Welcome to Strategy Corner
Strategy Corner is a collection of family-friendly strategy games designed to help children practice planning, problem solving, pattern recognition, logical thinking, and decision making while having fun.
What Is Strategy Corner?
Strategy Corner brings ten different board and puzzle games together in one easy-to-use collection. Some games are familiar classics, while others were created especially for Strategy Corner.
Children can practice by themselves, challenge computer players, or enjoy local multiplayer games with family and friends.
- 10 strategy games
- Solo practice where available
- Human versus computer play
- Multiple computer opponents in supported games
- Local multiplayer
- Easy, Normal, and Hard computer difficulty
- Optional How to Play tutorials
- Highlighted legal moves
- Saved settings and records
- Computer, tablet, and mobile-friendly controls
How to Get Started
Computer Difficulty
Easy
Easy mode is designed for beginners. The computer makes simpler choices and may sometimes miss stronger moves.
Normal
Normal mode uses basic strategy. The computer looks for useful moves, blocks threats, and tries to improve its position.
Hard
Hard mode plans farther ahead when the game allows it. Players should expect a more challenging opponent that watches for winning moves, traps, captures, and future opportunities.
The Games
Checkers
Move diagonally across the board, capture opposing pieces, make multiple jumps when available, and reach the opposite side to become a king.
Four-in-a-Row
Drop colored pieces into the board and try to connect four of your pieces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally before your opponent does.
Dots and Boxes
Players take turns connecting neighboring dots. Complete the fourth side of a box to claim it and take another turn. The player with the most boxes wins.
Disk Flip
Place disks so that opposing pieces are trapped between your pieces. Trapped disks flip to your color. Control the most spaces by the end of the game.
Mancala
Choose a pit and distribute its stones around the board. Use extra turns and captures carefully to collect more stones in your store than your opponent.
Nine Men’s Morris
Place pieces on the board and try to form groups of three called mills. Forming a mill allows you to remove an opposing piece.
Chinese Checkers
Move or jump pieces across the star-shaped board. Plan chains of jumps to move your pieces into the opposite goal area before your opponents.
Color Code Breaker
Try to discover a hidden sequence of colors and shapes. Each guess gives clues about which objects are correct and whether they are in the correct positions.
Gem Garden
Place colorful gem tiles into the garden and build useful patterns. Earn points for matching groups, rows, special patterns, and flower-gem combinations.
Castle Corners
Move knights across the castle board while competing for control of the four corner towers. Use obstacles and special spaces to create a path to victory.
How to Play Checkers
Select one of your pieces to see its available moves. Regular pieces move diagonally forward to an empty square.
If an opposing piece is next to your piece and the square directly beyond it is empty, you can jump over the opposing piece and capture it.
If another capture is available after your first jump, continue jumping with the same piece.
Reach the far side of the board to promote your piece to a king. Kings can move and capture diagonally in both directions.
How to Play Four-in-a-Row
Choose a column to drop your piece into. The piece falls to the lowest available space.
Try to make a line of four matching pieces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally while also blocking your opponent.
How to Play Dots and Boxes
Select an available line between two neighboring dots.
When your line completes the fourth side of a square, you claim that box and receive another turn.
When every possible line has been drawn, the player who controls the most boxes wins.
How to Play Disk Flip
Place a disk in a legal empty space. Your move must trap one or more opposing disks between the new disk and another one of your disks.
Trapped opposing disks flip to your side. The player controlling the most disks at the end wins.
How to Play Mancala
Choose one of the pits on your side of the board. All stones from that pit are picked up and distributed one at a time into the following pits.
Landing the final stone in your store may earn another turn. Certain final-stone placements may also allow a capture.
The goal is to finish the game with more stones in your store than your opponent.
How to Play Nine Men’s Morris
The game begins with players taking turns placing pieces on empty board points.
Three matching pieces in a straight board line form a mill. When you create a mill, you may remove one legal opposing piece.
After all pieces have been placed, players begin moving pieces between connected positions.
How to Play Chinese Checkers
Move one piece to a neighboring empty position or jump over another piece into the empty space directly beyond it.
A piece may sometimes make several jumps during the same turn. Use jump chains to cross the board faster.
Move all of your pieces into your destination area before the other players.
How to Play Color Code Breaker
A secret sequence is created at the beginning of the game.
Build a guess using the available colors or shapes and submit it. Feedback will show how many objects are correct and in the correct positions and how many belong in the sequence but are in the wrong positions.
Use the clues from each round to solve the secret code in as few guesses as possible.
How to Play Gem Garden
Place gem tiles into open garden spaces. Look for opportunities to create matching groups, complete useful patterns, and combine special flower and gem tiles.
Some placements may score immediately while others can set up stronger turns later in the game.
The player with the highest score at the end wins.
How to Play Castle Corners
Move your knights across the castle grid and work toward the four special corner towers.
Obstacles can block routes, while special spaces may provide movement or strategic advantages.
Capture or control the required corner towers while preventing your opponents from doing the same.
Helpful Tips
For Parents and Teachers
Strategy games can give children practice with skills such as planning ahead, recognizing patterns, making choices, adapting to changing situations, counting, logical reasoning, and learning from mistakes.
Younger players may benefit from playing alongside an adult during their first few rounds. Once the basic rules are familiar, the computer difficulty settings provide an easy way to increase the challenge gradually.
