Classic Board & Card Games
Play the classics. See your mistakes. Get better.
Six timeless games against strong computer opponents — and a full review after every game. Play a quick round, or start a career: climb leagues and tournaments, watch your rating grow, and find out exactly where your games are won and lost.
Every game, reviewed by a real engine
When the game ends, the engine goes through every decision you made. You see your accuracy, your costliest moves, what you did, what was better — and in plain words, why.
Blunders and mistakes, marked
Each costly decision is flagged and priced: “cost 19.1 points”, “mistake”, “inaccuracy” — so you know which ones really mattered.
The better play, explained
“Throwing the 4 of Diamonds left 64 deadwood instead of 60.” Red shows the card you threw, green the better one.
Replay it, move by move
Jump from any mistake straight into the replay and see the position as it was — hand by hand, card by card.
Backgammon
Performance Rating (PR) after every match, your biggest errors with the better moves. Import your own matches (XG / GNU .mat exports) and have them analysed too.
Handicap Chess
Moves judged by the drop in winning chances, not raw centipawns. Accuracy by phase, blunders/mistakes/inaccuracies, the engine's top five moves. PGN import and export.
Hearts · Spades · Gin Rummy
Points lost per hand and a best-play percentage. The engine replays many possible deals to judge each pass, bid and card — fair in a game of hidden cards.
Know your level. Then raise it.
Analysis only matters if it changes the next game. Everything here is built into a simple loop that turns mistakes into progress.
Play
A quick game, a tournament round, or a league match.
Review
Accuracy and your costliest decisions, explained.
Practise
Your own mistakes come back as positions to solve.
Climb
Watch accuracy and rating trend upwards over time.
How your results stack up
A Glicko-2 rating per game, measured against computer opponents with fixed, calibrated strengths — so the number means the same next month as it does today.
How well you actually decided
The engine judges each of your choices against its best one. It filters out the luck of the deal, so it settles much faster — a bad hand played well still scores well.
Practise your mistakes
In Backgammon, every analysed error of 0.04 or more becomes a practice position. Solve them until the right move feels obvious.
Trends, not just single games
Your game history charts accuracy over time, filtered by game kind — because a +14 handicap game and a +3 one aren’t comparable.
Always a next step
Opponent levels from Easy to Master — and in the card games, engine levels Pro, Elite, Champion and Master above Hard. Each Spades engine level beats the one below about two games in three.
Learn the rules in place
Every card game has a “How to Play” page, one tap from the menu and the table.
Seasons, tournaments and a ladder to climb
Every game has a career. Play your way up through leagues, Swiss tournaments and finals against named computer opponents — all offline, all at your own pace.
In Handicap Chess you play a full-strength engine — but it gives you a handicap. Each league is a handicap in points; the pieces are drawn at random each season, so every bot feels different. Win your season, move up, and earn smaller handicaps until you meet the engine near even. Standard or Chess960, at 2+2, 3+2, 5+3, 10+5 or 15+10.
Seasons and promotion
Round-robin seasons of 6–8 players — you meet every bot and every handicap. Finish high to move up a league.
Swiss tournaments
26 players from the leagues of your choice. Blitz 5+3 over seven rounds, or classic 15+10 over five rounds and a top-4 final.
A rating per time control
League and tournament games feed a rating for each time control, shown as a trend — so you can feel your blitz and your classical improve separately.
| Game | Career | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Handicap Chess | Handicap League · Swiss tournament | Leagues 20 → 1 by handicap points; seasons per time control, Standard and Chess960 |
| Backgammon | Career tournaments | Swiss rounds, then a playoff; first-to-N matches with the doubling cube |
| Ludo | Ludo Career | 32 players, four qualifying stages and a final of four — then the next tournament |
| Hearts | Tournament | 32 players at four-player tables, qualifying rounds, then a final |
| Spades | Tournament | Swiss rounds with a fixed computer partner, then a top-4 playoff |
| Gin Rummy | Tournament | Swiss rounds, then a top-4 playoff |
Serious engines. Friendly tables.
All the depth stays out of the way until you want it. What you see first is a warm, handsome table and opponents with names.
🎭 Opponents with names
Ada, Quinn, Juno, Sage, Nova and friends — each with their own skill, memory for cards and habits.
🛋️ Play together
Ludo for 2–4 people on one screen, and pass-and-play Chess with a friend — with an optional handicap to even things out.
✨ Little rewards
Confetti for the big wins, synthesised sound effects, music, animated pawns and cards that fly to the trick.
🌙 Shoot the moon
Every classic rule worth having: shooting the moon, nil bids and bags, Spades Cutthroat, gin and undercuts, Chess960.
⏱️ Quick or long
A single game in minutes — or a career that lasts seasons. Short time controls for the adrenaline, long ones for deep thought.
🧘 Calm by default
No ads, no timers you didn’t choose, no nagging. Just you and a good game.
Pick your table
Backgammon
The classic race and battle of 15 checkers — against a neural-network opponent that plays the doubling cube and match play.
- Opponents Six levels, Easy to Master, calibrated over thousands of games; neural-net evaluation with 2-ply search
- Analysis Performance Rating per match, biggest errors with better moves, import your own .mat matches
- Improve Practice positions from your own mistakes, match history with a trend chart
- Career Swiss tournaments and playoffs
Handicap Chess
Chess and Chess960 against a real engine running at full strength — then make it fair by taking away its pieces. How few does it need to lose to beat you?
- Opponent The Leorik engine, built in; measured around 3150 on Stockfish’s Elo scale in lab tests
- Analysis Review by winning chances, accuracy by phase, top-5 moves per position, PGN import and export
- Career Handicap League (leagues 20 → 1) and Swiss tournaments, with a rating per time control
- Together Pass-and-play with a friend — the stronger player can remove their own pieces
Ludo
Race all four pawns home. A family classic with more decisions than it lets on — which is exactly what the accuracy score shows.
- Players 2–4, on one screen or against computer players with their own styles
- Analysis Accuracy in squares lost per choice, game review and replay
- Career 32 players, four qualifying stages, a final of four; Relaxed, Standard or Pro
Hearts
Pass three cards, then dodge the hearts and the queen of spades — or take them all and shoot the moon.
- Opponents Easy, Normal, Hard — then Pro, Elite, Champion and Master, who pass and play by simulation
- Analysis Points given away per hand vs best play, costliest passes and cards explained, full replay
- Career 32-player tournament at four-player tables
Spades
Bid your tricks and make them with a computer partner. Spades are always trump — and nil is always tempting.
- Opponents Choose your partner’s level and your opponents’ separately, up to Master
- Modes Partners, or Cutthroat — four players, each for themselves
- Analysis Accuracy per hand, costliest bids and cards, replay
- Career Swiss tournament with a fixed partner, then a top-4 playoff
Gin Rummy
Collect sets and runs, keep your deadwood low, then knock or go gin — one opponent, every decision counts.
- Opponent Easy to Hard, then Pro, Elite and Master: a search engine with a trained network
- Rules Melds, knocking, gin, layoffs and undercuts
- Analysis Points lost per hand, best-play %, each draw and discard judged
- Career Swiss tournament, then a top-4 playoff
Nothing between you and the game
No ads
Long, calm games deserve no interruptions.
No microtransactions
No subscriptions, no coins, no energy bars.
Works offline
Engines run on your own device.
For the household
Up to five player profiles, ranked per game.
Play the classics. See your mistakes. Get better.
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