Real-time matches in 13 games. Send a friend an invite link, or join an open game below — no account needed.
Thirteen of the thirty-three games on PlayVersusAI can be played live against another person instead of the computer. There is nothing to install and no separate app: both players sit on an ordinary web page and moves travel between them as they are made.
Pick a game, choose who can join and whether you want a move timer, and press Start Game. You get an invite link straight away — copy it, or use Share on a phone. Opening the link sits your friend down at the board, no account needed. Every game page also has a Play a friend online button.
Choose Anyone to list your game under Open games for every visitor, or Invite link only to keep it private.
You can hold one open game at a time, and an open game nobody joins is closed after 30 minutes. Press Play the AI while you wait to warm up in another tab. When someone joins, this tab flashes, a toast pops up and — if you allowed notifications — your browser shows an alert. If you leave a match in progress, the site offers to bring you back.
The optional password locks the second seat. A passworded public game still appears in the list with a badge, but only someone who knows the password can sit down — handy for posting a game to a group chat. Passwords are stored only as a salted hash, so nobody, including us, can read them back.
Play with no timer, or with 30 or 60 seconds per move. In a timed game, if your opponent's clock runs out the win is yours automatically. In an untimed game, if your opponent disconnects or goes quiet for about two minutes on their turn, a Claim win button appears. Games where both players walk away close without a result.
Every move is checked and saved on our server before your opponent sees it, so refreshing, losing your connection or locking your phone puts you back in exactly the same position. You can resign, offer a draw or send a quick message like “Good game”. When it ends, press Rematch to play again with colours swapped.
Results are decided by the server, not by either browser. When both players are logged in, the result is written to both profiles and counts toward the leaderboard, just like wins against the AI. Games involving a guest are just for fun and are not ranked.
No. Choose Play as guest for a temporary name like Guest-7KQ2 — guests can play every multiplayer game, use invite links, rematch and chat. A free account adds a permanent name, match history on your profile and a place on the leaderboard. Registration needs only an email address.
Playing a person is less forgiving than Easy mode, so it is worth knowing the basics first. Every game has a full rules and strategy guide — browse all thirty-three guides, or warm up against the computer before taking on a human.
All twelve strategy games plus Crazy Eights:
The single-player games — 2048, Minesweeper, Sudoku, Solitaire, Snake, Blackjack, the daily Word Guess and more — compete through high-score and fastest-time tables on the leaderboard page.