5 Easy Games you can play with just Paper and a Pen or Pencil

Keep kids occupied with easy games that only require a pencil or a couple sketch pens and few papers. If you want to disconnect from your gadgets or if you're all stuck somewhere, these easy pen and paper games can keep everyone entertained.

These paper and pencil games are perfect for keeping kids entertained on a plane, in the car, or anywhere else. These games will challenge kids and keep them entertained for hours.

📝 Dots & Boxes Game Dots and Boxes is a simple pencil and paper game with a simple goal. At the end of the game who owns the most boxes wins. Dots and dashes, the game of dots, dot to dot grid, boxes, and pigs in a pen are some of the other names for it.

📝 Caterpillar Game Caterpillar is a simple two-player pen-paper game. At the end of the game, the player unable to move loses.

📝 CrossCram Game CrossCram, also known as Stop-Gate, Domineering, is an interesting two-player pen-paper game. At the end of the game, the player unable to move loses.

📝 Stepping Stones Game Stepping Stones, also known as Gale, Bridgit, is a basic two-player connection game. Players take turns in linking dots on overlapping grids. The first player to draw a continuous chain linking their ends of the board wins.

📝 SIM Game Sim is a two-player mathematical game based on Ramsey's Theorem, which was introduced by Gustavus J. Simmons. Players alternately join dots on a hexagon; the first player to complete a triangle in his/her own color loses.