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Fun websites to go on when you’re bored
Boredom needs something to poke. Every website in this pile is interactive: you click, drag, type, scroll or hunt for something, and the page reacts. That makes them far better at killing ten minutes than anything you just scroll past.
Think of it as the list of cool websites to visit when bored, sorted with the best ones first. If you cannot decide, do not decide. Hit Surprise Me and let the junkyard pick for you. It will avoid repeating itself and occasionally hand you something rare.
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The Password Game
★ LEGENDARY😂 Funnyest. 2023
Choose a password. The rules get absurd.
By Neal Agarwal. Every time you satisfy a password rule, a new, more ridiculous one appears. Include a number, then a sponsor, then something alive. It is a parody of every sign-up form you have hated.
Click Click Click
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Please click the button. It is watching how you do it.
A single button and a list of achievements. The page tracks everything about how you behave and comments on it, which is funny until you remember every other website does the same quietly.
Visit ↗ Click Click Click (opens in a new tab)Details about Click Click Click⚠ Plays audioButtonInteractiveAudioI’m Not a Robot
RARE RELIC😂 Funny
Prove you are human. Level after absurd level.
By Neal Agarwal. It begins with the familiar checkbox and turns into a string of increasingly unreasonable human-verification challenges. You may start to doubt yourself.
Infinite Craft
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2024
Start with water, fire, wind and earth. Combine until nonsense.
By Neal Agarwal. Drag two elements together to create a new one. Four starting items become volcanoes, celebrities, memes and concepts nobody should be able to craft. It genuinely never ends.
One Million Checkboxes
RARE RELIC🗑 Pointlessest. 2024
A million shared checkboxes. The internet checked them all.
A giant grid of checkboxes that everyone on the internet shared at once. Strangers ticked them together until every single box was checked. You can still play with them alone.
Visit ↗ One Million Checkboxes (opens in a new tab)Details about One Million CheckboxesCommunityInteractiveCheckboxPointer Pointer
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2012
Move your cursor. Somewhere, someone is pointing at it.
Hold your mouse still and the page digs up a photo of a real person pointing exactly where your cursor is. There is no score and no ending. You just get pointed at, again and again, by strangers.
Visit ↗ Pointer Pointer (opens in a new tab)Details about Pointer PointerInteractivePointlessClassic InternetThe Deep Sea
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Scroll down into the ocean until the light runs out.
By Neal Agarwal. Scroll from the surface to the bottom of the deepest trench, passing the animals that live at each depth. It gets dark, then very dark, then very strange.
Absurd Trolley Problems
UNCOMMON😂 Funnyest. 2022
The famous ethics dilemma, escalating level by level.
By Neal Agarwal. It starts with the classic choice: pull the lever or do nothing. Each level adds something more ridiculous to the tracks, and at the end you see how your choices compare to everyone else’s.
Albino Blacksheep
UNCOMMON💾 Old Internet
An archive of Flash-era animations, games and oddities.
One of the long-running homes of internet animations, silly games and music from the Flash era. You can even switch the site theme back to how it looked in 2001.
Checkbox Olympics
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Competitive checkbox ticking. Go for gold.
A series of timed events where the only sport is clicking checkboxes as fast and precisely as you can. It gets more intense than it has any right to.
Draw a Perfect Circle
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Draw a circle. Get a percentage. Try again forever.
By Neal Agarwal. Draw a circle around a dot and the page scores how perfect it is. You will get close. You will not get a hundred. You will try again.
Eel Slap
UNCOMMON💀 WTF
Slap a man with an eel by moving your mouse.
A patient man stands in front of a camera. Drag your mouse and he gets slapped with an eel, in slow motion, at whatever speed you choose. He has presumably made peace with this.
elgooG
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Long-buried search engine easter eggs, restored.
A museum of the hidden tricks and doodle games a famous search engine used to ship: gravity that makes the page fall apart, mirror modes and more, rescued and playable again.
Emoji Simulator
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Build little worlds out of emoji and rules.
A grid of trees that can catch fire, spread and regrow. Change the emoji and the rules and simulate forests, zombies or whatever you invent.
Endless Horse
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
An ASCII horse whose legs never end.
A horse drawn in text characters. Scroll down to reach its hooves. Keep scrolling. The legs keep going. The horse is fine with this.
Find the Invisible Cow
UNCOMMON😂 Funny
Hunt an invisible cow using only sound.
Somewhere on the screen there is a cow you cannot see. Move your cursor and a voice gets louder as you get closer. When you find it, it lets you know.
Visit ↗ Find the Invisible Cow (opens in a new tab)Details about Find the Invisible Cow⚠ Needs soundGameAudioAnimalsjacksonpollock.org
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Move your mouse. Drip paint like a famous painter.
An empty canvas that splatters paint wherever your cursor goes. Click to change colour. Within a minute you have something that would confuse an art critic.
Visit ↗ jacksonpollock.org (opens in a new tab)Details about jacksonpollock.orgArtDrawingInteractiveKoalas to the Max
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Hover over circles until they split into a koala.
Start with one big circle. Brush it with your cursor and it splits into four. Keep going until the circles resolve into a picture of a koala. Extremely satisfying, extremely pointless.
Visit ↗ Koalas to the Max (opens in a new tab)Details about Koalas to the MaxInteractiveSatisfyingAnimalsMove Now Think Later
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A checkerboard of circles waiting for your cursor.
A black and white checkerboard with little circles, from Rafaël Rozendaal. The title gives you the instructions, and the page rewards following them.
Visit ↗ Move Now Think Later (opens in a new tab)Details about Move Now Think LaterRozendaalArtInteractivePaint Toys
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A playground of art canvases with odd limitations.
A set of small painting toys inspired by the art world, from dripping oils to other constrained tools. Each has one trick and invites you to make something with it.
Paper Toilet
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointlessest. 2006
A roll of toilet paper you can unroll.
A single toilet roll on a black background, by Rafaël Rozendaal. Grab the paper and pull. It keeps going for longer than you would expect.
Patatap
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Every key is a sound and a shape.
A portable animation and sound kit. Press keys and each one fires off a noise and a burst of moving shapes. Mash the keyboard and you are performing.
Visit ↗ Patatap (opens in a new tab)Details about Patatap⚠ Flashing images, plays audioAudioKeyboardInteractiveSandspiel
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Pour sand, water, lava and fire. Watch them fight.
A falling-sand sandbox with elements like water, plants, fungus, acid and rockets. Mix them and watch tiny chemistry disasters unfold one pixel at a time.
Spend Bill Gates’ Money
UNCOMMON😂 Funny
Blow a billionaire’s fortune on burgers, yachts and sports teams.
You get an absurd budget and a shopping list that goes from a Big Mac to a cruise ship. Spending it all turns out to be weirdly difficult. The receipt at the end is its own punchline.
Staggering Beauty
UNCOMMON💀 WTF
A calm black noodle follows your mouse. Do not shake it.
A wobbly black worm dangles from the top of the screen and follows your cursor like a sleepy pet. Move gently and nothing happens. Shake your mouse hard and the whole page loses its mind.
Visit ↗ Staggering Beauty (opens in a new tab)Details about Staggering Beauty⚠ Flashing images and loud noiseInteractiveChaosClassic InternetStimulation Clicker
UNCOMMON💀 WTF
Click for stimulation. Buy upgrades. Lose your mind.
By Neal Agarwal. A clicker game where every click earns stimulation, and every upgrade adds another screen full of noise, notifications and videos until the page is overwhelming.
Visit ↗ Stimulation Clicker (opens in a new tab)Details about Stimulation Clicker⚠ Busy visuals and audioGameChaosButtonThis Is Sand
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Pour digital sand into little layered landscapes.
Pick colours and pour grains of sand onto the screen, building layers like one of those souvenir bottles. Nothing is saved for any purpose. It just looks nice.
World’s Biggest PAC-MAN
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
An endless maze stitched together from player-made mazes.
Players build maze tiles and they all connect into one enormous game board. The global stats count pac-dots in numbers too large to read out loud.
World’s Worst Calculator
UNCOMMON❓ ??????Made in the junkyard
Confident. Fast. Wrong.
Type a sum. Receive an answer delivered with total confidence and zero accuracy. The same question always gets the same wrong answer, so at least it is consistent.
Play it World’s Worst Calculator ▶OriginalInteractiveMathsBongo Cat
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
A meme cat plays instruments when you press keys.
The famous drumming cat meme, turned into an instrument. Keys play bongos, cymbals, cowbell, piano and more, with the cat slapping along every time.
Build Shruggie
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Assemble the shrug emoticon from loose parts.
The pieces of the famous text shrug are scattered across the page. Drag them into place. When everything lines up, you have built a shrug. Congratulations, or whatever.
Cat Bounce
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Cats. Bouncing. You are allowed to throw them.
Cartoon cats ricochet around your browser window and you can grab and fling them. There is also a button that makes it rain cats. That is the entire feature list.
Checkbox Race
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Tick 100 checkboxes as fast as you can.
A stopwatch and one hundred checkboxes. Check the first one and the race begins. It is the most competitive form of form-filling ever invented.
Cornify
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Unicorns and rainbows, on demand.
A self-described number one unicorn and rainbow service. Add sparkly unicorns to your screen, your photos or other people’s websites. It is aggressively cheerful.
Do Not Press
COMMON JUNK❓ ??????Made in the junkyard
A big red button. You were told.
There is a button and a label telling you not to press it. Each press makes the page a little more upset with you. It escalates.
Play it Do Not Press ▶OriginalButtonInteractiveGeekTyper
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Hacker movie screens with themes. Press any key.
Mash your keyboard and convincing code pours out, surrounded by fake alerts, maps and progress bars. It has dozens of themes, so you can look busy in several fictional universes.
Hacker Typer
COMMON JUNK😂 Funnyest. 2011
Mash your keyboard. Look like a movie hacker.
Any key you press prints real-looking source code onto a black screen at hacker-movie speed. Useful for impressing people who cannot read code and nobody else.
Long Doge Challenge
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
Scroll the doge. The doge is long.
A meme dog whose body keeps stretching as you scroll. The challenge is to reach the end. The doge has other plans.
Mondrian and Me
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Make your own grid of colour blocks.
Split rectangles and fill them with primary colours until you have something that looks suspiciously like a museum painting. Nobody needs to know it took thirty seconds.
One Square Minesweeper
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Minesweeper, but the board is one square.
The classic puzzle game with every unnecessary square removed. You have one decision to make. Choose wisely, or at least quickly.
Passive Aggressive Passwords
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Type a password. Get judged for it.
A password box that reads what you type and responds with increasingly personal disappointment. It does not protect anything. It just has opinions about your choices.
Visit ↗ Passive Aggressive Passwords (opens in a new tab)Details about Passive Aggressive PasswordsInteractiveKeyboardInsultsQuick, Draw!
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Doodle against the clock while a neural network guesses.
You get a word and twenty seconds to draw it, while a machine learning model narrates its guesses out loud. It is humbling to be out-guessed by a computer about your own cat.
Sliding Toys
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Sliding tile puzzles, from simple to cruel.
Start with the easy numbered tile puzzle and work your way up to bigger, stranger variations. Best times and move counts are tracked, so you can take it personally.
The Zen Zone
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A meditation area made of small, oddly satisfying activities.
A minimalist relaxation zone that calms you down with tiny interactive tasks that are mildly amusing and very satisfying. It will not fix your life. It might fix the next five minutes.
Questions nobody needed answered
What are fun websites to go on when bored?
Play something small. Interactive toys like Koalas to the Max, Checkbox Olympics or This Is Sand are quick to start and weirdly hard to stop.
What are cool websites to visit when bored at work?
Pick quiet ones you can close fast: This Is Sand, Koalas to the Max or Spend Bill Gates’ Money. Anything with loud audio carries a warning label.
Are there websites for when you’re bored that need no sign-up?
Every site on this page works without an account. Open it, play, leave.