Board Games

Backgammon against ranked humans, with an analysis pass afterwards that quantifies precisely how reckless your doubles were.

Several hundred properly licensed board games with the rules enforced for you, so nobody argues about whether that move was legal.

A German board game world that has hosted Carcassonne and Puerto Rico since 2001, complete with a slightly baffling lobby.

Chess tactics training with a rating that goes down, plus an endgame trainer that reveals exactly how much you do not know.

The default chess address for most of the planet, with a bot for every skill level and puzzles that will quietly humble you.

Nearly a million recorded games from four centuries of chess, replayable move by move, with the real arguments in the comments.

Settlers of Catan in a browser tab, complete with the trade negotiations and the one player who will not give you wheat.

Free chess with no adverts, no account required and an analysis engine better than the paid ones, funded entirely by donations.

A quiet turn-based server for abstract strategy games — Hex, TwixT, Amazons — where matches last months and nobody rushes you.

The English-speaking world's Go server, where correspondence games run for weeks and somebody always explains why your move was bad.

Noughts and crosses, gomoku and Connect Four against a real stranger, matched in about four seconds with no signup.

A plain, fast game server that has outlived every redesign trend since 2001 and still hosts chess, draughts and mahjong.

Board games rendered as physical objects on a 3D table with no rules enforcement, so you can still play badly like at home.

A stubbornly plain German server hosting hundreds of turn-based Euro games, free and ad-free since long before that was a stance.