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Nine classic skill games, each with ranked matchmaking, free practice games and paid matches. Every move is checked by our servers and every result is settled automatically.

  • Chess — Play rated chess against real Kenyan players with FIDE rules, live clocks and M-Pesa payouts. Free play or staked matches from KES 50.
  • 8-Ball Pool — Real table physics, called 8, ball in hand on fouls. Watch your opponent line up live. Staked 8-ball from KES 100, paid via M-Pesa.
  • Ludo — 2–4 player Ludo with provably fair server dice. Free tables or staked games from KES 50, winnings to M-Pesa.
  • Draughts (Checkers) — International 10×10 draughts under FMJD rules — flying kings, compulsory majority capture. Free play or staked from KES 50.
  • Reversi — World Othello Federation rules on an 8×8 board. Outflank and flip — most discs wins. Free play or staked from KES 50.
  • Connect Four — Drop discs, connect four. The first player is drawn at random every game. Free play or staked from KES 50.
  • Go (Weiqi) — 9×9 Go with Chinese area scoring and 7.5 komi. Surround territory, capture groups. Free play or staked from KES 50.
  • Tic Tac Toe — Quick-fire 3×3 duels done in under three minutes. Free play or staked from KES 50.
  • Gomoku — Standard Gomoku: exactly five in a row on a 15×15 board, with the fair Swap2 opening. Free play or staked from KES 50.
  • Chess960 — Fischer Random Chess: the back rank is shuffled into one of 960 starts, so pure skill beats memorised openings. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Kalah — The Mancala classic. Sow seeds round the board, chain extra turns and capture to fill your store. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Nine Men's Morris — Place, move and fly. Line up three to form a mill and remove your rival's pieces. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Dots and Boxes — Draw lines, close boxes and keep the turn. Simple to learn, famously deep in the endgame. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Hex — Link your two edges of the board before your rival links theirs. There is always a winner. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Breakthrough — Sixteen pieces each, one goal: reach the far row. Capture on the diagonal and break through. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Quoridor — Race your pawn across the board, or spend a turn building a wall to stretch your rival's path. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Amazons — Four queens each. Move one, then fire an arrow that burns a square forever. Last player able to move wins. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Xiangqi — Cannons that leap, horses that can be blocked and a river that splits the board. Guard your general. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Shogi — Capture a piece and it joins your army. Drop it back anywhere: no game is ever over until the king falls. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Bao la Kiswahili — The Swahili coast's game of masters: 64 kete, four rows, chain captures and the mighty nyumba. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe — Tic-tac-toe where every move sends your rival to another board. Win three boards in a row. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Mental Math Duel — Same questions, same clock. Add, multiply, divide and estimate faster than your rival. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Typing Race — Same text, same start. First to type it perfectly wins, with a Swahili/English mixed mode. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Word Duel — Crack the same hidden 5-letter word as your rival in fewer guesses. English or Kiswahili. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Minesweeper Race — Same board, same opening. Clear every safe square before your rival. Every board is solvable by logic. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Sudoku Race — Same puzzle, same start. First correct grid wins. Every puzzle has one solution and needs no guessing. Free to play on Arena254.
  • 2048 Race — Three minutes, same new tiles in the same order. Slide, merge and outscore your rival. Free to play on Arena254.
  • General Knowledge Duel — Ten questions from thousands: Kenya, the world, science, sport and more. Same question, same moment. Faster right answers score more. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Word Reveal — A clue and a hidden word. Every 3 seconds another letter appears. First to name it takes the round. English, Kiswahili and Kenya words; first to 4 wins. Free to play on Arena254.
  • Chess Puzzle Rush — Rated chess puzzles against the clock. Same puzzles for both, getting harder. Three minutes, three strikes; most solved wins. Free to play on Arena254.