Builders
Settle a storybook island: roll for resources, build roads and cities, trade with harbors and rivals, dodge the robber, and race to 10 points.
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Every game is multiplayer, live, and free — with table chat so the trash talk travels at light speed.
Sea Builders
Builders put to sea: a new world of islands every game, ships along the coast and across open water, a pirate, gold fields, and two points for every island you land on. First to 12.
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Texas Hold'em
No-limit poker for play chips — never real money. Two cards each, five on the board, blinds that climb, side pots done right. Last stack standing wins.
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Sudoku
A fresh nine-by-nine every game, easy to expert, every one with a single solution. Pencil marks, hints, a timer — and friends can watch you solve.
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Minesweeper
The classic, free in your browser. Beginner, Intermediate or Expert, a first click that is always safe, right-click or long-press to flag, and a clock to beat.
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2048
Slide the tiles, join the matching numbers and make a 2048. Then keep going. Swipe or arrow keys, three board sizes, a hint when you are stuck.
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Wordzy
The Wordle-style word game: find the five-letter word in six tries. One go at the Daily Challenge, challenge your friends to yours with a link, or play a Random Word.
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Hangman
Guess the hidden word a letter at a time before the drawing is finished. Six misses and it is over. Easy, Normal and Hard words.
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Word Search
Find every word hidden in the grid, across, down, diagonal and backwards. Drag across a word to circle it. A new grid every game.
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Backgammon
The 5,000-year-old race. Roll the dice, hit blots, hold your points, and bear off all fifteen checkers first — gammons count double.
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Domino Kingdom
Draft dominoes, grow your kingdom, and chase crowns in this 2–4 player tile-laying strategy game. Every pick costs you turn order — choose wisely, ruler.
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Tic-Tac-Toe
The classic three-in-a-row duel. Instant to learn, quick to play, dangerously easy to demand a rematch.
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4 In A Row
Drop discs and connect four before your rival does. Watch them fall, plan your traps, and never let a diagonal sneak by.
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Checkers
The timeless duel of jumps and kings. Captures are mandatory, multi-jumps chain, and the far row crowns your piece.
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Dicey
Five dice, three rolls, thirteen categories. Hold your lucky dice, chase the straights, and scream when someone rolls a DICEY.
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Hearts
The classic trick-avoidance card game. Pass three cards, duck the Queen of Spades, and keep your score low — unless you're bold enough to shoot the moon.
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Spades
The legendary 2v2 partnership trick-taker. Bid your hand, trust your partner across the table, and go nil if you've got the nerve.
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Chase The Ace
One card each, five chips, and the ace is the LOWEST in the deck. Stand on a good card or force a swap with the player beside you — unless they show a King and block it.
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Mexican Train
One engine in the middle and a train each running off it. Lay a tile, cover the doubles, and if you stall the whole table gets to build on your line.
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Farmers
Lay the countryside one tile at a time. Claim roads, wall up cities, ring your cathedral — and lie your farmers down early, because the farms decide the endgame.
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Porter Rico
Build up the Porter family's island port: pick a role each round, plant and quarry, put workers to work, build the town, and ship your goods for points.
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Gin Rummy
The two-hand card game. Draw, discard, build your melds, and knock when your deadwood is ten or under — or hold out for gin.
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Crazy Eights
Match the suit or the rank, put an eight on anything and name the suit, draw until you can play. First hand empty scores everything the others still hold.
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One!
The Uno-style card game: match the colour or the number, skip the next player, reverse the table, make them draw two, or play a wild. First hand empty wins.
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Canasta
Two decks and four jokers, melds of seven for a canasta, the whole discard pile up for grabs and a wild card to freeze it. Heads-up or in partnerships, first to 5000.
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Contract Rummy
Seven deals, seven contracts — two sets, a set and a run, up to three runs. Two decks, two jokers, lay off on everybody’s melds, and the lowest score wins.
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Level Ten
The Phase 10-style rummy: ten levels of sets, runs and colours, wilds and skips, everybody climbing at their own pace. Make level ten with the lowest score.
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Cribbage
Two to the crib, cut for the starter, peg to 31, then count the show — fifteens, pairs, runs and nobs — to 121. The table does the arithmetic.
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Dominoes
The plain game with the double-six set. Match the ends, draw when you can’t, block them if you must — first to 100.
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Reversi
Outflank a line of their discs and it turns to yours. Take the corners — they never turn back — and count up when the board is full.
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Mancala
Sow your seeds round the tray. End in your store and go again; end in an empty pit of yours and capture across. Fuller store wins.
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Euchre
Partners across the table, bowers on top, five tricks a hand. Order it up, name a suit, go alone if you dare — first to ten.
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Go
The oldest board game there is, on the 9×9 board you learn it on. Surround territory, capture by taking the last liberty, pass twice to count.
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Gomoku
Five in a Row on the Go board. Take turns placing black and white stones; the first to line up five, across, down or diagonally, wins. Easy to learn, quick to play, and full of traps.
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Dots and Boxes
The notebook game. Take turns joining two dots; draw the fourth side of a box to claim it and go again. Most boxes wins, and the end is all about who has to open the long chains.
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Chinese Checkers
Ten pegs, a six-point star, and chains of hops across the middle. Two to six players — first to fill the far corner wins.
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Sea Battle
Battleship, the way you played it on paper: hide five ships on a ten-by-ten sea, call your shots, and a hit shoots again. Sink the fleet to win.
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Ludo
Roll a six to get out, race your four tokens round the board, send the others home when you land on them. First with all four in wins.
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Snakes and Ladders
Roll the die and race to 100: climb every ladder you stop at, slide down every snake. Pure luck, so anyone can win, from five to ninety-five.
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Farkle
Six dice, push your luck: keep the 1s, 5s and three of a kinds, then roll the rest or bank it. Roll nothing that scores and you farkle the whole turn away.
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Chess
The game of kings, with every rule in it — castling, en passant, promotion. Play a friend by link, or the house bot.
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Klondike Solitaire
The solitaire. Seven piles, four foundations, Draw 1 or Draw 3 — clear the deck while your friends watch and heckle in chat.
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FreeCell
Every card face up and four cells to think with. Nearly every deal can be won — the question is whether you can see how.
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Spider Solitaire
Two decks, ten piles, eight runs from king to ace. One suit to learn it, two to work at it, four for the real thing.
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Mahjong Solitaire
The tile-matching one. A turtle of 144 tiles, five layers high — match free pairs until it is gone. Every deal can be solved.
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Pyramid Solitaire
Twenty-eight cards in a pyramid. Pairs that add to thirteen come off and kings go alone. Take it all down in three passes.
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Golf Solitaire
Seven columns, one foundation: play a card one higher or one lower and see how long a chain you can build.
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TriPeaks Solitaire
Three peaks, one foundation: play one higher or one lower, kings and aces side by side, and keep the run going.
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Yukon Solitaire
Klondike with every card dealt. Move any face-up card with everything on top of it, and dig the deck out.
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Start a table for your favorite game and your friends join it from the lobby.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Board Game Universe free?
Yes — every game is free to play in your browser with no downloads and no signup.
How do I play board games online with friends?
Click Play, enter a name, create a match, and have your friends join it from the lobby. Moves and table chat happen in real time.
How many players can play?
It depends on the game. Solo: Klondike, FreeCell, Spider and Mahjong Solitaire, Sudoku, Minesweeper, 2048, Wordzy, Hangman and Word Search. Two players: Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Go, Gomoku, Reversi, Mancala, Tic-Tac-Toe, 4 In A Row, Sea Battle, Gin Rummy and Cribbage. Exactly four: Hearts, Spades and Euchre. Two to four: Dicey, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Dominoes, Dots and Boxes, Mexican Train, Domino Kingdom, Builders, Sea Builders, Crazy Eights and Contract Rummy. Canasta plays 2 or 4, Farmers and Chase The Ace up to 5, and Farkle, One!, Level Ten, Texas Hold'em and Chinese Checkers up to 6.
What games can I play on Board Game Universe?
There are 49 free games. Card games: Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Canasta, Crazy Eights, One!, Contract Rummy, Level Ten, Texas Hold'em and Chase The Ace. Classic board games: Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Go, Gomoku, Reversi, Mancala, Chinese Checkers, Dominoes, Dots and Boxes, Tic-Tac-Toe, 4 In A Row and Sea Battle. Dice games: Dicey, Farkle, Ludo and Snakes and Ladders. Strategy games: Builders, Sea Builders, Farmers, Porter Rico, Domino Kingdom and Mexican Train. Solitaire and puzzles: Klondike Solitaire, FreeCell, Spider Solitaire, Pyramid Solitaire, TriPeaks Solitaire, Golf Solitaire, Yukon Solitaire, Mahjong Solitaire, Sudoku, Minesweeper and 2048 (see all at free solitaire). Word games: Wordzy, Hangman and Word Search.
What's new with Board Game Universe?
Check out our blog for the latest news: every new game and big feature, newest first.
Can I play against the computer?
Yes. Every multiplayer game has computer players that can fill any empty seat, so you can start a game on your own and friends can still join.
Do games work on phones and tablets?
Yes — everything runs in a modern browser on desktop, tablet, or phone.
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