💡 Clever

The Cube Escape series in full and free — bleak Dutch point-and-click rooms with a lake, a lot of birds and a plot you assemble sideways.

The first Samorost, free in the browser, a wordless point-and-click about a small gnome diverting a planet off a collision course.

A falling-sand game with several hundred materials that all react properly, including a dozen ways to end the world by mistake.

Falling-sand physics with fire, water, plants and lava, plus a public gallery of what everybody else set alight.

Tetris where the blocks collapse into falling sand, so a line only clears when one colour touches both walls. Fiendish and lovely.

Reverse image search tuned for illustration: hand it a cropped screenshot and it names the artist and the original post.

Conservation campaign for a cephalopod that lives in trees, used for over twenty years to teach children about checking sources.

Rough sketch in, finished image out, with the result following your actual lines rather than politely ignoring them.

Converts your scrolling into real distance and tells you what you have just passed — a giraffe, the Eiffel Tower, low Earth orbit.

The original semantic-distance guessing game, noticeably harder than its descendants and considerably more humbling.

Word association against a machine: type anything semantically close to the target and the block clears. Tetris rules, meaning as the mechanic.

Raw Sentinel and Landsat imagery for anywhere on the planet, free, with band combinations that reveal crops, floods and old burn scars.

Short visual explanations of statistics ideas — eigenvectors, conditional probability, Markov chains — all draggable.

Drag the control points of a letter back into shape. Your score is how far off the real typeface you landed.

Random design briefs with a countdown attached, for when the problem is not skill but having nothing to work on.

Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.

Forty logic puzzles on one page, each generated fresh and each solvable by pure reasoning. The interface is ancient and it does not matter.

Enter any two articles and get every shortest path of links between them, drawn as a graph you can drag.

An infinite canvas for rough diagrams and flows. Opens instantly with nothing to configure and no file to save first.

Full paint program in a tab — brushes, layers, filters and a stamp library — with nothing to install and nothing to pay.

Push crates into place in rooms built to punish the obvious first move, with thousands of community-made levels behind them.

Grid sequencer with a marimba and a drum kit, tuned so that anything you tap sounds passable, then shared as a link.

Ride a lift from the ground to geostationary orbit, passing every layer of atmosphere and satellite on the way.

A hundred billion dollars and a shopping list running from Big Macs to aircraft carriers, and it is harder to spend than you expect.

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.

Compress an image with a live before-and-after slider and every codec knob exposed. Runs entirely in the browser, so nothing is uploaded.

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.

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.

Board games rendered as physical objects on a 3D table with no rules enforcement, so you can still play badly like at home.

Name something you liked and it returns things with the same texture, spanning films, books, music and games at once.

Graded summaries of the terms you agreed to without reading, with the specific alarming clause quoted. Volunteer-run since 2012.

Type a word, pick from several hundred FIGlet fonts, and get the enormous ASCII banner your terminal deserves.

Converts an uploaded photograph into ASCII, HTML or coloured text art, with the character density under your control.

Canadian satire that assumes you follow Canadian politics, and rewards you handsomely if you happen to.

Australia's oldest newspaper, filed from a town with no remaining population, covering the nation with dead-eyed accuracy.

Teaches the pen tool by making you trace shapes with the fewest possible anchor points. Level nine is genuinely cruel.

Combine shapes with union, subtract and intersect to hit a target silhouette in as few operations as you can manage.

Every component you might need to build, with links to how twenty different design systems each named and handled it.

A reference of every chart type and what each is genuinely for, worth reading before defaulting to a bar chart.

A playable account of why cooperation appears and then collapses, using game theory and roughly ten minutes of attention.

Bisect angles, find midpoints and judge parallels by eye, then get told in pixels precisely how wrong you were.

Punk and hardcore scene satire, written by people who clearly still go to shows and still resent everyone there.

Multiple-choice questions where the correct answer is a pun, a trick or an outright lie, and three wrong ones end the whole run.

A student sold a million pixels of advertising at a dollar each in 2005. The mosaic is still up, and most of the links now go nowhere.

Long-form comics about grammar, cats, running and grief, from the man who also invented Exploding Kittens.

A proxy that serves archived pages as period browsers expected them, so a 1998 machine can still get online and see 1998.