The Crab Fragment Map Room

“If you can’t find it here., we’re not trying hard enough!”

A map of Crab Fragment Cay

Welcome to the center of everything.

The Map Room is located on the main floor of Crab Fragment Cay’s friendliest destination, the Cliffside Hideaway Resort! Our island has many beautiful destinations, and we have built this extensive Map Room to help you find them.

GAMES:

  • The Shop: A store filled with free game PDFs that you may also buy.

  • Games Page: The main landing page for all games, with links to category pages:

  • You can find an alphabetical list of Crab Fragment Games just below, and a list of the Cheapass Games at the Game Preserve.

Points of Interest:

  • Schedule: James Ernest’s complete travel and convention schedule

  • Blog: Read about James Ernest’s thoughts and adventures

  • Lecture Hall: Practical design articles and videos

  • Library: Works of fiction and things to read

  • Gallery: James Ernest’s graphic design portfolio

  • Boutique: Bespoke game designs for the ultra-wealthy

  • About Us: Learn who we think we are and what we think we’re doing

External Links:

  • Patonage: Our Patreon page. Patrons earn early access and wholesome joy

  • Print Shop: Order our games from DriveThruCards

  • Gift Shop: Buy Crab Fragment merchandise at Zazzle

  • Cinema: View James Ernest’s YouTube channel.

  • Post Office: To join our electronic mailing list, please click the link at the bottom of any page.

The Entire Games List

The Squrespace search box is a fickle demon whom we have not yet learned to appease. So if there’s a particular game you’re looking for, here’s a list of every title. If you are looking for something you can’t find, please let us know.

Crab Fragment Games

  • After the Fog: A large territory-control game for 2-6 players

  • Agents of the Crown: A fast-playing political game for 4 players, using a standard poker deck

  • Barcelona: A two-player bluffing game for the poker deck, found at the Ready Room

  • Baronet: A trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Bishop: A trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Bitin’ Off Hedz: An update to the classic Cheapass dinosaur racing game

  • Blossom Deck: A 6-suited deck related to the Island Deck

  • Bread Basket: A cute little sandwich-making card game

  • Bulldog: A gambling game for the Blossom Deck, found with the Island Deck

  • Chevalier: A trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Cold Comfort: A strategy board game about hospitality in the Yukon

  • Copper Creek: A town-building tile game for 3 to 6 players

  • Coralon: The basic trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Cowards: A two-player bluffing game for the Blossom Deck, found with the Island Deck

  • Down the Well: A family game for the Island Deck

  • Ducks and Geese: A trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Ducks in a Bucket: A press-your-luck dice game for 2-6 players

  • El Oso: A solitaire board game

  • Fairmarket: A three-suited deck with several games, including one called Fairmarket

  • FALLING: A real-time game where everyone is falling and the object is to hit the ground last

  • Fightopia: A two-player abstract, one of the tiny free games at the Ready Room

  • Fist: A chess-like game from The Verdigris Pawn, by Alysa Wishingrad

  • Flip: A two-player abstract game, one of the tiny free games at the Ready Room

  • The Forest: A driving game, one of several described in this 2021 blog post.

  • The Fractured Flat: An abstract area-control board game

  • Gloria Mundi: A board game about the fall of Rome for 2-6 players, now in English!

  • Gunfight: A shootout game with a poker deck, one of the tiny free games at the Ready Room

  • The Harvest: A compact strategy game in just 36 cards

  • Holdout: A gambling game for the Postas Deck, found on the Vines page

  • Island Deck: A six-suited deck with several original games

  • Letter Boxing: A clever word game with bluffing, for two players

  • Linos: An abstract game of twelve stones

  • Littlebeard: A sailing miniatures game for your own favorite minis

  • Lobo: A solitaire game for the Postas Deck, found on the Vines page

  • Mapple: An abstract area-control game played with pocket change

  • Pairs: A collection of more than 50 games that aren’t on this list!

  • Papa: A trick-taking game for the Whispers deck

  • Paradise Road: A dice-based road rally game for 2 to 4 players.

  • Pennywise: A classic change-making game, one of the tiny free games at the Ready Room

  • Pirate’s Bluff: A lightning-fast bluffing game for 3-8 players

  • Poker Decks: We made some. Learn about them on the Pub Games page

  • Postas: A version of the Vines Deck with its own list of original games

  • Powderkeg: A gambling game for the Island Deck

  • Prima Carta: A gambling game for the Postas Deck, found on the Vines page

  • Prudh: A classic-style abstract game with 36 pieces and 36 spaces

  • Queensland: A two-player abstract game, one of the free games at the Ready Room

  • Rochi: A gambling game from fiction by Sonia Lyris, now in public beta

  • Sandy Diggs: A puzzle game of adventures and archaeology

  • Scurro: A gambling game with the Fairmarket deck

  • Shipwrights of Marino: A game about shipbuilding for 2-5 players, now in public beta

  • Showboat: A family game for the Island Deck

  • Stage Blood: A clever card game about managing Shakespearean actors

  • Sophisticuffs: An instantaneous icebreaker game for your next special event

  • Tablero di Berona: A simple abstract board game for 2 players

  • Tak: A Beautiful Game: A famously awesome abstract game from The Kingkiller Chronicle

  • Take-Back-Toe: A two-player absrtract game, one of the tiny free games at the Ready Room

  • Thief: A trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Tomb of the Ancients: Previous title for Sandy Diggs

  • Tresotti: A trick-taking game with the Fairmarket Deck

  • Up and Down: A trick-taking game with the Vines Deck

  • Vines: A collection of trick-taking games with a five-suited deck

  • Whispers: A gambling game with an eight-suited deck

  • Witch Trial: An old-fashioned lawyering game for 3-6 players

  • Young Jacob Marley: A moneylending game for 2-6 players

Cheapass Games (Back Catalog)

  • Please visit Cheapassic Park, our island game preserve, for the complete list of Cheapass Games. It’s even longer than this one.