Settlers of Catan in a browser tab, complete with the trade negotiations and the one player who will not give you wheat.
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Colonist sits in Board Games under Play, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Chess, draughts, connection games and modern board games ported honestly. Play a stranger or send a link to someone in another country.
Yes. Colonist is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Colonist without signing up for anything.
Yes. Colonist works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
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.
Match hue, saturation and complementary colours against a target, one exercise at a time, scored out of a hundred.
Team deathmatch with a built-in level editor, played mostly by people who memorised every map years ago.
Risk on hundreds of user-drawn maps, played slowly against a community that has been arguing about dice odds since 2006.
Recreate a target image in as few characters of CSS as possible, then watch somebody do it in half as many.
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