Recess: Board Games

Recess turns your phone into a shelf of brain games and party favourites you already know, to play with friends nearby or far away, or against the robot when you're on your own.

Open a table and send the code, let a friend scan the QR code, or find a table nearby on the same Wi-Fi or over Bluetooth, and you're playing. Nearby needs no internet at all. No account. No sign-up.

Familiar games, including:

• Chess: Full rules, an optional clock, with a friend or the robot. • Chinese Chess (Xiangqi): River and palace included, with a friend or the robot. • Go: Black and white stones, a few simple rules, and a game you can play for life. • Mandarin Squares (Ô ăn quan): The Vietnamese schoolyard game of sowing stones and taking mandarins. • Battleship: Hide your fleet, call coordinates and sink theirs. • Plane Battle: Hide your planes and find the heads of theirs. • Five in a Row: First to line up five wins. • Tic-Tac-Toe: Quick, simple, and always "one more round". • Rock Paper Scissors: No more arguing over who threw late. • Sudoku: Solve alone, race a friend, or solve one grid together. • Number Hunt: Find 1, 2, 3… faster than your friend. • Number Match: Match two equal numbers or two that add up to 10. • Dominoes: Match the ends and be first to play your last tile.

Need dice? Recess has them too: standard, fish-prawn-crab, and 4, 8, 10, 12 and 20-sided dice. Everyone at the table sees the same roll.

Made for playing together

Share one code and you're in.

Chat while you play, switch games any time, or play the robot when no one is around.

The library keeps growing.

No ads. No accounts. No tracking across other apps. Open Recess and play.

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