Whether you love a pub quiz or finding a cubby hole for two and breaking out a board game, almost every game you can conceivably imagine is now also available online.

While some online versions will never quite live up to their live originals, here’s a list of some that come close enough, meaning you can crack open a bottle of your favourite craft beer, play along, and almost forget altogether that you haven’t set foot outside.

Chess

Once the main game played in pubs, cafes and town halls, chess has undergone something of an online revolution of late, with young players such as Magnus Carlsen bringing it to the attention of a new generation.

Sites like Chess.com and Chess24 now offer such a vast range of games, with variations and levels to suit everyone, that the online chess experience supersedes live gameplay unless it is the beer and face-to-face company you treasure above all else.

Quiz Machines

Everyone will remember when quiz machines started arriving in pubs, bringing the excitement of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to your local, as large groups swamped the machine barking answers as the person at the controls got more and more riled up. Although such machines aren’t quite as popular as they used to be, there will be those players who’ve pretty much memorised the answers and still make a tidy profit whenever they come across one of them.