Checkers (English Draughts) is played on an 8×8 board. Choose to play as Dark (bottom) or Light (top) – Dark always moves first.
Click a piece to select it and see its legal moves highlighted. Click a highlighted square to move there. Click elsewhere or the same piece to deselect.
Movement: Regular pieces move diagonally forward one square. Kings (crowned pieces) can move diagonally in both directions.
Capturing: Jump diagonally over an opponent's piece to an empty square beyond it. Captures are mandatory – if you can jump, you must. If after a jump you can jump again with the same piece, you must continue jumping (multiple jumps in one turn).
Kinging: When a piece reaches the far row, it becomes a King and can move and capture backwards.
Winning: Capture all of your opponent's pieces, or leave them with no legal moves.
Use the Undo button to take back moves. Change difficulty at any time (takes effect on the next AI move).
Jump and capture your opponent's pieces – king your pieces to move in any direction.
Race your pieces around the board and bear them off before your opponent – but watch out for captures!
Place discs to outflank your opponent and flip their pieces – the player with the most discs at the end wins.
Take turns drawing lines between dots – complete a box to claim it and score a point.
Place and slide your pieces to form mills of three – then remove your opponent's pieces.