Print and play games

Every game on this page is complete as it comes: the board, a full deck of cards where the game uses one, and for most of them a score sheet and a tuck box. Add one to ShuffleKit and change any question, rule or picture before you print it.

Games
Twelve: a trivia game, an Islamic quiz game, a trick-or-treat card game, a space race and a pirate treasure hunt for kids, a property-trading game, a roll-and-move game round a pond for young players, a Día de los Muertos race, a Halloween race, snakes and ladders, ludo and parchís, and the Game of the Goose
In the template
Boards at 8 × 8 in and cards at poker size, plus tokens or standees, a die, a score sheet and a tuck box where the game uses them
Also needed
Cardstock and scissors; a die and a counter per player for the games that come without them
Output
Edit in the browser, play a test game online, export a print PDF with cut lines

12 templates

Witbloom Trivia Game Template preview
WitbloomTrivia Game

A printable trivia game with 48 questions and answers in six categories: geography, science, history, sport, the arts, and food and drink. It is a whole board game to make your own, in a bright party look: a game board at 8 × 8 inches where one track runs round a four-petal flower over a painted garden, with a START in each corner and the bloom in the middle as the goal; trivia cards at poker size, each with its question, its answer and its points, on one front and one back that take the category's colour; a half-inch chit for each of four light bulb pawns; a six-sided number die; a score sheet for four players or teams; and a poker tuck box laid out flat on its dieline. Every question and answer is text you can retype or import from a spreadsheet, and the garden and the box cover are pictures you can swap. Comes with 48 sample questions, eight in each category, and the rules to play it as it ships.

12 designs1 sample board48 sample cards4 sample tokens1 sample die1 sample score pad1 sample box16 fields
Dunewise Islamic Quiz Game Template preview
DunewiseIslamic Quiz Game

A printable Islamic quiz game with forty trivia questions on the Quran, the Prophets, the Pillars, history and manners, for family game night or a Ramadan quiz. It is a whole game to make your own, in the bright cartoon look of a children's picture book: a game board at 8 × 8 inches with a caravan trail of coloured spaces over a painted desert map, from a tent camp to a masjid; question cards at poker size in five categories (Quran, Prophets, Pillars, History and Manners), each with its question, its answer and its points, on one front and one back that take the category's colour; a one-inch chit that is every lantern pawn and every star; a six-sided category die; a score sheet for four players; and a poker tuck box laid out flat on its dieline. Every question, answer and rule is text you can retype or import from a spreadsheet, and the map and the cover are columns you can swap. Comes with forty sample questions, eight in each category, and no people drawn anywhere.

12 designs1 sample board40 sample cards5 sample tokens1 sample die1 sample score pad1 sample box16 fields
Sugarhaunt Printable Halloween Game Template preview
SugarhauntPrintable Halloween Game

A whole trick-or-treat card game to print and make your own, in golden harlequin and candy colours: a game board at 8 × 8 inches with a haunted candy street, Doorstep and Porch spaces at true card size and a six-round track to midnight; Treat, Trick and Costume cards at poker size with a back for the deck and a back for the hands; a one-inch Candy and Fright token; a score sheet for five players; and a poker tuck box laid out flat on its dieline. Everyone shows a Scare card at once, matching numbers clash, the highest number nobody matched takes the Treat and the lowest takes the Trick. Every name, number and rule is text you can retype, and every picture is a column you can swap. Comes with the board, 41 sample cards in five costumes, two kinds of token, the score sheet and the box.

9 designs1 sample board41 sample cards2 sample tokens1 sample score pad1 sample box20 fields
Cometcaper Space Board Game Template preview
CometcaperSpace Board Game

A printable space board game for kids with 40 space fact cards: race your rocket past the planets to a comet, and put space history in order by year. It is a whole roll-and-move game to make your own, in a bright picture-book look: a game board at 8 × 8 inches where a trail of glowing spaces runs from a launch pad on Earth past the Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to the comet; poker-size star cards in three kinds on one back, where each Mission card prints a real milestone over its year (from Galileo's telescope in 1610 to the first landing near the Moon's south pole) and Boost and Asteroid cards send a rocket ahead or back; a rocket standee for each of four players; a six-sided number die; a score sheet for ticking off the planets; and a poker tuck box laid out flat on its dieline. Every fact and year is text you can retype or import from a spreadsheet, and the starry sky and the box cover are pictures you can swap. Comes with 54 sample cards and the rules to play it as it ships.

14 designs1 sample board54 sample cards4 sample tokens1 sample die1 sample score pad1 sample box17 fields
Knucklecove Pirate Board Game Template preview
KnucklecovePirate Board Game

A whole pirate treasure hunt for kids to print and make your own, in jungle green and sunny gold: a game board at 8 × 8 inches with a sandy trail of numbered spaces across an island map from the shipwreck to the pirate's chest, with card, crab and vine spaces; challenge, boost, shield and busted cards at poker size with one back; an explorer standee for each player; a treasure tally score sheet; and a poker tuck box laid out flat on its dieline. Roll and move, stop on a card space and draw: thumb-wrestle your nearest rival to leap ahead, grab springy sandals, or slip on a banana and slide back. Every name, number and rule is text you can retype, and every picture is a column you can swap. Comes with the board, 20 sample cards, four explorers, the score sheet and the box.

9 designs1 sample board20 sample cards4 sample tokens1 sample score pad1 sample box17 fields
Hueborough Make Your Own Board Game Template preview
HueboroughMake Your Own Board Game

A whole property-trading game to make your own: two game boards at 8 × 8 inches and the cards that go with them at poker size. The Loop board is forty spaces with the colours running round the ring from red to violet: twenty-two streets in eight colour groups with their prices, four stations, two utilities, two taxes, Fortune and Treasury spaces and four corners. The Junction adds a diamond of sixteen spaces through the middle that meets the ring at the stations. The cards are Fortune and Treasury decks, each with its own back, and a title deed for every street whose colour band follows its Group column. Every name, price and rule is text you can retype. Comes with two sample boards and 24 sample cards.

9 designs2 sample boards24 sample cards8 fields
Mossmere Printable Game Board Template preview
MossmerePrintable Game Board

Three printable roll-and-move game boards at 8 × 8 inches, drawn as a night forest round a pond, and a deck of poker-size action cards to play them with: a spiral of stepping stones winding in to a lily pond, a trail that switchbacks up the board to a pond in the corner, and a loop round a lake. Some stones carry a heart, a broken heart, a pair of eyes or cracks, and dashed arrows mark shortcuts. When a roll ends on a marked stone the player draws a card: a Lucky card moves them on or gives them a heart, an Oops card sets them back, each in a few words a young player can read. Each board's name and its goal sit on a stone sign you can retype, and every card's name and action are text too. Comes with three sample boards and 20 sample cards.

7 designs3 sample boards20 sample cards6 fields
Velada Día de los Muertos Game Template preview
VeladaDía de los Muertos Game

A whole Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) race game to print and make your own: three roll-and-move game boards at 8 × 8 inches and two decks of poker-size cards in the same folk art. The boards are four roads of coloured tiles that start in the corners and spiral in together to a sugar-skull medallion, one long spiral in four colours, and a loop round an altar of candles and marigolds under papel picado flags. Land on a marigold tile and draw an Ofrenda card, on a skull and draw a Calavera card; each deck has its own back, and the candle and sun tiles are left for your own rules. Every name, goal and card is text you can retype. Comes with three sample boards and 18 sample cards.

8 designs3 sample boards18 sample cards6 fields
Wispwood Halloween Board Game Template preview
WispwoodHalloween Board Game

Two printable Halloween roll-and-move game boards at 8 × 8 inches in a 1950s cartoon style, on a flocked turquoise ground of bare trees, tombstones and bats: a four-player race where each ghost starts on a corner swirl, goes once round a shared loop and turns in along its own coloured path to the haunted house in the middle, and one road winding up a hill to the house with arrows that lift you up a row or drop you back. Asterisk squares along both paths are there for your own rules. Each board's name and goal are text you can retype on its pennant, the Board Type column picks which board a row gets, and both share one back. Comes with two sample boards, one of each.

3 designs2 sample boards3 fields
Ladderlark Snakes and Ladders Board Template preview
LadderlarkSnakes and Ladders Board

Two snakes and ladders boards of a hundred squares at 8 × 8 inches. The Spiral board runs its squares in a square spiral from Start in the corner to the trophy at 100, three rings of white-edged strips on a pale aqua ground, every square a flat pastel with its number and a cartoon picture of an animal, a vehicle, a food or a toy, and a plaque in the middle with the board's name and the rules. The Grid board is the classic ten-by-ten, numbered from the bottom left and snaking up a row at a time, under a banner with the board's name. Both come with their snakes and ladders drawn on, the Board Type column picks which board a row gets, and both share one back. Comes with two sample boards, one of each.

3 designs2 sample boards3 fields
Grainholt Ludo Board Template preview
GrainholtLudo Board

Two printable ludo boards at 8 × 8 inches in wood marquetry, with a walnut frame round an ash field and a home lane and nest in each of four woods (zebrawood, padauk, burl and yellowheart): classic Ludo, a cross of 52 squares with arrowed starts and five-square home lanes, and Spanish Parchís, 68 numbered squares wide enough for a blockade, twelve ringed safe squares and seven-square home lanes. The back is a marquetry chessboard, so a printed board turns over for chess or draughts. Each board's name is inlaid in the frame on all four sides as text you can retype, and the Board Type column picks which board a row gets. Comes with two sample boards, one of each.

3 designs2 sample boards2 fields
Scrollwick Game of the Goose Template preview
ScrollwickGame of the Goose

Two roll-and-move race boards at 8 × 8 inches, on the goose game's spiral of sixty-three spaces from a Start corner to the goal. The Feed board captions every space with a step in a social media career, from a first post to a book deal, and keeps the goose game's special spaces at their usual numbers under new names: Boosts that send you on and roll again, a Shared link, Double tap and five setbacks on black tiles. The Classic board numbers every plain space, ready for your own, and names only the traditional Stars, Bridge, Dice, Inn, Well, Maze, Prison and Pitfall. Every caption is text you can retype, the middle of each board holds its name, a legend of the special spaces and how to play, the Board Type column picks which board a row gets, and both share one back. Comes with two sample boards, one of each.

3 designs2 sample boards3 fields

From this page to a game on the table

Each game is a template, so it arrives editable. The questions, the card text and the board labels sit in a sheet, one row per card, and you can rewrite any of them before anyone plays.

  1. Pick a game and add it

    Free. It copies the board, the cards and the game's other parts into a project of your own, each kind in its own collection.

  2. Make it yours

    Retype a question, change what a card does, or import a spreadsheet of your own questions. Every picture is a column you can swap.

  3. Play a test game online

    Load it on ShuffleKit's online table and invite friends from a link, so a rule gets tried before anything is printed.

  4. Print it

    On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with cut lines and print it on cardstock. On Indie, order it printed through Print & Ship instead.

What is in each game

The parts each template holds as it comes. Anything not listed here, a die or counters for the race games, is what you add from home.

GameWhat it isWhat the template holds
WitbloomTrivia board game for two to four players or teamsBoard, 48 question cards in six categories, die, pawns, score sheet, tuck box
DunewiseIslamic quiz game for two to four playersBoard, 40 question cards in five categories, category die, pawns, score sheet, tuck box
SugarhauntTrick-or-treat card game for three to five playersBoard, 41 cards, a Candy and Fright token, score sheet, tuck box
CometcaperSpace race for kids, two to four playersBoard, 54 cards with 40 dated space facts, die, rocket standees, score sheet, tuck box
KnucklecovePirate treasure hunt for kids, two to four playersBoard, 20 cards, explorer standees, score sheet, tuck box
HueboroughProperty-trading gameTwo boards, Fortune and Treasury decks, a title deed for every street
MossmereRoll-and-move game for young playersThree boards round a pond, 20 Lucky and Oops cards
VeladaDía de los Muertos race gameThree boards, 18 Ofrenda and Calavera cards
WispwoodHalloween race gameTwo boards: a four-player race to a haunted house and a road up a hill
LadderlarkSnakes and laddersTwo boards of a hundred squares
GrainholtLudo and parchísTwo boards, with a chessboard on the back
ScrollwickThe Game of the GooseTwo boards of 63 spaces

Print at actual size, not "fit to page", so the cards come out at poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 inches, and the boards at 8 × 8. Hueborough's trades need play money, which Fernmint, the printable play money template, prints in seven bills from $1 to $500.

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Questions about print and play games

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Are these print and play games free?

They are free to add, edit and play online in ShuffleKit. Printing one takes a print-ready PDF, which comes with the Hobby plan, and on Indie you can also order the game printed through Print & Ship.

What do I need to print and play one?

A printer, cardstock and scissors, or a paper trimmer for straighter edges. Print at actual size so the cards come out at 2.5 × 3.5 inches. The games that come without a die or tokens need a six-sided die and a counter for each player.

Can I change the questions and the rules?

Yes. Every card is a row in a sheet, so you can retype a question, change an answer or import a spreadsheet of your own. The board labels and every picture can be changed too, and the game stays one project.

Which games suit young children?

Mossmere, Cometcaper and Knucklecove are written for young players, with short card text and roll-and-move rules. Snakes and ladders and ludo need no reading at all.

Can I play them online before I print?

Yes. Load a game on ShuffleKit's online table and the people you invite join from a link in their browser, so you can try a rule change before you print it.

Can I make my own print and play game from one of these?

Yes, that is what they are for. Start from the game closest to yours, keep the parts you need and redesign the rest. The board, the cards and the box stay together in one project.

Ready to build your card game?

Open any template above, or start from a blank deck at the same printable size.