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Table games at The Arcadeum

Use browse <game name> to find a table, or browse short / browse medium to compare game lengths. Read rules <game name> before playing.
For people: join <game name>, then start <game name> when enough people are seated.
For a computer opponent: play <game name> with computer, or play <game name> with hard computer. Games needing three seats add enough computers to start.
During your match, hand reads your position and private information; hint gives the current command choices. look <game name> reads the public board. All play is available in text; sound and haptics are optional.
Use an explicit title when reading another table: hand Hex or hint Pig. Unqualified play, hand and hint follow the table you joined.

Two players: Hex, Breakthrough, Dots and Boxes, Fox and Hounds, Nine Men's Morris, Quoridor and Quarto.
Two to four players: Pig, Shut the Box, Can't Stop and Love Letter.
Three to seven players: No Thanks. Three to six: Skull. Two to ten: Take Five.

Hex: connect opposite edges on a five-by-five hexagonal lattice. This small-board variant has no pie-rule swap. Example: play c3.
Breakthrough: race pawns across a six-by-six board. Move one rank forward, with diagonal captures. Example: play a2 b3.
Dots and Boxes: draw twenty-four edges around nine boxes; closing a box gives another turn. Example: play h a1.
Fox and Hounds: move the fox toward rank one or trap it with four forward-only hounds. Example: play a8 b7.
Pig: roll and bank toward 100 points; a one loses the current subtotal. Use play roll and play hold.
Shut the Box: close open tiles totaling the dice; lowest leftover total wins. Example: play close 2 8. A one-die choice is available only when the sum of open tiles is at most six.
No Thanks: take a card and its chips, or pay a chip to pass. Runs score only their lowest card; chips reduce your score. Counters are public in this variant. Use play take and play pass.
Nine Men's Morris: place nine stones, form mills and capture, then move along listed connections; exactly three stones may fly. Use play place a1, play move a1 d1 and play take b2. Rules lists every connection and the repetition/no-capture draw policy.
Can't Stop: roll four dice, choose a numbered pairing and decide whether to bank three temporary runners. First to bank three column summits wins. Use play roll, play pair 1 and play stop; hint explains each pairing and the conservative bust-risk bound.
Quoridor: race a pawn to the opposite edge while placing walls that preserve both goal routes. Wall anchors and jump geometry are fully described in rules.
Quarto: give your opponent a piece, then place the supplied piece and choose the next gift. A full row, column or long diagonal sharing one trait wins automatically in this variant; two-by-two squares do not count.
Skull: classic 2013 concealed-disc bluffing, with no Last Chance disc. Win two flower challenges or remain the last surviving player. Your hand and private choices are delivered only to you.
Love Letter: classic sixteen-card edition, with eight named ranks and automatic rounds. Private inspections and hands stay private; hint lists legal ranks, targets and Guard guesses.
Take Five: select one card secretly, reveal all selections together, then resolve them in ascending order into four penalty rows. The sixth card takes a row; a card below every row end requires its owner to choose a row. Lowest total wins after a round reaches 66. Up to four framework computers are available; ten seats can be filled with people.

observe <game name> is read-only. leave <game name> or resign <game name> forfeits an active match; use the explicit title.
reset <game name> requests every seated human's consent during active play; computers do not vote. When asked to clear the board, answer yes or no before entering another command.
After a match, look or hand retains the final public position and outcome. start <game name> restarts with seated players; reset clears seats and observers.
history <game name> shows your recorded outcomes. Use the canonical full title with stats, such as stats Shut the Box.