About
I searched for a simple chess game for my eReader — but all I found were people searching, not playing. So I built my own. That’s how PaperGames was born, and I’m happy to share it with everyone. It has since grown into a small collection of E-Ink-friendly board games, with more planned.
A small, dependency-free collection of classic board, strategy, and puzzle games made for E-Ink displays like Tolino, Boox and PocketBook: high contrast, no animations, and it keeps working with no internet connection once you've opened it.
No ads, no account, and nothing about you is recorded. Once it has loaded, everything keeps working without internet. The computer never plays on by itself: stop whenever you like and carry on hours later, exactly where you left off. The source code is open.
Available in 12 languages
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Calm play: no animations, no sounds, no ads
Which e-readers PaperGames has been tested on - and how you can check yours
Chess piece set (“cburnett”) by Colin M.L. Burnett, used under the BSD license (three clauses; the full text is in the file NOTICE). Xiangqi symbol-style pieces: original drawings by Inductiveload, adapted per piece by Kadagaden (github.com/Kadagaden/chess-pieces), under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Shogi piece kanji: adapted from the “kanji_light” set by Kadagaden (github.com/Kadagaden/shogi-pieces), under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Minesweeper and FreeCell home-page icons by Skoll and Aussiesim, from game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0).
This website and its source code are licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 (license text in the file LICENSE). Parts by other authors, such as piece sets and icons, keep their own licenses; they are listed in the file NOTICE. PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 · LICENSE · NOTICE
PaperGames's online chess feature runs on lichess.org's public API. PaperGames is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by Lichess.
The history pages mention names of commercial games to place the origin of a game principle in context. Some of these names are registered trademarks of their respective owners. PaperGames is not affiliated with these owners and is not endorsed, sponsored or reviewed by them. All games here are independent implementations; no material from commercial editions is used.
Device and browser names such as Kindle, Kobo, Tolino, Boox, PocketBook and Chrome are trademarks of their respective owners. They are mentioned only to say on which devices and in which browsers PaperGames works. PaperGames is not affiliated with these owners and is not endorsed, sponsored or reviewed by them.