The Messages app on iPhone and iPad allows you to play games directly within the app itself, in addition to what you’d typically expect with sending and receiving regular text messages and iMessages. Does playing games like chess, checkers, cup pong, battleship, darts, mini-golf, amongst many others over iMessage sound fun to you? Then read on to learn how it works!

Apple’s iMessage service is baked into the Messages app and it’s extremely popular among Apple users. It offers a free and convenient way to send text messages, attachments, animojis, etc to…