Games on CommonYard

Tap GAMES at the bottom of CommonYard. The games page has four doors: PLAY ALONE, ROUNDS to play with other people, TEAMS for yards and friends, and the HALL OF FAME. Everything runs in your browser — nothing to download.

Play on your own

Games you can play any time, alone, under PLAY ALONE — among them Penalty Flick, Hot Potato, Trivia, Rush, Scramble, Case 500 and Guess the Number against the house. Your best score goes into each game’s hall of fame.

• Penalty Flick — flick the ball past a keeper who walks from post to post and gets faster the longer you play. A save or a miss costs one of your three lives. Play for your country: about seventy to choose from, Ghana first.
• Hot Potato — pass the potato around a ring of game characters before it burns you. Every round it gets hotter and you can hold it for less time.

Play with other people

Under ROUNDS are hosted rounds: the ones on now, the ones coming up, and what’s already been played. Start a game sets up a round of your own, or calls a friend out. Live games also show up on HOME, so you can jump in from there.

Make your own

Anyone can make a game — a quiz, a timed rush, a word scramble, a survival room, Food Poison, Sasabonsam. Set its time and share the link: it starts at that time and runs itself to the end, no host needed. Its maker can take the controls whenever they like. See Make a game.

Troll War

A battle of comebacks. Two corners — one against one, or teams — post their best lines in the arena: text, photos, videos or voice notes. The crowd decides: every reaction on a comeback is a point for its corner, and the side with more reactions when the clock runs out wins. Fighters can’t react in the arena; only the crowd can.

Challenge a friend by their username, or take your whole yard into a Troll War against another yard. See Play Troll War.

Guess the Number

Each of you locks in a secret number, then you take turns calling the other’s — and every call comes back “higher” or “lower”. Play a friend, another yard, or the house. See Play Guess the Number.

Yard games

Under TEAMS: Squad Trivia, Troll War between yards and with friends, Guess the Number, and Sasabonsam — everybody hides in the yard, each round it searches one place, and the last one hiding wins. See Play Sasabonsam.

Inside a yard, GAMES is that yard’s own page: its games on now and coming up, its weekly leaderboard, its challenges against other yards, and what it has already played. See Your yard’s games and ladder.

Good to know

• Finishing a game earns 15 points, and a big game win is told to you straight away.
• Points are credits for taking part, not cash.
• The full how-to is Play games on CommonYard.