Checkers unblocked: play Checkers online free right here in your browser — no download, no sign-up, works on a school Chromebook.
Checkers is the old two-player board game of diagonal moves and jump captures, played here in the browser against the computer. A game is a slow, tidy contest compared with most of what sits around it on There Is No Game: no trick answers, no interface that lies to you, just twelve pieces a side and a board where every move changes the geometry.
If you came for the odd, self-aware puzzles that the headline game is known for, this is the palate cleanser. The rules are exactly what they look like, and the challenge is honest. Losing means you were out-thought, not out-tricked, which is a different kind of satisfying.
It loads in the frame above with nothing to install, and a game fits comfortably into a short break, though a close one can run longer than you expect.
You control one colour and move one piece per turn, using the mouse or a touch: click or drag a piece, then drop it on a legal square. Pieces travel diagonally on the dark squares and, in the classic game, only forward until they are crowned. You capture by jumping over an opposing piece into the empty square directly behind it, and a piece that reaches the far edge becomes a king, which can move in both directions.
A game ends when one side has no pieces or no legal move left. Checkers has several regional rule sets, such as whether captures are compulsory and whether kings can fly across the board, so if a move is refused that you thought was legal, the variant rules are the first thing to suspect.
Level Devil is the opposite temperament: a platformer whose level design cheats, where Checkers never does. Brain Test 4: Tricky Friends and Odd Bot Out are riddle-and-observation puzzles built on surprise answers, while Checkers rewards planning several moves ahead. The Password Game sits closer in spirit, since it is also about working inside a strict rule set.
Checkers suits anyone who wants a calm, thinking-first game, on either a keyboard-and-mouse setup or a touchscreen.
Checkers runs in an ordinary browser tab from thereisnogame.org, with nothing to download or install, so it plays on most school Chromebooks and work computers. If a network filter blocks the site, only that network's administrator can change it.
Click or drag a piece with the mouse, or tap and drag on a touchscreen, then drop it on a legal dark square. Pieces move diagonally.
Jump diagonally over an opposing piece into the empty square behind it. A piece that reaches the far edge of the board is crowned a king and can move in both directions.
Yes. It is free with no download or account, and it runs in modern desktop and mobile browsers.
