Two-player games online
Eight of CozyWorld's classic games can be played with a friend on another device: checkers, Chinese checkers, reversi, four in a row, dots and boxes, backgammon, gin rummy and cribbage. There is nothing to install and no account to make. One of you sets a table and sends the link; the other opens it, and you play, each on your own screen.
How it works
- Open one of the games below and choose Play a friend on its title card.
- Copy the invite link it gives you and send it however you like: a message, an email, a note in a call.
- When your friend opens the link and takes the seat, the game begins. Take turns as you would across a table.
The table plays by the settings of the person who set it, such as the capture rule in checkers or the doubling cube in backgammon. When a game ends, either of you can ask for another, and it starts when you have both said yes, with the other player going first.
The eight games
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Cribbage Chickadee Hill Cribbage A game to 121, hand after hand, with the cut for deal to start.
Table settings: the host's counting (automatic, or count your own with muggins) and skunks.
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Gin rummy Birch Cove Gin Rummy One hand, with knocking, gin and undercuts scored the standard way.
Table settings: the host's big gin setting.
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Checkers Kingfisher Canal Checkers One game of American checkers on the 8 by 8 board.
Table settings: the host's capture rule: jumps compulsory, or captures optional.
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Backgammon Lemon Terrace Backgammon One game, with the opening roll deciding who starts.
Table settings: the doubling cube, if the host always plays with it.
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Chinese checkers Tamarack Lake Chinese Checkers One race across the star, two players, each seeing their own marbles at the bottom.
Table settings: the host's home rule (standard or anti-blocking) and hop rule (standard or super hops).
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Four in a row Peach Lane Four in a Row One game on the 7 by 6 rack: the host drops peaches, the friend blueberries.
Table settings: none to choose: the classic rules.
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Dots and boxes Larkspur Lookout Dots and Boxes One game on the notepad: close a box to claim it and draw again.
Table settings: the host's board size, from 3 by 3 to 6 by 6 boxes.
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Reversi Starling Hill Reversi One game: the player who starts plays the moon discs.
Table settings: the host's board: 8 by 8, or the quick 6 by 6.
Good to know
Do we need accounts?
No. The player who sets the table gets a link to send, and the friend who opens it takes the other seat. Nobody signs up or gives a name.
Does it cost anything?
No. All eight games are free to play in the browser, with a friend or on your own against the computer.
Can we play on phones?
Yes. Each of you plays in your own browser, on a phone, tablet or computer, and the two of you can be on different kinds of device.
What happens if one of us loses the connection?
The game waits. When the page is open again, or the connection comes back, the table sends the game every move so far and you carry on from where you were.
Can my friend see my cards?
In gin rummy and cribbage each of you sees only your own hand on your own screen. The game is for friends playing in good faith, so it does not try to stop someone who digs into their browser to look.
What is kept about us?
Only the table itself: the game, its settings and the moves, so a reloaded page can catch up. There is no chat and no profile, and a table is cleared a day after its last move.
More for two
For ideas beyond these eight, see card games for two, online games for couples and games for long-distance relationships. Every game here can also be played on your own against the computer.