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Guides, tips and picks from the arcade

Strategy guides, game breakdowns and roundups to help you get more out of the library.

Connect Four game screenshot mid-match, showing red and yellow discs dropped in the center columns of the board

How to Beat the Connect Four CPU: Plan Beyond the Next Move

Play Connect Four on a 7-column, 6-row board against the computer or invite a friend through a room. Connect four discs horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Quick Match uses a computer opponent.

Connect Four
Devil Trap levels guide gameplay screenshot showing the pink one-eyed character jumping between blue platforms over glowing red spikes toward the finish flag with the level and deaths HUD

Devil Trap: Reading the 40-Level Campaign

How progression, false floors, moving hazards and retries work in Playaby’s Devil Trap.

GuideDevil TrapPlatform Games
A bike racer using nitro boost to overtake an opponent on a racing track with visual speed effects

Bike Racing: Recharge Nitro and Make a Clean Pass

Use pickups, controlled drift and drafting without boosting into blocked road.

StrategyBike Racing
Devil Trap controls and mobile gameplay screenshot showing the pink one-eyed character preparing a jump over spikes beneath a swinging crusher with the level and deaths HUD

Devil Trap Controls: Keyboard and Touch

Use the actual movement and jump inputs, then practice a repeatable landing on mobile or desktop.

How to PlayDevil TrapMobile Games
Bike racing strategy gameplay cover showing a lead rider taking the inside line through a corner while overtaking rivals on a colorful circuit

Bike Racing: Plan a Faster Four-Course Run

A practice routine for choosing lines, managing mistakes and using boost on the current courses.

AdvancedStrategyBike Racing
Gameplay screenshot of Paint Battle showing the Cyan Crew and Pink Punk fighters mid-match, spraying cyan and pink paint across the arena grid with the territory-percentage HUD at the top

Paint Battle Is Now Live on Playaby: A Territory Shooter With a Tunable AI Rival

We just shipped Paint Battle — a 90-second arena shooter where covering more of the map in your color wins, not kills. Here is why territory decides the match, and how the AI rival actually works.

NewsPaint Battle