Board games to play online

Browse 39 playable board games. Compare games, read the rules and choose online play, AI practice where available, or a shared device.

Xiangqi

One move. A thousand possibilities.

Chess

A world of strategy, without borders.

Gomoku

Easy to learn. A joy to master.

Hidden chess

Reveal a piece. Discover a surprise.

Go

Build your territory, stone by stone.

International Draughts

Find the jump that changes the game.

Reversi

Turn the whole board with one move.

Math chess

Make every number count.

Janggi

A palace of possibilities.

Shogi

Every captured piece gets a second act.

Chinese Checkers

Hop your way to the other side.

Backgammon

A little luck. A lot of strategy.

Monopoly

Build a little empire of your own.

Ludo

Roll the dice. Bring everyone home.

Reveal Chess

Move the cover. Reveal new possibilities.

Three-Player Chess

Three players. Two rivals. Keep your king standing on a 96-cell board.

Three Kingdoms Xiangqi

Wei, Shu and Wu meet on a board of 135 intersections. Modern rules, three independent armies.

Chess960

Play chess from one of 960 legal starting arrangements, with special castling rules.

Crazyhouse

Captured pieces join your reserve and can return to the board on your side.

Atomic Chess

Captures explode nearby pieces. Win by destroying the opposing king or delivering atomic checkmate.

Three-check Chess

Win by giving three checks, or by ordinary checkmate.

Capablanca Chess

Play 10×8 chess with an archbishop and chancellor in Capablanca's starting arrangement.

Minishogi

Play shogi on 5×5 squares with promotion and captured pieces returning as drops.

Makruk

Makruk is Thailand's traditional relative of chess: the met and khon move one square, pawns promote to met on the sixth rank and endgames use counting.

ASEAN Chess

ASEAN Chess, adopted by the ASEAN-Chess Council in 2011, keeps the chess back-rank order but uses one-step khon and met, and pawns promote on the last rank.