Find your next distraction.
Games for a quick go, puzzles to get stuck into, and a few things to make yourself useful. Pick one to see it in action and learn the controls.
Arcade
Reflexes, high scores and a crowd around the screen. (11 programs)
Flappy
Tap to flap the bird through the gaps in an endless run of pipes - one crash ends the run.
Pop
Five popper toys, each with its own game: pop the caps, flip the toy over and push them all...
Burrow
Bop the critters as they pop up out of the garden with your mallet, before they duck back...
Gravewatch
Build shaped towers on the graveyard's open ground to stop the walking dead before they...
Burst
Aim and fire coloured bubbles into a hanging cluster, popping groups of three before the...
Blast
Bomb your way through crates and enemies, shove coloured blocks onto their plates and reach...
Snake
Steer a snake around the field to eat apples, growing longer and faster until you run into a...
Blocks
Stack falling tetrominoes and clear full lines before the stack reaches the top.
Mineshaft
Dig down through an endless shaft of dirt, stone, deepslate and ore.
Pinball
Launch the ball up the plunger lane and keep it alive with two flippers, ringing bumpers...
Clicker
Tap the coin, spend the coins on upgrades and prestige for a permanent boost: there is no...
Puzzles
A few quiet minutes. Or one very stubborn puzzle. (9 programs)
2048
Slide numbered tiles around a 4x4 board and merge equal ones, chasing the 2048 tile.
Lights
Switch off every light on a 5x5 board, one tile and its four neighbours at a time.
Fifteen
Slide the numbered tiles into order, 1 to 15, on a 4x4 tray with one gap.
Pairs
Flip two cards at a time to find matching pairs, on boards that grow from 4x4 to 6x6 to 8x8.
Same
Clear groups of same-coloured orbs from a 15x12 board, and make the groups big.
Mines
Uncover every safe square on a minefield without touching a mine, on boards that grow from...
Guess
Find the hidden five-letter word in six guesses, using green, gold and dark tiles as clues.
Criss-Cross
Fill in a crossword that has no clues: the puzzle shows a few letters, and the crossings and...
Pipes
Turn the pipes until water can run from the green pump to the blue tank.
Cards
Shuffle up some patience, or consult the oracle. (4 programs)
FreeCell
Eight columns, four free cells and every card face up: a solitaire where careful rearranging...
Klondike
The classic patience: build the four suits up from ace to king, using seven piles of hidden...
TriPeaks
Climb three card peaks by playing cards one rank up or down from the card on the waste, and...
Arcana
A quiet oracle for one player: lay up to three witness cards, ask your question in your...
Board games for two
Two players, one wall, taking turns at the same screen. (5 programs)
Checkers
Checkers for two players at one board: take every enemy piece, or leave your opponent with...
Chess
Chess for two players at one board: play to checkmate, with a friend across the table -...
Boxes
Dots and boxes for two players at one board: draw lines between the dots, close boxes to...
Reversi
Reversi for two players at one board: place a disc, flip your opponent's discs between...
Go
9x9 go for two players at one board: place stones to surround territory and capture your...
Social
Rooms, channels, messages and a guestbook. (5 programs)
Message
Private messages between players, online or not: one conversation per person, kept in your...
Chat
Chat rooms on the wall: join the rooms you care about and talk with the people in them.
Channels
Every chat room you can see, laid out as cards: open the rooms you are in, join the open...
Guestbook
A visitor book on the wall that looks like a book: walk up, type, and your face, your name...
Contacts
An address book of everyone who has played on the server, with your own private stars and...
Tools
Paint, sums, to-dos and the settings behind the glass. (5 programs)
Paint
A drawing studio on your wall: paint pictures up to eight maps across, with nine brush...
Calc
A desk calculator with big keys: add, subtract, multiply, divide and take square roots, with...
Todo
A noticeboard on the wall: aim at it, type a line in chat, and it is pinned to the top of...
Settings
The computer's own controls: take the screen down and hand your core back, or give the...
Themes
Choose how this screen's cabinet looks: preview every design and colour, then set the one...