Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Rulebook.io
Community-curated board game rules
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Rulebook.io launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
2025 · detective.wiki · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I have started FBG some years ago when I moved to the Bay Area and could not find a simple, cross-platform, no-registration way to play board games with my friends back in my home country. I also wanted to make it simple to create multiplayer board games online for developers in their free time. Shortly after, I found out about boardgame.io with similar goals and decided to join forces with them. It became the engine of our board games, and we focused on publishing/serving them. To be fair with everyone and inspired by Wikipedia, we made the project a non-profit with GPLv3…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Investigates the myriad board games around the world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone, Dipesh and Siddarth here. We are building PlayBooks (https://github.com/DrDroidLab/playbooks), an open source tool to write executable notebooks for on-call investigations / remediations instead of Google Docs or Wikis. There’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-wOtIm1gk, and our docs are here: https://docs.drdroid.io/docs/playbooks We were in YC’s W23 batch working on a data lakehouse with support for dynamic log schemas. Eventually we realized it was a product in search of a market and decided to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go. If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)
2025 · abstractboardgames.com · its alternatives →
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I'm the original author of DD Poker, a Java-based computer game that ran on Mac, Linux and Windows and originally sold in stores in physical boxes. I shut down the backend servers in 2017 but the game is still functional and people can still play each other online even though the central lobby and find-a-game functionality no longer work. I've been asked over the years to release the source code, especially during the pandemic, and again this year. I finally got motivated to clean up the code and put it out there. The code is 20 years old and uses some ancient Spring, log4j, Wicket and other…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · ourboard.io · its alternatives →
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Ask any board game rule, get a sourced answer in seconds
Jun 2026 · boardlawapp.com · its alternatives →
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Create board game rules and covers with machine learning
2020 · its alternatives →
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CardRules+▲111Your go-to application for card game rules & score tracking
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Board games that teach pupils about politics
2022 · perspectives-in-play.com · its alternatives →
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BreakBase.com. Play your favorite games, with anyone you
2012 · breakbase.com · its alternatives →
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My personal project: https://github.com/leonidasdeim/chasse Goal was to build session based chessboard game without any rules - to play just like oldschool over the board. Just create new board and share link with a friend. I would appreciate any feedback and github star. Thanks!
2023 · chasse.fun · its alternatives →
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Free & open-source analysis tool for Scrabble & Literaki
2023 · scrabble-solver.org · its alternatives →
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Instant board game rules — no more mid-game arguments
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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We built RuleHunt to search for interesting cellular automata rules using tiktok-style engagement monitoring. The first rule shown is Conway’s Game of Life. As you scroll, you will see other random rules – the search space is 2^512. Help us find good rule heuristics by starring the ones you like! On mobile it's a tiktok-like scrolling interface; on desktop it's an interface for targeted rule searching. Starred rules go to a global leaderboard. GitHub repo: https://github.com/rulehunt/rulehunt
2025 · rulehunt.org · its alternatives →
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I wanted to learn more about RAG implementations, so I built something to solve the constant digging through manuals whenever we play a game. It's fairly simplistic, but actually has worked pretty well for some of these conflicts. Everythings Open Source on GitHub if you're curious (or have ideas), and I'd love to hear feedback from fellow boardgamers!
2024 · gamegame.ai · its alternatives →
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Like Zoom, but considerably more fun. Share a link with a friend or family member to play instant board games.
2021 · gamesroom.io · its alternatives →
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We release an open source version of Andrej Karparthy's open knowledge base, and we scale it to support long PDFs with Pageindex. Any feedback is welcome to help us improve this project! Github repo: https://github.com/VectifyAI/OpenKB
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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Search, chat, and record your tabletop RPG sessions
May 2026 · lorepanic.com · its alternatives →
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Play a pen-and-paper game with other people around the world
2024 · paper-tactics.com · its alternatives →
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