About Stratego.win
One game, one page
Stratego.win exists for a single reason: the classic board game with the hidden pieces and the 40 soldiers is easy to describe and hard to start playing. You need a board, two players, an hour, and someone who remembers what beats what. This page removes the first three problems — it puts a playable board in the browser, free, with no download and no account, so a visitor can be moving pieces about ten seconds after the page opens.
It is deliberately one game on one page. There is no catalogue of hundreds of games here and no redirect to a shop. If somebody searches for the game and lands here, they should be able to play it immediately, then read how the ranks work if they want to.
How the page is built
The play area is an embedded browser version of the game, written by another developer and loaded inside a frame from masteroftheflag.jayoogee.com. We did not write that engine and we do not host it — we build the page around it: the cover, the start button, the loading state, the buttons underneath, and everything you read further down the page. Multiple playable implementations of this game exist online; this one was picked because it works without an account, has an opponent built in so a single visitor can start a game alone, and plays with taps on a phone. Two alternatives are kept in reserve and can be swapped in if the embedded one stops working.
Everything around the game is written for this site. The ranks table — how many of each piece, and which piece captures which — was checked against the rules the game itself follows, not copied from a shop page or a wiki. The sections on how to play and on playing advice are in plain words for someone who has never set up a board. The FAQ answers the questions visitors actually send.
What you will find here
- The game, in the first screen, one press away.
- How to play: the goal, the two rows where you place your pieces, how a challenge is settled, and how the game ends.
- The ranks table: all twelve piece types, their counts and their order.
- Playing advice: what is worth knowing before your first move — keeping the flag guarded, why the scout matters, what the bomb does to an attack.
- An honest FAQ: free, no account, mobile, fullscreen, one player, how long a game takes.
- A comment box, so players can compare notes and say what went wrong.
Who runs it
A small independent team, not a company. No advertising is sold on the page today, and if advertising is ever added it will stay outside the play area, never above the start button. The site is not affiliated with the publisher of the board game and does not claim to be; the name is used to say what the page is about, and the trademark belongs to its owner, as the footer of every page states.
Corrections and contact
If a rule, a count or a rank order on this page is wrong, that is worth an email — wrong information about a game like this is worse than no information. So is a broken game area, a page that looks wrong on your phone, or a comment you want removed. Everything goes to support@stratego.win, described in more detail on the contact page.