Kestrel's Hall
-Free board games in the browser. Play with friends by sending a link, or alone against the house. No accounts, no adverts, no timers, and nothing sold.
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- Wiz-War
-Steal treasure. Blast through walls. Outwit your friends.
-2 to 6 players · an unofficial rebuild of Tom Jolly's 1993 board game
- Play at wizwar.kestrelsnest.social → -
Waving Hands
-Duelling wizards. Two hands each. The right run of gestures is a spell.
-2 to 12 players · Richard Bartle's pencil-and-paper duel, 1977
- Play at hands.kestrelsnest.social → -
Hnefatafl
-The Viking board game. One king, one throne, four corners, and a ring of attackers closing in.
-2 players · the Norse tafl game, by the Copenhagen rules or Linnaeus's 1732 Tablut
- Play at tafl.kestrelsnest.social → -How a table works
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- Open a table and you get a four-letter code and a link. Send it to a friend; they sit down and you begin. -
- No one home? Every game seats the house: an automaton, a housecarl, a rival wizard. Play now, alone. -
- Nothing to sign up for. Your browser holds your seat. Close the tab and come back; the game is where you left it. -
- Watchers welcome. Anyone with the link can sit in the Peanut Gallery and, if the host allows, join the table talk. -
- Something went wrong? Every table has a report button that reaches the keeper, pinned to the exact moment. -
The keeper
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- I am Eric, and I keep these tables from Athens, Georgia. These are games I have loved at a real table, rebuilt so friends can play them from wherever they are, with the door left open for anyone who wanders in.
-Send word to eric@ericwagoner.com, @kestrelsnest.social on Bluesky, or @eric@toots.kestrelsnest.social on Mastodon. I roost at blog.kestrelsnest.social.
-The hosting
-The games are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month; anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can at ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest. Nothing is unlocked by it and nothing is withheld without it.
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