Chess · Chess puzzles · Sudoku · 2048 · Social games
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.
For a five-minute gap
A single position, a single best move, finished inside three minutes.
For settling in
A complete game against the engine or someone sitting next to you.
For a small screen
Tap a cell, tap a digit. It sits comfortably on a phone.
For starting cold
Swipe, merge, repeat. There are no rules to read first.
The games
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
Board
A complete game against the engine or a friend, at a strength you choose yourself.
Board
A single position lifted from a real game. Spot the strongest line, then move on to another.
Puzzle
Push the tiles together, double the numbers, aim for 2048. Learned in a minute, put down much later.
Puzzle
Complete the grid so each row, column and box contains one through nine. Four levels of difficulty.
Social
Five reels and no limit on how long you keep going. Nothing to buy.
Social
Three reels on a single line, the old-fashioned way. Zero learning curve.
Social
Five reels plus a chest round with extra turns. Nothing to buy, like everything else here.
Social
A quick three-ring fruit game built for one-handed play on a phone.
Board
Draughts on the familiar 8×8 board, versus the computer or a friend.
Cards
Klondike, the version bundled with every desktop for two decades.
Puzzle
Sweep the field without setting off a mine. Three grid sizes.
Arcade
Fit the falling pieces together. Works with a keyboard or touch controls.
Getting started
Calling this a process is generous, but the question keeps coming up, so here it is in writing.
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.
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.
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
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.
Each entry has decades behind it. You already know the rules, so there is no reading to do before the first move.
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.
Each game, social games included, has nothing to unlock and nothing to buy. No registration either.
Players, round length, difficulty and rating are judged by the same yardstick across the board, which keeps the comparison honest.
We sit down with every game now and again. If one stops matching what its card says, it is repaired or taken down.
Questions
Usually about chess and the puzzles, about what a browser needs, and about the social games.
If it is a classic, opens straight away and needs no install, tell us about it. The same applies if something on a card looks off.