About StrategoPlay

StrategoPlay is a small, independent site with one purpose: let you play Stratego in a browser tab without installing anything, creating an account, or loading a third-party game player.

Why this site exists

Most browser versions of this game are either wrapped in an app-store detour or played inside someone else's embedded player, which brings its own branding bar, its own cookies and its own decisions about whether the game loads at all. This site takes the other route: the board is built here, served from here, and runs inside the page you are already on.

That also means the rank values, the movement rules and the computer opponent are all visible behaviour you can check on the board rather than a black box. When something is wrong with the game, it is our bug to fix, and it can be fixed.

What the board is

A complete game of Stratego: a 10x10 grid, forty pieces per army, two-square lakes in the middle splitting the board into three lanes, and hidden identities until two pieces collide. The full piece set is there — numbered ranks, a spy that beats the field marshal when it attacks, five miners that are the only pieces able to defuse a bomb, bombs and a flag that cannot move, and scouts that run any number of open squares in one move. You win by taking the flag or by leaving your opponent with no legal move.

The current build is a single-player match against a computer opponent. It deploys miners at the front line early, probes unknown squares with scouts, and remembers ranks it has already seen in a fight. Playing against it is the cheapest way to learn the piece values. Two-player online matches are not built yet — there is no account system here, and no matchmaking, so we would rather not pretend otherwise.

How it is built

HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript. There is no game engine framework behind the board, no server-side session holding your match, and no third-party script deciding whether the game loads. The page loads, the board renders, and a match exists only inside the tab until you close it. Advertising banners around the board are the only third-party scripts on the page; they are described in the privacy policy.

Independence and trademarks

StrategoPlay is an independent, fan-made project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the owner of the Stratego trademark or the publisher of the original board game, and it is not an official Stratego site. The name is used to say which game you are playing, nothing more. Printed rank values differ slightly between published editions of the game; where an edition differs, the value shown on a piece once it is revealed on this board is the one in play here.

Getting in touch

Write to contact@strategoplay.com — it reaches the person who builds and maintains this site, and it is the right route for a bug you can describe in detail, a correction, a comment you would like removed, or a rights-holder concern. The contact page lists what to include.

For rules questions, opening ideas and general feedback, the comment box on the home page is faster and other players can answer there too. The terms of use describe what you can expect from the site.