The 46 best small things on the web.
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- 01
Enclose HorseFence in the horse on a small grid to trap the largest meadow.
Daily puzzle|enclose.horse ↗
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HerdSheep run from the dog. Push every one into the pen in as few moves as you can.
Daily puzzleMade here|betterapp.org →
- 04
TravleRoute from one country to another by naming the countries in between.
Daily puzzle|travle.earth ↗
- 05
RicochetPieces slide until they hit something. Get the marked one home in the fewest moves.
Daily puzzleMade here|betterapp.org →
- 06
BetweenleFind the secret word by narrowing an alphabetical range with each guess.
Word game|betweenle.com ↗
- 07
FramedName the film from a single frame, with more frames revealed per miss.
Daily puzzle|framed.wtf ↗
- 08
putt.dayOne mini golf hole a day. Sink it in as few strokes as you can, then race friends in party mode.
Daily puzzle|putt.day ↗
- 09
SandspielA falling-sand physics toy in Rust and WebGL; paint elements and watch them react.
Game|sandspiel.club ↗
- 10
Slow RoadsEndless procedurally generated driving with weather, seasons and no goal.
Game|slowroads.io ↗
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- RicochetPieces slide until they hit something. Get the marked one home in the fewest moves.
BeamPlace a few mirrors so one beam of light hits every target.- HerdSheep run from the dog. Push every one into the pen in as few moves as you can.
EmberA forest fire, a wind, rain on the way. Dig four firebreaks so no house burns.
AloftThree winds stacked by altitude. Climb and sink so the balloon lands on the pad in par.
CreaseFold the paper, punch one hole, unfold. Match the pattern in the fewest folds.
JunctionTwo colours of car, three arrows for the crossroads. Route every car home without a crash.
SliceThree straight cuts through a pizza so every piece gets the same number of olives.
EchoA wreck under dark water. Each ping draws a ring; find it where the rings cross.
OrbitOne probe, a few planets, a station. Aim, fire, and let gravity bend the shot home.
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Daily puzzle 13
- betterapp.orgEmberMade here
A forest fire, a wind, rain on the way. Dig four firebreaks so no house burns.
- betterapp.orgCreaseMade here
Fold the paper, punch one hole, unfold. Match the pattern in the fewest folds.
- betterapp.orgOrbitMade here
One probe, a few planets, a station. Aim, fire, and let gravity bend the shot home.
- timeguessr.com
TimeGuessrPin where and when five historical photos were taken.
- betterapp.orgSliceMade here
Three straight cuts through a pizza so every piece gets the same number of olives.
- cinenerdle2.app
Cine2NerdleSort sixteen movie tiles into four connected rows, then battle friends by linking films.
- betterapp.orgBeamMade here
Place a few mirrors so one beam of light hits every target.
- betterapp.orgJunctionMade here
Two colours of car, three arrows for the crossroads. Route every car home without a crash.
- betterapp.orgEchoMade here
A wreck under dark water. Each ping draws a ring; find it where the rings cross.
- worldle.teuteuf.fr
WorldleGuess the country from its silhouette, with distance and direction hints.
- betterapp.orgAloftMade here
Three winds stacked by altitude. Climb and sink so the balloon lands on the pad in par.
- bandle.app
BandleGuess the day's song as instruments are added one at a time.
- globle-game.com
GlobleName countries and watch a globe heat up as you close in on the answer.
Game 6
- chiark.greenend.org.uk
Simon Tatham's PuzzlesForty classic logic puzzles, including nonograms, playable in the browser with no fuss.
- tetr.io
TETR.IOFast, free online stacker with solo modes and ranked multiplayer.
- decisionproblem.com
Universal PaperclipsAn incremental game where you are the AI and the paperclips never stop.
- danielben.itch.io
DragonsweeperMinesweeper reworked as a dungeon crawl where you read monsters instead of guessing.
- adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com
A Dark RoomA minimalist text game that starts with a fire and keeps expanding.
- neal.fun
Neal.funNeal Agarwal's toybox: The Password Game, Infinite Craft, Absurd Trolley Problems and more.
Word game 7
- nytimes.com
ConnectionsGroup sixteen words into four hidden categories with four mistakes allowed.
- minutecryptic.com
Minute CrypticOne cryptic crossword clue a day, with a walkthrough that teaches the tricks.
- redactle.net
RedactleGuess words to unredact a Wikipedia article and work out its subject.
- semantle.com
SemantleGuess the secret word by meaning; word2vec scores tell you how close you are.
- squaredle.app
SquaredleConnect letters in any direction to find every word hidden in the grid.
- wafflegame.net
WaffleSwap letters on a waffle grid to fix six words in fifteen moves or fewer.
- nytimes.com
WordleThe five-letter daily that started the whole genre.
Utility 6
- ihatepdf.in
iHatePDFBuilt after its maker was turned down by iLovePDF. Eighteen PDF tools, all in the browser.
- deepl.com
DeepLTranslation that reads naturally, with free text and document translation.
- ilovepdf.com
iLovePDFMerge, split, compress and convert PDFs without installing anything.
- squoosh.app
SquooshCompress and convert images locally with side-by-side quality comparison.
- gchq.github.io
CyberChefChain encode, decode, hash and parse operations on data, all in the browser.
- regex101.com
regex101Build and debug regular expressions with live matches and an explanation panel.
Creative 3
- photopea.com
PhotopeaA Photoshop-grade image editor that opens PSD files in a browser tab.
- excalidraw.com
ExcalidrawHand-drawn style whiteboard for quick diagrams, collaborative and open source.
- oskarstalberg.com
TownscaperClick to grow tiny island towns; no goal, just pleasing architecture. Desktop only.
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