how-to-fold-a-paper-fortune-teller/)
- [How to host a bingo night](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/how-to-host-a-bingo-night/)
- [How to play Stop, the categories game](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/how-to-play-stop/)
- [Icebreakers for teams and workshops](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/icebreakers-for-teams-and-workshops/)
- [Keeping score on paper](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/keeping-score-on-paper/)
- [Paper games for travel](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/paper-games-for-travel/)
- [How to print perfect game sheets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/print-perfect-sheets/)
- [Rainy-day paper games for kids](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/rainy-day-paper-games-for-kids/)
- [Sudoku techniques for beginners](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/sudoku-techniques-for-beginners/)
- [Vocabulary games for language classes](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/vocabulary-games-for-language-classes/)
- [A paper game night, without the fuss](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/party-games/)
- [Turn this week’s words into a classroom game](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/classroom-games/)
- [A more comfortable game to read and handle](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/large-print-games/)
- [Word bingo, 75-ball bingo, and 90-ball tickets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/guides/bingo-and-tombala/)

## Blog
- [A short history of bingo](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/a-short-history-of-bingo/)
- [Alquerque: the ancestor of checkers](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/alquerque-the-ancestor-of-checkers/)
- [Battleship on Paper: Hunting, Spacing and Salvoes](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/battleship-on-paper/)
- [Dots and Boxes: La Pipopipette and the Art of the Chain](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/dots-and-boxes-la-pipopipette/)
- [Exquisite Corpse: The Surrealist Game of Hidden Drawings](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/exquisite-corpse-surrealist-drawing-game/)
- [Lotería: Mexican picture bingo](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/loteria-mexican-picture-bingo/)
- [Mancala: the count-and-capture family](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/mancala-count-and-capture/)
- [Nine men's morris: a board game carved in stone](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/nine-mens-morris-trilha-molino/)
- [Paper Fortune Tellers: A Folding Craft That Is Also a Game](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/paper-fortune-tellers/)
- [A world tour of paper games](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/paper-games-around-the-world/)
- [Sudoku: From Number Place to the World](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/sudoku-from-number-place-to-the-world/)
- [The Game of the Goose: a spiral race with geese](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/the-game-of-the-goose/)
- [The many names of Stop](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/the-many-names-of-stop/)
- [The story of Snakes and Ladders](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/the-story-of-snakes-and-ladders/)
- [Why Paper Games Still Matter](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/why-paper-games-still-matter/)
- [Xiangqi for beginners: Chinese chess from the first move](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/blog/xiangqi-for-beginners/)

## Around the world
- [Africa's sowing games and morris boards](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/africa/)
- [East Asia's river boards, five-in-a-row and folded fortunes](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/east-asia/)
- [Europe's old boards and new paper games](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/europe/)
- [Latin America at the card table and the paper pad](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/latin-america/)
- [Cafés, card tables and the categories game across the Arab world](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/middle-east/)
- [North America with a pencil, a grid and a bingo card](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/north-america/)
- [South Asia's ladders, ludo and 90-number tickets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/world/south-asia/)

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- [Full English text of every game, tool, guide and article](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Books from the maker's shop](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/books/): optional English ebooks sold on Gumroad.
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