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Bez Shahriari
Board Game Geek
Body Percussion
Bruno Faidutti
Holly Gramazio
Itch.io
Karaoke
Memory
Modular Synth and Studio
Notation Cards
Oblique Strategies
Rhythm game
RPG
Rule Cards
The Art of Adaptation
Tonic (Card Set)
Toy Instruments

A Clave de Candombe	Emanuel Sánchez	rare	A rhythm game with traditional South American inspirations
Ani Beee, Ani Meee	Federica Monzio Compagnoni	sold	A game based on animal sounds themed around playing in a band
Aphorisms Decks	Robert Fripp	sold	Guitar Craft Aphorisms are loose, inspirational rule cards and have three decks/parts: Discipline, Silence, Love
Are You Phrazy? Holiday Carols Edition	Dave Rockenbaugh	rare	A game based on singing existing songs about winter
Art of Noises	Kim Foale	free	A limited communication game with a Creative Commons license
Benny Goodman Swings into a Game of Musical Information		rare	Game of musical challenges on popular songs and classical music, like guessing a song played on a xylophone
Biff Baff		sold	A rhythm game where you drum on the box
Burmeister cards	Elam Rotem	sold	Cards showcasing a theory from early music sources
Cacophony		sold	Noisy charades with physical constraints
Card Games	Christopher Walker	free	a modern card composition with a Creative Commons license
Cascade	rpgnatalie	sold	A vowel-based songmaking game with roles for hero, monster, and chorus
Chief Boom Pat-a-bang	Stefan Dorra Manfred Reindl	rare	Native American setting, a drum, and rhythm recognition
Cinematique	Alan Skinner Linda Skinner	sold	Comes with kazoos for film-related tune guessing
CopyCat	Scott Hughes	sold	A call-and-response card game to teach ear training, from the author of Tonic
Cute Comical Creatures	Bez Shahriari	sold	A redrawn version of A game about WEE WHIMSICAL CREATURES and trying to identify them after someone makes noises
Das Neunundneunzigmusikspiel	Lee-Sean Huang	free	A goose roll-and-move game made of 99 carefully chosen musical prompts
Ding Dong Forest	Dietlind Löbker	rare	Two toy instruments and five educational games to be facilitated by the adult
Disney Song Challenge		sold	Karaoke with additional challenges narrowed down to a single source of repertoire
Dixit	Jean-Louis Roubira	sold	With many extensions this game is a huge set of inspire cards, rules allow musical play although by default it's for speaking
Do It for the Music	David Berg	free	An RPG about a band on a jazz-rock scale, with encouraging options for music-making
Dragons of Despair	Tracy Hickman Carl Smith et al	rare	An AD&D module with music provided to be sang by one of the characters
Drakkar Tum Tum	Alexander F. Francisco	sold	A rhythm game done in sync to recitation, with a rowing boat setting
echoes: The Dancer	Matthew Dunstan Dave Neale	sold	The first in a series of "audio mystery games" to solve through listening but with some influence on what sample is being played
Empty Orchestra	Jeff Stormer	mix	A free-form LARP of karaoke and revolution
Encore		sold	Song association with many titles seeked to a single word
Etudes	Sharon Gal	sold	Cues deck with occasional non-standard, involved typography and Tarot inspirations
Fairy Prank	Jeremie Kletzkine	sold	Charming game of found sound and listening
FiveLines	Takashi Saito	sold	Music-themed rhythm game played to a backing track (now as: Hey Yo)
Flail and Wail	Dave Rockenbaugh	rare	A rhythm game with a CD and a transparent maraca with a dice inside
FlipSpark: Music Production		rare	An announced Kickstarter project for the studio game with 4 types of cards
Four Sung Mechanics	Eleanor Estragon	free	Playtesting version of token mechanics suitable for RPGs
Grand Staff Flash Cards	Kasper Hviid	free	A set of helpful notation cards for treble and bass clefs
GSG Strategy Jam Cards	Actitect	sold	Rule cards targeted at live electronic jamming with polished graphics
Hard to be the Bard	J.D. Mills Nate Trier et al.	sold	A campaign for D&D with options of running it as a musical (and backing tracks)
Heroic Echoic	David B. H. Barton	sold	Assemble a super-hero team by playing cards with sound effects from comics
Hossa!	Andrea Meyer	sold	A cooperative song association game
Host Your Own Music Night		rare	Many modes, props, and four kazoos for song recognition
If It Wasn't For...	Starshine Scribbles	sold	A cooperative storytelling game about drunken singing and nostalgic tales
Igloo Pop	Heinz Meister Klaus Zoch	rare	Listening to igloo-shaped maracas
Images	Peter Brötzmann	rare	Integrates with the game Signs (visual cues)
Improvisation & Composition Inspiration Cards	Joy Morin	free	A set of clip-arts for piano teaching studio
Instant Songs	Olusanya Blessing Oluwafemi	rare	Song association with options
Jammonit!	nemoinslumber	free	Genre, instrument, and structure constraints for writing and performing a song
Jazz: The Singing Card Game	Anxietydecending	rare	A memory game organized around scat vocals
Juego de Tonos	Agustín Lozano	sold	A universal deck for musical activities based on pitch classes.
Karaokards	Ste Curran Holly Gramazio	rare	A game for karaoke with combining cues
Kazoo That Tune		rare	Guessing songs played on kazoos
Kleine Musik-Maher	Dietlind Löbker	rare	German children game with four bells
Lyryx	Craig Candelaria	rare	Song association with a sand timer and player elimination
Maracas	Bruno Faidutti Hervé Marly	sold	A listening and guessing game with percussion but minimum musical performance
Mixtape	Ian Feral	mix	A humming karaoke game with a little bit of roleplay on top
Morgan Page Quick Tips	Morgan Page	sold	48 cards with longer tips from a Grammy-nominated producer
Muse	Jordan Sorenson	sold	Beautiful set of inspire cards; one of inspirations explicitly tells to hum a melody
Music, A Role-Playing Game	Jared Sinclair	mix	Thinking-only, a reflexive RPG like an old-school event
Music Bravo	Rrrrrose Azerty	mix	Rule cards and inspire cards combined
Music City	Ian Howard	rare	A full musical micro-game made as a promo for a board gaming convent
Music Rocks		rare	A set of dice with words/objects frequently occurring in popular songs
Musical Casino:The Major-Minor Game	Carl W. Grimm	rare	Notation cards for forming chords and hand management.
Musical Multiverse of Mayhem	Ross A Coulbeck	mix	On an adventure between the worlds, find a proper tune for a given setting
Musical RPG in 12 words	odolany	free	A nano-RPG (here, limited to only 12 words due to game jam concept).
Muzoracle	J. S. Kingfisher	rare	The Tarot of Music, system with cards and dice
Muzundrum	J. S. Kingfisher	rare	Theory-only. This game introduced the 12-sided Musician's Dice with pitch classes on the sides
Nebuta Beat	Nagisa Kujira	rare	A rhythm game with elements from a traditional Japanese festival
Noisy Neighbors	Westley Ciaramella Keith Millman	rare	A game of making noises, listening, and guessing
Noteability		rare	A guessing game with a small electronic plastic piano
Oblique Strategies	Brian Eno Peter Schmidt	sold	Traditionally used in the studio this deck is now the classic of a rule cards genre
Onk-Onk	Jean-Baptiste Fremaux Thomas Luzurier Paul-Adrien Tournier	rare	As sea lions clap in rhythm, observe cards, and react
Ooga Booga	David Boniffacy Daniel Quodbach	sold	A memory-based party game about a cavemen language with some body percussion
Orchestrion	Eaves Mendes	sold	A Song for Five Players and One Listener Online
Our People's Song	Eleonor Estragon	mix	"A sung TTRPG for creating epic tales", a ritual setting weaved with improvised music and token-based story negotiation.
Patch: The Card Game	James Cigler	sold	A deck for exploring modular synthesis with card types like "Abstraction", "Progression", or "Disruption"
Play that Tune		rare	Song recognition with a sound-making stepping mat
Rhythm Blox	Wes Crawford	sold	A rhythm game with notation cards and backing tracks
Rock the Beat	Gabriel Ecoutin	sold	Gesture rhythmically to "We Will Rock You!" body percussion
Rohema Groove Cubes		sold	A set of dice for drumming
Scherzando	Amber Autumn vinegarviola	sold	A role-playing game where you either act out a scene or provide the soundtrack.
Scott Joplin Melody Dicer		rare	A take on Musikalisches Würfelspiel in the ragtime genre
Shake'n Play		rare	Acoustic memory (Memo-like) game with 16 shakers of 8 distinct sounds to listen
Shanty Hunters	Tristan Zimmerman	sold	A role-playing game (GUMSHOE engine) where you're on a quest to document sea shanties (and sing them on your way)
Signs	Peter Brötzmann	rare	Abstract inspire cards designed specifically for musical improvisation
Silent Prayer	Eric Stein	mix	An extension of John Cage's 4'33'' to solo tabletop RPGs
Sing it!	Vangelis Bagiartakis	sold	A song association game with word choice and time pressure
Sing Out	Occasional Ell	sold	A virtual LARP based on singing shanties
Smash or Trash	Jeanine Calkin Daniel Calkin	rare	Sing a famous song but make up new lyrics for it on a given subject
Songerist	Kanding Tuquiero	sold	A tabletop roleplaying game about making a song on your own or with other people
Songnario	Kevin Williams	sold	Find and perform a song fitting to a given scenario
Songwriting Cards	Eric Grivilers	sold	A set of chord progressions and Circle of Fifths operations for songwriters
Space Rock Opera	Andrew J. Young	free	In the role of Earthlings abducted into space (by accident) save the Earth with "name that tune" skills.
Spontuneous	Rob Ridgeway	sold	A direct application of song association mechanic for singing snippets of songs
Swan Song	Oliver Hong Syncope Coding	mix	A dark comedy LARP in a corporate setting played in a karaoke booth
Symphony	Iliya	free	A process for co-creating a duet
Tasty Score	Kosmologym	free	A larger spatial piece of found sound, rhythm, and recipes
Tempo	Francisco Gallego Arredondo	sold	A rhythm game where a player marks the beat and gives to others syllables to perform
The Songwriting Decks	Friedemann Findeiser	sold	From Holistic Songwriting, text-based, split into Melody, Harmony, Lyrics, Rhythm, and Structure
Theatre in a Box: The Musical Theatre Board Game		free	A game of songs and trivia
Three Chord Twister	Jess Driscoll	free	Funny chord randomizer concept
Tonic	Scott Hughes	sold	This game comes with dice and a deck where each card is a simple improvisational activity
Vocal	Pascale Loiseau Marc-Éric Gervais	rare	French karaoke with betting on performance
Wee Whimsical Creatures	Bez Shahriari	sold	The actual full title says all: "A game about WEE WHIMSICAL CREATURES and trying to identify them after someone makes noises", 80 pictures
What's That Sound?	Jonathan Favre-Godal Corentin Lebrat	sold	Listening, guessing, and performing sound effects
With Feeling!	Raymond Vermeulen	free	A role-played musical that uses a tarot deck for randomization.
Wordy Connections	Bez Shahriari	free	A soundscape game based on words forming sentences
Zombie Crisis: Party Edition	Anthony Gill	rare	A rhythm game played to an audio track

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