# Games on CommonYard

> Play on your own for a hall of fame, join live rounds with other people, or take on another yard in Troll War. Free, in your phone’s browser.

Updated: 2026-10-05
URL: https://commonyard.app/features/games/

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](/guides/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](/guides/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](/guides/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](/guides/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](/guides/your-yards-games/).

## 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](/guides/play-games/).