Guides

Updated 26 Oct 2026

How to play games with the AI assistant you already use, and how to tell when it is playing fair.

1. The best games to play with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini

   Which games hold up in a chat, which ones break, prompts for the classics that work, and every card in the catalogue grouped by type.

2. How to play D&D with an AI dungeon master

   Running D&D or any tabletop RPG in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: why an open prompt drifts, and what keeps an AI game master consistent.

3. AI murder mystery games that can’t cheat

   How a SHA-256 sealed solution stops the AI retrofitting the ending, and how to verify it yourself.

4. How to save and resume an AI game

   Take a plain-text save code and resume in a new chat, even in a different assistant.

5. Can ChatGPT play chess yet? What a 2026 benchmark found

   How the models rated when handed the board every move, why language models still lose it, and what AI chess is actually good at.

Games by kind

• D&D-style RPGs Tabletop role-playing adventures your AI runs as game master: three one-sitting stories and a campaign's first chapter. 4 games.
• Murder mysteries Whodunits for one detective or a party of up to eight, plus an interrogation game, each answer fixed before you start. 6 games.
• Social deduction games Solo social deduction: question a cast your AI plays and find the one who is lying, chosen before the game began. 2 games.
• Chess puzzles & trainers Chess puzzles, endgame drills and an openings coach, every answer written on the card and every puzzle engine-checked. 2 games.
• Creepy horror games Solo horror one-shots for 16 and over: one night shift, one night on a lighthouse rock, and nobody coming. 2 games.
• Duels Short one-player duels with your AI: crack a hidden code or find a hidden fleet, both placed before your first move. 2 games.
• Escape rooms One-player escape rooms in your AI chat: five linked locks, and an exit code set before the door shut behind you. 2 games.
• Word games Word games for your AI chat: name hidden words from clues, spot the real definition, or play hangman with a snowman. 3 games.
• Text adventures Classic text adventures with a fixed map, real objects to carry and a way out that existed before you typed a word. 2 games.
• Survival games Survival games where you ration warmth, water or a herd's strength, with the bad luck dealt from a published dice list. 3 games.
• Logic puzzles Logic puzzles with exactly one answer, set before you start: a logic grid and a pay-for-evidence ordering puzzle. 2 games.
• Trivia & quiz games Trivia nights your AI hosts for one player or a whole table, from an answer key written and sourced before you play. 3 games.
• Riddles & lateral thinking puzzles Riddles and yes/no lateral thinking puzzles whose answers are locked in before you guess, for families or a group. 2 games.
• Guessing games & 20 questions 20 questions and a hidden-country geography game, with every answer written down before your first question. 2 games.
• Strategy & simulation games Rule a small kingdom for a year or live a whole life, every effect printed and every event from a published dice list. 2 games.

Tools and reference

• Methodology The four mechanisms in plain terms: the ledger, saves, honest dice and sealed answers.
• Compatibility What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity each do with a game's link, a pasted card and a sealed game's answer file.
• Verify a seal or a dice tape Recompute a sealed answer's SHA-256, or rebuild a game's dice tape from its seed.
• Resume from a save code Paste a save and get a prompt that picks the game up in a new chat, in any app that can run that game.