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Words
Worduel
Choose a secret and take turns guessing your rival’s word. Daily and practice duels with WordBot, or play another person.
Words
Ghost
Build a fragment, avoid finishing a word, and challenge a bluff. Three ways to play.
Words
Wordweave
Place letters across the loom and build connected words.
Words
Medallion
Form words from eight tiles. The brass letter is required. Daily puzzle, ranks to Einstein, and timed duels.
Words
Rackrace
Seven tiles. Find one word of every length from three to seven before time runs out, or before your rival does.
Words
Lattice
A grid of letters. Chain neighbouring tiles, diagonals included, into as many words as you can before time is called.
Words
Tangle
Four scrambled words, then the circled letters spell a punchline. Unknot the lot.
Words
Ink Mini
A five-by-five word square: every row and every column is a word. No black squares, original clues.
Words
Ink Midi
A nine-by-nine with a little more chew. Same constructor, same original clues.
Words
Ink
A full Sunday-size 21×21 themed crossword, every day. The starred entries share one trick. Finish today's and there is always another.
Words
Headings
One letter, a dozen headings. Name something under each that starts with the letter. Duplicates with your rival score nothing.
Words
Kindred
Twelve plaques hide four sets of three. Find every set. Three wrong guesses and the gallery closes.
Words
Motif
A 6×6 grid of letters hiding a set of themed words. Trace each one through neighbouring letters, then read the leftovers for the wall label.
Words
Perimeter
Sixteen letters, four to a side. Each letter of a word must come from a different side than the one before. Use every letter.
Words
Cipher
A trivia clue in a simple substitution cipher. Crack the mapping, read the clue.
Words
Finder
A themed word search. Circle every listed word; they run in eight directions.
Words
Rungs
Change one letter at a time and climb from the start word to the end. Every rung must be a word.
Words
Ziggurat
A word pyramid. Each course keeps the one above it and adds a letter, rearranged. Top and base are given; build the middle.
Party & trivia
Draw & Guess
A room at one canvas: take turns drawing while everyone races to type the word.
Party & trivia
Pinpoint
Read a street somewhere in the world -- its road lines, signs and sun -- and pin the map.
Party & trivia
Trivia
Four answers to every clue; pick the right one to bank its value. Solo practice, WordBot showdowns, or duels with friends.
Fighting
Wrangle Arena
Choose a fighter for local battles or rated online matches.
Strategy & sim
Cardboard Box
A parcel arrives every day. Unbox it, fill your little room, and trade curios at the Trading Post.
Boards
Orbit Checkers
Hop a six-piece crew across the board and into the rival's dock. Fill it before they fill yours.
Boards
Marshals
Arrange a hidden army, then read the enemy line and take its banner. A rank 2 beats the 9, but only when the 2 attacks.
Boards
Tideflip
Close a line around rival stones. The corners can never be flipped back.
Boards
Archipelago
Grow out from your harbor, ride the tide, and send a storm over your rival's best ground.
Boards
Railbound
Collect coloured route cards, race for the links your secret tickets need, and cut your rival off.
Boards
Scrolltown
Buy up the block, upgrade the busy corners, and charge rent to anyone who stops by. An upgraded shop doubles the tip.
Boards
Homestretch
Run three pawns round the loop and home. A 6 opens the gate, a landing sends a rival back, and two pawns make a wall.
Boards
Seedfall
Sow seeds pit to pit and steal from the pit across the board. End a sowing in your own store and you sow again.
Boards
Millstone
Drop nine pieces, then grind them along the rings. Line up three and pluck one of theirs off the board.
Cards
Midnight Hold’em
Poker. Heads-up limit hold’em for 40 chips over eight hands. With only two at the table, one pair often wins, so bet it.
Cards
Sunset Pineapple
Poker. Shed one of three hole cards each hand, then play limit hold’em for the chip lead. Pair or flush draw: you rarely get to keep both.
Cards
Omaha After Dark
Poker. Four cards in hand, exactly two at showdown, limit betting over eight hands. One heart in hand never makes a flush, however many hearts the board shows.
Cards
Omaha High Tide
Poker. Limit Omaha where the high hand and an eight-or-better low split each pot. An ace and a two in hand play for both halves.
Cards
Five-Card Draw Showdown
Poker. Bet, trade up to three cards, bet again. How many your rival drew is the only tell you get.
Cards
Five-Card Stud
Poker. One card down, four exposed, limit betting over eight hands. You see four of their five cards; bet against what is showing.
Cards
Gin Deadwood Sprint
Rummy. Build melds and shed deadwood over quick hands. First to 40 points takes the sprint.
Cards
War of Bids
Bidding. Bid a card face down for the prize on the table. Your king wins exactly once, so spend it well.
Cards
Terminal Micro-Solitaire
Solo. Build the four foundations up by suit. The stock turns over as often as you like, so a stall is a missed move, not a dead deal.
Cards
Moon Market
Original. Corner a suit before its price falls. Buying lifts a price; selling crashes it.
Cards
Signal Fire
Original. Feed your fire toward 31, or throw a card on your rival’s and burn them out. Best of three.
Cards
Moonlight Eights
Shedding. Match the rank or suit on the pile, or drop a wild eight and name the suit. First to empty their hand wins.
Cards
Vingt-Un
Twenty-One. Heads-up twenty-one. Build toward 21, double to raise the stakes, and beat the number your rival set. First to five hands.
Cards
Sixty-Six
Trick-taking. A 24-card trick game with a trump. Win tricks, show a king-and-queen marriage, and close the stock to race for 66.
Cards
Emerald Lounge
Chance games and Power Pair tables. Emeralds have no cash value.
Cards
Triad Tactics
One card a turn across three fronts. Every card has its own ability and every front its own terrain rule. Hold more front points than your rival when the last card lands.
Puzzle
Stillwell
A cooper's duel: drop wooden staves into the cask, hoop full rows, and send the offcuts to your rival as scrap. Four rows with one stave is a full cask.
Puzzle
Glyphrite
A letterpress duel: set type in pairs, lift four sorts of one sigil, and let each press run send wooden quoins into your rival's case. Bigger lifts send more quoins.
Puzzle
Orbarrage
Bank gachapon capsules into clusters of three before the ceiling descends. Capsules cut loose count double against your rival.
Action
Lanternbright
Throw paper lanterns to catch glow-worms and moths, then run into a lantern to pop it for orchard fruit. Clear five orchards on five lives before dusk sends the lantern-spirit after you.
Racing
Neon City Racing
Race a human rival and two computer racers over three laps. Drift through bends for a turbo and crack a gachapon capsule for an item.
Party & trivia
Bumper Balls
Knock your rival off a shrinking floating disc. Two players, first to two rounds.
Racing
Obstacle Dash
Race the same course as your rival over spikes, springs and moving platforms. Emeralds cut time from your finish.
Party & trivia
Bomb Pass
Touch your rival to pass the ticking bomb before it explodes. Two players and one fuse.
Party & trivia
Flag Frenzy
Red up, white down: follow the same calls as your rival. Three lives each, and the calls get faster.
Sports
Velvet Pool
Eight-ball: claim Emeralds or Rubies with your first pot, clear them, then sink the 8. Fouls give ball in hand; an early 8 loses.
Sports
Disc Drift
Flick one of three discs a turn to knock the puck into the rival net. First to 3 goals, 30 flicks of regulation, then a golden goal.
Arcade
Cyber Pong
Angle your returns, add paddle spin, and reach seven points with a lead of two. Hit with the paddle's edge to bend the return.
Puzzle
Wallwright
Draw walls across the floor and fence the roamers into a corner.
Puzzle
Thermal Gate
Work the gate: fast motes to the right chamber, slow motes to the left.
Puzzle
Circuit Crawl
Take every chip, find the key and enter the socket. Race your rival through the same three floors.
Racing
Powder Run
Carve through gates and reach the lodge. Slow down and the thing behind you catches up.
Puzzle
Emerald Sweep
Read the counts, flag the faults and clear the same seam before your rival does.
Cards
Cold Deck
Twelve piles, four aces, and a redeal that never shuffles.
Cards
Stepdown
One open card, seven columns, and a rank either side of it.
Arcade
Rattlecoil
Swallow the eggs in order, grow, and keep your own tail out of the way.
Puzzle
Flowworks
Lay pipe ahead of the flood and keep the ooze running as long as you can.
Puzzle
Mouse Siege
Shove the blocks, box the cats in, and take the cheese while they sulk.
Words
Wordstrike
Race to 25 points from a shared rack. Find a word your rival is hiding and it is yours.
Puzzle
Marquetry
Seat every tile so the numbers that touch agree.
Puzzle
Strongbox
Shoulder the crates aside and walk the strongbox out the door.
Boards
Dropline
Drop brass against oxblood and take four in a line. First to two games wins.
Action
Skywing Squadron
You and your rival each fly the same eight missions from the same seed. The higher final score wins.
Action
Crossfire Club
Deathmatch a human rival while computer players fill the other seats. First to fifteen kills, or the leader when eight minutes run out. Bomb defuse and king of the hill are on the host's setup screen; the rated result is between the two humans.
Arcade
Briar Barrage
Cut through a descending garden swarm. Every severed segment leaves a mushroom and another head to dodge.
Arcade
Prism Breach
Carve a channel through a regenerating prism shield, then time your lance to the swinging core. The refuge blocks ordinary missiles, but hunters follow you in.
Action
Vault Runner
Pocket the gold across five vaults of ladders, hand bars and brick, and dig a trap under a pursuing guard. Every cleared vault quickens the chase.
Action
Orbit Salvage
Guide a tug between rock towers, lift stranded cargo and bring it to the depot. A loaded ship needs more room to brake.
Sports
Hoop Jam
Two-on-two arcade hoops, each of you with a computer partner. Drive the lane to dunk, hit threes, and catch fire.
Sports
Steel Blades
Three-on-three arcade hockey against a rival: body checks, slapshots and the occasional fistfight.
Sports
Full Count
Arcade baseball against a rival, trading the mound every half-inning. Read the pitch, time the swing, bring the runners home.
Sports
Gridiron Bowl
Seven-a-side arcade football against a rival. Call a play, guess theirs, then run, throw or tackle.
Sports
Super Striker
Five-a-side street soccer against a rival. Slide in, cross it into the box, and finish with a bicycle kick.
Sports
Power Dodge
Squad dodgeball against a rival. Time your catches, dash into a super shot, and be the last squad standing.
Fighting
INKFIST: Radical Brothers
Two brothers, one long road. Brawl through ink-drawn streets, paint a stroke of brush magic when a fight turns, and tag your brother in when you are cornered.
Action
Borto Run
Bortochi, a striped baby boar, charges down the Chestnut Trail. Seven stages of rolls, vines and burr staircases, ending in Chef Bonvivant's kitchen.
Strategy & sim
Hondel
Buy goods, haul them along dangerous roads, and haggle with the customers you meet.
Adventure
House of Tards
Congressman T-Bone Johnson is on trial, and the truth is somewhere in Brooklyn. Investigate, catch liars, and bribe your way through a courtroom satire that does not stay in the courtroom.
Arcade
CHIP-8 ROM Vault
Four small cartridges written for the cabinet: Invaders, 1P Paddle, Brix and Maze Walker. Bring your own .ch8 cartridge and it plays that too.
Arcade
RetroCart ROM Runner
Your NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, GBA, SNES and Mega Drive cartridges, played here. Load a cartridge file from your machine — unzipped — to begin.
Arcade
VectorCore
Turn, thrust and fire down a drifting field of wireframe rock. Every shot leaves a trail that fades the way an old tube did.
Strategy & sim
Nethweaver
Real-time strategy inside a living body. Three factions — silk-spinning predators, a self-healing immune response, and a power-hungry nanomachine swarm — fight over energy and biomass.
Strategy & sim
HYEFYE RECORDS
London, 1976. Run a mail-order punk label from a leaky canal houseboat: build a vinyl factory, sign bands in basements from the Bowery to Glasgow, top the charts and hide your money from the Taxman.
Fighting
Super Tilt Bro
The platform fighter the NES never had. Two fighters on one stage, and the way to win is to send the other off the screen.
Action
Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe
Her cat floated off on a balloon, so she is going up after it: bounce off the birds, dash between them, and climb before the clock runs out.
Action
Shock Lobster
A lowly lobster with magical powers swims at whatever stands in its way. Spend the pearls you collect on new skills and push the high score higher.
Strategy & sim
µCity
Zone the land, lay the roads and power lines, balance the budget, and keep a growing town from burning, flooding or going broke.
Racing
HexGL
Anti-gravity racing round a city of towers. Three laps, a shield that drains on every wall, and air brakes for the corners.
Action
Freedoom: Phase 1
Four episodes of corridors, keycards and things that want you dead, made from scratch by volunteers to run on the classic Doom engine.
Adventure
Zork I
West of House, beside a small mailbox. Type what you do and the Great Underground Empire answers. Mind the grue.
Adventure
Zork II
Deeper in the empire, the Wizard of Frobozz is watching, and he is not always helpful. A barrow, a sword and a lamp to start.
Adventure
Zork III
The last descent, to meet the Dungeon Master. Less treasure-hunting, more puzzles about what kind of adventurer you are.
Adventure
Beneath a Steel Sky
Robert Foster is snatched from the Gap and dropped into Union City, a vertical city run by a computer. Full speech, art by Dave Gibbons.
Adventure
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Joe King, pilot for hire, crash-lands his seaplane in the Amazon with a film star aboard and stumbles onto a mad scientist's plot.
Adventure
Lure of the Temptress
Diermot wakes in a cell in Turnvale, a town taken by a sorceress and her Skorl. The townsfolk keep their own routines, and you can give them orders.
Adventure
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back
An estate agent drives into Transylvania, the girl at the inn is kidnapped, and Count Drascula is behind it. A slapstick horror comedy.
Educational
Gadget Works
Three science workshops: open locks on balance, circuits, gears, magnets, energy, pulleys, lift, solar power and compost, then build cars, planes and eco racers to beat Vex Voltwick for nine cups.
Educational
Bortochi Teaches Typing
Run through Chestnut Hills, climb vines, hop across the creek and cook with Chef Bonvivant. Five typing adventures, from home-row letters to whole sentences.
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Worduel
Daily · Two-player duels
Ghost
2 players · 3 modes
Wordweave
2 players · Crosswords
Medallion
Daily · Eight tiles
Rackrace
Daily · Timed rack
Lattice
Daily · 4×4 or 5×5
Tangle
Daily · Anagrams
Ink Mini
Daily · Word square
Ink Midi
Daily · 9×9
Ink
Sunday every day · 21×21
Headings
Timed lists · Duels
Kindred
Daily · Four sets
Motif
Daily · Exhibition
Perimeter
Daily · Four sides
Cipher
Daily · Cryptogram
Finder
Daily · Word search
Rungs
Daily · Word ladder
Ziggurat
Daily · Word pyramid
Wordstrike
Word duel
Puzzle 11
Boards 10
Cards 18
Midnight Hold’em
Poker
Sunset Pineapple
Poker
Omaha After Dark
Poker
Omaha High Tide
Poker
Five-Card Draw Showdown
Poker
Five-Card Stud
Poker
Gin Deadwood Sprint
Rummy
War of Bids
Bidding
Terminal Micro-Solitaire
Solo
Moon Market
Original
Signal Fire
Original
Moonlight Eights
Shedding
Vingt-Un
Twenty-One
Sixty-Six
Trick-taking
Emerald Lounge
Chance · Emeralds
Triad Tactics
Card strategy
Cold Deck
Patience
Stepdown
Patience
Party & trivia 6
Action 9
Lanternbright
Platform action
Skywing Squadron
Rail space shooter
Crossfire Club
First-person deathmatch
Vault Runner
Ladders & traps
Orbit Salvage
Gravity & cargo
Borto Run
Adventure · Solo platformer
Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe
Game Boy Color homebrew · Solo
Shock Lobster
Game Boy homebrew · Solo
Freedoom: Phase 1
First-person shooter · Solo
Fighting 3
Racing 4
Sports 8
Arcade 7
Strategy & sim 5
Adventure 8
House of Tards
Adventure · Political noir
Zork I
Text adventure · 1980
Zork II
Text adventure · 1981
Zork III
Text adventure · 1982
Beneath a Steel Sky
Point-and-click · 1994
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Point-and-click · 1995
Lure of the Temptress
Point-and-click · 1992
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back
Point-and-click · 1996