Battleship: placement and search strategy
Learn how to hide five ships, organize your shots, and turn every hit into useful information.
TableDuel knowledge base
Game guides for beginners and experienced players
Learning the rules is only the first step. These guides explain the important decisions, common mistakes, and useful thinking patterns behind TableDuel’s board and card games.
Gomoku: threats and double attacks
Build open patterns, identify dangerous enemy lines, and prepare two winning continuations at once.
Connect Four: center control and traps
Understand gravity, the value of central columns, and how to prepare two playable winning cells.
Dots and Boxes: chains and sacrifices
Avoid early giveaways, count safe edges, and learn to control long chains of boxes.
Mau-Mau rules and action cards
The complete rules for this 2–4 player variant: legal plays, draw penalties, skipping, choosing a suit, and reversing direction.
Old Maid rules
The complete rules for the TableDuel 2–4 player variant: dealing, automatic pairing, drawing, and determining the loser.
How to use these guides
Play a few matches while focusing only on the rules. Then choose one strategic goal—such as controlling the center or spotting threats early—and practice it consciously across several games.
TableDuel lets you start another match immediately, so you can test a different approach after a mistake. With a friend you can discuss the same position together; computer difficulty levels provide a gradual challenge when you practice alone.