# Can you recommend games to play between ipads?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 23, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-games-to-play-between-ipads/593734 "2011-08-23T02:07:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![blood63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@blood63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blood63)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-games-to-play-between-ipads/593734/1 "2011-08-23T02:07:31Z")

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My girlfriend and I both have ipads.  
We both like trivia and word games.  
Are there any games that we can play ipad to ipad?  
Would they work from different homes if we didn’t have the 3G ipads?

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**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-games-to-play-between-ipads/593734/2 "2011-08-24T11:39:06Z")

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There’s “Words with Friends” which is essentially Scrabble and is specifically designed for exactly this form of play between two people on separate devices (though you can do a game passing one device back and forth). The same company also has “Hanging with Friends” which is a modified version of Hangman, and Chess with Friends, which is self-explanatory.

There’s a game which isn’t iPad native, but works on the iPad in the “2X” version, called Pirate Fleet, which is a pirate-themed version of Battleship.

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-games-to-play-between-ipads/593734/3 "2011-08-24T12:01:28Z")

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I’m kind if digging on the Family Feud app, as well as the mentioned hanging, words, and conventional scrabble. I’m also in love with EPYC, but that involves more than two players over time.

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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-games-to-play-between-ipads/593734/4 "2011-08-24T13:08:50Z")

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If you are into games like Magic the Gathering or Dominion, try out this addictive, fun and quick deck-building game called [Ascension](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ascension-chronicle-godslayer/id441838733?mt=8). It’s based on the [actual card game](http://www.ascensiongame.com) of the same name.

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**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recommend-games-to-play-between-ipads/593734/6 "2011-08-30T08:28:08Z")

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Get a tennis ball, an empty room, and you can play real-life Pong.