Free board games against the robot

Chess is the deepest of them: every rule is built in, from castling and en passant to the draw rules, and the robot ranges from a forgiving Easy to a Hard level that thinks about a second per move. Checkers follows the American rules, where captures are compulsory and a crowned king rules the board. Four in a Row is the quick one, a race to line up four discs. Reversi rewards patience, since one move can flip a whole row. Ludo brings the dice: race four tokens home against up to three robots, or pass the phone round the table.

Each game lets you pick the robot’s level, choose your colour or who goes first, take back a move, and play a friend on the same device instead. Everything runs on your own device: the robot thinks in your browser, and your wins, losses and streaks are saved there too, so they are not part of the daily leaderboards. Results stay private, and a game in progress waits for you if you close the page.

New to a game? Each page explains the rules in a short, clear How to play box, with tips for beating the robot and answers to common questions, so you can start at Easy and work your way up to Hard.