Games
Learn the rules, then play
Each game has its own page: how to start, the complete rules, how to play it well, the mistakes beginners make and answers to the questions players ask most.
2 to 4 drivers
Drift Rush
Drift Rush is our 3D racing game: a full circuit with hills, forest and fast bends, driven on a real physics engine. There is nothing to install — the race runs in your…
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Solo
Duet
Duet is a logic puzzle on a 6 × 6 grid. Every cell must hold one of two symbols — a gold disc or a blue diamond — and three short rules decide which. A few cells are…
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Solo
Sudoku
Sudoku is the world’s best-known number puzzle, and it needs no arithmetic at all. A 9 × 9 grid, divided into nine 3 × 3 boxes, comes with some digits already in place.…
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Solo
Star Zones
Star Zones is a placement puzzle. The grid is cut into coloured zones — as many zones as there are rows — and you must place one star in every row, every column and…
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2 players or 2 vs 2 teams
Ludo
Ludo is a race. Each player has four tokens that start in a yard, travel once around the board and finish by running up a coloured column into home. The dice decides how…
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2 players or 2 vs 2 teams
Carrom
Carrom is the board game of South Asian living rooms and tea shops: a square wooden board with a pocket in each corner, nine white coins, nine black coins, one red queen…
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2 players
Chess
Chess is a game for two players on a board of 64 squares. Each side starts with sixteen pieces — a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawns —…
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2 players
Checkers
Checkers is played by two people on the dark squares of an 8 × 8 board. Each side has twelve pieces, and the aim is simple: capture every enemy piece, or leave your…
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2 players
Draughts
International draughts is the larger, faster relative of checkers. The board is 10 × 10 instead of 8 × 8, each player has twenty pieces instead of twelve, and three…
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2 players
Tic-Tac-Toe (XOXO)
Tic-tac-toe — noughts and crosses, or XOXO — is the first strategy game most of us ever play. Two players take turns marking the squares of a 3 × 3 grid, one with X and…
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