Email Games

Email based games have been around almost as long as email. There are a wide variety of free email games, some played like solitaire with yourself, and some multi-player games. The following newsgroups and web sites provide information and resources on email games:

• Google - Play Be Email

• Yahoo - Play By Email

• Combined PBM Archive -- Collects play by mail information

• Eric PAss's PBEM Gamers Directory

• Play Be Email Emporium

• Play By Email -- Wide range of email games.

• Play by Mail Games Homepage -- Includes games broken down into 24 categories, including fantasy, historical, space, sports, and war games.

• rec.games.pbm -- Discusses games played by email

• rec.games.chess.play-by-email -- Covers chess by email

• Richards PBeM Server.