Classic board games, card games, and puzzles - all free, right in your browser. Face AI opponents that actually put up a fight, or open a room and challenge a friend in real time.
One five-letter word per day, six guesses, same word for everyone. Solve it and keep your streak alive - a new puzzle drops at midnight.
Strategy, cards, puzzles, and arcade classics. Every game is free and runs right in your browser.
Drop discs, Four in a Row in a row.
Jump, capture, and crown your kings.
Flip discs and control the board.
Sow seeds, steal captures, earn extra turns.
The royal game. Full rules, real engine.
Five in a row wins. Simple rules, deep tactics.
Nine boards. Your move decides where they play.
Claim boxes, control the chains.
Form mills, remove pieces, corner your foe.
Race, hit, and bear off. Dice with brains.
Hunt the fleet before yours goes down.
Connect your two sides. No draws, ever.
Match suit or rank. Eights are wild.
Beat the dealer to 21. Hints included.
Klondike. The one and only.
Slide, merge, and chase the 2048 tile.
Clear the field. Don't click the bomb.
Every row, column, and box: 1 through 9.
One daily word. Six guesses. Keep the streak.
Eat, grow, and don't bite yourself.
Five in a row or capture ten stones.
Control territory on the ancient board.
Jump across the star to the other side.
Form melds, reduce deadwood, go gin!
Dodge hearts and the dreaded Queen.
Bid, take tricks, reach 500.
Peg your way to 121.
Flip, match, and remember.
Slide tiles into numerical order.
Fill cells to reveal the picture.
Cross-sums with digits 1 to 9.
Match free tiles to clear the board.
Type falling words before they drop.
Thirteen of our games support live player-vs-player matches. Create a public game anyone can join, or share a private room code with a friend. Moves sync instantly - no refresh, no lag.
Go to Multiplayer LobbyThe players with the most wins across every game on the site
Rankings count every win across all 33 games, against the AI and against other players alike. Solo games such as 2048, Minesweeper and Sudoku keep separate high-score and fastest-time tables. See the full leaderboards.
Finished games appear here as they happen. Every recorded match can be replayed move by move, so you can watch how a game was won — or where it slipped away. Browse the full archive on the replays page.
More than a game site - a place to actually get better at the games you love
Every opponent uses a real game engine - minimax search, alpha-beta pruning, and per-game tuning. Easy mode teaches; AI Training mode punishes.
Create a room, share a six-letter code, and play a friend live. Public lobby matches let you take on strangers, with optional move timers.
Turn on the coach in our flagship games for real-time move analysis, then review the whole game afterwards to see exactly where it slipped away.
Every game is recorded. Track your win rate, climb per-game leaderboards, and post high scores in the solo games.
Watch any recorded game move by move - your own, or anyone's on the recent-games feed. Learning from losses beats repeating them.
The daily Word Guess gives everyone the same puzzle each day. Six guesses, one word, and a streak worth protecting.
From zero to playing in about five seconds
Twenty games across strategy, cards, puzzle, and arcade. Everything runs in your browser - nothing to install, nothing to pay.
Play the AI at four difficulty levels, or head to the multiplayer lobby and challenge a friend with a private room code.
Use the how-to-play tutorials and strategy guides for every game. Flagship games include a live AI coach that explains the best moves.
Sign up (free, optional) to save your stats, appear on leaderboards, keep daily streaks, and review replays of your games.
An independent project built by people who love board games
PlayVersusAI started with a simple idea: browser games are usually either pretty but brainless, or smart but ugly. We wanted both - classic games with genuinely strong AI opponents, wrapped in an interface that's actually pleasant to use.
Today the site hosts 20 games. The strategy games run real engines: bitboard search for Four in a Row, full move-generation and evaluation for Chess and Checkers, probability mapping for Sea Battle. Puzzle games like Sudoku generate fresh, human-solvable puzzles on demand. And 13 games support live online multiplayer, so you can bring a friend.
Every game on this site is completely free. No coins, no energy bars, no "premium" difficulty levels. The site is supported by unobtrusive ads on desktop, and that's it.
You don't even need an account to play - signing up just unlocks the extras: saved stats, leaderboard rankings, multiplayer matchmaking, and daily streaks. We collect the minimum data needed to make those features work, as covered in our privacy policy.
Found a bug, or want a game added? Tell us on the contact page - most of the games here were built because someone asked.
Every game has a full how-to-play and strategy guide