Playing Shared Games

You don't need your own project to play. Designers can share a complete table setup publicly, and anyone can pick it up and host a room with that game's pieces already arranged. The public lobby is where those shared games live.

Find it at the public join page. No account is required.

The public lobby: a room-code box and a grid of shared Community Setups you can play instantly

Tip

Signed in? You can browse the same community games without leaving the app: open Community → Other Designers' Games in the top navigation. It lists the same shared setups and live rooms as the public lobby, just inside your normal dashboard view.

Ways In

Join a room with a code. If a host gave you a six-character code, enter it in the box on the left, pick a name, and you're in. See Starting & Joining Rooms.

Or browse the three tabs:

Community Setups. Shared table layouts from other designers. Filter by genre, click one, and you instantly host a room pre-loaded with that game, no account needed.
Open Rooms. Live tables looking for players. Click Join Room to take a seat, or Watch to follow the game without one when the host allows spectators. See Spectators.
Upcoming Playtests. Public playtests designers have scheduled for the next two weeks, soonest first. Click Book a seat, or Join the waitlist when it is full. See Scheduled Playtests.

A game whose designer has turned on its game page links its name to that page, where you can read about it first. See Public Game Pages.

Note

The lobby also shows how many rooms are live now, so you can see what's active at a glance.

Sharing Your Own Game

Want your game to appear here for others to try? Pro designers can mark a saved setup public, which lists it in the lobby, or generate a private share link. See Saved Table Setups.

Tip

A public setup is the easiest way to demo your game. Send the link and a playtester is at a fully arranged table in seconds, with nothing to install.