Ryvo
A table for you and your friends
Board games, cards and dice with friends. Explore Ryvo’s collection and find a game for your next gathering.
Inside Ryvo
Actual Windows app screenshots: choosing a game and practising at the chess table.
Ryvo
Ryvo brings familiar board and card games into one social app. Play dominoes, Ludo, chess, backgammon and more. Meet friends at a table or spend time together in a salon. Clear controls and spoken descriptions help more people share the experience.
Tawla 31 and the race to open your route
A backgammon variant without hitting or pinning. Learn the opening checker rule and how the remaining pieces determine the score.
Backgammon as a race and a contest for space
Understand movement, hitting, re-entry and bearing off in Ryvo’s standard backgammon game.
Mahbusa and the power of a well-placed pin
In Mahbusa, a lone checker can be pinned in place. Learn how pins work and when they can decide the whole game.
Your first confident moves in chess
Meet the pieces, understand check and checkmate, and learn the special moves that make a chess position easier to read.
All Fives dominoes and the art of counting the ends
Matching a tile is only the start. Learn the four-arm opening, end scoring and round settlement in Ryvo’s All Fives mode.
Dominoes from your first tile to the final round
Learn how matching, drawing and blocked rounds work, and why keeping a light hand matters in Ryvo dominoes.
Farkle and knowing when to bank your points
Six dice and one recurring decision. Understand scoring groups, entry requirements and the risk of another roll.
Jackaroo and turning cards into a route home
A game of teamwork and timing. Learn the basic cards and how Ryvo’s standard, complex, quick and two-player modes differ.
Ludo and finding your way home
Learn how sixes, captures, safe squares and extra rolls work, with a closer look at Ryvo’s optional rocket mode.
Mille Bornes and the race to exactly one thousand
Build distance, recover from hazards and use safety cards at the right moment in Ryvo’s thousand-mile race.
99 and how one card changes the whole table
Three cards can hold several different plans. Learn the special cards, survival points and the thresholds at 33, 66 and 99.
Snakes and Ladders and the race to one hundred
A quick guide to automatic movement, ladders, snakes and the exact roll needed to finish a Ryvo game.
Splendor and building your gem engine
Turn a handful of gems into lasting discounts. Learn the four actions, reservations, nobles and the final-round rule.
Game guides and articles
Learn the rules and discover more ways to play.
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Ryvo on Windows and your guide to keyboard shortcuts
Ryvo 1.0.40 for Windows connects table voice automatically and announces who is in it, puts the microphone at the top of the table, lets private tables start now with bots and makes Splendor faster with less speech.
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Making Ryvo comfortable to use
Explore screen reader support and adjust sound, appearance and motion to suit you.
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A private voice call with a friend
Start a call, manage your microphone and check the right settings when ringing or audio is missing.
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What to check when a connection feels slow
A short path to understanding a connection problem and gathering details that help.