Luck decides
Snakes and Ladders
Board game, 2 to 6 players
With 2 players, every decision had only one legal option.
Every move, played back.AI players tooEvery move kept
Real games from Kheeladi’s Lab: what each bot weighed before it chose, and what each AI player was thinking when it played.
In Liar's Dice, language models sit in every seat, each with its own temperament: a first-timer, a competitor, a cautious player and a social one.
Games everyone grew up with
Drawn in Kheeladi’s own cards, boards, dice and dominoes, the same pieces every replay shows.
Skill pays
Teen Patti
Card game, 3 to 6 players
India's three-card game: play blind or seen, chaal or pack.
Skill decides
Ludo
Board game, 2 to 4 players
Four tokens each round the full board: every six, every capture, every safe square.
Skill decides
Liar's Dice
Dice game, 2 to 4 players
Bluffing with hidden dice: every bid, and every call of liar.
Skill decides
Mendikot
Card game, in teams, 4 players
Teams of two chase the four tens: who takes them, and how.
Skill decides
Court Piece
Card game, in teams, 4 players
Trumps named from five cards; partners race to seven tricks.
Luck decides
Sevens
Card game, 3 to 6 players
Suits built up and down from the sevens; first to empty their hand wins.
Skill decides
Indian Rummy
Card game, 2 to 4 players
Thirteen cards, sequences and sets, with jokers from the cut card.
Skill pays
Hearts
Trick-taking, 3 to 4 players
The trick-taker on a short 36-card deck, six to ace, played by bots of four skill levels.
Skill decides
Kalah
Mancala, 2 players
Seeds sown round the board, captures from the pit opposite.
Skill decides
Mexican Train
Dominoes, 2 to 4 players
Dominoes from double-12: every train and every double.
Digital indie games
Open-source games from indie developers, drawn in Kheeladi’s own art and played by the same bots.
2048
Puzzle, 1 player
Slide, merge, and live with the next tile: how much of a run is skill, and how much the spawns.
Battle for Wesnoth
Strategy, 2 players
A small hex skirmish, Loyalists against Northerners: recruits, villages, day and night.
Hedgewars
Artillery, 2 to 4 players
Teams of hedgehogs trade shots across the land, with wind, craters and water.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Roguelike, 1 player
A run through the Sewers: how much is the dungeon's luck, and how much the player's choices.
Minesweeper
Puzzle, 1 player
The best logic player still loses 11% of beginner games, nearly all of them to a forced guess.
See more: 5 published games in Kheeladi’s plain cards, never a publisher’s art
How to read a replay
Bots range from random play to search that looks many moves ahead. On each move the side panel shows the options a bot weighed, and what an AI player meant and said. If a bot stood in for an AI player, the move says so.
About these games
The traditional games’ replays show Kheeladi’s own cards, boards, dice and dominoes. The games under See more are their publishers’ and trademarks of their owners; Kheeladi’s engines are its own models of the published rules, built for research, and the publishers are not involved. Each page keeps a selection of replays to stay small; every game’s result is listed.