Chess · Chess puzzles · Sudoku · 2048 · Social games

The games you already know, lined up so you can pick one quickly.

Chess, chess puzzles, sudoku and 2048 sit at the top of the list, and a few light social games sit further down it. All of them run on BritPicks24’s own servers, need no account and have nothing to buy. Each card shows how many people play, how long a round takes, how hard it is and how players rate it.

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The games

Every game on one card each

The four classics come first, the social games follow. Each card uses the same four badges so the games can be compared fairly: players, round length, difficulty and player rating. Filter the list, sort it, then pick something and play.

12 of 12 games shown

  1. 01

    Board

    Chess

    The full game against the computer or a friend, at whatever strength suits you today.

    1–2 players 20–40 min Hard
    4.8 most revisited
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  2. 02

    Board

    Chess puzzles

    One position taken from a real game. Find the best line, then load the next one.

    Single-player 1–3 min Medium
    4.7 fast training
    Play now
  3. 03

    Puzzle

    2048

    Slide tiles, merge matching numbers, work towards 2048. A minute to learn and hard to stop.

    Single-player 3–5 min Easy
    4.6 quickest start
    Play now
  4. 04

    Puzzle

    Sudoku

    Fill the grid so every row, column and box holds one to nine. Four difficulty settings.

    Single-player 10–20 min Medium
    4.5 phone-friendly
    Play now
  5. 05

    Social

    Outback Gold

    Five reels and no cap on how long a session runs. Nothing to buy at any stage.

    Single-player Reels, ~5 min Easy
    4.4 most played
    Play now
  6. 06

    Social

    Lucky 7s Classic

    Three reels and a single line, exactly as the old cabinets had it. Nothing to learn.

    Single-player Reels, ~5 min Easy
    4.3 least to learn
    Play now
  7. 07

    Social

    Reef Riches

    Five reels beneath the waves, plus a chest round that hands out extra turns.

    Single-player Reels, ~5 min Easy
    4.2 top chest round
    Play now
  8. 08

    Social

    Fruit Wheel

    A brisk fruit game on three rings, made for one thumb on a phone.

    Single-player Rings, ~5 min Easy
    4.1 thumb-friendly
    Play now
  9. 09 On its way

    Board

    Checkers

    Draughts on the classic 8×8 board, against the computer or someone next to you.

    1–2 players 10–20 min Easy
    no rating yet
    Still in the works
  10. 10 On its way

    Cards

    Solitaire

    Klondike, the one that came bundled with every desktop for twenty years.

    Single-player 5–10 min Easy
    no rating yet
    Still in the works
  11. 11 On its way

    Puzzle

    Minesweeper

    Clear the field without stepping on a mine. Three grid sizes to choose from.

    Single-player 2–10 min Medium
    no rating yet
    Still in the works
  12. 12 On its way

    Arcade

    Tetris

    Stack the falling pieces neatly. Keyboard or on-screen controls, your choice.

    Single-player 3–8 min Medium
    no rating yet
    Still in the works

Getting started

Three steps, nothing more

There is barely a process to describe, but the question keeps coming, so here it is.

1

Read the cards

Each card shows the same four badges: players, round length, difficulty and rating. Got three minutes? Chess puzzles. Got forty? A full game of chess. Feeling unhurried? Sudoku. Want a few rounds of something light? One of the social games.

2

Hit play

Press Play and the game opens right here on BritPicks24, in the tab you already have open. Nothing gets installed, no plugin asks for approval, nothing downloads and you are never asked to make an account.

3

Play, leave, return

Nothing on this site tracks you between visits. Close the tab when you are done and open the list again whenever another round appeals.

Our criteria

A short list only works if somebody looks after it

BritPicks24 is built on one idea: the games worth coming back to are the ones people already know. Chess and chess puzzles lead, the other classics follow, and none of them needs a tutorial, a login or any setup before the first move is played.

Known games first

Everything here has decades of history behind it. You know the rules already, so there is nothing to read before you begin.

Hosted here, played in the browser

Every game runs from our own servers. If something would need an install, a login or a specific device, it does not make the list.

Always open

Nothing on the list is locked and nothing is for sale, the social games included. There is no sign-up to get through either.

The same badges on every card

Players, round length, difficulty and rating are measured the same way for every game, so one card can honestly be compared with another.

Revisited from time to time

We play through each game every so often. Anything that stops behaving the way its card describes is fixed or taken off the list.

Questions

Questions we hear often

Chess and the puzzles come up most, then browsers, then what the social games actually are.

Nothing at all. The games on BritPicks24 open as they are, with no subscription behind them and no account to create first. Choose a card and you are in.

They are light, reel-style games for one player, there purely for fun. Like everything else here they run in the browser, have nothing for sale and never ask you to register.

Knowing how the pieces move is all it takes. The chess game offers a gentle computer level to begin with, and whenever you pick up a piece the board marks the squares it can legally reach.

Chess opens a full game, which lasts as long as a game lasts. A puzzle drops you into a single position from a real game where one line is clearly stronger than the rest. If practice is the aim, the puzzles get you there quicker.

Anyone who plays here can leave a rating when a round ends. The star shows the average of those ratings; the short note beside it is the thing players bring up most.

A current version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge handles the whole list. Everything is built with plain web technology, so there is no plugin or add-on to install.

Yes. Every game reshapes itself for a smaller screen and takes touch input. Chess and sudoku in particular are comfortable on a phone.

That would be us. Because the whole list is hosted on servers BritPicks24 runs itself, a single privacy policy and a single set of terms apply to every game.

Know a game that ought to be here?

If it is a classic, opens straight away and needs no install, send it over. The same goes for anything on a card that looks wrong to you.

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