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Websites to visit when you are bored

Boredom on the internet is rarely a lack of things to do. It is having four apps that each know exactly what you will click next, and clicking it anyway.

The cure is a page you have never seen, made by somebody who was not thinking about engagement. Here are some, sorted roughly by how long they will hold you.

  1. 1

    More or Less YouTubersmoreorless.io

    Two channels, guess which is bigger. Twenty seconds each, and you will not stop at one.

    Open it here →
  2. 2

    Guess the Priceguesstheprice.net

    Guess what an object costs. You will be wrong in a consistent and revealing direction.

    Open it here →
  3. 3

    Geo Kittengeokitten.com

    A geography quiz fronted by kittens, which is a more effective teaching aid than it has any right to be.

    Open it here →
  4. 4

    Babadumbabadum.com

    Learn vocabulary in any of a dozen languages by picking pictures. Genuinely good, and genuinely a game.

    Open it here →
  5. 5

    Sandtrissandtris.com

    Falling sand physics crossed with Tetris. Easily the longest sitting on this list.

    Open it here →
  6. 6

    Hacker Typerhackertyper.com

    Mash the keyboard, look like you are breaking into a mainframe. Still funny.

    Open it here →
  7. 7

    OCEARCH Shark Trackerocearch.org

    Real sharks, real satellite tags, moving around the real Atlantic right now.

    Open it here →
  8. 8

    Zoom Quilt 2zoomquilt2.com

    An infinite zoom that never repeats and never arrives.

    Open it here →

If reading a list is itself too much effort — which, if you are bored, it probably is — the button does this for you. One press, one site you have not seen.

Questions

What can I do online when I am bored?

Something you have not seen before. Press the red button and it opens a random site from a catalogue of hand-picked games, art pieces and oddities, each verified to still work. Nothing repeats until you have been through the whole category.

What are good websites to kill time on?

Small games and toys hold up better than feeds, because they end. Sandtris, More or Less, Guess the Price and Babadum are all under a minute to learn and hard to stop at once.

Every site above was loaded in a real browser and verified working before this was published. See the full catalogue.