Ten minutes to kill

Native speakers pronouncing individual words in hundreds of languages, for when a phonetic spelling is not enough.

Six stills from one film, revealed one at a time. Getting it from the first frame is the only score really worth having.

The 1978 electronic memory toy rebuilt faithfully in a browser tab, still beating most grown adults somewhere around level twelve.

A grid of small games and nothing else — no descriptions, no ratings, no explanation, exactly as it was in 2010.

A search engine that strips every result down to plain HTML so it can be read on a genuinely ancient computer. Also very fast.

Every symbol, alphabet and text decoration you might want to paste somewhere, organised well enough to find one.

A daily gleaning of curiosities, lateral puzzles and pleasing coincidences, kept up since 2005 without fuss.

Conway's cellular automaton with a library of known patterns, still the clearest demonstration that rules alone make worlds.

Name the video game from a blurred cover, then a screenshot, then artwork. New puzzle daily and several modes to lose at.

A large casual portal aimed squarely at people who want a match-three game and no further conversation about it.

Twenty-odd fake hacking interfaces — agency mainframes, terminals, satellite maps — with buttons that fill progress bars.

A three-by-three grid of geographic categories where you name one country per cell and get scored on how obscure it was.

Plain page of every emoji, grouped and clickable, for the machines that have no emoji keyboard worth using.

A search engine for animated GIFs recovered from GeoCities. Type any word and receive several spinning versions of it.

The GIF search engine everything else plugs into, still the fastest route to the exact reaction you have in mind.

The same cruelty as QWOP, applied to climbing: every handhold is a different letter key and you have to hold several at once.

One mystery country a day, guessed by warmth — every wrong answer shades the globe a little closer to the right one.

Name three bands you like, then answer yes or no to its guesses until it works out what you are actually in the mood for.

Full-disc satellite imagery of the Americas straight from the GOES satellites, refreshed every few minutes at absurd resolution.

Drive a golf ball absurd distances, upgrade the swing, repeat until the ball is leaving the atmosphere entirely.

Family Fortunes played against Google autocomplete, which turns out to be a bleaker and much funnier opponent than a studio audience.

Small library of ready-made gradients you nudge by dragging the angle, then copy straight into a stylesheet.

Draw a horse, then watch it gallop off to join the herd of terrible horses drawn by everybody else.

Choose ten items in the right order and the cube blossoms into something absurd; choose the wrong order and it sulks at you.

Look at a scatter plot and guess its correlation coefficient. A statistics lecture disguised as a slot machine, and it works.

A daily video game identified from progressively less obscure screenshots, with six guesses and a genuinely cruel first frame.

Mash any keys and perfectly formatted code appears character by character, exactly as in every hacking scene ever filmed.

Generates blobs, waves, stacked layers and low-poly grids as SVG, all of them tweakable and all free to export.

Vector halftone generator that rebuilds an image out of dots, lines or waves and exports it as clean SVG.

Mr Doob's sketching toy, where strokes web themselves together with connecting threads and turn scribbles into shading.

One word of reassurance about the Large Hadron Collider, maintained since 2008 and still, reassuringly, saying no.

Type an email address and find out which breaches it turned up in. Troy Hunt's index now covers billions of leaked accounts.

Tells you exactly when the space station will pass over your garden, and which direction to look.

Shoot the alien whose colour matches the hex code shown. Learning to read hex by sight is an accidental side effect.

Falling blocks rotated onto a hexagon and sped up, which sounds like a novelty and turns out to be genuinely hard.

Placeholder text made of artisanal nonsense, optionally cut with real Latin for clients who prefer not to notice.

Every event on Wikipedia plotted as a dot across fourteen billion years, filterable down to one category at a time.

Reaction time, sequence memory, the chimp test and verbal memory, each scored against millions of other people's attempts.

Spot the serif among the sans-serifs before the timer runs out. Ten seconds long and disproportionately stressful.

Overlays one country on another to scale, then works out how your life expectancy, income and odds of various things would change there.

Mocks up a screenshot of a conversation that never happened, for jokes and design mock-ups rather than anything serious.

Popular science headlines with the volume turned up, handy for the fact you half-remember reading somewhere.

Merge, split, compress, rotate, sign and convert PDFs from a single page. Covers nearly everything Acrobat charges a subscription for.

Warps a photograph through a draggable mesh, so faces melt by exactly as much as you decide they should.

Rebuilds a photograph out of coloured triangles, with sliders controlling exactly how abstract you want to get.

The canonical crowd-ranked list of 250 films, weighted to resist review bombing. A reliable way to spot the gap in your viewing.

Every meme template with the text boxes already in the right places, and no watermark once you find the setting.

A sheet of bubble wrap that never runs out. Pop with a click or drag across a row, and it refills the moment you finish.