Zen teaching
Empty your cup
Come to every game with a beginner’s mind, then play.
A brain gym, disguised as great games.
- A brain gym
Every game is a short workout: a few games a day keep the mind sharp.
- Intelligence tuning
Zen's levels - challenges above where you are, so your thinking keeps growing.
- Enjoy the logical wins
On every win, you can see exactly why: your plan worked and your logic held.
- No arcade style
No flashing screens, no noise. Calm boards, clear rules & the time to think.
- Traditional games, next generation
Traditional games played for hundreds of years, with modern UI elements, live or with Zen engines.
- Innovation in every game
Dice that choose your chess piece, robot-based artifacts, new mechanics that make familiar games feel new.
Our games
Explore every game
Chess, with a roll of the dice.
Roll the dice and move the piece it shows. No opening books and no long thinking, just quick, lively games of chess where luck opens the door and skill walks through it.
Six faces decide your move
Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, and the Star twice. Roll, then move a piece of that kind. The Star, a 1 in 3 chance, lets you move anything.
Queenmove a queen
Rookmove a rook
Bishopmove a bishopKnightmove a knight
Star ×2move any pieceA turn in four steps
Every other rule is ordinary chess. There is no passing: every turn ends with a move.
Roll
Press Roll, or let Auto-roll do it for you.
Move that piece
Any piece of the kind you rolled, promoted pieces too.
Can't? Move a pawn
If that piece is captured, blocked or pinned, you must move a pawn.
Still stuck? Anything
No pawn can move either? Then move any piece, as if you rolled a Star.
Made for a quick game
Give check, move free
Check your opponent and your next turn needs no roll. In check yourself? Escape any legal way, no roll.
Always moving
5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes each, 15 by default, and 2 minutes for every move, 15 in a 30- or 60-minute game. Games never stall.
Fair dice
The server rolls with a secure random source and stores each roll before you see it. No re-rolls, ever.
A rating that means something
Everyone starts at 1000. Beat a stronger player and you gain more.
Someone to play, any time
Nobody free right now? Play Zen, our computer player, always clearly labelled.
Hints when you want them
A soft glow shows the pieces you can move and where they can go. Switch it off any time.
Playing-Rich®
Our next family of games is in the workshop. It joins zen2play when it meets the standard of every game here: simple to start, fair to play, and never for money.
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