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  1. Pointer Pointer Hold your cursor still and somebody, somewhere, points directly at it.Best with a mouse
  2. Zoomquilt An infinitely zooming collaborative painting that never quite arrives anywhere.Classic · 2004
  3. Falling Falling Color falls forever while a low drone turns the page into furniture.
  4. Find the Invisible Cow Find an invisible cow by following increasingly urgent audio clues.
  5. Procatinator A cat GIF and a song, paired with no obvious concern for your schedule.
  6. Bouncy Balls A microphone-reactive screen full of objects that bounce with the room.
  7. The Million Dollar Homepage A million pixels sold one small block at a time.Classic · 2005
  8. The Useless Web One button that sends you somewhere wonderfully unnecessary.
  9. Long Doge Challenge Keep scrolling. Doge keeps getting longer.
  10. Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue The page is red. Or blue. Refreshing is the entire dramatic arc.
  11. Eel Slap Move the cursor and slap a man in the face with an eel.Best with a mouse
  12. Cat Bounce Cats fall from the sky. Grab them. Throw them. Make it rain.
  13. Hacker Typer Mash keys and instantly look much more technically dangerous than you are.Needs a keyboard
  14. Is It Christmas? A website with one seasonal question and almost always the same answer.
  15. The Useless Web Index A deeper archive of strange single-purpose sites from across the web.
  16. Tiltanic Tilt the sea with your mouse and try to keep a tiny boat out of trouble.Mouse controls tested; phone tilt unverified
  17. Line Rider Draw a line and let a tiny sledder discover the consequences.
  18. The Password Game Try to satisfy a password form that keeps inventing new rules.
  19. Quick, Draw! Draw badly while a neural network tries to understand what you meant.
  20. Little Alchemy 2 Combine simple elements and keep discovering what they can become.
  21. Infinite Craft Combine concepts and keep discovering increasingly unlikely results.
  22. Akinator Answer questions while a cartoon genie tries to identify who you are thinking of.
  23. Draw a Stickman Draw the hero and watch your sketch become part of the adventure.
  24. Skribbl.io Draw badly, guess quickly and blame your friends.
  25. Gartic Phone Telephone, except the messages keep becoming drawings.
  26. Codenames Online Play the word-association party game in a browser.
  27. Bomb Party A frantic multiplayer word game where hesitation is dangerous.
  28. Make It Meme Caption meme templates, vote on the funniest answers and play together without needing an account.
  29. Pin the Planet A lightweight multiplayer map-guessing game with room codes and no accounts or email.
  30. City Guesser Watch a walking-tour video, work out where you are, and compete with friends in a private room.
  31. Koalas to the Max Split circles into smaller circles until a hidden picture emerges.
  32. Sandspiel Drop sand, water, fire and plants into a tiny cellular world and see what happens.
  33. Patatap Turn your keyboard into a burst of sound, color and animation. Flashing / intense motion.Keyboard or touch controls
  34. The True Size Of Drag countries around a map and see how projection changes your sense of scale.
  35. Blob Opera Make four blobs sing together with almost no musical ability required.
  36. neal.fun A collection of polished interactive experiments built around one strong idea at a time.
  37. Silk Draw glowing symmetrical art with a few movements of the mouse.Best with a mouse
  38. Sandspiel Studio Create and share your own Sandspiel elements, then see how they behave together.
  39. Thisissand Pour colored digital sand into surprisingly beautiful layered pictures.
  40. Chrome Music Lab Simple browser experiments for playing with sound and music.
  41. WindowSwap Look out of somebody else's window somewhere else in the world.
  42. Radio Garden Spin the globe and tune into live radio. UK listeners are limited to UK stations.Regional restrictions apply; station availability varies.
  43. MapCrunch Drop into a random Street View and see where you landed.
  44. Earth Nullschool Explore an animated globe of wind, weather and ocean data.
  45. Windy Explore animated weather layers across the planet.
  46. Submarine Cable Map Explore the physical cables quietly carrying the internet between continents.
  47. Flightradar24 Watch aircraft moving around the world in near real time.
  48. Old Maps Online Search historical maps and see familiar places before they became familiar.
  49. 100,000 Stars Fly through an interactive map of the stars around our solar neighborhood.
  50. myNoise Deeply adjustable soundscapes for focus, calm or just changing the room.
  51. A Soft Murmur Mix rain, waves, thunder and other ambient sounds into your own background.
  52. Rainy Mood A long-running page that does one thing: make it sound like rain.
  53. Drift FM Pick a mood, from quiet ambient to funk or cinematic intensity, and let the radio run.
  54. The Quiet Place Project A deliberately slow 90-second break from everything else on the screen.
  55. Every Noise at Once Explore a sprawling map of music genres, preserved from Spotify data in 2023.Genre map is a 2023 snapshot, not a current catalog.
  56. Atlas Obscura A map and archive of strange, overlooked and wonderful places.
  57. TV Tropes An aggressively cross-linked encyclopedia of storytelling patterns.
  58. Damn Interesting Long-form stories about historical details you probably never encountered elsewhere.
  59. The Pudding Visual essays where interaction does part of the explaining.
  60. Wayback Machine Travel backwards through saved versions of the web.
  61. Wiby A search engine that prefers smaller, older and hand-made corners of the web.