How to play
Two people, one device, no accounts and nothing to install. Put the phone or laptop between you, pick a game, and start. 108 of the 108 games in the catalogue are playable today.
Sit opposite each other
Both players share one screen from opposite sides. The device does not need to be handed back and forth: each half belongs to the person nearest it, and a touch belongs to the seat it started in even if your finger crosses the middle.
The two seats are Pip and Bo. Whoever sits in a seat plays under its name and its mark — a disc for Pip, a rounded square for Bo — so the scoreboard, the keys below and the pieces on the board all mean the same person. A bot takes a seat under the same name.
In games played turn by turn the board turns to face whoever is to move, so you always read it the right way up — and while it is your turn the whole screen is yours to reach. In games played at the same time, the screen stays put and each of you has your own half.
On a keyboard
Two people sharing a laptop have one keyboard between them, so the keys are split rather than shared. Every game lists its own controls on its page; these are the defaults.
| Seat | Move | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Pip | WASD | Space |
| Bo | ↑←↓→ | Enter |
Esc pauses at any time, for either player.
Playing on your own
Every game offers a bot in three strengths. A bot never sees anything you cannot see and never moves faster than a person could — the difference between the strengths is how far it thinks ahead and how often it makes a mistake, never what it knows.
Things worth knowing
A loaded game needs nothing
Once a page has loaded, playing it needs no network at all. Close the tab and come back and a game you have opened before still opens — your browser kept a copy of it. A game you have never opened is not on this device, and the catalogue says which is which.
No accounts, no data
There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to. What is kept on your device is what you last chose for a game, your favourites, your recent games and your settings — and none of it leaves the device. Scores are not saved anywhere.
Colour is never the only signal
Each player's pieces differ in shape as well as colour, so every game is playable in greyscale and to a colour-blind player.
Any screen
The same game runs on a phone, a tablet and a laptop, and neither player ever sees more of the play area than the other.
Ready?
Browse all games and pick one.