Games for 9 year olds
No sign-up · made for kids 4–10Nine-year-olds like games that make them think: give the right change at a toy shop, take each animal home on a world map, solve a picture logic puzzle or beat the computer at Checkers. These free games are made for fourth grade and get harder as your child improves. 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!
- Halloween Maze Help Joey in his pumpkin costume through the pumpkin-patch mazes and collect the sweets on the way.
- Mini Golf Pull back and let go to putt a cute golf ball round friendly courses with bumpers, ramps and giggling animal friends.
- Math Race Race your koala kart from the outback to candy land!
- 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.
- Copy Me Four animal friends light up and sing a little tune.
- 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!
- Stack Tower A galah flies by with a cute animal cake block.
- Chicken Crossing Hop a little chick over roads and rivers to Mum's nest.
- 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.
- Spot the Difference Two pictures, a few changes!
- Bumper Boats Squirt water at Platypus's pinwheel and make it giggle!
- Maze Runner Help Joey the kangaroo hop through hedge mazes to find a friend.
- Clock Reader Learn to tell the time with Tock the alarm clock: read the clock, then move its hands.
- Coin Counter Pay for toys and treats at the wombat's market stall with pretend star coins!
- 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!
- Jigsaw Puzzle Drag big, chunky pieces onto the picture.
- 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!
- Planet Parade Line up the planets from the Sun!
- Change Maker Run a cosy toy shop and give the shoppers their change with pretend star coins!
- Dress Up Dress a wombat, a koala and a quokka for a day out!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- Life Cycles What comes next?
- 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.
- 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.
- Food Chain Draw an arrow from the food to the one who eats it!
- Place Value Build numbers with cute tens and ones blocks!
- Measure It How long is the caterpillar?
- Graph Builder Help Galah count!
- 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!
- Farm Day Help Wombat the farmer look after the farm!
- Treasure Island Follow Galah the guide's clues across a little island and help Koala dig up treasure: arrows, counting steps, grid squares and compass letters, one gentle step at a time.
- Puzzle Trail Hop Quokka along a treasure trail by solving little picture puzzles: spot the different one, count, match shadows, finish patterns, build paths and find what changed.
- Koala Run Run with the koala through 10 levels, from the outback to rainbow valley: jump logs, crabs and rolling snowballs, slide under magpies and vines, catch power-ups and win a new hat every level.
- Minesweeper Uncover the garden without waking the sleepy hedgehogs.
- Sudoku Picture sudoku with smiling fruit: tap a square, then the fruit that fits.
- Dinosaur Game Run with Dex the baby dino through the jungle, the desert, snowy hills, a volcano island and a starry night.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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 Dress Up Dress the animal friends for Halloween: pumpkin hats, bat ears, cat ears, capes and ghost hoods.
- Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe Smiling pumpkins against friendly ghosts: get three in a row to win.
- Halloween Jigsaw Put together cute Halloween pictures: pumpkins, friendly ghosts, owls and moons.
- Halloween Spot the Difference Two cosy Halloween pictures with a few friendly changes: tap each difference you find.
- Halloween Quiz Friendly Halloween picture questions: which one is the pumpkin?
- 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!
- Fruit Merge Drop fruits into the jar!
About these games
Our picks and what they practise
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By nine, children enjoy strategy and a real challenge. The games here mix fourth-grade skills (multiplication, money, maps, simple machines) with thinking games such as Nonogram Garden, Checkers, Minesweeper and Mini Chess.
Every game still starts gently, so a child who finds a topic hard gets a win before it gets tougher.
Our picks
What they practise
- Multiplication, money and making change
- Continents, oceans, countries and flags
- Forces and simple machines
- Strategy and logic
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Questions parents ask
4 quick answers
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What are good free online games for 9 year olds?
Times Tables Blaster, Change Maker, World Map Explorer, Simple Machines, Nonogram Garden and Checkers are free on Tiny Players and made for fourth grade. They 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.
Are these games too young for a 9 year old?
The art is friendly, but the puzzles get properly hard: later levels of Nonogram Garden, Minesweeper and Mini Chess challenge adults too.
Are there strategy games?
Yes: Checkers, Mini Chess, Four in a Row, Dots and Boxes, Blockade and Take the Last One, all against a friendly computer player or a second player on the same device.
Do they work on a laptop or Chromebook?
Yes. All the games run in the browser with a mouse or trackpad, and many also use the keyboard.