Fictional games

Notable fictional games

Billiards games

• Dom-Jot - , a game similar to bumper pool played on an irregularly-shaped table

  Board games

• Azad - a tactical game featured in the novel The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
• Catch-the-Duke, in Scott Lynch's Red Seas under Red Skies - similar to Chess but much larger: forty White pieces facing forty Black ones on a board forty rows long and wide. Some pieces could be given unusual privileges or movement allowances, as agreed in advance by the players. In the resort of Salon Corbeau is regularly held The Amusement War, games of Catch-the-Duke using live pieces, who are drawn from the poor and destitute; "pieces" removed from the board are subject to public humiliation, beating, torture or rape, to the amusement of the rich and aristocratic spectators.
• Cyvasse - a strategy game in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, which appears to be a combination of Chess and Battleship
• Dejarik or Holochess - a variant of chess played in the Star Wars setting
• Icehouse - The Empty City by Andrew Looney; an example of a fictional game that now exists as a real-world one
• Jetan - a chess-like strategy game from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel The Chessmen of Mars
• Jumanji - a magical board game from the book and movie of the same name, later released in a variant as a real game
• Kadis-kot - a board game first seen in the ' episode "Infinite Regress"
• Liar's Lament – a board game first seen in the Pretty Little Liars episode "Playtime"
• Pai Sho - a strategy game first seen in the ' episode "The Desert"
• Stars and Comets - in Andre Norton novels
• Stealth Chess - a chess variant played in the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild, in which pieces move invisibly; Discworld
• Sazou - A game similar to Chess played on Draconia and Gallifrey in Doctor Who.
• Tadek - a strategy game in the Farscape episode "The Flax" that involves building holographic columns while pushing game pieces around a board; the game can be used for gambling
• Three-Dimensional Chess - a strategy game first seen in the ' episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", later developed into a real game
• Thud - a chess-like game of Trolls and Dwarves appearing in Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name
• Zathura - a Jumanji-like game from the book of the same name and the film '.

  Card games

• Cripple Mr. Onion - Discworld; Fan rules have been created, but are not official, and use ordinary playing cards rather than a Discworld "Caroc" deck.
• Dragon Poker - the MythAdventures books by Robert Asprin
• Fizzbin - '
• Tongo - ' TV series
• Triad - Battlestar Galactica
• Triple Triad - first appearing in the video game Final Fantasy VIII, it can also be played as a minigame in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and Final Fantasy Portal App. In 1999, after the release of Final Fantasy VIII, toy company, Bandai, produced a real Triple Triad card deck. Since the game was only produced in Japan and not readily available in America and Europe, the cards have become rare collector's items.
• Sabacc - a card game used for gambling in Star Wars, and the game in which Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian. Real versions of the game have been produced and can be bought at Disneyland.

  MMORPS/Role-playing games

• Bunkers & Badasses - a parody of Dungeons & Dragons, the central game played in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, a DLC of the video game Borderlands 2
• The Game - a parody of World of Warcraft, the unnamed MMORPG is played by the central characters of The Guild web series
• HackMaster and its many spinoffs - Knights of the Dinner Table
• OASIS - a virtual world and MMORPG featured in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  Sports

Athletic sports

• Assassin's Guild Wall Game - " a cross between squash, urban rock climbing and actual bodily harm", Discworld
• Indoor hang gliding - Geoff Maltby in the television series Benidorm claims to be North West champion of it
• Lifting - popular extreme sport, similar to surfing, but in the air; practitioners ride "reflection boards" on waves of "Transparence Light Particles"; from anime/manga series Eureka Seven
• Taking the Stone - in Farscape, a game played by the youth of an unnamed royal cemetery planet. The game consists of jumping into a deep well, and chanting while falling. To protect a participant from smashing into the bottom of the well and dying, there is a sonic net which is sustained by the participants' voices, and provides a nice soft landing. Well, most of the time.

  Combat sports

• Anbo-Jitsu - ', a one-on-one martial arts combat sport wherein the players are blindfolded and use proximity-detector staves to locate the opponent
• Ape Fighting - from Futurama, a fighting sport involving two apes engaging in pugilistic combat while adorned with comically-undersized costumes and props
• The Hunger Games - from the books and movies of the same name. Each year, adolescents from oppressed districts are forced to fight to the last survivor in an elaborate outdoor arena, itself designed to pose many threats to tributes' lives, for the entertainment of citizens in the wealthy Capitol district.
• The Running Man' - from The Running Man'', the titular television show features convicted criminals fighting for their lives in an arena while being hunted down by professional celebrity mercenaries called "stalkers", presented in the same vein as theme-based pro-wrestlers

  Team ball sports

• 43-Man Squamish - fictional college sport from Mad Magazine
• BASEketball - from the movie of the same name
• Blernsball - 30th-century version of baseball, Futurama, called the "Earthican Pastime"
• Blitzball - Final Fantasy X, a soccer-like game played in a massive sphere of water
• Blitzball - a game created by Phineas in the novel A Separate Peace
• Calvinball - a game where there are only two rules: players must wear masks, and you can never play the same way twice; Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• HyperBlade - an ultraviolent variant of ice hockey played on an ellipsoidal rink with either a puck or a severed head, from the PC game of the same name
• Moopsball - team sport created by Gary Cohn in Rules for Moopsball, referenced in Legion of Superheroes and in Gene Wolfe's There Are Doors
• Pyramid - a basketball-like game featured in Battlestar Galactica
• Quidditch - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, a team sport with four balls and seven players on each team who ride around on broomsticks
• Quodpot - Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling
• Speedball - futuristic and violent mix of handball and hockey featured in the cyberpunk inspired games of the same name
• Zero-Grav Hyperball - A sport played with rackets and balls played on Gallifrey, as shown in Doctor Who.

  Non-team ball sports

• Electro-Magnetic Golf - from Brave New World
• Escalator Squash - from Brave New World
• Igo Soccer - the participants have to do figures with some pebbles and a ball, sport from the Japanese shõnen Nichijō
• Gonnis - A combination of golf and tennis featured in the BBC comedy series Look Around You, a parody of science and technology programming.

  Other sports

• Apopudobalia - encyclopedia fictitious entry
• Bungee Ball - '
• Futuresport - from the movie of the same name
• German batball - from Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan
• Guyball - ball game played by Green Wing's Dr Guy Secretan.
• Hadaul - from Jack Vance's Demon Princes book The Face
• Hussade - from Jack Vance's Alastor series
• Jugger - the movie The Blood of Heroes
• The Game - From Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series of novels; includes almost all known games and competitions; winners of the yearly Tourney get to become Citizens
• The Long Walk - from a Richard Bachman/Stephen King book of the same name
• Motorball - from the Battle Angel Alita manga
• Parrises Squares - an athletic, full-contact sport in Star Trek
• Podracing - violent vehicular racing sport from Star Wars wherein the pilots of "pods" - massive, twin-engined hover vehicles - participate in a high-tech version of chariot racing
• Rollerball - from William Harrison's story "Roller Ball Murder", on which the movie Rollerball was loosely based
• Sky-surfing - appearing in numerous Judge Dredd stories
• Transcontinental Road Race' - Death Race 2000''

  Video games

• The Game - a head-mounted virtual reality game in the ' episode "The Game |The Game"
• Global Thermonuclear War - a military simulation program mistaken for a computer game in WarGames
• Sentries of the Last Cosmos - a VR game in the Batman Beyond episode of the same name. The game and creator are portrayed very similarly to Star Wars and George Lucas.
• Space Paranoids' - an arcade game created by Kevin Flynn and featured in Tron''

  Other games

• Chula - in the ' episode "Move Along Home |Move Along Home"
• The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse's novel of the same name
• Mornington Crescent - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue radio comedy programme
• Poohsticks - Winnie-the-Pooh
• Quis - a building game from the Saga of the Skolian Empire novels by Catherine Asaro involving the laying down of geometric solid shapes in various combinations; rules contain encoded knowledge of one of the former empires in the novel series
• Sej – a dicing game played in Serpent's Reach
• True American' - in New Girl'', a game that is 50% drinking, 50% Candy Land, and also the floor is lava