Games for couples online

Two-player games for couples. Long distance or in the same room, you each open your own browser and meet on the same board.

Players: Two, one device each, both looking at the same board.
How long a game runs: Gomoku, Reversi, Checkers and Hasami Shogi take 10 minutes; Go, Backgammon and Hanafuda Koi-Koi take 15; Shogi and Chess take 20.
Long distance: Send the invite link. Nothing to install, and no account for the person joining.
Talking while you play: Keep your usual call running — LINE, Discord or FaceTime. The game itself stays in the browser, on whatever device each of you happens to have.
Keeping it going: The result screen keeps a running score for this Party — wins, losses and draws. Swap the game and carry on.

Each one in a sentence

Annan Shogi: Annan shogi is shogi for 2, about 20 minutes, where a piece with a friendly piece right behind it moves like that piece instead. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Backgammon: Backgammon is a board game for 2 players that takes about 15 minutes. Roll two dice, race your fifteen checkers home, and the first player to bear them all off wins. Free. In-browser. No account.
Bagh-Chal: Bagh-Chal is a 15-minute classic from Nepal for 2. Four tigers hunt, twenty goats surround: each side wins a completely different way. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Ban-sugoroku: Ban-sugoroku is the old Japanese form of backgammon, played from Heian courtiers to Edo townsfolk. Two players race fifteen stones home with two dice.
Bingo: Bingo is a number game for 1 to 100 players that takes about 15 minutes. Mark called numbers on your card and complete a line to win. Free, in-browser, and built for large groups.
Blackjack: Blackjack is a card game for 1 to 6 players, about 15 minutes, each playing against the dealer. Chips are just points — no real money is used. Free, in-browser, no account.
Bozu Mekuri: Bozu Mekuri is a 10-minute card game for 2–6 players, played with Hyakunin Isshu poet cards. Keep nobles, lose your cards to monks, take the pile with ladies. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Carrom: Carrom is a disc-flicking board game for 2 players, taking about 15 minutes.
Checkers: Checkers is a board game for 2 players that takes about 10 minutes. Pieces step diagonally forward and capture by jumping; take all of your opponent's pieces to win. Free. In-browser. No account.
Chess: Play chess online for free in your browser. Share a link for a 2 player game with a friend, or practise against the computer. Move six kinds of piece to trap the king. No account needed.
Chinchirorin: Chinchirorin is a 10-minute dice game for 2–8 players. One dealer faces the rest of the table, and hands rolled with three dice decide who takes points from whom. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Chinese Checkers: Chinese checkers is a game for 2–6 players, about 20 minutes. By default, finish when the opposite goal is full and at least one peg is yours. Free. In-browser. No account.
Chu Shogi: Chu shogi is a 2-player, 12×12 shogi with 46 pieces each and about 60 minutes of play. The lion moves twice per turn, captured pieces leave the game, and taking the king wins. Free in your browser.
Combined Monster Drawing: A drawing game for 2–8 people. Connect the ends of hidden drawings to create one monster per player, then reveal them together. Free in your browser.
Concentration: Concentration is a picture matching game for 1 to 6 players that takes about 10 minutes. Flip two face-down cards — match two cards with the same picture, to keep going. Free. In-browser. No account.
Cribbage: Cribbage is a two-player card game of about 30 minutes. Score fifteens, pairs and runs as you play, count your hand, and race your pegs to 121. Play free in your browser with no account.
Crokinole: Crokinole is a disc-flicking board game for 2 players, taking about 15 minutes. Playing black or white, you must hit your opponent's discs, and you aim to leave yours in the high-scoring centre.
Dai Shogi: Dai shogi is a 2-player, 15×15 shogi with 65 pieces of 29 kinds each and about 90 minutes of play. Captured pieces leave the game; take the enemy king and any prince to win. Free in your browser.
President: President (also called Daifugo) is a card game for 2 to 12 players that takes about 3 minutes per round. Empty your hand first to take the top rank. Free. In-browser. No account.
Dominoes: Dominoes is a tile classic for 2. Match open ends, empty your hand first and collect the pips your opponent is left with. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Dots and Boxes: Dots and Boxes is a 10-minute pencil-and-paper classic for 2. Join dots with lines and claim more squares than your opponent. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Cheat: Cheat (I Doubt It) is a bluffing card game for 2-8 players, about 10 minutes. Play cards face down calling out A, 2, 3... in order, then bluff or call it. Free, in-browser, no account.
Five-Card Draw: Five-Card Draw is a poker game for 2 to 6 players, about 15 minutes. Swap the cards you don't want once and the best hand wins. Bet with chips (points) or play without betting.
Kuniyasu's Four Seasons of Edo Sugoroku: A sugoroku on the real print by Utagawa Kuniyasu: from New Year at Nihonbashi, tour Edo's sights through the four seasons to the year-end market in Asakusa. 2–6 players, about 15 min, free.
Eight-ball: Play eight ball online for free in your browser: clear your group, then pocket the 8 in your called pocket.
Cylinder Shogi: Cylinder shogi is shogi for 2, about 20 minutes, where file 1 and file 9 are joined, so lines cross the edge. Everything else is ordinary shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Farkle: Farkle is a 20-minute dice game for 2–4 players. Roll six dice, set aside the ones that score, and bank your points before you push your luck too far. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Fog of War Chess: Play Fog of War Chess online for free in your browser. For 2 players, about 15 minutes: see only your pieces and the squares they can reach. Capture the king to win. No account needed.
Four in a Row: Four in a Row is a two-player board game that takes about 5 minutes. Drop discs into an upright grid; the first to line up four across, up or diagonally wins. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
3D Four in a Row: 3D Four in a Row is a two-player board game that takes about 10 minutes. Drop beads on 16 pegs in a 4×4 grid. The first to line up four up, across or diagonally, including through levels, wins.
FreeCell: Play FreeCell Solitaire online for free in your browser. Race the same deal with four free cells, or aim for your best time. All cards are visible. 1–20 players, about 8 minutes; no account needed.
No-Pawn Shogi: No-Pawn Shogi is shogi for 2 players, about 15 minutes, played with every pawn removed from the start. Every other rule is the same as shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Pawn Race Shogi: Pawn race shogi is shogi for 2 players, about 8 minutes, where the first player to capture five enemy pawns wins — checkmate also wins. Pieces move as in shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Masked Shogi: Masked Shogi is a 2-player shogi variant, about 20 minutes: a piece you secretly chose (your mask) replaces the king, and if it is captured you lose. You cannot see your opponent's. Free, no sign-up.
Gin Rummy: Gin Rummy is a two-player card game taking about 15 minutes. Build sets and runs while reducing unmatched cards. Play free in your browser, with no account.
Go: Go is a board game for 2 players that takes about an hour (faster against the CPU). Place stones in turn and surround more territory than your opponent. Free. In-browser. No account.
Go-Stop: Go-Stop is a hanafuda game for 2–3 players, about 3 minutes per round. Match cards by month and choose Go or Stop once you score enough. Free in your browser, no account needed.
Gomoku: Gomoku is a board game for 2 players that takes about 10 minutes. The first player to line up five stones wins. Free. In-browser. No account.
Gunjin Shogi: Gunjin Shogi is a 20-minute game for 2 where you can't see your opponent's pieces. Deploy face down; when pieces meet, the referee keeps the stronger. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Hana-awase: Hana-awase is a three-player hanafuda game that takes about 20 minutes. Match cards by month to capture them, and score with card points and yaku combinations. Play free in your browser, no sign-up.
Eight-Way Knight Shogi: Eight-way knight shogi is a handicap shogi for 2, about 20 minutes: the stronger side gives up four pieces, but its knights leap 8 ways like a chess knight. Free, no sign-up.
Hare and Hounds: Hare and Hounds is a 5-minute chase on a board for 2. Three hounds close in to corner the hare; the single hare looks for a gap to slip behind them. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Hasami Shogi: Hasami Shogi is a board game for 2 players that takes about 10 minutes. Every piece is a pawn; trap enemy pieces between two of yours, and the first to capture five wins. Free. In-browser. No account.
Hearts Dice: Hearts Dice is a letter-dice game for 1–6 players, about 10 minutes (a different game from the card game Hearts). Roll six dice and score for a streak from H. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Hex: Hex is a two-player connection game that takes about 10 minutes. Take turns placing hexagons on the board; the first to join their two opposite edges wins. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
High-Low: High-Low is a card game for 1 to 8 players, about 5 minutes. Guess higher or lower than the card on the table, and bank your streak. Free, in-browser, no account, no real money.
Hit & Blow: Hit & Blow is a colour-guessing deduction game for 2 players that takes about 5 minutes. Take turns guessing four hidden colours in order; first to crack it wins. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Texas Hold'em: Texas Hold'em is a poker game for 2 to 9 players that takes about 20 minutes. Make your best five cards from your two and the five on the table. Free. In-browser. No account.
Flanking Shogi: Flanking shogi is a shogi variant for 2 players, about 15 minutes: two moves a turn, and you take pieces by trapping them between two of yours. Trap the king to win. Free, no sign-up.
Indian Poker: Indian Poker: 2–8 players, about 1 minute per round. Your card faces everyone else. Read their reactions and bet with chips. Free in your browser, no account. No real money.
Janggi: Lead Cho or Han on a 9×10 board. Generals stay in the palace; cannons jump one piece. Trap the enemy general or win on remaining piece points. For 2, about 30 minutes. Free, no sign-up.
Rock-Paper-Scissors Shogi: Rock-paper-scissors shogi: 2 players, about 20 minutes. Before every move you throw, and the winner moves — keep winning, keep moving. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Juroku Musashi: As the Parent or sixteen Children, alternate one step along a line: the Parent captures by stepping between two Children; Children trap the Parent by blocking every exit.
Hidden Setup Shogi: Hidden Setup Shogi is a 2-player shogi variant, about 20 minutes: arrange your non-pawn pieces freely in your back two ranks, hidden until play begins. Free, no sign-up.
Yoshikazu's Samurai Armour Sugoroku: A sugoroku on the real 1858 print by Isshusai Yoshikazu: put on samurai armour piece by piece, loincloth to helmet, and return to camp in victory. 2–6 players, about 15 min, free.
Hanafuda Koi-Koi: Hanafuda Koi-Koi is a traditional Japanese card game for two players that takes about 15 minutes. Match cards by month and collect sets to score. Free. In-browser. No account.
Kokose Shogi: Kokose shogi: 2 players, about 20 minutes. Once per game, declare kokose before moving: make your move, then pick their next legal move. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Leifeng Pagoda Sugoroku: A race game on a real Qing-dynasty Chinese print: spiral through the Legend of the White Snake, hop between twin pictures and reach the Leifeng Pagoda. 2–6 players, about 15 min, free.
Liar's Dice: With dice hidden under cups, you see only your own dice and bid on the table total. Catch false bids with Dudo and keep your dice to be the last player.
Ludo: Ludo is a 20-minute dice race for 2 to 4: bring your four pieces out of base, round the board and home before anyone else. Land on a rival to send it back. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Mäxchen (Mia): Two dice sit under a cup; only the roller sees them. Mix in bluffs, challenge false bids and protect your lives to be the last player remaining.
Mahjong Solitaire: A mahjong-tile solitaire race: everyone gets the same stacked layout, starts on 3-2-1 and races to clear it by taking matching tiles. 1–20 players, about 5 minutes. Free, no sign-up.
Makruk (Thai Chess): Play Makruk (Thai Chess) online for free in your browser. This two-player game takes about 20 minutes: checkmate the opposing Khun before the endgame count runs out.
Mancala: Mancala (Kalah) is a board game for 2 to 4 players, about 10 minutes. Collect the most stones in your store and you win. Free. In-browser. No account.
Japanese Mancala: Japanese Mancala is a board game for 2 to 4 players, about 10 minutes. Empty your own side first and you win. Free. In-browser. No account.
Master Number: Master Number is a number-guessing deduction game for 2–5 players that takes about 10 minutes. Everyone races to crack the same secret number with hits and blows. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Minesweeper: Play Minesweeper free online in your browser, alone or in a 1–8 player race. Read the numbers and open every safe square on identical boards. About 5 minutes; no sign-up.
Minishogi: Minishogi is shogi on a 5×5 board for 2 players, about 10 minutes. Six pieces each move as in shogi, with drops. Checkmate the enemy king to win. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
No-Drop Shogi: No-drop shogi is shogi for 2, about 15 minutes, where captured pieces can never be reused. Moves and promotion are as in shogi. Only the two kings left is a draw. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Sudoku: Play Sudoku online for free in your browser. Race to solve the same puzzle, starting together on 3–2–1 and following everyone’s progress. 1–20 players, about 6 minutes, no sign-up.
Two-Corner Mahjong: A mahjong-tile connect race: join matching tiles with a line of at most two bends. Everyone gets the same layout and starts on 3-2-1. 1–20 players, about 5 minutes. Free, no sign-up.
Nine-ball: Play Nine-ball online for free in your browser. Hit the lowest number first and pocket the 9 to win.
Nine Men's Morris: Nine Men's Morris is a 10-minute game for 2 from ancient Rome: line up three to take an opponent's stone. Place nine each, then move. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Capture Five: Capture Five is a board game for 2 to 4 players that takes about 15 minutes. Line up five stones, or capture five pairs (10 stones) of your opponent's, to win. Free. In-browser. No account.
Double-Move Shogi: Double-move shogi is shogi for 2 players, about 10 minutes, where each turn is two moves and you win by actually capturing the king. Pieces move as in shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Draw Together: Free, no registration needed. Draw with friends online in a smartphone browser: just send a link.
Oicho-Kabu: Oicho-Kabu is a 10-minute hanafuda card game for 2–6 players. A dealer faces the rest of the table, and hands closest to 9 in the last digit win. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Old Maid: Old Maid is a card game for 2 to 8 players, about 5 minutes. Draw and pair up matching ranks; whoever holds the joker last loses. Free. In-browser. No account.
Hokusai's Kamakura–Enoshima–Oyama Sugoroku: A sugoroku played on the real print Katsushika Hokusai drew: leave Nihonbashi, tour Kamakura, Enoshima and Mt. Oyama, and come home. 2–6 players, about 15 minutes, free in your browser, no sign-up.
Check Shogi: Check shogi is shogi for 2 players, about 5 minutes, where the first player to give check wins — no checkmate needed. Pieces move as in shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Crazy Eights: Crazy Eights (also called Page One) is a card game for 2 to 6 players that takes about 10 minutes. Match the colour or the number on the table and empty your hand first. Free. In-browser. No account.
Pig's Tail: Pig's Tail is a card game for 2 to 8 players that takes about 5 minutes. Flip cards one by one — match the suit or rank and race for the pile. Free. In-browser. No account.
Relay Novel: Relay Novel is a story-writing game for 2–100 players that takes about 15 minutes. Everyone adds pages to the stories at once, then votes without knowing who wrote what. Free in your browser.
Renju: Renju is a board game for 2 that takes about 15 minutes: gomoku plus forbidden moves, where black alone loses for a double three, double four or overline. Free. In-browser. No account.
Reversi: Reversi is a board game for 2 players that takes about 10 minutes. Sandwich your opponent's discs to flip them; the most discs at the end wins. Free. In-browser. No account.
Rotation: Hit the lowest ball first and score 61 points from pocketed numbers.
Royal Game of Ur: The Royal Game of Ur is a 15-minute race game for 2 from ancient Mesopotamia. Throw four tetrahedral dice, move your seven pieces and bring them all home first. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Rummy: Rummy is a card game for 2-6 players, about 20 minutes. Meld sets and runs, lay off on any meld, and empty your hand first to score the cards others hold. Free in your browser, no account.
Sea Battle: Sea Battle is a 15-minute game for 2: hide your fleet on a 10×10 grid and take turns firing at squares to sink your opponent's ships. Sink them all first to win. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Seven Bridge: Seven Bridge is a rummy-style card game for 2-5 players, about 4 minutes per round. Meld runs and sets, interrupt with pon and chi, and empty your hand first. Free in your browser, with no account.
Shatranj (Ancient Chess): An ancestor of chess from medieval Persia and Arabia. Move short-range pieces to win by checkmate, a bare opposing Shah or stalemate. For two players (about 20 minutes).
Capital Return Shogi: Capital return shogi is shogi for 2, about 15 minutes, where holding too many captured pieces makes you lose at once. Moves and promotion are as in shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Lion King Shogi: Lion king shogi is a handicap game for 2 players, about 10 minutes: one side has only a king and pawns, but its king moves like the chu shogi lion. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Shogi: Shogi is a board game for 2 players that takes about 20 minutes. Captured pieces change sides and can be dropped back on the board; checkmate the opposing king to win. Free. In-browser. No account.
Shogi Kuzushi: Shogi Kuzushi is a 10-minute game for 2–4 players played with shogi pieces. Pull pieces off a pile one at a time; if another piece makes a sound, your turn ends. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Shut the Box: Shut the Box is a 10-minute dice game for 2 to 4 players. Close tiles that match your roll; shutting them all wins at once, otherwise the lowest total wins. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Snakes and Ladders: Roll and race to 100 with 2–6 players. Climb ladders and slide down snakes. About 10 minutes. Free in your browser, with no registration.
Solitaire: Play Solitaire online for free in your browser: move cards by the rules and race to fill the foundations. 1–20 players, about 8 minutes, no sign-up.
Speed: Speed is a two-player card game that takes about five minutes. There are no turns — play a card one rank from a centre pile as fast as you can, and the first to run out wins. Free. No account.
Spider Solitaire: Play Spider Solitaire online for free. Build eight same-suit runs from king to ace with 1 or 2 suits. Everyone gets the same deal; finish faster to rank higher. 1–20 players, about 10 minutes.
Sugoroku: Sugoroku is a 2-to-6-player, roughly 10-minute Japanese picture-sugoroku race: roll a die, move along a single path, and be first to reach the goal. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Tablut: Tablut is a 2-player, 15-minute Nordic board game that Linnaeus recorded in Lapland in 1732. One side gets the king to the edge; the other traps him between two soldiers. Free in your browser.
Tic-Tac-Toe: Play Tic-Tac-Toe online free in your browser, with no sign-up. This 2-player game takes about 2 minutes: place X and O on a 3×3 grid and line up three to win.
Untakeable Silver: Untakeable silver is a handicap shogi game for 2 players, about 15 minutes: one side drops its rook, bishop, golds and lances, but its silvers can never be captured. Free, no sign-up.
Tori Shogi: You lead bird pieces on a 7×7 board. Swallows are limited to two per file, and you capture and drop pieces to checkmate the enemy phoenix.
Must-Capture Shogi: Must-capture shogi is shogi for 2 players, about 10 minutes, where you must take an enemy piece whenever you can. Pieces move as in shogi. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Card Shogi: Card Shogi is a 2-player shogi variant, about 15 minutes: each turn draw a playing card and move or drop onto that file, or lose. Free, no sign-up.
Tsuitate Shogi: Tsuitate shogi is shogi where your opponent’s pieces stay hidden — 2 players, about 20 minutes. The referee (this screen) calls checks, captures and fouls. Checkmate the king to win.
Twelve Men's Morris: Twelve Men's Morris is a 15-minute game for 2: three nested squares with corner diagonals, 24 points and twelve stones each. Line up three to take a stone. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe: Win small boards, then claim three in a row on the big board. Each move sends your opponent to a matching small board. For 2 players. Free, no sign-up.
Xiangqi: Xiangqi is a 25-minute board game for 2. Move seven kinds of pieces across a 9×10 board and checkmate the opposing general. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Yacht: Yacht is a dice game for 1–6 players, about 15 minutes. Roll five dice up to three times and fill in your scoresheet one category at a time. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Yaniv: Yaniv is a card game from Israel for 2 to 5 players. Discard sets and runs to shrink your hand, then call “Yaniv!” at 5 points or less. Play free in your browser, with no account.

Long distance, one board

These games work when ten minutes is all you have. Gomoku, Reversi and Checkers run 10 minutes a round, so one game before bed is a real option rather than a project. Neither of you has to set an evening aside for it.

The party stays put and only the game changes, so you choose again after every round: Shogi tonight, Hanafuda Koi-Koi the next time.

In the same room, still one device each

Even sitting across the table from each other, you each hold your own screen. A hand of cards only works if it is yours alone, and a board reads better from your own side. A laptop against a phone is fine, and nobody has to pass a device back and forth between turns.

When one of you is stronger

If a game turns one-sided, practice against the CPU and come back to it. Every game has a tutorial, and the key rules stay reachable from the menu mid-game.

Length is the other dial. When 20 minutes of Chess or Shogi is more than the evening has room for, a 10-minute game gives you several rounds in the same time. A short game is also easier to lose: the next one starts right away.

How to choose

A quick round: Gomoku, Reversi, Checkers or Hasami Shogi, all 10 minutes — or Crazy Eights if you would rather hold cards.
Something slower: Chess and Shogi at 20 minutes, Go at 15.
To move pieces rather than place them: Backgammon (15 minutes), or Mancala and Japanese Mancala (10 each).
For Japanese cards: Hanafuda Koi-Koi, 15 minutes, with the scoring shown on screen.

FAQ

Can two people play on the same device?

One device per person. Even sitting side by side, you both join the same party from your own screen.

Does it work long distance?

Yes. Send the invite link and the other person opens it in a browser — no account, no download.

Is it free?

All the two-player games are free, and the person you invite does not need an account.

Can one of us be on a phone and the other on a computer?

Yes. The same URL opens in any browser, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.

What if my partner does not know the game?

Run the tutorial first. The key rules are also in the in-game menu while you play.

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