Game rules
All games in the Shadow Saloon — explained simply. Pick a game on the left to read its rules.
Pick a game from the list.
- Bouncer Saloon dice race: roll your pawns out of the house, race around the track and evict your opponents — first to bring all four home wins.
- Chess The royal game for two under FIDE rules: castling, en passant, promotion – the table spots draws by itself. With a chess clock if you like.
- Doppelkopf Re versus Kontra: a hidden-team trick game with the Dulle, queen trumps and the Marriage.
- Durak Russian card game: fend off attacks or pick up — whoever holds cards last is the durak.
- Freight A stacking game at the freight yard: turn and shift the falling freight, every full row leaves as a loaded wagon. Chase your record solo or race with the same freight – the most wagons win.
- Hangman Guess words – against the clock or taking turns at the gallows.
- Haunted Mine A maze chase down the mine shaft: gather ore, dodge four mine ghosts, turn the tables with dynamite. Chase your record solo or race through the same mines – the most points win.
- Mahjong Solitaire The layered tile puzzle: spot free matching pairs and clear them. In multiplayer it's a race on identical boards — whoever finishes first wins. Also playable solo.
- Memory Flip cards to find pairs – whoever remembers the most saloon motifs wins.
- Music Quiz Listen closely and type fast: who is the artist, what is the song?
- Naval Battle Place your fleets, then fire salvos — the last one afloat wins.
- Nine Men's Morris The classic board game for two: place stones, move them and close mills – every mill takes one of your opponent's stones. Whoever is down to two stones or stuck loses.
- Quickshot Wild-West shedding game: play a color or symbol, use action cards — first to shoot their hand empty wins.
- Rattler Snake in the backyard: eat mice, grow longer, dodge your own tail. Chase your record solo or race on your own yards – the longest snake wins.
- Shadow Game One of you is the impostor – find them by their clues.
- Skat The German classic: bid, squeeze the skat, declare suit/grand/null — and win the tricks. With two players it automatically plays as Officers' Skat with a half-open table layout.
- Sudoku The number puzzle: every row, every column and every box gets the digits 1 to 9. Solo against the clock with a best time per level – or as a race: everyone solves the same puzzle.
- Taboo Players take turns explaining words while the others guess.
- Texas Hold'em No-Limit Texas Hold'em: a Sit&Go knockout with rising blinds — take every chip to win.
- Trivia Quiz Multiple choice across all topics – know the right answer fastest to score.
- Ultimate TicTacToe Nine small tic-tac-toe boards inside a big one: your move sends your opponent to the next board. Win three boards in a row to take the game.