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Draw and guess with a room code, or play solo against the clock on the evenings when nobody answers the group chat.
- 2 min
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.
- 2 min
- Sound on
The 2001 humour portal that somehow still updates, with the same mix of clips, pictures and questionable taste.
- 10 min
- Not at work
- Sound on
Drag left and right to slap a man in the face with an eel, at whatever speed the day seems to call for.
- <1 min
- Desktop
A museum of Google easter eggs that Google removed — gravity, the barrel roll, the mirrored search — all restored and working.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Enormous archive of emoji strings, kaomoji and text arrangements, searchable by whatever you are trying to say.
- 2 min
Every Google emoji mashup, searchable — pick two and get the official illustrated hybrid back as a PNG.
- <1 min
Upload a photograph and it rebuilds the entire thing out of emoji, colour-matched one tile at a time.
- 2 min
- Desktop
Shows you an emoji and starts a timer while you run round the room pointing your phone camera at the real object.
- 2 min
Two emoji in, one hybrid out, with a randomiser for when you cannot decide which pairing to ruin next.
- <1 min
An ASCII horse whose legs continue for as long as you are willing to keep scrolling, which is longer than you think.
Twenty-five years of accidentally poetic English on packaging and signage, photographed across East Asia.
- 10 min
Found VHS footage cut into collages by a collective that also owns most of the world's remaining copies of Jerry Maguire.
- 10 min
- Sound on
Design a creature from joints and muscles, then watch a genetic algorithm spend hundreds of generations teaching it to limp.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Philosophers dropped into absurd situations, with an explanatory footnote in case you skipped that seminar.
Full-screen fake update screens for every operating system, including the blue one, with a bar that never finishes.
- <1 min
- Desktop
Accurately drawn birds swearing at each other about territory, mating and the general indignity of being a bird.
Build a machine from wheels and rods to push a ball into a zone, and accept that it will topple over the first nine times.
- 10 min
- Desktop
A voice shouts COW louder as your cursor gets closer to an invisible cow, and that is the entire game.
- 2 min
- Sound on
- Desktop
British gift shop with a taste for the daft and mildly rude, plus the occasional genuinely good bit of kit hidden among it.
- 10 min
Home-video horrors rescued from charity shops and skips, curated by two men with an unhealthy commitment to the format.
- 10 min
- Sound on
Opens as a dismal educational maths game about a frog eating flies, and then keeps going somewhere else entirely. Say nothing more.
- 10 min
- Desktop
A shelf of room-code party games — spy, drawing, word association, trivia — all free, all in one place, none needing an app.
- 10 min
Games Arcade
AltFThe full arcade: dozens of browser games sorted by genre, all playable immediately with nothing to install.
- 10 min
Broken telephone with drawings: a sentence becomes a picture becomes a sentence, and the album at the end is the whole payoff.
- 10 min
Twenty-odd fake hacking interfaces — agency mainframes, terminals, satellite maps — with buttons that fill progress bars.
- 2 min
- Desktop
A genetic algorithm evolves two-dimensional cars across rough terrain while you watch generations fail forward.
- 10 min
- Desktop
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.
- <1 min
The same cruelty as QWOP, applied to climbing: every handhold is a different letter key and you have to hold several at once.
- 2 min
- Desktop
Red-carpet criticism written with real fashion knowledge and jokes aimed at the outfit rather than the person in it.
- 10 min
Drive a golf ball absurd distances, upgrade the swing, repeat until the ball is leaving the atmosphere entirely.
- 2 min
Family Fortunes played against Google autocomplete, which turns out to be a bleaker and much funnier opponent than a studio audience.
Draw a horse, then watch it gallop off to join the herd of terrible horses drawn by everybody else.
- <1 min
Comic-strip teardowns of real product decisions, each one explaining the psychology behind why it did or did not work.
- 10 min
The official register of the longest, fastest and most improbable things people have done entirely on purpose.
- 10 min
Mash any keys and perfectly formatted code appears character by character, exactly as in every hacking scene ever filmed.
- <1 min
- Desktop
Ragdoll obstacle courses in which the dad on the bicycle loses limbs to almost anything he touches, across millions of user levels.
- 10 min
- Not at work
- Desktop
One word of reassurance about the Large Hadron Collider, maintained since 2008 and still, reassuringly, saying no.
Shoot the alien whose colour matches the hex code shown. Learning to read hex by sight is an accidental side effect.
- 2 min
- Desktop
Placeholder text made of artisanal nonsense, optionally cut with real Latin for clients who prefer not to notice.
- <1 min
Allie Brosh's illustrated essays, including the two on depression that remain the best thing written about it.
The lolcat archive that taught the internet its first grammar, still posting captioned animals two decades later.
- 10 min
Spot the serif among the sans-serifs before the timer runs out. Ten seconds long and disproportionately stressful.
- 2 min
- Desktop
A map of the solar system drawn to true scale, meaning most of your scrolling is spent crossing absolutely nothing.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Mocks up a screenshot of a conversation that never happened, for jokes and design mock-ups rather than anything serious.
- 2 min
Warps a photograph through a draggable mesh, so faces melt by exactly as much as you decide they should.
- 2 min
- Desktop
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Funny websites: questions
How many sites are in funny websites?
249 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off. 7 of them are AltF originals that run right here.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
240 of the 249 are free and need no account. 1 is paid or freemium, and the card says so.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
197 of 249 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 244 are safe for work and 219 work with the sound off.