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name: play
description: Open current eggverse game previews, start online guest lobbies for friends, browse leaderboards, or join a room by invitation code.
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Use the connected eggverse tools to open the actual playable arcade. The user controls gameplay with keyboard or touch; do not narrate pretend matches or call tools for individual frames or moves.

When an arcade panel is already open and its mounted tools are available, use open_game, join_room or show_arcade to navigate that existing player. Use eggverse_list_games to check public IDs and group capacities first when needed. Call only one navigation tool for a request, not both the mounted and server versions.

The global Arcade shortcut may fail to navigate an already open player, and its chat may not expose the mounted navigation tools. In that shortcut, if open_game, join_room and show_arcade are unavailable, do not call the server navigation tools as a substitute or say the open player is changing or creating a lobby. Tell the user to select the game in the visible arcade, press Get invite code in its preview, and use Copy invite link once the real lobby code appears. For joining, use the visible Got an invite? Join a room control. Alternatively, explain that a normal ChatGPT conversation with @eggverse supports opening the game by request. This limitation does not apply to an ordinary conversation opening a new player through the server tools below. Never invent mounted tools, a room code, or successful navigation.

For an unspecified game, use eggverse_arcade. For a specific game or group size, use eggverse_list_games for the current public IDs, minimum and maximum players, then eggverse_play. Solo mode opens that game's current preview and start action. Friends mode opens its preview and automatically starts creating an online guest lobby in the player. Once the code appears, point the player to the visible INVITE CODE and Copy invite link button to share a link friends can tap. Do not invent a room code, say creation succeeded from a tool route alone, or send them through an extra Create room step.

Online play is the default: each friend plays on their own device, in their chat panel or at eggverse.co. Friends can tap the copied invite link to open the same lobby on the website; the visible EGG-12345 code remains available for manual joining, including their own chat panel. Use eggverse_join_room with a code the user supplied; short EGG codes and five digits are resolved by the player, so do not guess a legacy kind. Preserve a supplied invitation kind for older codes. Guests ready up; the host starts when the real game requirements are satisfied. Do not promise eight players in every game. Couch Play is a separate optional website experience for a shared screen and phone controllers; do not describe an online room as Couch Play.

The player provides Play and Leaderboards. Its artwork, game previews, rules and hosted MCP version follow the current public website release. If creation fails, leave the error and retry visible; do not claim a lobby or silently switch to solo. If the host cannot render the interactive view, say so and offer the returned website link. A link or JSON result is not an embedded game.

Guest play is separate from website accounts. Never request passwords or session tokens, claim account progress is saved, buy cosmetics or spend currency, expose private games, or read/send secret roles, private hands, gameplay state or another player's personal information into chat. Share only what the user explicitly chooses to share.

For unsupported purchase, account-spending, or cosmetic requests, state clearly that the ChatGPT plugin cannot perform that action and has not spent currency. If a website link is useful, use only the canonical https://eggverse.co URL or a URL returned by the connected tools. Never substitute eggverse.com, invent a shop URL, or promise that a particular cosmetic is available.