Drawer 06 · review
PlayStrategy
More than forty two-player board games in one browser tab: chess, draughts, Go, Othello, mancala and more.
Our score 4/5
Our take
PlayStrategy grew out of the Mind Sports Olympiad, the London festival of thinking games, and out of the open-source code of a well-known chess site. The result is one clean, fast platform for over forty classic two-player games, many of which are hard to find online anywhere else.
You can play people at your level, challenge a friend with a link, try the puzzles, or read the rules pages to learn something new. Abalone, Lines of Action and Frisian draughts are all a click away.
It costs nothing, runs in any modern browser and shows no adverts. If you know one board game well, it is a lovely place to learn a second.
A first sitting
- Open the official site and read the rules page for a game you do not know.
- Play a few puzzles before your first game against a person.
- Pick a slower time control while you learn.
Where to stop
Short games invite one more. Pick a number of games before you start, and stop after a loss rather than chasing the next game.
