The 38 best small things on the web.

Daily puzzles, browser games and one-job tools, hand-picked and ranked by your votes. No accounts, no tracking, one ad.

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  1. 01Screenshot of Ricochet
    Ricochet

    Pieces slide until they hit something. Get the marked one home in the fewest moves.

    Daily puzzleMade here|betterapp.org

  2. 02Screenshot of Universal Paperclips
    Universal Paperclips

    An incremental game where you are the AI and the paperclips never stop.

    Game|decisionproblem.com

  3. 03Screenshot of Beam
    Beam

    Place a few mirrors so one beam of light hits every target.

    Daily puzzleMade here|betterapp.org

  4. 04Screenshot of Framed
    Framed

    Name the film from a single frame, with more frames revealed per miss.

    Daily puzzle|framed.wtf

  5. 05Screenshot of regex101
    regex101

    Build and debug regular expressions with live matches and an explanation panel.

    Utility|regex101.com

  6. 06Screenshot of Travle
    Travle

    Route from one country to another by naming the countries in between.

    Daily puzzle|travle.earth

  7. 07Screenshot of Waffle
    Waffle

    Swap letters on a waffle grid to fix six words in fifteen moves or fewer.

    Word game|wafflegame.net

  8. 08Screenshot of Sandspiel
    Sandspiel

    A falling-sand physics toy in Rust and WebGL; paint elements and watch them react.

    Game|sandspiel.club

  9. 09Screenshot of Semantle
    Semantle

    Guess the secret word by meaning; word2vec scores tell you how close you are.

    Word game|semantle.com

  10. 10Screenshot of Simon Tatham's Puzzles
    Simon Tatham's Puzzles

    Forty classic logic puzzles, including nonograms, playable in the browser with no fuss.

    Game|chiark.greenend.org.uk

  11. 11Screenshot of Enclose Horse
    Enclose Horse

    Fence in the horse on a small grid to trap the largest meadow.

    Daily puzzle|enclose.horse

  12. 12Screenshot of Herd
    Herd

    Sheep run from the dog. Push every one into the pen in as few moves as you can.

    Daily puzzleMade here|betterapp.org

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Daily puzzle 11

Game 8

Word game 9

Utility 6

  • regex101

    Build and debug regular expressions with live matches and an explanation panel.

  • iLovePDF

    Merge, split, compress and convert PDFs without installing anything.

  • CyberChef

    Chain encode, decode, hash and parse operations on data, all in the browser.

  • Squoosh

    Compress and convert images locally with side-by-side quality comparison.

  • DeepL

    Translation that reads naturally, with free text and document translation.

  • iHatePDF

    Built after its maker was turned down by iLovePDF. Eighteen PDF tools, all in the browser.

Creative 3

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