Classic games
The games you grew up with, drawn for your kids: Snake, Paddle Ball, Brick Breaker, falling blocks, the dot-munching maze, Minesweeper (with flowers), Checkers, Four in a Row and the board games from the cupboard.
Classic games
All classic games
28 games
About each game
A line on every game here
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- Snake Steer a cute carpet python round the garden.
- Tic-Tac-Toe Get three in a row before the friendly panda does!
- 2048 Slide the animals on a stone board by the creek.
- Brick Breaker Bounce your cute ball buddy off the paddle and pop every jelly brick.
- Paddle Ball Bounce the smiley ball past friendly Wombat!
- Sliding Puzzle Slide the picture pieces into the gap to fix the picture, and your animal friend comes to life with a wave!
- Word Guess Look at the picture and tap the letters of its word!
- Block Drop Drop the smiley animal blocks and fill a row to pop it in sparkles.
- Dot Dash Help a round, hungry wombat munch every dot in a garden-hedge maze!
- Checkers Hop over the wombats with your team of koalas, crown a king, and win to take the board somewhere new.
- Bowling Watch the arrow swing, then tap to roll!
- Unblock the Car Slide the cute cars, trucks and logs out of the way so Koala's little red car can drive out.
- Tower of Hanoi Move the smiling cake to the gold star plate, one layer at a time, and never put a big layer on a small one.
- Snakes & Ladders Roll the big die and hop to the star!
- Dominoes Match the dots in a friendly domino game with Quokka.
- Bingo Quokka pops out picture and number balls.
- Take the Last One Take 1, 2 or 3 carrots, shells or cupcakes, then it's Echidna's turn.
- Go Fish Ask Quokka for matching animal cards, go fish in the pond and fill your shelf with pairs in this gentle Go Fish card game.
- Snap! Cute animal cards flip one at a time.
- Minesweeper Uncover the garden without waking the sleepy hedgehogs.
- Four in a Row Drop cute animal counters into the frame and get four in a row before the friendly wombat.
- Mini Chess Learn chess one piece at a time with Lion!
- Halloween Bingo Picture bingo with a Halloween twist: find the pumpkin, the ghost and the bat on your card and shout BINGO before your friends!
- Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe Smiling pumpkins against friendly ghosts: get three in a row to win.
- Ludo Roll the big die and race your counters home!
- Rock Paper Scissors Rock, paper, scissors… go!
- Dots and Boxes Draw a line between two dots.
- Carrom Pull back the striker and let go to pot the coins!
About these games
Our picks and what they practise
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Every game on this page is one a parent will recognise. The arcade classics — Snake, Paddle Ball, Brick Breaker, Block Drop (falling blocks), Dot Dash (the maze) — are our own versions of the originals: same rules, gentler pace, drawn for children, no pop-ups between rounds. The puzzle classics are here too: 2048, Sliding Puzzle, Minesweeper, Tower of Hanoi.
And the board and card games from the cupboard, playable against a fair computer or a friend on one screen: Tic-Tac-Toe, Four in a Row, Checkers, Snakes and Ladders, Dominoes, Bingo, Go Fish, Snap. A good page to play with a child rather than hand to one.
Our picks
What they practise
- Reflexes and timing in the arcade classics
- Planning and deduction in the puzzle classics
- Strategy and turn-taking in the board games
- Rules that have lasted fifty years — and why
- Playing together across generations
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Questions parents ask
4 quick answers
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Are these the original games?
They are our own versions with the same rules, built for children — no pop-ups, no purchases, a gentler pace. Names are ours where the originals are trademarked.
Which are good to play with a child?
Paddle Ball, Air Hockey, Four in a Row, Checkers and Snap all have a two-player mode on one screen.
Is there anything to buy?
No — no pop-ups, no sign-up and nothing to buy.
Do they work on an iPad?
Yes. Every game runs in the browser with touch; on a computer the keyboard works too.