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20 apps to play — grouped by age.
🐣 Ages 3–5 · Pre-K & K
🎈 Ages 6–8 · Grades 1–3
🎒 Ages 9–14 · Grades 4–8
GambitTales
Ages 9–12 · Gr 4–7 Level 2
Learn the six chess tactics — the pin, fork, skewer, discovered attack, double attack, and x-ray — on a real board: name the pattern, play the winning move, race the clock in Tactics Rush, and solve a fresh puzzle every day.
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CrownTales
Ages 9–13 · Gr 4–8 Level 3
Full-depth draughts (checkers) — play a real board against a graded AI in American 8×8 and International 10×10, hunt the forced-capture "shot", and learn the endgame. Every piece is one row away from a crown.
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ShelfForge
Ages 9–13 · Gr 4–8 Level 3
Remember the chess tactics you’ve learned. A calm study shelf quizzes you on real positions — look, decide your move in your head, then reveal the strongest move and grade yourself. Spaced practice brings the hard ones back until they stick. On-device; nothing leaves this device; no account.
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CannonTales
Ages 9–12 · Gr 4–7 Level 3
Learn Xiangqi — Chinese chess — through its pieces: the cannon that leaps a screen, the elephant that can’t cross the river, the horse you can hobble. Solve tactics on a real board, drill the winning move, and study sixteen concept kits.
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PageForge Chess
Ages 9–13 · Gr 4–8 Level 3
Make your own chess study pages. Set up a position on the board, write the idea in your own words, and save it to your study book — start from a worked example and remix it. Building and explaining a page is how it sticks. On-device; nothing leaves this device; no account.
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ScanForge
Ages 9–13 · Gr 4–8 Level 3
Snap or paste a chess board — from a screenshot, a book, or a diagram — and ScanForge reads it into a position you can study and keep. Check what it read (whose move, right way up, every piece), then play it out and save it to your scans. On-device; the picture never leaves this device; no account.
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StoneSong
Ages 9–12 · Gr 4–7 Level 3
Learn Go — the ancient surrounding game — through its life-and-death shapes: two eyes to live, the ladder that chases to the edge, the net that traps, the snapback. Solve tsumego on a real goban, read shapes, predict a ladder before it plays out, and study sixteen concept kits.
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GridForge
Ages 9–12 · Gr 4–7 Level 2
Four ideas, five games, one grid — play Connect-4, Gomoku, Reversi, Dots-&-Boxes, and Hex against a graded AI, and learn the shared primitives (connect, fork, flip, parity) that win them all.
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TableForge
Ages 9–12 · Gr 4–7 Level 2
Design your own board game and prove it is fair. Assemble a race game — pick a die or spinner, a board, and a rule — then run a thousands-of-games playtest in the Design Lab and read a live fairness report (who really wins, and why). Predict a design’s odds before the math reveals them in the Probability Lab, and practice probability, strategy, and game design across 16 kits. On-device, no accounts, no ads.
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StrategyForge
Ages 10–13 · Gr 5–8 Level 3
Find the winning move on a tactics board, race the clock in Tactics Rush, clear a Capture Cascade lookahead puzzle, learn the seven ideas that win any board game, and practice strategy & game theory across 16 kits.
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DropTale
Ages 10–13 · Gr 5–8 Level 5
Shogi (Japanese chess) — play the real 9×9 board against a graded computer or a friend. Learn every piece, promote in the last three ranks, and master shogi’s soul: the DROP — a piece you capture switches sides and re-enters the game in your hand. Pieces show as clear English letters, not kanji.
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LeapTale
Ages 7–13 · Gr 2–8 Level 3
Chinese Checkers (Sternhalma) — race your ten pegs across the six-point star to the far point, hopping over any peg in long jump-chains. Play the real 121-hole board against a graded computer or a friend. Plan the ladder, and leap.
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🎓 Ages 15–18 · Grades 9–12
ClassicsForge
Ages 15–18 · Gr 9–12 Level 4
Read the immortal games of chess for free — step through the Opera Game, the Immortal, the Evergreen, and Légal’s Mate move by move on a real board, tap any move to jump, let them auto-play, and follow a calm first-party commentary that shows WHY each classic still teaches. On-device; nothing leaves this device; no account.
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DamaDojo
Ages 15–18 · Gr 9–12 Level 5
An International-draughts study hall for ages 15–18: play the 10×10 game — men that capture both ways and flying kings that slide the length of a diagonal — against a graded study bot or a friend, then review any position while the engine ranks every legal move and shows why one is stronger. Reason through real board decisions (the forced jump, the capture chain, the promotion race, the flying king, endgame tempo) with a text-forward coach. On-device; nothing leaves your device.
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NashForge
Ages 15–18 · Gr 9–12 Level 5
Think one move ahead — read a real strategic game, predict what game theory says, then see the reasoning. For teens.
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RookDojo
Ages 15–18 · Gr 9–12 Level 5
A chess study hall for ages 15–18 — play full games against a graded bot, keep a personal reviewable archive of every game, drill tactics in a calm rated ladder, and reason through real board decisions (the fork, the pin, the skewer, the discovered attack, the back rank, zugzwang, the opposition, prophylaxis) with a text-forward coach. On-device; works signed-out; optional sign-in syncs your games and rating across your own devices.
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ShogiDojo
Ages 15–18 · Gr 9–12 Level 5
A shogi (Japanese chess) study hall for ages 15–18: play the full 9×9 game — with shogi’s soul, the DROP (a piece you capture switches sides and re-enters from your hand) and promotion in the far ranks — against a graded study bot or a friend, then review positions while the engine ranks every legal reply. Reason through real decisions (the drop, promotion, the drop rules, the castle, sacrifice for tempo) with a text-forward coach. Pieces show as clear English letters. On-device; nothing leaves your device.
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StoneDojo
Ages 15–18 · Gr 9–12 Level 5
A Go study hall for ages 15–18 — play full 9×9 games against a graded bot, then keep a personal, reviewable archive of every game and replay it move by move. Sign in (optional) to carry your games across your own devices. On-device; works signed-out.
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