Games — 22 playable

Games

Playable, shareable — and nothing on screen is allowed to lie. Every game here runs on something real, and proves it when you win.

From the stacks — 12 playable strata

The Game That May Never End

Beggar-my-neighbour is a children's card game with no decisions in it: deal the pack, turn cards, pay the penalty, and the game plays itself.

The seven tangram pieces make thirteen convex shapes and not a fourteenth.

Everyone treats Battleship as a guessing game, and it is not entirely.

You cannot play snakes and ladders badly.

What colour is October?

Twenty-five voters who never change their minds: ten red, fifteen blue.

In the matching game Dobble (Spot It!), any two cards you ever lay down share exactly one picture (never none, never two), and that is not careful h…

Everyone learns Dots and Boxes by the age of seven, and everyone learns it wrong: by grabbing every box in reach, which is exactly the losing move.

Sam Loyd offered $1000 to anyone who could slide a tile puzzle back into order: fifteen numbered tiles in a four-by-four box, all in place except 14…

Here are two heaps of stones.

Pick any sequence of three coin-flips you like: HHT, TTH, anything.

There is a simple cooperative game two players, kept apart and forbidden to talk, cannot win more than 75% of the time.