Games · six ways to waste an hour
Six games.
No download.
Every game on this estate, in one place. All six run entirely in the browser — no account, no install, nothing uploaded — and every board, piece and card is drawn by the page itself rather than loaded as a picture. Play against the machine or against somebody sitting beside you.
Pick a table
Chess
Against the computer, or across the table
Minimax with alpha–beta pruning to depth eight, twelve opponents to beat, clocks, and ten sets of pieces to play them with.
Checkers
Forced captures, kings, and a cruel endgame
Twelve opponents again, the capture rule enforced rather than suggested, and endgames that will not let a careless king wander.
Backgammon
The full table, doubling cube included
The bar, hits, forced dice, exact-and-overshoot bearing off, gammons and the cube — all of it enforced, so a legal move is the only move you can make.
Cards
Blackjack, solitaire and video poker
Blackjack with real basic-strategy advice, Klondike solitaire and three video-poker paytables. Every card is drawn in SVG by the page.
Tic-Tac-Toe
Thirty seconds, or as long as you like
Nine themes and three difficulties. On hard it cannot be beaten, which is the honest thing for this game to be.
Joke Vault
8,610 jokes, and a meter to sort them
Twenty-four comic forms across forty-one categories, ranked by a meter that reads the English rather than counting the punctuation.