♟️ The Games Deck

Pull up a chair. Play something good.

Classics first. Chess. Card games. Then the signature: the Wilderness Game — Oregon Trail meets the Israelites in the Wilderness. Then arcade. All built from open-source engines and public-domain rules. All free, all multiplayer, all family-safe.

CLASSICS

build, don't acquire
📖
Bible Trivia
a family gameshow
Ten questions, fifteen seconds each, with a time bonus for speed. Beat the clock and land on the leaderboard.
PLAYlive now
Chess
vs. AI · vs. a friend
chess.js + stockfish.js + chessboard.js. Replay historic matches: Fischer-Spassky, Capablanca, Morphy.
2Popen source
Checkers
American + International
PD rules. Simple board. AI opponents at three skill levels.
2P
🎴
Cribbage
peg the board
Folk rules, PD by age. Match a friend or play the bot.
2P
🃏
Hearts · Spades · Euchre
trick-taking classics
Four-player card games. Bot partners or invite three friends with a share link.
4P

SIGNATURES

substrate-driven
🏜
The Wilderness Game
Oregon Trail meets Exodus
Lead a tribe across 40 years. Manage water, manna, faith, possessions. Encounters from Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Every choice has theological grain.
SOLO1-2 hr playthrough
✝️
Scripture Memory
words in red, in order
Engine-substrate flashcards from the Sermon on the Mount and beyond. Build a streak.
SOLO
🔎
Easton's Trivia
who said this? where is this?
Pulled directly from Easton's Bible Dictionary substrate. 3,000+ persons and places.
SOLOSUBSTRATE
🦊
Pilgrim's Path
virtues ↑ vices ↓
Snakes-and-Ladders reskinned for the long pilgrimage. Top is the Promised Land.
SOLO

ARCADE

build · don't acquire
🎮
Paddle
the original
Two paddles. One ball. The quintessential 1972 mechanic.
1P/2P
🧱
Brick
knock 'em all down
The 1976 mechanic. Paddle + ball + a wall.
1P
🐍
Snake
grow without eating yourself
Forty-year-old mechanic, still good.
1P
🟪
Stack
rotating descent
The Pajitnov mechanic. Seven shapes. Gravity.
1P
Build, don't acquire. Video games don't enter public domain the way film and radio do — but the rules of classic games are open. Every game here is built from open-source engines (chess.js, stockfish.js, Phaser, PixiJS) under generic names, with original code and art. Multiplayer rooms via websockets. Anonymous identity via visitor_id. No accounts. Free to play. Engagement is the alignment.