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Seven letters, one compulsory centre letter, and the long climb from Solid to Genius. Ruins mornings extremely productively.
A hundred billion dollars and a shopping list running from Big Macs to aircraft carriers, and it is harder to spend than you expect.
Hundreds of thousands of user-made timed quizzes: name every element, every country, every Friends character. The genre's warehouse.
NASA's tracker for when the space station is visible from where you live, with sighting alerts by email.
Paste any text and it flashes one word at a time at a speed you pick, which is either speed reading or a mild trance.
Tilemap editor for small games — paint a level from a tileset, then export it straight into Godot or Unity.
Everyone knows the location except the spy, who has to bluff through the questioning without ever revealing they have no idea.
A daily letter grid with dozens of words buried in it, plus a bonus list that runs on far longer than anyone expects.
Constructive journalism collected from other outlets into one free feed, so somebody else does all the sifting.
Compress an image with a live before-and-after slider and every codec knob exposed. Runs entirely in the browser, so nothing is uploaded.
Grades any public HTTPS server from A+ down to F and explains every single deduction. The reference test the whole industry quotes.
Wiggle the mouse and a black worm follows; wiggle harder and it strobes violently, so treat the epilepsy warning seriously.
Public domain classics reset properly — typography fixed, typos corrected, covers designed — and then given away.
Curated collections around specific research subjects, preserved because a university decided they would matter later.
Survival game about not freezing to death, in which the other players are the weather's most enthusiastic accomplices.
Ask a sports question in plain English and get the actual numbers back with a chart. Ends pub arguments in about four seconds.
The planetarium in a browser tab — set your location and it shows exactly what is above you right now.
Swing a stick figure between grapple points using one button, then trust momentum to carry the mistake.
An idle game that keeps buying you more stimulation until the page is a lo-fi stream, a podcast and a fidget spinner at once.
Categories under a random letter and a timer: name a country, a food and an animal starting with M, then hit stop before anyone else.
Long-form serialised fiction with a reader built for actually reading — chapter memory, no pop-ups, no interruptions.
A word search with a theme you have to deduce first, and one spangram threading corner to corner through the grid.
Round-the-clock video study rooms full of strangers revising in silence, with pomodoro timers ticking in the corner.
Gag gift shop selling the same reliable nonsense since the dot-com boom, on a layout that has aged in real time.
The actual cables carrying the internet between continents, each one named, with its landing points and the year it went live.
The endless runner that ate mobile gaming, in a browser tab with the trains, the hoverboards and the shouting guard intact.
Clean daily sudoku across five difficulties, with a notes mode that behaves the way a pencil is supposed to.
Drop fruit into a box, merge matching pairs and watch the pile creep towards the line. Physics does the rest of the work.
Good news, funny pictures and a daily dose of animals, assembled with no interest whatsoever in what is trending.
Tick off what is genuinely in your cupboards and it ranks the recipes you can make right now, with nothing missing.
The seven-day jam build where time only moves when you do, still free in the browser and still one of the decade's best ideas.
Real-time First World War grand strategy played over weeks against dozens of other people, most of whom will lie to you.
The community revival of surviv.io, the sharp little 2D battle royale that was shut down and flatly refused to stay dead.
Breed meat, then drones, then queens, then things with far too many legs. The exponential curve is the entire narrative.
Ascending through increasingly abstract mathematics, with a community that treats optimising it as a competitive spreadsheet sport.
Board games rendered as physical objects on a 3D table with no rules enforcement, so you can still play badly like at home.
Base building with tameable pets, farming and raids, which is a lot of systems for something that loads instantly.
World atlas of traditional dishes and the specific places that still make them properly. Endless, and reliably makes you hungry.
Name something you liked and it returns things with the same texture, spanning films, books, music and games at once.
A collaborative database of example sentences translated across languages, better than any dictionary for context.
Train an image or sound classifier from your own webcam in about three minutes, no code involved. The clearest explanation of machine learning built.
Non-commercial web search indexing only pages carrying no ads or trackers at all. A very small and very different internet.
Sprint away from a large monkey along a crumbling temple path, dying at the same badly signposted corner every time.
The other GIF keyboard, with better tagging for reaction clips and a sticker library your phone already quietly uses.
Graded summaries of the terms you agreed to without reading, with the specific alarming clause quoted. Volunteer-run since 2012.
Hundreds of players carve up a real world map using one attack slider. Diplomacy emerges in the chat within ninety seconds.
Competitive multiplayer stacking with modern rules and opponents who will finesse you into the floor within ninety seconds.
The official browser Tetris, marathon mode included, so you can settle the argument about whether you are still any good.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.