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The original tile-merging game, written in a weekend and responsible for an enormous amount of lost 2014.

Straightforward pool on a proper physics table, against an opponent who punishes a lazy break immediately.

Miniclip's pool game, still the default way to lose imaginary money to a stranger in another country at half past two.

Hand-picked, highly rated films that were never blockbusters, filterable by mood and by where you can currently stream them.

Click targets as they pop up and get scored in targets per second. Shooter players use it to warm up before a session.

Vast crowd-sourced recipe database where the comments are the actual feature — thousands of people telling you what to change.

Fingerprints your browser and compares it against a research dataset of hundreds of thousands of others. The verdict is usually: unique.

Type your address and spin the globe back 750 million years to see where that ground sat, and which ocean was sitting on top of it.

AniList's seasonal grid: everything airing this season in one scroll, sortable by popularity, score or start date.

Every knot worth knowing, animated frame by frame so you can scrub back and forth until your hands finally get it.

Takes a permanent snapshot of a page on demand, including ones the Wayback Machine will not capture. Useful when a page is about to change.

Generates a genuinely handsome natal chart and flags the rarer patterns, with celebrity charts on hand to compare against.

One song revealed a single instrument at a time, six guesses, one puzzle a day. Needs headphones and a decent musical memory.

One-button basketball in which the players, the ball and the court are all changed at random between points, deliberately.

Two-on-two street basketball stripped back to dunking, blocking and a shot meter you will consistently misjudge.

Thousands of recipes in metric with honest timings and star ratings left by people who genuinely cooked the thing.

Sculpt a glossy blob with sliders for noise, light and iridescence, then leave it rotating and admire your handiwork.

Tens of thousands of riddles, brain teasers and lateral thinking problems submitted by users since 1999.

People staple bread to trees and photograph it. There is no deeper explanation available and no sign of it stopping.

A breathing bubble with adjustable pace, sitting on a page that mercifully does not require the app to work.

A free endpoint that returns one cat fact per request, which is how every cat-facts prank bot ever built gets built.

Anime avatar makers with genuinely good line art, including versions that output something usable as a profile picture.

Chess tactics training with a rating that goes down, plus an endgame trainer that reveals exactly how much you do not know.

The default chess address for most of the planet, with a bot for every skill level and puzzles that will quietly humble you.

Five photographs, one question each: what year was this taken? Points scale with how close you land, and the cars always give it away.

Renders every road in any city as white lines on black and nothing else, which turns an ordinary street plan into unexpectedly good art.

Sixty seconds to forge the Mona Lisa with a mouse, then a pixel-by-pixel score telling you exactly how badly it went.

Fill-in-the-blank sentences mined from real corpora, aimed squarely at people who have outgrown the beginner apps.

NASA ephemeris data, brutal one-line notifications and a design language everyone copied. Astrology delivered entirely deadpan.

Palette generator trained on photographs and films, so the colours it suggests look like they came from somewhere real.

Sixteen words, four hidden groups, four mistakes allowed. The traps are the entire point and they are very carefully set.

Chrome, flames and bevelled gradients — the 2003 logo generator, still online and still producing exactly that.

The EFF's test showing how uniquely identifiable your browser is from fonts, plugins and screen size alone. Most people are one in millions.

A few hundred browser escape rooms in one filtered shelf, all running in the tab with nothing to install and nothing to buy.

Frogger with better manners: hop a chicken across roads, rivers and railway lines until the inevitable lorry.

Where every cruise ship in the world currently is, with deck plans and itineraries attached, for reasons entirely your own.

Fast browser shooter with no account and no download: click, spawn, and get eliminated by somebody considerably better.

Alarming research site about a chemical found in tumours, acid rain and every reservoir on earth. The chemical is water.

Turns any image into one-bit dithered grain, with a choice of classic algorithms and a two-colour palette picker.

Dithering aimed squarely at the chunky, ugly end of the spectrum, with palettes lifted from old hardware.

A timer that counts how long you manage to do nothing at all. Move the mouse, press a key, or scroll and it starts again from zero.

A 1996 US presidential campaign website, still up, still exactly as it was. An accidental museum of early political web design.

An interface that forbids clicking entirely and makes you navigate by hovering, which is far stranger than it sounds.

Draw and guess with a room code, or play solo against the clock on the evenings when nobody answers the group chat.

One button, one endless right angle, one car sliding off the edge of the world. The purest possible drifting game.

Precise Hindu calendar giving tithi, nakshatra and auspicious timings for any date and location. Astronomically rigorous throughout.

Balance a truck over obstacle courses clearly designed by somebody who has never driven anything at all.

Gamified courses in dozens of languages, plus the guilt engine keeping most people's streaks technically alive.