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izn.games: no-install browser games
Around 70 small games that run in a browser tab — puzzles, arcade, solitaire and board classics, with no download and no sign-up.
Fun Useless Websites to Kill Time
Fun useless websites to kill time are a pleasant kind of procrastination: no sign-up, no goal, just a few minutes of something delightful. Every site here was picked by an editor, opened and checked live, and given a short review so you know what you're clicking into.
Radio Garden lets you spin a globe, land on a dot and hear whatever a local station is playing right now. WindowSwap shows short clips filmed from real people's windows around the world, from rooftops to rain on glass. Silk turns your mouse into glowing threads mirrored into symmetrical patterns, so you get a striking image in a minute with no skill needed. If the Moon Were 1 Pixel makes you scroll sideways for a very long time until the emptiness of space finally sinks in. And The Library of Babel holds every possible 3,200-character page, so any sentence you search is already on a shelf.
Not all of these time-wasting sites are pointless: The Scale of the Universe 2 and Nicky Case's playables sneak in real ideas. New finds are added regularly, so come back whenever you need a break.
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Site of the daymethod.acenWorldwide
Method of Action: design skills as games
Method of Action is a set of free mini-games that train a designer's eye: kerning, Bézier curves, boolean shapes, color and letterforms, plus a simple web vector editor.
Site of the daylibraryofbabel.infoenWorldwide
The Library of Babel
Borges's short story turned into code: a library holding every possible 3,200-character page. Search any sentence and you'll find it's already on a shelf.
Site of the dayweavesilk.comenWorldwide
Silk generative art
A generative drawing toy: move your mouse and glowing silk threads follow, mirrored into symmetrical patterns. A striking image in a minute, no skill needed.
Site of the dayjoshworth.comenWorldwide
If the Moon Were 1 Pixel
A scale map of the solar system where the Moon is a single pixel. Scroll sideways for a very long time and finally feel how empty space is.
Site of the dayncase.meenWorldwide
Nicky Case's playables
Playable explanations of big ideas — game theory and trust, anxiety, news cycles, AI safety. All free and released into the public domain.
Site of the dayhtwins.net/scale2mixWorldwide
The Scale of the Universe 2
One slider takes you from the tiniest particles all the way out to the size of the observable universe. Click anything along the way to read about it.
Site of the daywindow-swap.comenWorldwide
WindowSwap: someone else's window
Short clips filmed from real people's windows around the world: backyards, rooftops, the sea, rain on glass. Press a button and you're at a different window.
Site of the dayradio.gardenmixWorldwide
Radio Garden: radio on a globe
Spin the globe, land on a dot, and hear whatever a local radio station is playing right now — the next town over or the other side of the planet.