Free online games that start the moment you click.

Eat, grow, and try not to bite your own tail.

Slide the tiles, merge the numbers, chase that 2048.

Stack the falling blocks and clear line after line.

Bounce the ball, smash every brick, keep it alive.

Read the numbers, flag the mines, clear the field.

Flip the cards, find the pairs, beat your move count.

Three in a row against an opponent that never blunders.

Drop your discs and line up four before the computer does.

One button, endless pipes, and a very short temper.

Nine rows, nine columns, nine boxes, one answer.

Hold the line against a descending alien swarm.

Fifteen tiles, one gap, and a lot of patience.

Flip your way to a full board against a computer that plans ahead.

Time the gaps and get across without becoming a bonnet ornament.

Watch the pattern, repeat the pattern, watch it get longer.

Klondike, draw one — the card game that came with every computer.

Clear the pyramid by pairing cards that add up to thirteen.

Nine hidden words, twelve by twelve letters, eight directions.

Six wrong guesses. Choose your letters carefully.

Every press flips five lights. Turn them all off.

Five letters, six tries, and a colour clue after every guess.

Beat the dealer to twenty-one without going over.

Draughts against a computer that always takes the capture.

Rotate, thrust, and learn to live with momentum.

The numbers vanish the moment you touch the first one.

The original video game, and still a fair fight.

Swap the fruit, line up three, watch the cascade.

The numbers describe the picture. Work out which squares to fill.

Every card face up, four spare cells, almost always winnable.

Ninety seconds, one jumbled word at a time.

How many words a minute, really?

Draw a line, close a box, go again.

Thirty seconds. Hit every target. Watch your reaction time.

A shape flashes for a second. Reproduce it.

Thirty seconds, nine holes, and very fast reflexes.