PaperFox Studios

Game rules

Check the rules before your next game. These explain the versions we make, including the choices that can differ from household or regional rules.

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Ludo rules: how to play

In Ludo, roll a six to bring a piece onto the board, move clockwise and race every piece into your home area. Capture opponents on unprotected squares and finish with an exact roll. This guide explains the rules used in PaperFox’s version for two, three or four players.

Tic-Tac-Toe rules: how to play

Tic-Tac-Toe is a two-player game on a 3×3 grid. Take turns putting X or O in an empty square. The first player to make a straight line of three of their own marks wins; a full board with no winning line is a draw.

Sudoku rules: how the grid works

Fill a Sudoku grid so every row, column and 3×3 box contains each digit from 1 to 9 exactly once. The printed clues stay fixed. You do not add or multiply the digits: the task is to place them without repetitions in any of those three groups.

Solitaire rules: learn the Klondike layout

In Klondike Solitaire, move all 52 cards onto four suit foundations, building each from ace to king. The seven working columns build downward in alternating colours. Only a king, or a descending run starting with a king, can fill an empty column.

Four in a Row rules: how to play

Two players take turns dropping a disc into a column. It falls to the lowest empty space in that column. The first player to make four of their own discs in a straight horizontal, vertical or diagonal line wins. Our board has seven columns and six rows.

Mine Field rules: understand the clues

Open every square that does not contain a mine. A revealed number counts the mines in all touching squares, including diagonals. Flags mark squares you believe contain mines; they do not prove that your deduction is correct. In our version, the first dig and its neighbours are safe.

Word Vault rules: read every letter clue

Find Word Vault’s secret word within six standard guesses. Teal means a letter is correct in that exact position; pink means the letter belongs elsewhere. Grey means that copy did not match an unused letter in the answer, which matters when your guess repeats letters.