Games for two players
Head-to-head games, from chess and backgammon to five-minute quick matches. Rules, tactics and how to play a friend who is miles away.
Generala: a dice game like Yahtzee, explained box by box
Five dice, three rolls, eleven boxes to fill. Generala is the game Argentines and Uruguayans grow up playing at the kitchen table, and if you know Yahtzee, you already know about 80% of it. The other 20% is where it gets interesting.
Turning your own photo into a nonogram: a step-by-step guide
To make a nonogram from your own photo, open the nonogram editor, tap “From photo” and move the brightness slider until a recognisable silhouette appears on a 10×10 or 15×15 grid. The server checks that the puzzle has exactly one solution, and friends solve it free from a link. The photo is processed on your phone and never uploaded.
Backgammon online with a friend: rules, setup and first strategies
Backgammon is a race for two: each player has 15 checkers, two dice and one goal — bring every checker home and bear them all off first. A lone enemy checker can be hit and sent to the bar, and it must re-enter before anything else moves. Here are the rules step by step, first strategies and how to play a friend online.
What to play together when you are half a continent apart
Long-distance calls break the same way for everyone: you have four minutes of actual news and an hour you want to spend together. A game fixes that not by being fun, but by giving the conversation something to lean on.
Truco one on one: the deck, the ranking, envido and when to lie
Truco is the rare card game where good cards help but do not decide anything. What decides is how convincingly you pretend. Here is the deck, the ranking, the betting and where the lying lives.
How to actually get that chess game with your friend going
Getting a game against a stranger takes five seconds anywhere. Getting a game against Dave, who has been meaning to play since March, is a different problem entirely. Here is how to remove everything standing in the way.
What actually fits into three, five and fifteen minutes
A break is rarely as long as the timetable claims. So these games are sorted by minutes rather than genre, and each one honestly fits its shelf.
Battleship for two: how to stop firing at random
Most Battleship games are not lost to bad luck. They are lost in the first twenty shots, fired with no system at all. Rules first, then how to hunt ships faster than the person across from you.
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