# Your yard's games and ladder

> Inside a yard, GAMES is that yard's own — what's on now and coming up, what the yard did together this week, challenges against other yards, games members made, and what the yard has already played.

Section: Games · Updated: 2026-10-12
URL: https://commonyard.app/guides/your-yards-games/

On the whole Yard, **GAMES** opens the games board for everyone. Inside a yard, **GAMES** on the bar opens that yard's own games page: only its games, its people and its results — nothing from other yards.

![A yard's games page: what's on now and coming up, then This week, with This week and Last week to switch between](https://commonyard.app/guides/img/yard-games.webp "Inside a yard, GAMES is the yard's own.")

## What's on it

- **On now** and **Coming up** — the yard's games that are live, and the ones about to start. Tap one to take a seat.
- **This week.** — what the yard did together, like *12 people took part · 140 things done*. Every vote, reply and game counts, and nobody is ranked. Under it, only you see your own week, like *You: 9 things · 41 points*. Switch between **THIS WEEK** and **LAST WEEK**.
- **Against other yards** — take the yard on against another one, in Troll War or Guess the Number. An owner or admin sends the challenge; anyone else can tap **Ask the admins**.
- **In the yard** — games the yard's own people play together, like Squad Trivia, and rounds members make for the yard.
- **Already played** — what the yard played to the end, newest first: its battles, duels and nights.

## Make a game for the yard

Anyone in the yard can make a game for it — a quiz, a word scramble, Sasabonsam. If you're an owner or admin it goes up at once. If you're a member, the yard's admins are asked first, and you're told what they say. See [Make a game](/guides/make-a-game/).

## For owners and admins

When a member makes a game for the yard, it waits under **Requests**, at the top of the yard's games page, with who made it and when it starts. Tap **Allow** and it goes up in the yard, or **Turn down** and it doesn't. A request nobody answers before its start time lapses; its maker can set a new time to ask again.

## Good to know

- The week starts over every Monday.
- Game winners still have their own boards and posters.
- To play with everyone on CommonYard, not just your yard, go back to the whole Yard and tap **GAMES** there. See [Play games on CommonYard](/guides/play-games/).