A menu, not a grid of games

The food can arrive at any moment — so the games are sorted by cooking time: snacks under a minute, starters for light thinking, mains for real strategy. Every game shows its length and difficulty, and no round is lost when the plates turn up.

The menu with snacks, starters and mains — The menu

Nine Men's Morris board with a closed mill — Nine Men's Morris — a mill closed

Four in a Row with stacked chips — Four in a Row

Five in a Row on the 9×9 board — Five in a Row

Dots and Boxes with captured squares — Dots and Boxes

Pair Hunt with cards turned over — Pair Hunt

Crack the Code with scored attempts — Crack the Code

Sprouts with lines drawn between dots — Sprouts

Pawn Duel with teal and pink pawns — Pawn Duel

Tic Tac Toe on the 3×3 grid — Tic Tac Toe

Cookie Grab with a split screen — Cookie Grab

Rules introduction for Nine Men's Morris — Rules you can flip through

Face-to-face mode

The phone lies on the table between the two of you. The second player's bar sits at the top, turned 180° — each of you reads your own side the right way up and nobody has to hand the device over. That is what sets it apart from the usual pass-and-play apps. Nine of the ten games work this way; only Crack the Code passes the device across once, because there one player has something to hide from the other.

The players are called Teal and Pink and are told apart by the shape of their pieces as well as the colour — so colour blindness is not a problem.

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Ten games

Cookie Grab

Split screen, both of you waiting. The moment the cookie appears, the faster finger wins it. A false start scores for the other player.

under 1 minute · same time · classic or colour trap

Tic Tac Toe

The classic — nothing to explain. For the more practised, a 4×4 board where four in a row is what counts.

1–3 minutes · 3×3 or 4×4

Dots and Boxes

Take turns drawing a line. Close a box and it is yours — and you go again straight away. Chains are everything.

2–6 minutes · 3×3, 5×5 or 7×7

Pair Hunt

Turn cards over and remember where things are. Find a pair and you go again. Motifs from the kitchen.

3–5 minutes · 3×4, 4×4 or 4×6

Crack the Code

One of you lays a colour code in secret and hands the phone over, the other guesses. After every attempt the app shows how many colours are right and how many of those are also in the right place.

4 minutes · hand over · 4 slots, 6 colours, 8 attempts

Pawn Duel

Pawns and nothing else. One square forward, capture diagonally. First to reach the far side wins — or whoever leaves the other with no move at all.

2 minutes · 3×3 or 5×5 · a gentle way into chess

Four in a Row

Chips drop down the columns, four in a row wins. It almost never ends in a draw.

2–4 minutes · 7×6 board

Five in a Row

The same idea on open ground: five stones side by side win. Longer and craftier than tic tac toe, because the board has no edges to hide behind.

4–8 minutes · 9×9 or 13×13

Sprouts

Draw a line from dot to dot without crossing anything. Every line you draw creates a new dot. Run out of moves and you lose.

5 minutes · 3 or 4 starting dots

Nine Men's Morris

The official board with three rings and nine stones: place, move, close a mill, take a stone. A small board is included for beginners.

5–10 minutes · 9 or 6 stones · with a rules introduction

Built with parents in mind

No ads. None from third parties either.

No in-game purchases. No coins, no subscriptions.

No internet. The app never touches the network.

No account. Nothing to sign up for.

No tracking. No analytics, no identifiers.

No external links. No way out of the app.

Feedback comes through vibration rather than sound — the app is silent by default, because it gets used in restaurants. Sound can be switched on. The battery is left alone: no constant animation, no GPS, no network.

Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. The language follows the device and can be changed inside the app at any time. More in the privacy policy.