Aim gently toward the head pin. Drag upward on the lane to set direction and power, then release to bowl—or use the sliders. Curve bends the ball. Ten frames, with strike and spare bonuses.

Drag to turn around the cue ball — where you are looking is where you will hit. Drag up and down to change your eye line, set the power, then take the shot. “Look at the table” lifts you to a bird’s-eye view to read the angles. After a foul your partner gets ball in hand: tap the cloth to place it.

Drag to walk around your ball — where you are looking is where you will putt. Grab the ball and pull back to set the power, then let go; or set the power and press Putt. Take turns stroke by stroke. Six strokes and you pick up with a seven, the pond costs a stroke, and the lowest card after nine holes wins.

Wii-style boxing with your own garden chibis. Online you each fight from your own screen — your guard and dodges are always yours, so a block on your screen is a block. On one screen, spar against a bot wearing your person’s look. Keys: J jab · K cross · U/I hooks · H/L uppercuts · N/M body · ; Heart Punch · hold W/S to guard high/low · A/D slip · Space duck. On a phone: a button for every punch (Jab, Cross, and Hook, Upper and Body for each hand), the joystick on the left to guard (up/down) and slip (left/right), and Duck. Knocked down? Tap left-right on the heartbeat to get up.

Wii-style tennis with your garden chibis, on a court in the flowers with Clover in the umpire’s chair. Your player runs to the ball for you — you time the swing: early pulls it cross-court, late sends it down the line, and right on the sweet spot it flies. Keys: J or Space swing · K lob · L slice · arrows nudge · serve with J to toss and J again at the top. On a phone: the big Swing button, Lob and Slice, and the stick to shade your spot. Out of reach? Swing anyway for a dive. Party rooms play doubles; bots fill any empty spot.

Played live: your mallet goes wherever your mouse or finger goes, and your hits land the instant you make them — on your partner’s screen too, a heartbeat later. Online you each play from your own end; side by side, one of you takes each half (touch and drag, or WASD and the arrow keys). Whoever is scored on serves. First to the target wins.

LET’S MAKE A NIGHT OF IT

Spin the wheel.

Six wheels: two for dates, four for when you’re in the mood. Both of you tap “We’re doing it” before anything is saved, and either of you can pass with no explanation, any time. The spicy wheels are written for two consenting adults who know each other well — everything on them is an offer, never an instruction.