pips&pegs

Your table

Everything you've played, and how it went. Kept on this device only — no account, no server, and nobody here can see it.

Why there are no high scores here

You'll notice there's no leaderboard, no ranking, and nobody to beat but yourself. That's a deliberate decision, and it's worth explaining.

Every game on this site runs entirely inside your browser. There's no server watching you play. Which means any score that could be sent to a leaderboard could equally well be invented — open the developer console, type a number, done. That's why almost every no-login leaderboard on the internet is topped by an impossible time set by somebody called xX_Dragon_Xx.

We'd rather give you something true. Your record is your record. And if you want to compete with someone, the daily deal gives you the honest version: you and your friend get the identical shuffle, so your times are actually comparable.

Could it be done properly?

Yes, and it's rather elegant. Every deal on this site comes from a seed, so a solve can be proved: submit the list of moves, and a server replays them against the same shuffle to check they're legal and that they finish the game. You can't fake a score you have to demonstrate.

That's a real leaderboard, and it's on the list. It needs a server, so it waits until there are enough people here to make it worth running.

Where this is stored

In your browser's local storage, on this device. It doesn't sync between your phone and your laptop, it doesn't survive clearing your browser data, and it never leaves the machine. That's the trade for not having to make an account.