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Make Game Night feel just right.

Appearance

Light or dark
Theme
Colours, fonts and tile shapes, all at once. It follows you to every device.

Sound & feel

Sound effectsDice, discs, right and wrong answers, and a little fanfare when you winOn
Volume60%
Sound pack
More packsComing later
Button clicksA soft tap when you press buttons and tilesOff
VibrationA short buzz with some sounds, like a wrong answer or a dice roll. (iPhones don't let websites vibrate.)On
Reduce animationsTurns off tile flips, pop-ins, and other movement on this device.Off

On iPhone, the silent switch also mutes Game Night. Everything a sound says is also shown on screen.

Notifications

NotificationsSign in to get notified when it's your turn
Quiet hoursNo notifications overnight; they arrive in the morning insteadSoon

Word Duel

Quick StartMedium · Color clues · Unlimited (classic)
Change
Start count-clue games with notes onTapping letters marks them ✕ / ✓ right away. You can still switch notes off in the game.Off
Hide my secret wordShows your word as ••••• during games, for playing where others can see your screen. Tap it to peek.Off

Signed in? These follow you to all your devices.

Sudoku

Mistake checkingWrong numbers are marked ✕ right away and counted. Turn off to find your own mistakes, like on paper.On
Hide the timerPlay without watching the clock. Your time is still shown when you finish.Off

Four in a Row

Quick dropDrop your disc with one tap. Off: the first tap shows where it would land, and a second tap drops it (safer on small screens).Off

Whodunit?

Grid helperIn the notepad's grid, a ✓ crosses out the rest of its row and column for you. Off: mark every square yourself, like on paper.On

Chess

Pieces
Board
Show possible movesDots where the piece you picked up can go (a ring for a capture).On
Confirm movesTap Move to confirm each move, so a slip of the finger never counts.Off
CoordinatesThe letters a–h and numbers 1–8 along the edges of the board.On

Sea Battle

Battle pace
How the computer's and your friends' shots reach you.
Every shot heard, one at a time, with a moment between. Tap to skip ahead.
Quick fireFire with one tap. Off: the first tap aims at a square, and a second tap (or Fire) shoots (safer on small screens).Off

Shoot the Moon!

Card pace
How the computers' cards reach the table.
The computers' cards land one by one, and each trick pauses before it's swept away. Tap the table to skip ahead.
Card colors
Four colors make every suit look different at a glance: diamonds blue, clubs green.
Quick playPlay a card with one tap. Off: the first tap lifts it, and a second tap (or Play) plays it (safer on small screens).Off

Solitaire

Card colors
Four colors make every suit look different at a glance: diamonds blue, clubs green.
Left-handedThe stock and waste on the right, the foundations on the left.Off

Cribbage

Pace
How the computer's cards and the counts reach the table.
The computer's cards land one by one, and each count is called line by line. Tap the table to skip ahead.
Card colors
Four colors make every suit look different at a glance: diamonds blue, clubs green.

Gin Rummy

Pace
How the computer's moves reach the table.
The computer's draw and discard take about a second each. Tap the table to skip ahead.
Your hand
How your cards are laid out (you can switch at the table too).
The app arranges your hand for the least deadwood: runs and sets first, deadwood last.
Card colors
Four colors make every suit look different at a glance: diamonds blue, clubs green.

Spades

Pace
How the computers' bids and cards reach the table.
The computers' bids and cards land one at a time. Tap the table to skip ahead.
Card colors
Four colors make every suit look different at a glance: diamonds blue, clubs green.
CoachSuggests a bid and a card, and says why. For new games (also in the game menu). Marked in your stats.Off
Spades playedA row showing which spades are gone, as good players keep track in their heads. For new games (also in the game menu). Marked in your stats.Off

Treasure or Trouble?

Opening a door
How the door opens once you've picked it.
The door creaks and swings open before you see what's behind it.
NotepadMarks under each door (💎, 🧌, ∅) and on each sign (True or False) while you think. You can also switch it with ✎ in a room.On

Two Timer

Show namesEach picture's name under it, for younger players or anyone who likes words. Go-togethers always show them.Off
Cards that don't match
How long they stay up before turning back down.
They turn back down after about a second and a half, or when you tap the board.
Ada, Bo and Cy's pace
How quickly the computers turn their cards.
Ada, Bo and Cy's cards (and friends' turns you missed) about a second each, so you can see where they look.

Bell Tower

Show namesEach bell's name under it. The bells' shapes and places tell them apart too.On
Show numbersA small 1 to 6 on each bell, for anyone who likes counting.Off
Ada, Bo and Cy's turns
In Add a bell: watch them ring the tune back, or just hear it once.
See Ada, Bo and Cy ring the tune back, bell by bell, at their own pace. That's how you hear it.

Cross Patch

Show the timerYour time while you solve. It runs either way; ❚❚ pauses it.On
Skip filled squaresTyping jumps over squares that already have a letter.On
Jump to the next clueAt the end of a word, carry on with the next clue.On
Show mistakes as I typeWrong letters get a red slash at once. Counts as help: no ⭐.Off

Scribblitz

Count me in: 3, 2, 1A moment to get ready before each drawing starts. Off: it starts the moment it opens.On
Show the points fallingWhat a right guess would score right now. They fall either way.On

Bright Valley

Travel speed
How fast the days go by after Travel on (you can switch it on the road too).
A day on the road every second: about 15 minutes for a whole journey.
Still picturesThe land doesn't slide past and the wheels don't turn; the days still go by. (Reduce animations under Appearance does this for every game.)Off
Road GuideA friendly guide explains the choices the first few times you meet them: the pace, the rations, rivers, forks and more.Off

Account

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About

Game NightVersion d382bdf
What's newNew games and changes in Game Night135 new
Send feedbackAn idea for a game, a wish, or something broken
Help & supportCommon questions, and how to reach us
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Privacy policyWhat we keep, who sees it, how to delete it
Terms of UseAges 13 and up, playing fair, being kind
Credits & licenses
Word lists from SCOWL (via wordlist-english, MIT) and an-array-of-english-words (MIT); word frequencies from wordfreq by Robyn Speer (data CC BY-SA 4.0); offensive words filtered with the LDNOOBW list (CC BY 4.0).
Word meanings from Princeton WordNet 3.1 (© 2011 Princeton University; used under the WordNet license), plus hand-written meanings.
Know Way! questions are written for Game Night in our own words; each answer links to the source it was checked against.
Chess: the rules from chess.js (BSD 2-Clause); puzzles from the Lichess puzzle database (CC0), with thanks to Lichess; pieces “Chessnut” by Alexis Luengas (Apache 2.0), “Celtic” and “Fantasy” by Maurizio Monge (MIT), and “Pixel” by RhosGFX (CC0). The computer player is our own.
Spy Words: the words are written for Game Night; the computer's sense of which words go together comes from GloVe by Stanford NLP (Public Domain Dedication and License) and ConceptNet Numberbatch by Luminoso (CC BY-SA 4.0), averaged into our own word map.
Sound effects are made for Game Night in code, live in your browser. The one exception is Ghosts of Hollow Manor: its narrator's voices and its sounds are AI-generated, made with ElevenLabs.
Fonts: Fraunces and Nunito (SIL Open Font License 1.1). Icons: Lucide (ISC License). Built with Next.js, React, Supabase, and other open-source libraries under MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD, ISC, and similar licenses.