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Slide tiles, double numbers, lose an hour to one more go
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Puzzles, logic games and daily habits that fit in a browser tab. Short enough for a coffee break, sharp enough that you will be thinking about them afterwards. All 23 were opened and written up by hand, and last checked on 29 July 2026.
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play2048.co
Slide tiles, double numbers, lose an hour to one more go
flashbynight.com
Flood the whole board with one colour in thirty moves
humanbenchmark.com
Measure your reaction time against millions of strangers
minesweeper.online
Minesweeper with leaderboards and no Windows required
sandtris.com
Tetris, except every block collapses into loose sand
6 sites
One quick round, then you can leave.
lichess.org
Endless chess tactics drawn from real losing positions
littlealchemy2.com
Start with four elements, end with 700-odd absurd ones
nerdlegame.com
Wordle for people who would rather guess an equation
tetr.io
Modern competitive stacking against real opponents
wafflegame.net
Swap letters until six words fall into place
nytimes.com
One five-letter word a day, same word for everybody
9 sites
Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
nytimes.com
Sixteen words, four secret groups, four mistakes allowed
flexboxfroggy.com
Learn CSS flexbox by getting frogs onto lily pads
puzzle-nonograms.com
Numbers along the edges, a picture hiding in the grid
puzzmo.com
A daily puzzle page designed by people who love puzzles
regexcrossword.com
Crosswords where every clue is a regular expression
semantle.com
Guess the word by meaning, not by letters
chiark.greenend.org.uk
Forty small logic puzzles, endlessly generated, no fuss
sudokupad.app
The sudoku app built for puzzles with unusual rules
neal.fun
Every password rule you feared, plus a chess puzzle
3 sites
Clear your evening. We warned you.
janestreet.com
One properly hard maths puzzle, every single month
projecteuler.net
Maths problems you solve by writing a bit of code
puzzling.stackexchange.com
A whole site of people inventing puzzles for each other
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