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Nailball Goal press kit

Nailball Goal is "çivi futbolu" (nail football), the Turkish tabletop game where a coin is flicked between nails hammered into a wooden board, rebuilt online with real physics. It is free in the browser, with no download or sign-up. You may use the text and images on this page for news, reviews and videos without asking; please credit nailballgoal.com.

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Fact sheet

Name	Nailball Goal (Çivi Futbolu in the Turkish interface)
Developer	Fuat Furkan Kahraman, independent developer (Istanbul, Turkey)
Genre	Turn-based tabletop football, physics game, 1v1
Platforms	Web browser (phone, tablet, desktop): out now. Android (Google Play) and iPhone (App Store): out now (28 October 2026).
Price	Free, no ads. Nothing that affects play is sold, only cosmetic looks.
Languages	English, Turkish
Website	https://www.nailballgoal.com
Video	YouTube: @nailballgoal
Contact	info@nailballgoal.com

Descriptions

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Nailball Goal brings Turkish nail football to the browser with real physics: a free online 1v1 game of flicking a coin between nails.

Short

Nailball Goal is the online version of "çivi futbolu", the Turkish nail football played with a coin between nails on a wooden board, with real physics. Flick the disc, bank it off nails and rails into the opponent's goal; the first to score 3 wins. Play the AI, a friend on the same device or through a private room link, or ranked 1v1 matches with an Elo rating. Free in the browser, no download or sign-up.

Long

Nail football is a tabletop game many people in Turkey built as children by hammering nails into a board: each team's 11 nails are the players and a coin is the ball. Nailball Goal brings it to the browser with real physics. You pull the disc back and release; it bounces off nails and rails as it would on a real board. Hit it off-centre and it spins (Live Spin), and while it spins the opponent may take an instant shot.

The coin, the crown bottle cap and the plastic cap keep their real sizes relative to each other, and each one moves and bounces differently. There are five official formations, and in online matches both players pick theirs blind. Play the AI (easy, medium, hard), a friend on one device or through a private room link, or ranked matches with an Elo rating; online matches are run by the server, which computes every shot. Nothing that affects play is sold. The web version is free with no ads; the Android and iPhone apps are free too, on Google Play and the App Store.

Highlights

Real physics: every shot is simulated, and the same shot always lands in the same place. The disc bounces off nails and rails like on a real board.
Real sizes: coin, crown cap and plastic cap keep their real proportions; two teams of 11 nails.
Live Spin: hit the disc off-centre and it spins; while it spins the opponent may shoot at once. A rule of this game's own.
Online 1v1: quick match, ranked matches with Elo, a weekly leaderboard and private rooms through an invite link.
No cheating: the server runs online matches; formations are picked blind.
Money buys no skill: the in-game currency (Marbles) buys only looks: board, disc trail, goal celebration, wrist.
Instant in the browser: no download or sign-up; swipe on a phone, pull back with a mouse.

Development notes

Three short, documented stories you can use:

"Whatever I do, it hits the nails." A tester wrote this, and was right: the physics engine bounced the disc off nails from 2–40 mm away, before it touched them; on shots without spin, a third of the contacts were like that. It was fixed.
No curve, only spin. Our guide said the disc bends its path; on a real board it goes straight and only spins. The text was corrected and the button became SPIN.
Half a pull, 11 cm. A tester could not plan where the disc would stop. Measuring showed that half a pull moved the coin only 11 cm. The power curve was rebuilt from scratch.