Games

Every game is a module with its own file, modules/<game>/config.yml, and its own texts, lang/<language>/modules/<game>/messages.yml (Tic-Tac-Toe uses only the shared lines). Four keys open every module file:

Below them come the game's rules and timings, its look (board or table, plus pieces, cards or colours: sizes in blocks, blocks and palette colours) and its sounds, each written NAME|volume|pitch (empty plays nothing). The tables here list the rules and timings; the look and sound keys are commented in the file itself. Times are written 20s, 1500ms or 1h.

A game for more than two has a players key: the most players a table of it may seat. A host opening a table picks how many it seats, from 2 up to that; a duel seats the players invited and the host. Every game can also be set down at a table in the world, and while a match is played each game explains how it is played on the player's left and how it is won on their right (see guide in Configuration).

Every game is played player against player for the pot. A turn that runs out is always played for the player with an automatic move, never forfeited. Each game also has a last-resort time limit worked out from its turn time and length: a match that outlasts it is called off and every stake refunded.

Board games

Tic-Tac-Toe

Three in a row on a 3×3 board. By default it plays in infinite mode: each player keeps only their last three marks, so placing a fourth removes their oldest (unless the new mark wins), the board never fills, and a draw is rare. The mark about to vanish is drawn faint.

Four in a Row

Drop pieces into seven columns, six rows deep; four of yours in a line take the pot. Click anywhere over a column to drop into it.

Gomoku

Stones on the points of a square board; five or more of yours in a line, across, down or diagonally, win (freestyle rules).

Reversi

Also known as Othello. An 8×8 board: place a disc so it outflanks a straight run of the rival's discs in any of the eight directions, and every outflanked disc turns over. Possible moves are marked faintly. A player with no move passes; when neither has one, the most discs win.

Checkers

English draughts on an 8×8 board. Men move one square diagonally forwards, kings either way; a piece captures by jumping an adjacent rival and keeps jumping while it can, and a man that reaches the far row is crowned. Click a piece to pick it up, then a square it can reach; a chain of jumps is played whole. A player who cannot move loses.

Chess

The full rules: castling, en passant and promotion. Click a piece, then one of the squares that light up for it; a pawn that reaches the far row asks what it becomes, with buttons beside the board. Colours are drawn at random and White moves first. Checkmate takes the pot.

Dots and Boxes

Take turns drawing a line from one dot to a neighbour. Drawing the fourth side of a box claims it and earns another turn. The most boxes win.

Battleship

Two hidden fleets. Each fleet starts placed at random; players may SHUFFLE theirs until they press READY, and the battle starts when both have, or when the placement clock runs out. Who fires first is drawn at random. Ships never overlap or touch, not even corner to corner. Sink the whole enemy fleet to take the pot.

Memory

A shared grid of face-down pairs. Flip two tiles a try: a pair stays face up, scores for whoever found it and earns another try; two that differ stay up for a moment so both players can learn them, then turn back and the turn passes. The most pairs win.

Ludo

The classic cross-shaped board. Each turn is a roll (click the die) and a move (click a lit token); a turn with a single possible move plays it at once. A six brings a token out of the yard and rolls again; landing on a rival's token off a safe square sends it home; reaching home takes the exact roll. First to bring all four tokens home wins.

Card games

Pick a Card

Match the colour, the number or the action of the card in play, or play a wild card; otherwise draw one. A drawn card that can be played may be played at once. Skip, reverse (a skip with two players), draw two and wild draw four act on the next player. The first to empty their hand wins. There is no stacking and no challenge. Each player sees their own hand face up and every rival's as a count.

High Card

No clicks, only nerves. Each round deals both cards face down, waits a beat, flips the player's own card and then the rival's; the higher rank takes the round. The first to win most of a best-of takes the match.

Twenty-One

Off one shared deck, each player is dealt a hole card only they see and a card face up. Players take turns to HIT or STAND; one who has stood is skipped. Going over 21 loses at once; reaching 21 stands by itself, and 21 with the first two cards stands from the deal. When both stand, both hole cards turn over together and the closer to 21 wins; two-card 21 beats a 21 of more cards. Aces count eleven or one.

Poker

No-limit Texas hold'em played as a sit-and-go. Every seat starts with the same points, which exist only at this table; the real pot is the stakes. Each hand posts the blinds, deals two cards each and plays pre-flop, flop, turn and river, with FOLD, CHECK, CALL, WAGER, RAISE and ALL-IN buttons. The best five of seven cards win at the showdown, side pots split by who could still win each. Hands go on until one player holds every point, and that player takes the pot.

Truco

The Argentine card game, played with the Spanish 40-card deck (no eights, nines or tens), each card drawn as its number over a sword, club, coin or cup. Each hand deals three cards and is three tricks: click a card to play it, and two tricks of three win the hand. Buttons call, answer or go to the deck: envido on the first trick (two cards of a suit count 20 plus their values; 10, 11 and 12 count 0), with real envido and falta envido, and truco, which raises what the hand is worth from 1 to 2, 3 and 4 points; a declined call scores for the caller. With flor, three cards of one suit are called as flor. The first side to points wins the game. A side panel shows the order of the cards, from the 1 of swords down.

At a table for four, two pairs play with partners sitting across, and a win is split between the two partners: each is paid half the pot less the server fee, and each counts a win.

Escoba

Escoba de quince, played with the Spanish 40-card deck. Click a card from your hand, pick the table cards that add up to fifteen with it, then CAPTURE; a card that takes nothing stays on the table. Cards 1 to 7 count their number; 10, 11 and 12 count 8, 9 and 10. Clearing the table is an escoba, worth a point. At the end of each hand one point each goes to the most cards, the most coins, the 7 of coins and the most sevens; a tie gives that point to nobody. The first to points wins; tied at the top, another hand is dealt.

Dice games

Liar's Dice

Every player rolls their dice under a cup. In turn each raises the bid (a quantity of a face across every cup, built with plus and minus buttons and the face's die) or calls the last bid a lie. On a call every cup is lifted: a bid that holds costs the caller a die, a lie costs the bidder one. The loser opens the next round; a player without dice is out, and the last one with dice wins.

Dice Duel

Each round both players throw two dice in turn, by clicking the button or when their clock runs out; the higher total takes the round and equal totals are thrown again. Who throws first alternates round by round. The first to win most of a best-of takes the match. Every throw is decided before the dice leave the hand; the animation only shows it.

Generala

On each turn a player throws five dice up to three times, clicking a die between throws to hold it, then clicks a free row of their scorecard to score: 1 to 6 score the sum of that face; straight 20, full 30, poker 40 and generala 50 (a second generala 100), each five more when served on the first throw. Dice that do not fit a row score 0 there. A served generala, five of a kind on the first throw, wins the match at once. Otherwise the top total after eleven rounds wins.

Quick duels

Rock Paper Scissors

Both players pick at the same time, and neither sees the other's hand until both have picked or the clock runs out. A tie is played again. The first to win enough rounds takes the pot.

Reflexes

Each round waits a random time, then lights both targets in the same tick: the first click on the lit target wins the round, and a click before it lights is a FALSE START that loses it. A round nobody clicks in time is played again. Reaction times are measured on the server from the tick the targets lit.

Hot Potato

A bomb drops in front of a random player with a fuse nobody is told. Its holder throws it by clicking another player's plate or the arrow pointing at them; a holder who keeps it past the hold limit throws it at random. When the fuse runs out, whoever holds it is out and, after a pause, the next bomb is lit among the players left. The last one in wins the pot. The ticking speeds up with how long the bomb has burnt, plus a random head start, never with the fuse left, so it never gives the blast away.