Card and puzzle games are very popular, and Xubuntu has a large collection of such games for you to choose from. A list of some of the more popular games available is given below.
Aisleriot, also known as Solitaire or Patience, is a collection of single-player card games which are easy to learn and fun to play.
Blackjack is a multiple deck, casino-rules blackjack game. The object is to hold cards having a higher count than those of the dealer, without going over 21. Face card plus an Ace equals 21, Blackjack!
Freecell is another Solitaire game which is very popular on the Windows™ platform.
KPatience is a collection of various patience games known worldwide. Games include Klondike, Freecell, Yukon, forty and Eight and many more.
KPoker follows the rules of the original Poker game. The game provides a computer player and various card decks.
Lieutnant Skat is a two player card game which follows the rules of the German game, (Offiziers)-Skat. The game includes various card decks and a computer opponent can play for any of the players.
Atlantik is an open-source game client for the Monopoly™-like board games played on the monopd network.
Chess (or glChess) is a chess game where you can play against the computer or against other players. Chess detects and uses known third-party chess engines for computer players, and can show the chess board in 2D or 3D.
KBackgammon follows the rules of the popular boardgame, and supports multiplayer games and games against computer engines such as GNU bg, as well as other online games.
KBlackbox is a logical game of hide-and-seek, inspired by emacs blackbox and played on a grid of boxes.
Kenolaba is a two-player tactical game which follows the rules of Abalone, where players try to shove their opponents' pieces from the game board.
KMahjongg is a clone of the well known tile-based patience game of the same name. Your goal is to empty the board by matching pieces with the same pattern.
KReversi is a two player game in which players gain the majority of pieces on the board by tactically placing their pieces in order to turn over their opponent's pieces.
KWin4, or Four wins, is a two player game which follows the rules of the famous Connect Four™ game. Align four pieces of the same color to win!
Mahjongg is a single-player version of the classic tile game. The objective is to select pairs of similar tiles.
Shishen-Sho is similar to Mahjongg, and is played by removing all tiles from the field, two at a time, by matching tiles of the same type.
Anagramarama is a fast-paced word game in which you must make as many words as possible from a series of jumbled letters. If you find the longest word possible, you can move on to the next level.
Atomix is a puzzle game where you must join up a series of atoms to make certain molecules. However, the atoms can only be moved in certain ways, making complex molecules a challenge to construct. No knowledge of chemistry is required.
KAtomic is a thinking game similar to Atomix, where you have to form chemical molecules out of atoms. This is done by moving each atom in a labyrinth until you have formed a complete molecule.
Sudoku is a popular number puzzle game. Use logic to complete a grid of numbers so that each row, column and large square contains the numbers one to nine.