🎮 20 free games — no downloads, no paywalls

Play the AI.
Or play your friends.

Classic board games, card games, and puzzles - all free, right in your browser. Face AI opponents that actually put up a fight, or open a room and challenge a friend in real time.

đŸ•šī¸ 20 games 🌐 13 playable online vs friends 🤖 4 AI difficulty levels đŸŽ¯ thousands of games played

🟩 Today's Word Guess

One five-letter word per day, six guesses, same word for everyone. Solve it and keep your streak alive - a new puzzle drops at midnight.

Play Today's Puzzle

Choose Your Game

Strategy, cards, puzzles, and arcade classics. Every game is free and runs right in your browser.

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Connect 4 Popular

Drop discs, connect four in a row.

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Checkers Classic

Jump, capture, and crown your kings.

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Reversi Tactical

Flip discs and control the board.

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Mancala Ancient

Sow seeds, steal captures, earn extra turns.

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Chess New

The royal game. Full rules, real engine.

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Gomoku New

Five in a row wins. Simple rules, deep tactics.

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Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe New

Nine boards. Your move decides where they play.

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Dots and Boxes New

Claim boxes, control the chains.

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Nine Men's Morris New

Form mills, remove pieces, corner your foe.

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Backgammon New

Race, hit, and bear off. Dice with brains.

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Battleship New

Hunt the fleet before yours goes down.

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Hex New

Connect your two sides. No draws, ever.

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Crazy Eights New

Match suit or rank. Eights are wild.

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Blackjack New

Beat the dealer to 21. Hints included.

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Solitaire New

Klondike. The one and only.

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2048 New

Slide, merge, and chase the 2048 tile.

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Minesweeper New

Clear the field. Don't click the bomb.

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Sudoku New

Every row, column, and box: 1 through 9.

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Word Guess Daily

One daily word. Six guesses. Keep the streak.

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Snake New

Eat, grow, and don't bite yourself.

Real-Time Multiplayer

Thirteen of our games support live player-vs-player matches. Create a public game anyone can join, or share a private room code with a friend. Moves sync instantly - no refresh, no lag.

Go to Multiplayer Lobby

🏆 Top Players

The players with the most wins across every game on the site

👑 Hall of Fame

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    Rankings count every win across all 20 games, against the AI and against other players alike. Solo games such as 2048, Minesweeper and Sudoku keep separate high-score and fastest-time tables. See the full leaderboards.

    Live Activity

    Finished games appear here as they happen. Every recorded match can be replayed move by move, so you can watch how a game was won — or where it slipped away. Browse the full archive on the replays page.

    Why Play Here?

    More than a game site - a place to actually get better at the games you love

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    AI That Fights Back

    Every opponent uses a real game engine - minimax search, alpha-beta pruning, and per-game tuning. Easy mode teaches; AI Training mode punishes.

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    Instant Multiplayer

    Create a room, share a six-letter code, and play a friend live. Public lobby matches let you take on strangers, with optional move timers.

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    Coach Mode

    Turn on the coach in our flagship games for real-time move analysis, then review the whole game afterwards to see exactly where it slipped away.

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    Stats & Leaderboards

    Every game is recorded. Track your win rate, climb per-game leaderboards, and post high scores in the solo games.

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    Replays

    Watch any recorded game move by move - your own, or anyone's on the recent-games feed. Learning from losses beats repeating them.

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    Daily Puzzles

    The daily Word Guess gives everyone the same puzzle each day. Six guesses, one word, and a streak worth protecting.

    How It Works

    From zero to playing in about five seconds

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    Pick a Game

    Twenty games across strategy, cards, puzzle, and arcade. Everything runs in your browser - nothing to install, nothing to pay.

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    Choose Your Opponent

    Play the AI at four difficulty levels, or head to the multiplayer lobby and challenge a friend with a private room code.

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    Play and Learn

    Use the how-to-play tutorials and strategy guides for every game. Flagship games include a live AI coach that explains the best moves.

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    Track Your Progress

    Sign up (free, optional) to save your stats, appear on leaderboards, keep daily streaks, and review replays of your games.

    About PlayVersusAI

    An independent project built by people who love board games

    What Is This Place?

    PlayVersusAI started with a simple idea: browser games are usually either pretty but brainless, or smart but ugly. We wanted both - classic games with genuinely strong AI opponents, wrapped in an interface that's actually pleasant to use.

    Today the site hosts 20 games. The strategy games run real engines: bitboard search for Connect 4, full move-generation and evaluation for Chess and Checkers, probability mapping for Battleship. Puzzle games like Sudoku generate fresh, human-solvable puzzles on demand. And 13 games support live online multiplayer, so you can bring a friend.

    Free Means Free

    Every game on this site is completely free. No coins, no energy bars, no "premium" difficulty levels. The site is supported by unobtrusive ads on desktop, and that's it.

    You don't even need an account to play - signing up just unlocks the extras: saved stats, leaderboard rankings, multiplayer matchmaking, and daily streaks. We collect the minimum data needed to make those features work, as covered in our privacy policy.

    Found a bug, or want a game added? Tell us on the contact page - most of the games here were built because someone asked.

    Learn the Games

    Every game has a full how-to-play and strategy guide