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General

Denobulan

Denobulan Wild-card

  • Card game (VAN Novel: Harbinger)

Ferengi

Dabo

  • Roulette-like game of chance (Various)

Human

Fencing

Inner Planets championship

  • Annual Sol system fencing tournament across inhabitants of Earth and Mars (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
  • Winner receives a platinum belt (TLE Novel: The Sundered)

Klingon

Grinnak

  • Some form of card game analogue played for money (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Romulan

Latrunculo

  • Board-based strategy game, possibly similar to chess (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)

Trill

  • Trill use gaming tiles rather than cards for sleight of hand (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Wusher

  • Sport (TNG Novel: A Time to Sow)

Vulcan

Kal-toh

  • Puzzle game (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do; VOY)
    • Known by 22nd century (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Involves the placement of t'an rods producing deterministic rearrangements of core structure (VOY; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
    • Win state is to reproduce the ordered goal arrangement of concentric nested icosidodecahedra connected at their edges (VOY: "Riddles")

Unknown

3D polo

  • Gravity boot-based team sport akin to water polo (SCE Short Story: "Here There Be Monsters")
  • Starfleet Academy team by mid-24th century (SCE Short Story: "Here There Be Monsters")

Dom-jot

  • Billiards-like game of skill (Various)

Hoverball

  • Sport (DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."; VOY: "Maneuvers", "Remember", "Unity", "Waking Moments"; VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Hurdleleap

  • Sport (VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Loft circles

  • Sport (VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Parrises squares

  • High-impact sport (TNG: "Future Imperfect", "Timescape"; VOY: "Real Life", "Tsunkatse"; VOY Novel: Mosaic)
    • Existed by 2273 (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Requires two teams of four players (TNG: "11001001")
  • Play involves use of an ion mallet (TNG: "Future Imperfect"; VOY: "Tsunkatse")
  • Field is ramped (TNG: "Future Imperfect")
  • Starfleet Academy team by early 24th century (TNG: "The First Duty")

Six-Card Warhoon

  • Poker-like card game (NF Novel: House of Cards)

Velocity

  • Target-shooting and evasion game (VOY: "Hope and Fear", "Night", "The Disease", "Pathfinder"; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
    • Existed by late 2360s (VOY: "The Disease")