Four games, one surname

Play the classics, properly.

Boardalo teaches you forty-two board and card games and gives you someone to beat. Wordalo prints a new puzzle paper every day, Numalo brings 28 number games, and Arcadalo draws fifteen original arcade games in neon, each with a boss to beat. Pay once, own it, no adverts, ever.

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Boardalo began as a chess app and grew into something closer to a playable museum. Chess, backgammon and Go sit alongside games most apps never touch: Senet from ancient Egypt, the Royal Game of Ur, Viking Hnefatafl, Oware from West Africa, Korea's Yut Nori. Some of these games are four and a half thousand years old, and tonight you could learn one over a cup of tea. And now there are cards on the table too: Cribbage, Gin Rummy, Crazy Eights, Go Fish and German Whist, played properly against the same cast.

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Boardalo's home screen: pick a game, pick someone to beat

A chess game against an illustrated Boardalo opponent who has plenty to say

Wordalo is a proper word puzzle app for people who actually like puzzles. Every day there's a new edition: five puzzles on one theme, the same for everyone, led by a proper newspaper crossword. Eleven puzzle types in all, drawn from hand-built themed categories that are actually worth reading: British History, Classic Literature, Gardening and Nature, Classic Cinema, The Royals and many more. It's made for grown-ups who grew up on the newspaper puzzle page, and it never once flashes at you.

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Today's Wordalo edition: five puzzles on one theme, led by the crossword

A Wordalo Saturday crossword with a proper newspaper grid

Numalo is Wordalo's sibling for people who think in figures: twenty-two logic puzzles for a quiet evening, six quick games for a spare minute, and a fresh daily challenge every morning. Sudoku and Kakuro sit alongside Slitherlink, Nonogram, Tectonic, Bridges and more, each drawn properly with clean grids and generous type. And it makes one promise most puzzle apps don't keep: you will never have to guess.

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Numalo's Today screen with the daily challenge, streaks and quick games

A Numalo Sudoku with a clean 9 by 9 grid

Arcadalo is a cabinet of fifteen arcade games built entirely from scratch: a paddle duel, a brick-breaker, four different shooters, a pinball table, a rhythm game, a lander, a tower defence and a swarm survival that plays like nothing else on the store. Nothing is licensed and nothing is borrowed: every shape is drawn live as a glowing neon stroke on ink-black, and every tune is generated by the app itself.

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Arcadalo's Play screen, listing fifteen original arcade games

Swarm in Arcadalo, with the Hive Queen arriving