Chess · Chess puzzles · Sudoku · 2048 · Social games

Chess, puzzles and old favourites, open to all and side by side.

Chess, chess puzzles, sudoku and 2048, with a few social games alongside, all running on BritPicks24’s own servers. Nothing to install, no account, nothing to buy. Every card lists players, round length, difficulty and rating, so choosing takes seconds.

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The games

The whole list, one card each

Chess, chess puzzles, sudoku and 2048 come first, with a few social games further along. Each card carries the same four badges: players, length of a round, difficulty and player rating. Narrow the list or reorder it, then pick one.

12 of 12 games shown

  1. 01

    Board

    Chess

    A complete game against the engine or a friend, at a strength you choose yourself.

    1–2 players 20–40 min Hard
    4.8 most revisited
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  2. 02

    Board

    Chess puzzles

    A single position lifted from a real game. Spot the strongest line, then move on to another.

    Single-player 1–3 min Medium
    4.7 fast training
    Play now
  3. 03

    Puzzle

    2048

    Push the tiles together, double the numbers, aim for 2048. Learned in a minute, put down much later.

    Single-player 3–5 min Easy
    4.6 quickest start
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  4. 04

    Puzzle

    Sudoku

    Complete the grid so each row, column and box contains one through nine. Four levels of difficulty.

    Single-player 10–20 min Medium
    4.5 phone-friendly
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  5. 05

    Social

    Outback Gold

    Five reels and no limit on how long you keep going. Nothing to buy.

    Single-player Reels, ~5 min Easy
    4.4 most played
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  6. 06

    Social

    Lucky 7s Classic

    Three reels on a single line, the old-fashioned way. Zero learning curve.

    Single-player Reels, ~5 min Easy
    4.3 least to learn
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  7. 07

    Social

    Reef Riches

    Five reels plus a chest round with extra turns. Nothing to buy, like everything else here.

    Single-player Reels, ~5 min Easy
    4.2 top chest round
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  8. 08

    Social

    Fruit Wheel

    A quick three-ring fruit game built for one-handed play on a phone.

    Single-player Rings, ~5 min Easy
    4.1 thumb-friendly
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  9. 09 On its way

    Board

    Checkers

    Draughts on the familiar 8×8 board, versus the computer or a friend.

    1–2 players 10–20 min Easy
    no rating yet
    Still in the works
  10. 10 On its way

    Cards

    Solitaire

    Klondike, the version bundled with every desktop for two decades.

    Single-player 5–10 min Easy
    no rating yet
    Still in the works
  11. 11 On its way

    Puzzle

    Minesweeper

    Sweep the field without setting off a mine. Three grid sizes.

    Single-player 2–10 min Medium
    no rating yet
    Still in the works
  12. 12 On its way

    Arcade

    Tetris

    Fit the falling pieces together. Works with a keyboard or touch controls.

    Single-player 3–8 min Medium
    no rating yet
    Still in the works

Getting started

Three steps, nothing more

Calling this a process is generous, but the question keeps coming up, so here it is in writing.

1

Read the cards

Every card uses the same four badges: players, round length, difficulty and rating. Three minutes to spare means chess puzzles; forty means a full game of chess; a slower mood means sudoku; a few idle rounds means one of the social games.

2

Hit play

The game loads directly on BritPicks24, inside the browser tab you are already using. There is never an app to fetch, a plugin to allow, a file to download or an account to create.

3

Play, leave, return

Nothing here follows you around. Shut the tab when you have had enough and come back to the list the next time a round sounds appealing.

Our criteria

A short list earns its keep only when someone tends it

BritPicks24 rests on a single idea: the games people return to are the ones they grew up with. Chess and chess puzzles lead, the remaining classics follow. Not one of them asks for a walkthrough, a login or any setup before the opening move.

Known games first

Each entry has decades behind it. You already know the rules, so there is no reading to do before the first move.

Served here, played in a browser

All of the games run from our own servers. Anything that would demand an install, a login or a particular device stays off the list.

Always open

Each game, social games included, has nothing to unlock and nothing to buy. No registration either.

One set of badges for all

Players, round length, difficulty and rating are judged by the same yardstick across the board, which keeps the comparison honest.

Revisited from time to time

We sit down with every game now and again. If one stops matching what its card says, it is repaired or taken down.

Questions

Questions we hear often

Usually about chess and the puzzles, about what a browser needs, and about the social games.

No. Each game on BritPicks24 opens as it is, with no subscription and no account behind it. Open a card and you are playing.

Light reel-style games played solo, purely for fun. Like the rest of the list they run in the browser, need nothing bought and never ask you to register.

Knowing how the pieces move is enough. The chess game has a gentle computer level to start against, and while you hold a piece the board marks every square it may legally go to.

Chess starts a whole game, which lasts as long as games do. A puzzle drops you into one position from a real game where a single line clearly beats the alternatives. If practice is the goal, puzzles get you there faster.

Players here can leave a rating once a round is over. The star shows the average, and the short note next to it is what players bring up most often.

A current release of Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge handles the whole list. The games are built with standard web technology, so nothing extra needs installing.

Yes. All of the games resize for a smaller screen and respond to touch. Chess and sudoku in particular feel at home on a phone.

We are. Everything on this page is served from BritPicks24’s own servers, so one privacy policy and one set of terms cover the lot.

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