Tile Games
Games centred on drawing and combining tiles: mahjong, dominoes and their many descendants — Rummikub, Mexican Train, Bananagrams and carrom tile play.
10 sports in tile games.
Bananagrams
Fast, cross-word tile game — no board, no turn order. Race to arrange all your letter tiles into a connected grid.
Carrom
South Asian tabletop disc game — flick a striker with your finger to pocket carrom-men into corner nets.
Chicken Foot Dominoes
American domino variant — every hub double sprouts a three-tile 'chicken foot' that must be filled before other plays.
Dominoes
Classic tile-matching game played across cultures worldwide with rectangular tiles divided by a line, each half showing 0-6 (or higher) pips; goal is typically to be first to play all tiles or reach a target score.
Mahjong
Chinese four-player tile game — arrange 14 tiles into four sets and a pair before your opponents, using draws, discards, and locked melds.
Mahjong Solitaire
Single-player tile-matching game — remove pairs of exposed mahjong tiles from a pyramid until the board is empty.
Mexican Train Dominoes
Domino chain-building game — everyone builds their own private 'train' plus a shared Mexican train.
Rummikub
Tile-based rummy game for 2-4 players invented in 1930s Romania by Ephraim Hertzano; players race to be first to lay down all their tiles by forming sets (same number, different colours) and runs (consecutive numbers, same colour).
Scrabble
The classic word-building board game — form crossword-style words on a 15×15 grid using seven lettered tiles per rack, scoring for length, letters and premium squares.
Triominos
Triangular Domino variant — each tile has three numbered corners, matched to adjacent tiles along their edges.