iOS app
The Rules Guru
Ask a rules question in plain English and get the answer without passing the rulebook around the table.
What it is
Every game night hits the same wall. Somebody plays a card in a way nobody expected, the box lid comes off, and three people start scanning the same page of a rulebook while everyone else checks their phone. The Rules Guru is my attempt to make that detour take fifteen seconds instead of five minutes: type the question the way you'd say it out loud, get a direct answer, get back to the game.
It's built around the way arguments actually start — not around a table of contents. You don't search for "Chapter 4: Movement," you ask whether you can move through another player's piece.
Why I built it
I own a few hundred board games and I'm usually the one teaching them. That means I'm also the one holding the rulebook, which means I'm the one not playing. I wanted the table to be able to answer its own questions.
Notes
- Answers are meant to settle the moment, not replace the rulebook — check the book for anything that decides a game.
- Requests for games to cover are welcome. Email me and I'll add them to the list.