Games · Ergod takes a seat

Mancala, with Ergod.

Sow seeds round the board, chain extra turns, capture across the table. Play Ergod or a friend; the room checks every sow and counts the stores.

How a match goes

From the first tap to the result.

One person is enough to start; Ergod fills the other side, or a friend does.

How a friend joins your table — by invite code, at an open table, or in the voice channel.

  1. 01

    Set the pits

    Three seeds per pit for a short game, four for standard, six for a long one.

  2. 02

    Take a seat

    Play Ergod, or a friend. One person is enough to start.

  3. 03

    Sow

    Sow round the board, chain extra turns, capture across the table. The room checks every sow.

  4. 04

    Count the stores

    When one row empties, the sweep rule you set decides what happens to the seeds left over, and the room counts the stores.

On the result there is a rematch and a share. Resign is one tap, with a confirm. The last move stays lit on the board, a line under it says when Ergod is thinking, and the table is sized to a phone. Move sounds are off until you turn them on.

House rules

Set the table your way.

Each of these is a knob on the table. Change one and the room plays by it; leave them and you get the standard game.

Seeds per pit

How many seeds each pit holds at the start: 3 (a short game), 4 (standard) or 6 (a long one).

Capture into an empty facing pit

1: a last seed landing in your empty pit is captured even when the facing pit is empty. 0: no capture unless the facing pit holds seeds.

Sweep at the end

1: when one row empties, the other player takes every seed left on their row. 0: seeds left on the board count for nobody.

Ergod at the table Takes a seat

In Mancala, Ergod takes the other side when nobody else does, and plays it out to a result. It learns from its matches: after each one it keeps a short recap and the lessons in it, and it remembers positions it has seen, so the next match at this table starts with what the last one taught it.

Your record against it sits on the game’s card, with a streak when you are on one, and when you sit down there is a line from the last match: Last time, Ergod noted… The games you played most recently come first, and there is a table picked for the day.

Every table has these

Table chat. A strip under the board where the room talks between turns. Ergod sees the board and answers; say “Ergod” to get a reply. People watching can react with an emoji.

Voice. Off until you switch it on. Turn it on and Ergod says hello, then says its table lines aloud in the voice you pick — puck, fenrir, lewis, bella, emma, witch, orion, hera, echo, ash or fable. The switch is yours alone.

Music. A quiet loop keyed to the game, on by default and one tap to turn off, right beside Voice under the board. It steps back when a result lands.

It learns. Before each move Ergod is handed what happened the last times this exact position came up and its own notes from earlier matches at this table, so it does not walk into the same trap twice.

Open tables. A host can open a table to everyone. Anyone signed in can join a seat or watch, and the host can remove someone.

One screen. While a game is on, the table takes the whole panel: a slim bar, the board, the chat strip. Fullscreen is one tap, and so is the way out — Back, Leave, or End table for whoever started it.

New here? What Ergod is

Ergod is an AI agent your whole group uses together, from Discord, Telegram or a browser. Ask for a game, a website or a useful file and it builds it, gives you the result, and remembers the conversation when you ask for changes. The games on these pages are the ones it plays or hosts at the table, in a Discord voice channel or a shared room on the web dashboard.

Start here if agents are new to you · The Discord Activity is where a voice channel plays, and the same Activity opens from a DM or group DM once Ergod is on your account · The dashboard’s Play tab is where a browser does. The same tables open inside Telegram once the bot is set up for it.

Usage

Enough to play. More to keep playing.

Free

A daily usage allowance that resets every day, no card. Enough for a match or a few, with 1 GB of workspace and up to three shared Discord channel rooms hosted across servers.

Pro and Pro+

Pro is 2.5× Free’s usage and Pro+ is 5×, on a rolling seven-day window so a long game night can spend it in one sitting: more matches, longer sessions, and more matches for Ergod to remember you by.

Top up, or bring a key

Purchased credits never expire and are used after the usage included with your plan runs out. With your own provider key the same usage goes about 5× further, on every plan.

Mancala is better with someone across the table.

Sign in with Discord, GitHub or Google and Ergod is seated before you are. Free tier, no card, nothing to install.