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Everything you need to lose gracefully: a guide for every game in the arcade — rules, scoring, and tips — plus answers to the questions everyone asks about accounts, leaderboards, and Pointless Plus.

Game guides
Reflex & Speed
🔍

One Pixel Off

A visual reflex test: five rounds of spot-the-different-tile against the clock.

🔘

The Longest Hold

Press the button and don't let go. That's it. That's the game.

⌨️

Type the Alphabet

Type A to Z as fast as humanly possible, racing the ghost of your best run.

📜

Scroll Speed Olympics

The world's longest page. Scroll to the bottom faster than everyone else.

⏱️

Perfect Timing

A sweeping marker, a glowing zone, ten clicks. Every hit makes it faster. One miss ends it.

🦆

Trigger Happy

A 45-second aim trainer with four themed ranges and career-long stat tracking.

🚦

Any Second Now…

A five-round reaction test against a traffic light that actively lies to you about when it turns green.

Brains & Trivia
📅

Guess the Year

Read a historical clue, drag a slider to the year, and get scored on how close you land.

🤥

Half the Internet Is Lying

Five statements from the internet. Some are real. Some are confident nonsense. Sort them.

🔢

Off By One

Six real statistics — one has a single digit quietly changed. Find the fake.

Fermi Golf

Estimation golf: multiply your way to wild numbers in as few strokes as possible.

🔀

The Daily Unscramble

One giant scrambled word a day, the same for the whole world. Four guesses. No mercy.

🧠

The Pointless IQ Test

Twelve fresh puzzles, eighteen seconds each, one extremely flattering number. Zero science.

🛰️

Salvage & Salvation

A turn-based ASCII space roguelike: mine, loot, craft, fight, and jump ever deeper.

Space & Physics
📦

Slingshot Delivery

Interplanetary courier work: drag, release, and let gravity do the driving. The parcel is not insured.

🏌️

Gravity Golf

Mini-golf across nine holes of gravity wells. Par assumes you understand orbital mechanics. Par is optimistic.

🪐

Orbit Keeper

Air traffic control, but the aircraft are satellites and the airport is a planet that wants to eat them.

🚀

Junkyard Rockets

Aerospace engineering with the contents of a garage. Stack junk, hit launch, measure how high the mistake went.

☄️

Reentry

You choose one number: the entry angle. Then physics takes over and you watch what your number did.

🏀

Ballistic Basketball

Basketball by cannon, across five worlds with five different opinions about gravity. Jupiter's opinion is the strongest.

🌠

Terrarium Nebula

A protoplanetary disk in a jar. Dust clumps into planets over real hours, whether or not you're watching. Mostly not watching.

Black Hole Feeder

A pet black hole. Click to feed it, buy it upgrades, leave, come back to find it fatter. It is never full and neither are you.

🪢

Tug of Warp

Tug of war over a derelict space station, on a rope with spring physics and strong opinions. Up to 4v4, all of it about timing.

🛸

Asteroid Bumper Cars

Zero-G sumo for up to eight ships: no brakes, no walls, a hungry sun in the middle, and a safe ring that keeps shrinking.

Multiplayer
⚔️

Cursor Duel

Two cursors, swords drawn. Swing with left click, block with right click — but shields are finite.

🫥

Hide & Sneak

Blend into a crowd of emoji NPCs. Act natural during the vibe waves. Don't get clicked.

🏁

Typo Gauntlet

Race real humans through punctuation-heavy sentences built to break fingers.

🐱

Copy Cat

Asymmetric typing chase: the Runner types to escape, the Copy Cat copies to catch.

🐉

Swords & Sarcasm

💜 Plus

A real old-school text MUD: one shared world, typed commands, sarcastic wildlife.

Pointless Chess

Real chess on a 5×5 board: rook, queen, king, five pawns, and two random minor pieces.

🎲

Cee-lo Heat

Head-to-head Cee-lo: classic three-dice ranks, stand-or-press, quick match or private rooms. First to three hands wins the table.

📄

Pointless Paper

You and your friends run one paper company. Work the stations, ship the reams, beat a quota that only ever goes up.

Community
🎨

Draw This in 30 Seconds

Thirty seconds, one random prompt, one masterpiece for the public gallery.

🎯

The Average Game

Don't guess the right answer — guess what everyone else will guess.

🏛️

Museum of First Words

Place one word on a shared canvas. Once. Forever. Choose wisely.

🐠

The Pointless Aquarium

💜 Plus

A persistent aquarium that keeps running while you're away. The fish have needs, and opinions.

👴

Watch It Grow.. Really...

A persistent lawn-care sim: grow a yard from bare dirt to a lush, mowable masterpiece.

🟥

Crowd Pixel

One shared 128×128 canvas for the whole site. Place a pixel, wait out the cooldown, place another — together it becomes art, chaos, or both.

🌌

Solar Sandbox

A Newtonian N-body solar system sandbox with real body data, time warp, and Universe Sandbox-style toys.

🕳️

The Fabric of Space

A real-time 3D visualization of spacetime curvature: a volumetric grid of space visibly displaced around masses, with orbiting bodies, gravitational-wave ripples, and droppable test particles.

🚪

Doorways 1.3

💜 Plus

A playable Doorways 1.3 desktop from another timeline. Doorway Manager, dial-up networking, secret Duh Prompt tools, DBasic EXEs, Mine-ish, Card-Alone, and a shutdown that finally counts your busywork.

🪨

A Rock

You are given a rock. It does nothing. You may polish it once a day, name it, and eventually put it on a pedestal under a lamp. That is the entire game and it never ends.

Arcade basics
Do I need an account to play?
Are the games really free?
How do leaderboards and ranks work?
What are challenge links?
What are daily challenges?
What is Pointless Plus?
What are Tickets and Coins, and what can I spend them on?
What is a daily streak, and what happens if I miss a day?
What are weekly tournaments?
Can I follow other players?
A game isn't loading or feels stuck. What do I do?

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