# Bulletin Board Games

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bulletin-board-games/245737>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2004, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bulletin-board-games/245737 "2004-05-18T10:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bulletin-board-games/245737/1 "2004-05-18T10:11:11Z")

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I run a Bulletin Board with over 2000+ members and when things get a little stale I come up with ‘games’ to keep people busy. Most of the time they are just based around sports events with members guessing who will beat whom.

What I was hoping to do is create a game of sorts where members would use email (or PM) to play a type of Play-by-Email game but while I’l found links to PBM sites, very few have tools to download to set up such games.

To those who don’t understand, I’m basically lookng for a gaming system where, ley’s say, 100 people would each send an e-mail indicating their turns or moves, as though playing chess, and process them and post the results.

Has anyone had any experience of this?

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bulletin-board-games/245737/2 "2004-05-18T10:17:29Z")

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Good question; I would have thought there’d be more play-by-email options for you. But have you ever used Door Games? The old-school (!) BBSs used them all the time: [www.bbsmates.com](http://www.bbsmates.com) has a few.