Pick a game
Play against the computer, or open a lobby and play against whoever turns up. A lobby outlasts the game played in it: when one game ends the host picks the next, and everybody stays where they are.
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Nine Men's Morris
Nine men each, three in a row, and a man taken off the board for every row you close.
For 2 players Played 13 times
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Five Dice
Five dice, three throws a turn and thirteen boxes to fill — and every box has to be filled, whether the dice oblige or not.
For 2 to 6 players Played 2 times
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Chess
Sixteen pieces each, six ways of going, and one king who must never be left where he could be taken.
For 2 players Played 2 times
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Common Thread
Four pictures at a time and one word that fits all four. Ten of them to a round, with the letters lying there in the wrong order among a few that belong to nothing.
For one player Played 4 times
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Four Pieces
Four pieces each, once round a cross-shaped board, a six to come out of the yard — and whoever you land on walks all the way back and starts again.
For 2 to 4 players Played 2 times
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Four in a Row
Seven columns, six holes high: drop your discs in turn, and whoever gets four of their own in a line — across, upright or on a slant — has won.
For 2 players Played once
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Solitaire
One pack of cards, seven columns and a stock: build the four suits up from the ace to the king, turning the stock one card at a time or three.
For one player Played 8 times
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Pairs
Thirty-six cards face down, two turned over at a time: find the two that match and keep them — and remember where everything else was.
For 2 to 6 players Not played yet
Classic board games, played in the browser
SpieleSammlung is a small and growing collection of games most people learnt at a kitchen table: chess, nine men's morris, a dice game with five dice and a card of thirteen boxes, a race round a cross-shaped board for up to four, four in a row on an upright board of seven columns, solitaire with its seven columns of cards, a puzzle of four pictures and one word, and pairs, the game of cards laid face down and remembered. Each follows the rules as they are commonly played, and each has a guide: the rules in full, pictures of the game being played and a few words on playing it well.
Everything runs in the browser, on a phone as well as at a desk, in English, German and French. There is nothing to install, no account to open and no chat: you pick a game and play.
Against the computer
Every board game has a computer opponent in several strengths, from one that lets you win to one that does not. The board is kept: a game closed in the middle is still there when you come back.
With other people
Open a lobby, give it a password if it is meant for friends, and send the link. Whoever follows it types a name and is in. The lobby outlasts the game: when one ends, the host picks the next.
Free, and no account
Nothing here costs anything, and nobody is asked who they are. A player is the name they type and nothing more, and all that is counted is how often each game was played.
Nobody is about just now.