Original strategy games, classics and simulations, each in a single HTML file
What is Board Gaming Hub?
Board Gaming Hub is a free collection of browser games built and maintained by one person, Michael Flynn, a licensed civil engineer who works on dams and flood hydrology. Every game is a single HTML file: open the page and play, with no account and no install. Game pages cover the rules and strategy, and the most-played games also explain how that particular version works, including what the computer opponent does and which rule variants were chosen.
The originals are the reason the site exists.Tidelands is a Bronze Age maritime trade game whose scoring was rebalanced after 1,000-game simulation runs. Bisque is a battle for a bay, Agora is Mediterranean trade, Aresia colonizes Mars, Odyssey sails the wine-dark sea, Convergence pits rival civilizations against a shared economy, and Doctrine is a geopolitical simulation running from 1990 to 2050. None of them exist anywhere else.
The simulations use real engineering.Floodline and Bonneville Spillway come from the author's day job in flood and dam work, and Eclipse Predictor computes eclipse paths from 1900 to 2200 with the open-source astronomy-engine library.
The site is free and supported by Google ads. Many of the games also have Android versions; see the app list.
The most-played puzzle games on the web — free, no signup, mobile-friendly.
This section collects the puzzles people actually return to: Klondike solitaire, Sudoku grids from easy through expert, Mahjong tile matching, Minesweeper, and 2048. Wordform and Drift are original daily word games — one hidden five-letter word per day on Wordform, one word-ladder chain on Drift — both designed for sharing results without spoilers. Every title runs in a single HTML file with no account and no install.
Turn-based strategy: ancient games, classic perfects, and original designs.
Alongside Chess, Go, Backgammon, Othello, and Mancala sit original strategy designs: Agora (Mediterranean trade), Aresia (Mars colonization), Bisque (naval area control), Convergence (rival civilizations), Odyssey (wine-dark sea voyages), and more. Ancient games Senet, Ur, and Pente Grammai are included because their rules are short but their decision trees are not. Each page includes how-to-play notes and strategy FAQs so you can learn the game without leaving the site.
Real-time physics, engineering, and management sims.
The simulation catalog is what sets this hub apart from a generic game directory. Floodline models California flood defense with levees, pumps, and real storm hydrographs. Bonneville Spillway Operator balances grid demand, salmon passage, and total dissolved gas at a real dam. Eclipse Predictor renders solar eclipse paths on a 3D globe with sub-arcsecond ephemeris accuracy. Tower (SkyStack), Metropolis 2K, Apoapsis, Biosphere Blue, and Doctrine round out management, city-building, orbital mechanics, and geopolitical sims — all built by a practicing engineer who documents the real formulas behind each model.
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