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The quiz platform from every classroom and every away-day, with a free tier and a room code that anybody can join in seconds.
The channel that turned the Backrooms into found footage, shot with unnervingly good camera work and almost no music.
Dice-based territory conquest at a table of five strangers, where what happens in the chat matters more than the actual odds.
Space the letters of a word by eye, then see the typographer's answer laid over the top of yours. Reliably humbling.
Baking recipes given by weight, with a hotline-grade troubleshooting blog attached. Where to go when a loaf has gone wrong.
The one most people name as the best tower defence: four tower types, hero units and levels that reward replanning.
Blocky arena shooter with skins, ranked play and lobbies that fill in under ten seconds at any hour.
Documentation of the vast Victorian asylums built to one architectural theory of curing madness, most now empty or demolished.
Anime and manga tracker with a friendly interface and a public API, run as an open-source project rather than an ad business.
Painting app with layers, symmetry and a genuinely good brush engine, loading instantly and uploading nothing anywhere.
What remains of the great Flash portal, plus a badge system that once made people finish games out of pure spite.
Hex-based territory war where every unit costs upkeep, so overextending will kill you considerably faster than the enemy does.
Jason Kottke has been posting the interesting bits of the web since 1998, with no algorithm involved at any point.
Class-based arena shooter with grenades and blocky maps, running smoothly on a work laptop that struggles with spreadsheets.
Retail history blog named after the ghost outline a shop sign leaves behind, mapping the slow decline of the American mall.
Tarot taught properly, with free card meanings, a clean illustrated deck and lessons that never ask you to believe anything.
Gossip written as media criticism, tracking how celebrity stories get placed and who stands to benefit from the placing.
Free audio courses that teach by making you work out the grammar yourself, made by one person with no adverts.
Two decades of listening data turned into recommendations, similar-artist chains and neighbours with suspiciously identical taste.
Fitts, Hick, Jakob and the rest, each with a plain explanation and a poster you will end up printing out.
French satire named by scrambling Le Figaro, and taken seriously by French social media with depressing regularity.
Ableton's free course on beats, basslines and song structure, taught by handing you the instruments inside the page.
The 1979 economics lesson still intact — buy lemons, read the forecast, set a price, discover the weather has opinions.
Thematic collections captured around elections, disasters and cultural moments, chosen by librarians rather than by a crawler.
Public domain books read aloud by volunteers, free to download, uneven in quality and endless in supply.
Daily tips on doing ordinary things slightly better, running since 2005 and still occasionally genuinely surprising.
Hundreds of small text translators — pirate, medieval, wingdings, uwu — plus a builder for making your own.
Read and listen to real material while tapping unknown words, which quietly become your review deck.
Wikipedia's running audit of the things almost everyone believes and almost nobody has ever checked.
Start with four elements and work towards seven hundred, most of which are jokes you only understand on arrival.
A quiet turn-based server for abstract strategy games — Hex, TwixT, Amazons — where matches last months and nobody rushes you.
Daily science news with a weakness for the strange finds — mummies, deep sea oddities, cosmic near misses.
Live air traffic control audio from towers around the world, so you can listen to a controller sequencing arrivals into Heathrow while you work.
Clickable map quizzes for every region on Earth, unfashionable in design and better than everything that has replaced it.
Analogue horror shaped like a small-town TV station's broadcast archive, including the night it advised everyone to look up.
Draw circles and arrows, press play, and your scribble runs as a working feedback-loop simulation.
Thousands of curated palettes, from Game Boy green to 64-colour monsters, each downloadable in every format going.
Browser sprite editor built around palette discipline, with the specific constraints pixel artists keep asking for.
The best-known brain-training subscription, with a free daily set of games and rather a lot of graphs about your own decline.
The official Escher archive: the impossible staircases, the tessellations, and his own notes on how he worked them out.
Korean home cooking taught with video for everything, including how to make the kimchi rather than quietly buy a jar of it.
A convincing macOS desktop rebuilt in Svelte, dock animations included, running entirely inside the browser.
The same ramp-covered playground with strangers in it, all attempting the same enormous jump and all missing it.
An empty city full of ramps and supercars with no objectives at all, which turns out to be the entire objective.
Everyone captions the same image, then votes on the best one. Rounds are short and a group works out its own humour quickly.
The maker movement's own magazine: projects, tool reviews and the long-running argument about what counts as making something.
Vintage photographs of shopping centres in their fountains-and-ferns prime, scanned from postcards and other people's family albums.
Kaleidoscopic drawing surface with adjustable mirror counts, so one wobbly line comes back as a symmetrical mandala.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.