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Game rules
Rules of the most popular board, card and logic games, written step by step and with diagrams. Next to each game there is a button that opens it in your browser right away, for free.
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Chess rules
Chess is a game for two players on an 8 by 8 board. White moves first, players take turns, and the goal is checkmate: an attack on the king that cannot be stopped. Below are all the rules in order, from setting up the pieces to a draw.
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Sudoku rules
Sudoku is a puzzle on a 9 by 9 grid divided into nine 3 by 3 boxes. You fill in the digits 1 to 9 so that each appears exactly once in every row, every column and every box. There is no maths involved, only logic.
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How to play solitaire
The solitaire most people mean is Klondike: a one deck game known from Windows computers. The goal is to move all 52 cards onto four foundations, each in one suit, from Ace to King. Below are the rules in order and a few ways to win more often.
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How to play Minesweeper
Minesweeper is a puzzle in which you uncover squares on a board while avoiding the mines. The number on an uncovered square tells you how many mines touch it, and from those numbers you work out where the mines are. You win when you uncover every square without a mine.
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Checkers rules
Checkers is a game for two players on the dark squares of a board. Pieces move diagonally, you capture by jumping, and a piece that reaches the far side becomes a king. Checkers has several variants: below are the rules of checkers on klyo, played on an 8 by 8 board.
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How to win at Tic Tac Toe
Tic Tac Toe is a game for two players on a 3 by 3 board. Players take turns placing their mark, and the first to get three in a row, across, down or diagonally, wins. With perfect play from both sides every game is a draw, so the winner is whoever makes fewer mistakes.
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Mahjong rules
The Mahjong people play on computers and phones is usually Mahjong solitaire: a one player game with Mahjong tiles. A layered layout of tiles lies on the table, and you remove matching pairs until the table is empty. Classic Mahjong for four players is a completely different game, closer to rummy.
How do you learn a new game?
Read the first paragraph: it tells you what the game is about and how you win. Then play one game on the easiest level and read the rest when you hit a situation you do not understand. You learn faster this way than by reading alone.
Every page ends with tips for beginners, and every game on klyo has a hint or undo, so a mistake in your first game does not ruin anything.
Where should you start if you know none of these games?
The easiest to start with are Tic Tac Toe, Minesweeper on the easy board and solitaire with draw one. Sudoku and Mahjong teach patient searching, while chess and checkers are games for years: you learn the rules in a quarter of an hour and keep learning for life.