What's new
New games and big features, newest first. Every new game is one click from a table.
2026-10-16
TriPeaks and Yukon Solitaire
TriPeaks Solitaire: three peaks of cards, one foundation. Play one rank higher or lower, kings and aces count as neighbours, and long runs score big.
Yukon Solitaire: Klondike with every card dealt. Move any face-up card together with everything on top of it.
The solitaire hub now has eight games.
Friendlier chat: curse words in table chat, universe chat and messages show only their first letter, the rest in symbols.
Notifications say what just happened, not only whose turn it is: Clanky just raised to 60. It's Sigint's turn. In Texas Hold'em, Crazy Eights, Gin Rummy, Contract Rummy, Canasta, Cribbage, Dominoes, Mexican Train, Ludo and Sea Battle.
Browse games by kind: new pages for card games, classic board games, puzzle games, strategy games, domino games, dice games and two-player games, beside solitaire.
Guests can start as many tables as they like. Sign up (free) to keep your wins, stats and friends on every device.
Player names stay friendly: a name with a curse word in it is refused, with a request for a friendlier one.
Play on the first press: a new visitor gets a name suggested, so Play starts a game straight away. Type over it to use your own.
Every game page now suggests games like it.
⚡ Quickplay in the New Game picker: tap a game and you are playing it straight away against bots, with its usual options.
2026-10-15
Golf and Pyramid Solitaire, and Stats for every dice game
Golf Solitaire: seven columns, one foundation, chain cards one rank up or down.
Pyramid Solitaire: pairs that add to thirteen come off, kings go alone.
📊 Stats on every dice game: Builders, Sea Builders, Dicey, Ludo and Backgammon chart every roll, with captures and hits per player.
Beta games graduate on their own once they have had enough real play.
A monthly game-news email, written for each player: the new games, your record and the tables waiting on you.
2026-10-10
Replay links and colour emoji everywhere
Replay links go straight to a move, so you can share the moment that won the game.
The leaderboard filter is part of the address, so a link opens the same board.
Colour emoji on older Windows computers that could not draw the newest ones.
Porter Rico: the Porter family's island port. Pick a role each round, plant, build, ship goods and trade for victory points. Two to five players, with bots.
2026-09-30
Invite links that seat your friends
An invite link now sits a friend straight down at your table.
Invite Players is its own dialog, with your friends ready to pick.
2026-09-23
Minesweeper, and a quicker way in
Minesweeper: Beginner, Intermediate and Expert.
Play Now starts a game against bots in one tap.
Guests get five free tables before signing up.
The New Game picker has a live search.
Sea Builders lets you choose a Random or Balanced world.
Sea Builders and Sea Battle are out of beta.
2026-09-14
Sudoku and Texas Hold'em
Sudoku: four levels, pencil marks and hints.
Texas Hold'em: no-limit poker for two to six, with play chips only.
2026-09-12
Canasta, Sea Battle and Sea Builders
Canasta: melds, canastas and the frozen pile, for two or four.
Sea Battle: drag your fleet into place, then hunt the other one down.
Sea Builders: the Builders island game put to sea on a random New World, with ships, a pirate and gold.
The New Game picker has Solo Games and Multiplayer Games filters.
Ludo draws each token's trail round the board, and a capture has its own sound.
2026-09-07
Crazy Eights, Contract Rummy, and a better leaderboard
Crazy Eights and Contract Rummy, for two to four.
The leaderboard has a Top Games board and My Games, your record game by game.
Public profiles in three tabs: User Profile, Recent Games and Top Games.
Your ID card shows your win rate.
2026-09-06
How to win, on every game page
Every game page has a Strategy section after the rules.
Beta games are open to everybody.
Play NOW with Bots leads the new-table dialog.
Farmers is out of beta.
2026-09-05
Fourteen new games and a solitaire hub
Four solitaires: Klondike (Draw 1 or Draw 3), FreeCell, Spider (one, two or four suits) and Mahjong Solitaire.
Classics: Chess, Go, Reversi, Mancala, Chinese Checkers, Ludo and Dominoes.
Card games: Gin Rummy, Cribbage and Euchre.
A solitaire hub at /solitaire.
2026-08-20
Go Fullscreen, and a Farmers finale
Go Fullscreen from the settings panel.
Farmers ends with a counting ceremony you can watch.
Farmers: lay the countryside tile by tile, all 72 tiles, with roads, cities, cathedrals and farms.
Card tables fit a phone: your own hand takes the full width of the screen.
Mexican Train is out of beta.
2026-08-18
An app on your home screen, and one look for every game
Add Board Game Universe to your phone's home screen and it opens full screen, like an app.
Every game shares one look: the same gold for whatever is yours to play.
Every game rolls for who goes first.
On small screens the boards get every pixel.
2026-08-17
Private tables and a site built for phones
New tables are private: only your link finds them until you open the door.
Guests get three free tables before signing up.
The whole site was checked on phones, tablets and 4K monitors.
2026-08-15
Turn reminders
An email when a table is waiting on your move.
Idle games are forfeited, so nobody waits for ever.
A touch-friendly toolbar.
Mexican Train: run your train off the engine, and if you stall, the table runs over it.
A welcome email when you register.
2026-08-03
Feedback, beta games and a logo for every game
Send feedback from any table.
New games arrive in beta and ask what you thought.
Every game has its own logo.
A game reel on the home page shows the games being played.
Chase The Ace is out of beta.
2026-08-02
A page for every game
Every game has its own page with the rules, the FAQ and a real game playing itself.
Profile photos.
Lobby filters, and the filter is the address.
2026-07-30
Chase The Ace, and Play Again
Chase The Ace: one card each, five chips, swap or keep, and do not be caught low. Two to five players.
PLAY AGAIN: the same table, one round later.
A table waits until every chair is taken.
A table whose owner leaves is handed on, not abandoned.
2026-07-29
Public profiles and the Galactic Citizen ID
Every player has a public profile page.
The Galactic Citizen ID card is redesigned.
2026-07-28
Friends and Universal Points
Friends.
Universal Points for the leaderboard.
Table owners can moderate their tables.
A dark theme across every game, and the planet logo.
2026-07-27
Backgammon and a livelier lobby
Backgammon: the full rules on a wooden board, with a bot.
The universe chat in the lobby remembers what was said.
Active Games and Recently Played in the lobby.
Builders players can trade with each other.
2026-07-26
Builders, replays and direct messages
Builders: settle the island, roll, build, trade and race to ten points.
Replay any finished game.
Direct messages between players.
Sign in with email as well as Google.
Bots for every game.
2026-07-23
Hearts, Spades, accounts and badges
Hearts and Spades, with computer players.
Sign in with Google, a profile, and your plays, wins and draws recorded.
Achievement badges on your ID card.
A Rules button on every table.
Turn alerts in your browser.
2026-07-22
Board Game Universe opens
The first five games: Tic-Tac-Toe (3x3, 5x5 and 7x7), 4 In A Row, Checkers, Dicey and Domino Kingdom.
A lobby with chat, player colours, avatars and flags.
Sounds and a notifications panel at every table.
