Classic games

The games people have played for decades – and in some cases centuries – rebuilt from scratch for the browser. Board games, card games, pencil puzzles and arcade classics, all with original artwork and sounds.

They save your best scores and progress, adapt to phones and tablets, and include a computer opponent where the game needs one.

47 free classic games

  • Aim Trainer – Hit as many targets as possible in thirty seconds.
  • Alien Defender – Hold back a marching alien formation with your cannon — before they touch down.
  • Asteroid Blaster – Pilot a nimble ship through a field of drifting rocks and blast them into dust.
  • Backgammon – Race your fifteen checkers home and bear them off before the computer.
  • Block Drop – Rotate falling pieces and clear full rows.
  • Brick Breaker – Bounce the ball to smash every brick on the wall.
  • Bubble Shooter – Aim, bounce and pop — match three bubbles of a colour before they reach the line.
  • Checkers – Classic 8×8 checkers against the computer or a friend.
  • Chess – Full chess against a local computer opponent or a friend.
  • Connect Four – Drop discs and line up four in a row before the computer does.
  • Dominoes – Match the ends of the line and be first to play all your tiles.
  • Duck Target – Two cartoon ducks per round, three shots — tag them before they fly away.
  • Five Letter Word – Guess the hidden five-letter word. Colours show which letters are right.
  • FreeCell – The thinking player’s solitaire — every card is face up.
  • Go – Surround territory and capture stones in the ancient game of Go.
  • Gomoku – Get five stones in a row on a 15×15 board before your opponent.
  • Hangman – Discover a hidden word before six incorrect guesses.
  • Hearts vs AI – Avoid hearts and the Queen of Spades against three computer players.
  • Hex – Link your two sides of a diamond of hexagons before your opponent.
  • Klondike Solitaire – The classic patience game: build all four foundations.
  • Lights Out – Every press flips a light and its neighbours. Can you switch the whole grid off?
  • Ludo – Roll the die, race your four tokens around the board and capture rivals.
  • Lunar Lander – Fire the thruster, fight the gravity, and touch down gently on a landing pad.
  • Mancala – Sow seeds around the board and fill your store with the most.
  • Matchstick Puzzle – The equation is wrong — move exactly one matchstick to make it true.
  • Maze Muncher – Munch every dot in the maze while four ghosts give chase.
  • Memory Match – Find every pair with as few turns as possible.
  • Minesweeper – Clear the board using number clues without detonating a mine.
  • Missile Defense – Launch interceptors to shield six cities from waves of falling missiles.
  • Nine Men's Morris – Form mills of three to capture your opponent’s men in this ancient strategy game.
  • Peg Solitaire – Jump pegs over each other until only one is left.
  • Pong – Classic paddle duel against a local computer opponent.
  • Reversi – Outflank and flip your opponent’s discs to own the board.
  • Rock Paper Scissors – First to five wins against a computer that learns your habits.
  • Sea Battle – Hunt down the hidden enemy fleet before it finds yours.
  • Secret Colors – Deduce the hidden colour code from black and white feedback pins.
  • Simon Memory – Remember an expanding sequence of four colored pads.
  • Sliding Puzzle – Slide the numbered tiles back into order — the classic 8, 15 and 24 puzzles.
  • Snake – Guide a growing snake around the board without hitting your own tail.
  • Sokoban – Push every crate onto a storage spot — you can push, but never pull.
  • Spider Solitaire – Two-deck solitaire: build King-to-Ace runs of one suit to clear the table.
  • Sudoku – Fill the grid so every row, column and box holds the digits 1 to 9.
  • Tangram – Fit the seven classic tangram pieces together to fill each silhouette.
  • Tic-Tac-Toe – Classic three-in-a-row against a local AI or a friend on the same device.
  • Tower of Hanoi – Move the tower of discs to the right peg, one disc at a time, never larger on smaller.
  • War – Flip cards against the computer — the higher card takes both.
  • Water Sort – Pour matching colors into separate tubes.

Frequently asked questions

Are these the original games?

They follow the traditional rules, but every game here was written from scratch with original graphics and sounds. No commercial artwork or branding is used.

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