RINGO
A real family board game — invented by Dad, played for years around the table — rebuilt as an online game. Create a room, share the invite link, and the whole family is around the board in seconds, each on their own phone.
Visit ringo.beelinemicrosystems.comFive in a row — or all four corners.
RINGO is played on a 5×5 board: columns lettered R-I-N-G-O across the top, rows numbered 1–5 down the side. Luck deals the coordinates; strategy decides what you do with them.
Every turn is a small drama: roll the dice, land your ring, and watch the threats stack up. Wild faces let you place anywhere — or steal an opponent's space outright — so no lead is ever safe. First to five in a row or all four corners shouts “RINGO!” and takes the game.
How to play
Learn it in one turn. Master it over Sunday dinners.
1.Roll the dice
One die carries the letters R-I-N-G-O, the other the numbers 1–5 — and each has a ★ wild face that lets you pick that coordinate yourself.
2.Place your ring
Drop a ring of your color where the letter column meets the number row on the 5×5 board. A wild can even steal an opponent's space.
3.Shout “RINGO!”
Two ways to win: five rings in a row — across, down, or diagonally — or claim all four corners. Then say it loud.
Same board, wherever the family is.
No download and no account — it runs in any browser, from the living room to three time zones away.
Pass & Play
Two to five players sharing one screen — the classic living-room way to play, zero setup.
Play vs Computer
Take on one to four computer players with a difficulty picker: easy blunders and rarely steals, normal plays the classic game, hard hunts double threats and steals spitefully.
Play Online
Create a room and share the invite link or 4-letter code. Up to five players, each on their own device — the host can fill empty seats with bots.
The details
Built for phones and family patience.
Online play is engineered around how families actually play: interrupted, distracted, and competitive.
Invite links
The lobby texts a join link — opening it lands straight in the room. Grandparents included.
Seat rejoin
Locked the phone mid-game or dropped off wifi? Every seat has a saved token, and the page reclaims it automatically the moment you're back.
Turn nudges
A gentle vibration when it's your turn, and a flashing tab title if the page is in the background.
Emoji reactions
🎉 😂 😱 😈 💪 ❤️ fly across every screen in the room — trash talk, family edition.
Family Hall of Fame
Online wins and losses per name, shown on the menu and updated live when any game ends. Bots never make the board.
Installs like an app
Add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app — local play even works offline.
A real-time multiplayer game, serverless.
The same rules module runs in the browser, the dev server, and the Lambda room server — tested once, trusted everywhere.
Realtime
WebSockets · API Gateway
Compute
AWS Lambda room server
Hosting
S3 + CloudFront
App
PWA · offline local play
Sound
Web Audio — fully synthesized
Rules engine
One shared module + tests
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