Games for 10 year olds
No sign-up · made for kids 4–10Ten-year-olds like proper puzzles and games of skill: Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper, first chess, running a lemonade stand or exploring the world map. These free games start easy and grow genuinely hard, with friendly art and no pressure. They play in the browser with no sign-up, no chat, no pop-ups and nothing to buy.
About each game
A line on every game here
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- Home Row Hero Learn to type with the right fingers!
- Mini Golf Pull back and let go to putt a cute golf ball round friendly courses with bumpers, ramps and giggling animal friends.
- Tic-Tac-Toe Get three in a row before the friendly panda does!
- Fruit Slicer Swipe to slice the flying fruit at a picnic that travels from the bush to the beach, outback and rainforest.
- Penalty Shootout Tap the goal to shoot past Wombat, the friendly keeper, then take a turn in goal and catch Koala's kicks.
- Snake Steer a cute carpet python round the garden.
- 2048 Slide the animals on a stone board by the creek.
- Flying Galah Flap a cute galah through the gum trees across 10 places, from the outback and the seaside to a rainforest, a city and a rainbow valley.
- Times Tables Blaster Help the echidna astronaut blast the number rocks, from candy skies to the Moon!
- 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 Scramble Look at the picture and put the jumbled letters in order to spell it!
- Word Guess Look at the picture and tap the letters of its word!
- Doodle Pad Draw with big fun pens: rainbow, glitter, glow, crayon, star stamps and paw prints.
- Bumper Boats Squirt water at Platypus's pinwheel and make it giggle!
- Flag Quiz Galah brings a postcard with a flag.
- Bubble Shooter Help Pip the platypus pop the bubbles over the billabong!
- Candy Match Swap cute sweets to make rows of three.
- 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!
- Word Search Help Wombat the word detective find hidden words on a farm, at a picnic, under the sea, in the snow and in space.
- Air Hockey Hit the candy puck past the friendly panda!
- 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!
- Target Toss Toss squishy beanbags at a friendly target board with a smiling animal face in the middle!
- Fraction Pizza Run a pizza counter for hungry animal friends!
- Change Maker Run a cosy toy shop and give the shoppers their change with pretend star coins!
- Music Maker Tap the animal pads to play music, follow the glowing notes, copy little tunes, build a loop, add drums and play along with the band.
- 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.
- Star Catcher Glide the koala's flying space basket left and right to catch falling stars, sleepy moon-drops and rainbow comet sparkles!
- Dominoes Match the dots in a friendly domino game with Quokka.
- Take the Last One Take 1, 2 or 3 carrots, shells or cupcakes, then it's Echidna's turn.
- World Map Explorer Fly Quokka's hot-air balloon around the world: take each animal home to its continent, then find the oceans and famous natural wonders.
- Lemonade Stand Run a little juice stand for cute animal friends!
- Robot Coder Tap arrow cards into a row, press Go, and help the cute robot roll along the grid to its battery friend.
- Maths Duel Race friendly Wombat up the sky!
- Mandala Painter Pick a colour and tap the pattern: every copy around the circle blooms at once.
- Simple Machines Help Quokka lift heavy things with Wombat the inventor: pick a gentler ramp, move the see-saw pivot, add a pulley or a bigger wheel, and watch the machine work.
- Koala Platformer Walk, hop and bounce the koala across sunny platforms!
- Koala Kart Race Koala's kart against a platypus, an echidna and a galah through a sunny meadow, the seaside, snowy hills, candy land and a starry night.
- Garden Guard Munching bug friends are wandering down the garden path to the veggie patch!
- Minesweeper Uncover the garden without waking the sleepy hedgehogs.
- Sudoku Picture sudoku with smiling fruit: tap a square, then the fruit that fits.
- Four in a Row Drop cute animal counters into the frame and get four in a row before the friendly wombat.
- Typing Game Type the letters on the bubbles and Quokka hops up to catch them!
- Blockade Step, then block!
- Nonogram Garden Plant the clues and grow a picture!
- Zigzag Tap to turn and zigzag down the ice with Penguin!
- Mini Chess Learn chess one piece at a time with Lion!
- Halloween Word Search Find the Halloween words in the grid: pumpkin, ghost, bat, owl, moon and more.
- Hungry Pumpkin Toss sweets into the hungry pumpkin's smiling mouth: aim, pull back and let go.
- Halloween Word Scramble Unscramble the Halloween words with a picture to help: BAT, OWL, MOON and PUMPKIN.
- Halloween Sudoku Picture sudoku with pumpkins, bats, ghosts and moons: every row and column gets one of each.
- Halloween Candy Match Swap the Halloween sweets to line up three of a kind: lollipops, candy corn and wrapped sweets.
- Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe Smiling pumpkins against friendly ghosts: get three in a row to win.
- Halloween Quiz Friendly Halloween picture questions: which one is the pumpkin?
- Ludo Roll the big die and race your counters home!
- Dots and Boxes Draw a line between two dots.
- Carrom Pull back the striker and let go to pot the coins!
- Fruit Merge Drop fruits into the jar!
About these games
Our picks and what they practise
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At ten, kids want to be challenged. The games here are the classic brain games (Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper, Nonograms, Mini Chess) plus fifth-grade topics like fractions, money and geography.
Each one still starts with an easy level, so it is good for a quick game between homework and dinner.
Our picks
What they practise
- Logic and number sense (Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper)
- Chess and other strategy games
- Money, fractions and running a small business
- World geography
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Questions parents ask
4 quick answers
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What are good free online games for 10 year olds?
Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper, Mini Chess, Lemonade Stand and World Map Explorer are free on Tiny Players. They start easy and get properly hard, and play in the browser on a tablet, Chromebook or computer with no sign-up, no download, no chat, no pop-ups and nothing to buy.
Is there a free chess game for kids?
Yes: Mini Chess teaches chess one piece at a time on a small board, with a kind lion host, up to a mini battle to catch his King.
Are these games safe for a 10 year old?
Yes. There is no chat, no sign-up and nothing to buy, and the games never ask for a name or an email.
Do the games need a download?
No. They play in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer.