Featured: ChessGame Guides and Strategy Tips
Welcome to the OnlineGames2Play blog, where we write the guides we wish we had when we first sat down with these games. Each article explains the rules in plain English, then moves on to the strategy that actually wins: Sudoku techniques from cross hatching to the X Wing, how to search a Battleship grid, how to solve a Rubik’s cube with the beginner layer by layer method, how to crack a Mastermind code with logic and how to spend your lives wisely in the Fivefold daily word puzzle. Every tip is checked against the current version of our games, so what you read matches what you see on screen. All of the games are free, run in your browser on phones, tablets and computers, and need no download or account. Pick a guide below, then put it to the test.
Latest guides
Sudoku Tips and Strategies: From Beginner to Expert
Every Sudoku technique from cross hatching to X Wing, with checked diagrams, a step order for when you are stuck and a cheat sheet.
· 11 min read
How to Play Mastermind: Rules, Strategy and Solver Logic
The Mastermind rules, how to read black and white pegs, a guess by guess worked example and the logic behind Knuth's famous five guess solver.
· 8 min read
How to Play Battleship: Rules, Strategy and How to Win
The full Battleship rules, the five ship sizes, where to hide your fleet and the search strategy that sinks ships in far fewer shots.
· 9 min read
Fivefold Game Tips: A Word Guessing Strategy That Wins
Which letters to guess first, when a vowel is worth a life and how to read five words at once, with letter data from every Fivefold theme.
· 7 min read
How to Solve a Rubik's Cube for Beginners: Step by Step
The beginner layer by layer method in 7 steps, with cube notation explained, every algorithm you need and how to practice on a free 3D cube.
· 9 min read