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WebF1 Pad

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How To

Take a game break

Play the seven built-in games, from Tic-Tac-Toe and Solitaire to Chess against the CPU, an AI opponent, a friend or someone on your network.

WebF1 Pad includes seven small games for when a break helps. They open away from your notes, so nothing you are working on is disturbed, and each game remembers its best score.

Open a game

  • On desktop, use the Games menu, or press the gamepad button in the titlebar and pick a game from its list. The game opens in its own window you can move and resize next to your notes.
  • On Android, the gamepad button opens the game as a full-screen overlay. Closing it returns you to your note exactly where you left it.
  • The sound button in the game header mutes or unmutes game sounds for all games.

The card and board games

  • Tic-Tac-Toe - play the CPU (easy or hard) or a friend, with an option to switch to a 4x4 board where four in a row wins.
  • Membory - flip cards two at a time to find matching pairs; fewer moves is better.
  • Blackjack - bet chips, then hit or stand against a dealer who draws to 17. Naturals pay 3:2.
  • BlockDrop - stack falling pieces and clear lines. Play endless Marathon, or Sprint 20 to race twenty line clears against the clock.
  • Solitaire - Klondike with click-to-move: click a card (or the deepest card of a face-up run to move the run), then click a highlighted destination. Auto-finish sweeps the foundations when the end is in sight.
  • Accordion - fifty-two cards in a row; stack a card onto its left neighbor or the pile three to the left when suit or rank matches. Collapse everything into one pile to win.

Play Chess

  1. Open Chess and pick an opponent: pass-and-play with a friend, the built-in CPU with easy, medium or hard difficulty, vs AI using the providers configured in Settings → AI Chat, each with a strength persona from Casual to Master, Pen pal to play a correspondence game with a far-away human, or vs LAN to play a human on another device on the same network.
  2. Use the 3D, Tilt or Flat view chips to change the board perspective (Flat is a safe fallback on slower machines). In pass-and-play on the 3D board, the board turns to face whoever must move.
  3. An arrow shows the opponent’s last move and fades away, and the trays under the board track captured pieces.
  4. Save writes the game as a PGN file and Load resumes one; Copy PGN puts the game on the clipboard and Paste PGN loads one back from it. The exports open properly in chess apps and lichess.

Play by correspondence (Pen pal)

  1. Pick Pen pal in Chess and choose your color. Make your first move (or load a game), then press ⎘ PGN — the full game is on your clipboard.
  2. Send that text to your opponent through any chat or email. There is no server and no network requirement: the PGN text IS the move.
  3. Your opponent presses ⎙ PGN — the pasted game replaces their board, seats them on the side to move, and they play their reply, then ⎘ PGN it back to you.
  4. Each player can only move their own color, and the board keeps your side at the bottom — sensible when your opponent is in another city. Loading your own saved pen game keeps your color too (a WebF1Seat header in the PGN records the seat it was saved from).
  5. Works over any distance, including between a desktop and an Android device — the same copy/paste flow, no LAN needed.

Play over the network (vs LAN)

  1. On the host device, pick vs LAN in Chess. The mode bar shows a link like http://192.168.1.42:39520 and a six-digit pairing code.
  2. On the other device — phone, tablet, laptop, anything with a browser — open that link on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot and type the code. No app install, no internet connection needed.
  3. Play: the host’s board is the usual WebF1 Pad chess board; the opponent gets a clean board in their browser, oriented to their color, with move highlights. Either side can resign.
  4. Stopping: Stop in the host’s mode bar ends the session and releases the port. Switching modes or closing the game window does the same. The opponent’s page tells them the host went away.

If the link does not work, the two devices are usually not able to reach each other: some routers isolate Wi-Fi clients (“AP isolation”) — a phone hotspot is the reliable fallback. Windows asks once to allow the app through the firewall when you first host.

Best scores

Each game keeps one best score - for example wins against the hard CPU for Chess or Tic-Tac-Toe, fewest moves for Solitaire, or top chips for Blackjack. Beat it and the game takes note.