diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 9f62adcf..8fdf28a3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -50,11 +50,18 @@ jobs:
     - name: flake8 Tests
       shell: bash -l {0}
       run: |
-        flake8 --select=F401,F405,E231 quantecon
+        flake8 --select=F401,F405,E231 quantecon conftest.py
     - name: Run Tests (pytest)
       shell: bash -l {0}
       run: |
         pytest quantecon
+    - name: Run docstring examples (doctest)
+      # one platform is enough to stop examples drifting, and float
+      # reprs are the platform-sensitive part of doctest output
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+      shell: bash -l {0}
+      run: |
+        pytest --doctest-modules quantecon --ignore-glob='*/tests/*'
 
   coverage:
     name: Coverage
diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fb2fcc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+"""
+Pytest configuration for the ``--doctest-modules`` run (see gh-866).
+
+This lives at the repository root rather than inside the package on
+purpose.  `docs/qe_apidoc.py` discovers the "Tools" pages by globbing
+``../quantecon/[a-z0-9]*.py``, so a `quantecon/conftest.py` would be
+picked up as a public module and generate a docs page for itself,
+failing the docs-drift check in CI.  Keeping it here also keeps a
+module that imports pytest -- not a runtime dependency -- out of the
+installed wheel.
+
+"""
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+# These modules have docstring examples that cannot pass verbatim:
+# `fetch_nb_dependencies` fetches over the network, and the `timing`
+# examples print wall-clock durations that vary per run.  Exclude them
+# here rather than annotating the examples with `# doctest: +SKIP`,
+# which would render visibly in the published docs.  Paths are relative
+# to this file, i.e. to the repository root.
+collect_ignore = [
+    "quantecon/util/notebooks.py",
+    "quantecon/util/timing.py",
+]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _restore_printoptions():
+    """
+    Restore NumPy print options after each test.
+
+    Several `game_theory` docstring examples call
+    `np.set_printoptions(precision=4)` for readability and deliberately
+    do not restore it.  Print options are process-global, so without
+    this fixture every doctest collected after those examples would
+    render arrays at the leaked precision and fail.
+
+    """
+    saved = np.get_printoptions()
+    yield
+    np.set_printoptions(**saved)