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Play Gomoku, solitaire, draughts and traditional board and card games for free in your browser. Computer opponents, local play and solo modes vary by game; each guide explains its available rules.
Where to start
Try Gomoku or draughts for placement and planning, solitaire or FreeCell for solo card puzzles, and backgammon, mancala or regional card games to explore different rules.
Gomoku · Computer
Play Black against the computer on a 15×15 board. Five or more stones in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line wins. Choose one of three computer policies in this freestyle edition.
Play free online →Gomoku · Local Table
Share this screen and alternate Black and White. Five or more wins. Native controls, auto save, Undo/Redo, precise placement and review. Local hints do not promise a win. No computer or online matching.
Play free online →Oware · Abapa
Abapa sowing game with two-or-three capture, mandatory feeding and cancelled grand slams. Play the computer or a local friend.
Play free online →Kalah · 4 seeds
Four-seed Kalah with store bonus turns and empty-pit captures. Play the computer or a local friend.
Play free online →Main Chongkak · Skeat
Choose Skeat's recorded Main Chongkak or an Indonesian Dakon round: right-hand stores, reverse relay sowing, empty-row passes and scoring after both rows empty.
Play free online →Sungka · Bernardo
Bernardo’s recorded Philippine relay game: sow only into your store; empty rows pass; refill after all seeds reach the stores.
Play free online →Turkish Mangala
Modern Turkish rules: leave one at the origin, capture even opposing pits, and reward the first empty row. Computer or local two-player.
Play free online →Scopa
Scopa: take one equal-value card before any equal-sum set. Capture is compulsory if possible with the chosen card. One deal / Full match
Play free online →Escoba de 15
Escoba: played card plus captured table cards must total 15. An available capture is compulsory. One deal / Full match
Play free online →Briscola
Briscola: play any card, without following suit. Trump beats other suits; otherwise led suit wins. One deal / Full match
Play free online →Pişti
Pişti: 52 cards, four-card hands, opening pile of four with cards turned until the top is not J. Equal rank or J takes the pile. One deal / Full match
Play free online →Hurrikan
Capture one equal-valued card before any equal-sum set; captures are compulsory. Most hearts, 7♥, most cards and the best four-suit prime each score 1; a sweep scores 1. One deal / Full match
Play free online →Nine Men’s Morris
Alternate placing pieces on empty points. Only after both reserves empty may pieces move along one edge to an empty neighbor.
Play free online →Morabaraba
GAR-based edition: twelve pieces and four corner diagonals. A piece moved out of one mill to make another cannot return to its original point to form a mill on your next turn; make a different move first.
Play free online →Shisima
Three pieces each start on opposite sides of the octagon. Alternate moving one piece along one drawn edge to an empty neighbor, around the rim or through the center.
Play free online →Ludo
Four pieces per player. Roll to choose the starter; tied highest rollers roll again.
Play free online →Backgammon
Move fifteen checkers using the dice, hit opposing blots and bear all your checkers off. This match edition includes the doubling cube and requires bar reentry before other moves.
Play free online →Hyper-backgammon
Hyper uses only three checkers each, one at your points 24,23,22; moves and bearoff remain backgammon.
Play free online →Podkidnoy Durak
Defend attacks with higher cards of the same suit or trumps. Added attacks use ranks already on the table. After the deck empties, players finish by shedding their hands; the last holder loses.
Play free online →Perevodnoy Durak
Before any cover, add matching ranks to transfer the whole attack clockwise, only if the next hand can cover every card. Covering once locks transfers for the bout.
Play free online →Yutnori · Forward edition
Throw four sticks, allocate saved results and choose diagonal shortcuts. Friendly mal stack and move together; exact enemy landings capture the whole stack. Four mal per team, with two players or four partners.
Play free online →Jungle · Animal Chess
Eight animal ranks, swimming rats, elephant counters and lion/tiger river leaps. Use traps to break the defence and enter the enemy den. Dog3/Wolf4 edition, computer or local two-player.
Play free online →Cờ gánh
Move on twenty-five intersections and convert opposing pieces using Gánh flank pairs and Vây enclosure. Pieces change sides rather than leave the board, with forced Mở responses where applicable.
Play free online →Thai Draughts · Mak Hos
Eight-piece Mak Hos: flying kings land directly beyond each victim. Preview and finish the complete capture route.
Play free online →English Draughts · Checkers
Twelve-piece English/American checkers: short kings, compulsory captures and turn-ending crowning. Choose a complete route.
Play free online →Russian Draughts · 8×8
Twelve men per side on the first three rows. Choose any complete capture, regardless of its length.
Play free online →Brazilian Draughts · 8×8
Twelve men per side on the first three rows. Capture the greatest number; men and kings each count one and equal-length paths are free choices.
Play free online →International Draughts · 10×10
Twenty men per side on four rows; the 10×10 dark cells use official numbers1–50. Capture the greatest number; men and kings count one, with free equal-length choices.
Play free online →FreeCell
Move all fifty-two visible cards to four suit foundations. Four free cells and empty columns provide temporary space and determine your movable sequence capacity.
Play free online →Klondike Solitaire
Build descending alternating-colour columns and move each suit from Ace to King into foundations. Reveal covered cards and manage the stock to make progress.
Play free online →TriPeaks Solitaire
Arrange 28 cards in three peaks with rows 3/6/9/10. Of 24 stock cards, one starts the waste, leaving 23 without recycling.
Play free online →Makruk · Thai chess
Play Thai chess with distinct Met and Khon moves, protecting your king while seeking checkmate. This edition includes its promotion and endgame-count rules.
Play free online →Cribbage · Race to 121
Deal six, discard two, peg fifteens, pairs, runs and 31, then count hands and the dealer’s crib. A full two-player 121-point match with visible automatic scoring, against computer or a local friend.
Play free online →Halma · Square leap race
Full 16×16 square Halma: 19 pieces each for two, 13 each for four. Race all pieces into the opposite camp without captures, with chained hops, the original asymmetric three-player setup and two partner formats.
Play free online →Block Dominoes
Full double-six Block: no draws, 2–4 players, lowest remaining pips after an out or block. Play complete 100/61-point matches with private hands and public tile suggestions.
Play free online →Draw Dominoes
Full double-six Draw: 2–4 players, optional one-tile draws even when able to play, the last two tiles stay in the yard. Complete 100/61-point matches, private hands and real blocked-round scoring.
Play free online →All Fives · Single Spinner
Full double-six All Fives: first double opens a four-arm spinner after both sides are used; exposed ends score multiples of five. Complete 250/200-point matches, 2–4 players and opposite partners.
Play free online →Gaple · Indonesian Dominoes
Full double-six Gaple for four or five players: dead discards or passing, opposite partners and optional lone-double-blank scoring. Rank all unplayed tiles with two tie-breaks.
Play free online →Partner Dominoes · 100
Four hands of seven, forced double-six first lead, rotating later leaders. Compare team pips after a block; score the losers’ pips in a full 100-point match.
Play free online →Jamaican Dominoes · Six Love
Four-player opposite partners race to six-love. Individual minima decide blocks, changing winners resets both scores, and a real key bone can score two. Winning team chooses its next poser.
Play free online →Senet · Thirty Houses
The five-piece OI museum workbook reconstruction. Cast four sticks, protect and swap pieces, visit Beauty exactly, choose how to escape Water, and pass all five pieces first.
Play free online →Ayòayò · Lagos Relay
The recorded Lagos edition: 12 pits, 4 seeds each, 48 total. Relay counterclockwise; making four mid-sow credits the row owner, while the last seed credits the mover. Feed an empty row and capture more than 24 after a full sow to win.
Play free online →Haitian Dominoes · Four points
Opposite partners chase four consecutive points: a final non-double playable at both ends doubles the award, blocked ties raise the base to two, and five doubles permit a redeal.
Play free online →Chiva · Puerto Rican shutout
Opposite partners seek four wins to zero. A win by the shut-out side resets both streaks without a credit. Blocks compare partner pip totals; every won hand counts once. Two/three-player draw editions:draw until a match or an empty yard. Three players retain 2–1–0 and can finish 4–1–0; everyone resets only when the last winless player wins.
Play free online →Cuban double-nine · 100 points
55 double-nine tiles: ten each for four partners and fifteen unused. Open any tile; individual minima decide blocks. Score only opponents’ remaining pips, first to 100.
Play free online →Madagascar · Fanorona
Capture by approaching or withdrawing from opposing pieces in Fanorona. A turn can continue through several captures, subject to no revisited points or repeated directions.
Play free online →Turkish Tavla · WBF traditional
15 checkers each. Reroll after the first opening contest; later the previous winner starts. Single 1, Mars 2. Full nine-point digital match without a cube.
Play free online →Pachisi · Cowrie partners
Six cowries, four colours and two partnerships on the full cross board. Use castles, capture throws and voluntary passes to bring all eight team counters back to the centre.
Play free online →Sungka · simultaneous opening
A simultaneous-opening Philippine seed game: both hands relay one seed at a time, capture the landing seed and its opposite, give the smaller store the next lead, then play full matches with permanently burned holes.
Play free online →Congkak · Malaysian simultaneous opening
Malaysian simultaneous-opening Congkak: left stores, opposite-only capture after crossing the opponent’s row, a retained landing seed, empty-row passes, and full refill matches with permanently burned holes.
Play free online →Takhteh / Tavla · hit and stay
One recorded Iranian Takhteh / Turkish Tavla profile: home-board hitting checkers stay for the turn and bearoff-capable checkers cannot first move forward to waste pips.15 checkers each, a full nine-point match, single 1 and no-bearoff loss 2.
Play free online →Longana · Cuban branches
55 double-nine tiles, eight each and a personal branch. Pass to open your branch; doubles may join any branch. Equal open ends follow passing order. Play a full 100-point match.
Play free online →Mexican Train · Shared railway
91 double-twelve tiles and 2–10 personal trains plus one public train. Build a personal chain on your first turn; later doubles grant extra plays and ordered covering duties. Complete all 13 rounds; lowest total penalty wins.
Play free online →Ô ăn quan · Vietnam
Ten citizen pits and two Quan pits: bidirectional relay sowing, chained captures and mandatory refills.
Play free online →Yijian · Go against AI
Play a local casual AI on three board sizes. Captures, no suicide and positional superko, three AI policies, either colour, whole-turn undo, checked auto resume and SGF export. Two passes lead to manual dead-stone confirmation and area scoring with 7.5 komi. In-game interface is Chinese.
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About playing free games
Are these games free?
Yes. Games in the MAKEGAME catalogue are free to play. Open a game guide, read the rules and select play to start.
Do I need a download or an account?
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Which casual, board, card and puzzle games can I play?
Try matching, block placement and sorting games for a casual break; Gomoku, solitaire and draughts for board and card play; or Sudoku, 2048 and number logic puzzles.
Can I save my progress?
Some games save progress in this device’s browser. Check the individual guide. Clearing browser storage or changing devices may remove access to that progress.