Launchway Games
Games that open instantly and run on anything: no launcher, no download, no account. Open one and you're playing.
Plenty are made for two or more people sharing one screen, from air hockey and a tug-of-war to backgammon and a four-player ring-out. The rest are for one: solitaire, mahjong, pinball, a jigsaw puzzle and a tower defense on a picnic blanket. More are on launchwaygames.com.
A small café, one day at a time. No clock and nobody leaves angry - seat people and see who comes back.
Simulation
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Draw a line, press Go, and let the physics do the rest. Every level in it has been proved solvable.
Puzzle
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Match 3 lanterns and they rise. Twenty moves a night, and the sky keeps everything you've let go of.
Puzzle
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Ants are marching on your lunch. Put paper plates in their way, load them with things ants hate, and turn them back.
Strategy
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Sixty seconds, four balls, and a rim that lights up. Take the other hoop to race a friend, or race the machine.
Sports
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A mancala sowing game for one or two people. Tap a pit to see where every seed will land, then tap it again to sow.
Strategy
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Ten-pin and five-pin bowling, for one to four players taking turns. One swipe carries the line, the hook and the power.
Sports
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Hot potato meets tag, for one to four players on one screen. Bump into someone to pass the balloon before it pops.
Action
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Four in a row on one screen, for one player or two. Touch a column and the board is yours.
Strategy
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Backgammon for one or two people on one screen. Touch your end of the board to take a side.
Strategy
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Dots and boxes for one or two people on one screen. Touch a line and that colour is yours.
Strategy
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Mini golf where every hole is another Launchway game, with its rules still running. Up to four take turns on one screen.
Sports
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Minesweeper where no board ever needs a guess. Your first tap builds the board, so it can never be a mine.
Puzzle
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Two people, one screen, one puck. Touch either end and that paddle is yours.
Sports
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A word search in themes from Animals to Winter. Across, down, diagonal or backwards, and every word is in the grid once.
Puzzle
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Colouring pages where a tap pours in colour that stays inside the lines, and a finished picture comes alive.
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Turn two cards and keep the pairs you find. Play a friend on one screen, or a computer that only knows what it has seen.
Card Game
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Klondike solitaire where every deal can be won. Draw one, unlimited undo, and nothing is timed.
Card Game
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A tug-of-war on three ropes. Play dice into a lane and it's pulled toward the bigger total - two lanes win the game.
Strategy
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Sudoku with no guessing and no pen-or-pencil switch. Every puzzle has one answer, reached by reasoning alone.
Puzzle
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A jigsaw with the corners already in. Drag a piece home and it locks into place.
Puzzle
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Up to four of you on one shrinking platform. Shove the others off before the floor disappears underneath you.
Action
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One side owns up and down, the other owns left and right. Neither of you can steer without the other.
Puzzle
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