Playable Minigames (Previously Playable Pool) – 【Project Zomboid】

The world ended. The pool table in the bar didn’t.

Playable Minigames turns the furniture of Knox County into nine real games. Rack up 8-ball on any pool table, throw 501 at a dartboard, deal a hand of hold’em wherever there’s a deck of cards, or set up chess on a checkerboard. Play alone against one of the regulars, with friends in co-op, or on a dedicated server. When something starts banging on the door, close the window, deal with it, and come back to the same rack.

NINE GAMES, RIGHT WHERE YOU’D EXPECT THEM
Right-click the furniture and pick a game.

Pool – 8-Ball and 9-Ball on any pool table in the world, with cue spin and ball in hand after a foul. New tables start on casual rules, and any table can switch to standard call-shot rules in its own settings. The context menu also lets you watch a game or re-rack a live one, after a confirmation. Enable solo practice inside the Pool window.
Darts 501 – right-click a dartboard while carrying three darts, or with three placed nearby. Three darts a turn, busts, and a double to finish. Flick up from the board to throw. Being drunk, tired or panicked shows in your aim.
Texas Hold’em, Blackjack and Klondike Solitaire – put a deck of cards on or beside a table, counter, desk or bar, or right-click a loose deck. Hold’em has buy-ins, blinds, side pots and all-ins. Your cards are never sent to another player’s game, and the bots don’t peek. The blackjack dealer stands on soft 17 and blackjack pays 3:2. Solitaire draws one or three, with undo.
Chess, Checkers and Connect 4 – right-click a placed checkerboard; chess also needs both the white and black piece sets beside it. Chess knows every legal move, including castling, en passant and promotion. Checkers has forced jumps, multi-jumps and kinging. Connect 4 lights up the winning line.
Wordle – put a notebook, notepad, loose paper, crossword or word-search magazine down together with a pen or pencil. Six guesses, 2,315 answers from the original word list.

When more than three games would show up in one spot, they tuck into a single Minigames submenu.

PULL UP A CHAIR
Pool, darts, blackjack, hold’em and all three board games have bots. They’re regulars with names and opinions, and when you come back, the same regular is in the same chair. Pool, darts and the board games let you pick a difficulty from Easy to Hard, and pool goes up to Extreme. Friends can take a free seat in co-op or on a dedicated server, and anyone else can right-click the table to watch. With two people seated, a turn clock keeps things moving. A dropped connection keeps its seat and its remaining time while the player gets back in.

Your survivor plays along: a thumbs-up when you win, a shrug when you scratch, and applause for someone else’s big pot. Three quick reactions are always a click away: “Nice one.”, “Ouch.” and “Rematch?” If you’d rather your survivor kept still, turn off React to the game on their own under Minigame Settings > General.

Walking away is fine. Closing the window parks your seat, and so does wandering out of reach. The table holds your game and your chair, and picks up where you left off when you come back. Once everyone has stepped away, the table frees itself after two minutes; a solo game waits as long as you stay nearby. Only Leave gives the seat up on purpose, and it asks first if a live game would be lost.

YOUR RECORD AND YOUR BANKROLL
Every character keeps a record: wins, losses and streaks, head-to-head scores, a rating for the board games, and the stats each game cares about. For darts that’s 180s and high checkouts, for pool racks won and break-and-runs, and for hold’em the biggest pot. The whole card room shares one chip bankroll, and if you go broke, the house stakes you back to 50.

That record, chips included, is the only thing this mod writes into a save. Live games are never saved, so the mod is safe to add to or remove from an existing save.

HOW TO PLAY
Every game explains itself: press the ? in its sidebar for the rules. The moves you can make are buttons in the sidebar, and a greyed-out one tells you why it’s unavailable. Pool fits on one line, which the game also prints under the table:
Right-drag on the felt to aim | Mouse wheel: power | Left click or Space: shoot | Ctrl + wheel: cue spin (follow, draw, english)
Arrow keys fine-aim and set power, and after a foul you click a clear spot to place the cue ball. Darts can also be thrown from the keyboard with a timed sweep. Mouse, keyboard and controller are all supported. Controller support is still experimental, so please report anything that won’t take focus. Escape closes a game window.

First-time help and the rules for every game are translated into 20 languages.

SANDBOX OPTIONS
Everything is under Sandbox Settings -> Playable Pool, and all nine games are on out of the box.

Game switches – Enable Darts 501, Enable Wordle, Enable Blackjack, Enable Texas Hold’em, Enable Solitaire, Enable Chess, Enable Checkers, Enable Connect 4. Pool is always on. If you turn a game off, its menu entry names the setting that disabled it.
Casual 8-ball rules (no call shot) – on by default, so new pool tables start casual. Turn it off and they start on Standard 8-Ball.
Allow solo practice, Allow admin solo practice and Allow spectators – all on by default.
Allow bot opponents – on by default. Turn it off to keep every table to solo play and human opponents; pool’s solo practice still works.
Turn time limit – 90 seconds with two or more humans seated; 0 turns it off. Solo and bot games have no clock. A timeout folds in hold’em, stands in blackjack, skips in darts, gives ball in hand in pool and loses on time in a board game.
Reconnect grace (120 seconds), Fully parked table hold (2 minutes), Abandoned session minutes (20) and Maximum table distance (8 tiles).
House starting chips – 50 by default; 0 turns it off. Hold’em also allows short re-buys.
Keep player records – on by default. Turn it off and nothing is saved, and the card room plays for table-only chips.
Boredom, stress and unhappiness relief per turn – each turn takes the edge off. Boredom relief is on by default; stress and unhappiness relief start at 0.

Table sounds play only for the people at the table, with a personal mute, and they never draw zombies.

Bug reports and ideas in the comments get read and acted on. If something breaks, say which game, whether it was singleplayer or multiplayer, and your Project Zomboid build.

Workshop ID: 3716934959
Mod ID: playable_pool