Small games, table already set.

A lit bomb goes round the table. When it reaches you, type a word that holds the letters on it — quick, before it blows. Lose all your lives and you are out; the last one standing wins.

An event comes up without its year: the Moon landing, the first Olympics, the Eiffel Tower. Slot it into your timeline before, between or after the cards you have. Three wrong guesses and the game is over.

A fast flag quiz: a flag comes up with four country names, you pick the right one, and the next flag is already there. Sixty seconds, all 193 member states of the United Nations, names in your own language. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same flags.

Every tile is the same colour but one. Tap the odd one out to climb a level: the grid grows and the colours draw closer, until your eyes can’t tell them apart.

A match 3 blitz on an 8 × 8 board of gems. Swap two neighbours to line up three or more of a kind; new gems fall in, and every line they make chains for more points. Make line blasters, bursts and colour bombs, and score all you can in 90 seconds. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same board.

A block puzzle on an 8 × 8 board. Three pieces at a time: fit them in wherever they go, and every full row or column clears. Clear several lines at once, or on piece after piece, for big points. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same pieces.

The fruit merge game. Drop fruits into the box: two of a kind that touch become the next fruit up, from cherry to watermelon. Keep the pile under the line as long as you can. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends with the same fruits.

A colour sort puzzle against the clock. Pour coloured water from tube to tube until every tube holds one colour. You have three minutes: each level you solve brings more colours or fewer spare tubes, and every colour carries its own mark. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same levels.

A bubble pop puzzle: aim the launcher, bounce your shots off the walls and join three or more of a colour to pop them. Cut a bunch loose and everything hanging from it drops for big points. Clear the field before the ceiling comes down. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same bubbles.

Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries. After every guess you see which letters sit in the right place.

One thing is drawn to scale. Resize the other until the two match real life, then lock it in. Five pairs a run, from ladybugs to skyscrapers.

Take turns drawing a secret word while everyone else races to guess it in the chat. The sooner you guess, the more you score — and the drawer scores for every right guess.

A spymaster gives one word and a number; their team opens the cards they think it points at. Find all of yours first, and never touch the Boo. Play in two teams, or as a pair against the clock.

A colour shows for a few seconds, then hides. Rebuild it from memory with three dials — hue, saturation, brightness — and see how close you got. Five colours a game, ten points each.

Type the words as they come, as fast and as clean as you can. Take a 15, 30 or 60-second test on your own, or race friends through the same text, live.

The classic memory game. Cards lie face down in pairs: turn two at a time, remember what you saw and find every pair in as few moves as you can. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same table.

Our take on 2048. Every tile on the 4 × 4 board slides at once: two equal tiles that meet merge into their sum. Keep merging up to 2048 and beyond before the board fills up. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same tiles.

Our own take on Minesweeper. A meadow hides mines: open every cell without one, with numbers telling how many mines lie around each. Every game starts with a patch already open, so nobody has to guess blind. Play solo for the leaderboard or race friends on the same field.

Guess the secret word by its meaning. Every word you try gets a number: how close it is in meaning to the secret, among 20,000 words. #1 is the word itself, so follow the warm ones. Play today’s word or random ones, alone or racing friends, in 11 languages.

Our own 8-ball pool, seen from above. Break the rack, make solids or stripes yours, clear them and sink the 8 to win. Aim with a drag, pull back to shoot and add follow or draw. Play solo against Boo, our bot, or take turns with a friend at the same table.

Classic okey, the tile rummy of the tea houses, free in your browser. Draw from the pile or take the discard on your left, put a tile down, and finish when your 14 tiles sit in runs, sets or seven pairs. Play a match against three bots for the leaderboard, or a table with friends.