Something to do when you're bored

Boredom is a solvable problem, it just usually gets solved badly — another lap of the same three apps, none of which actually fix the feeling.

Below is a shortlist of things built specifically to eat ten idle minutes well: quick games, quizzes, the kind of thing you open “just to check” and look up twenty minutes later. All of them are free, none of them want your email address first.

If none of these grab you, that's what the button's for — press it and get sent somewhere else entirely. The whole point of RandoSite is that boredom doesn't have to mean opening the same twelve tabs again.

Ten minutes, easily gone

  • SporcleThousands of trivia quizzes on absolutely everything, from world capitals to 90s cartoons.
  • GeoGuessrGet dropped into Google Street View somewhere on Earth and guess where you are.
  • 2048The addictive sliding-tile puzzle that swept the internet in 2014, still exactly as compulsive.
  • LichessA free, open-source, ad-free chess site with no account required to play.
  • AkinatorA genie that can guess almost any real or fictional character you're thinking of, just by asking questions.
  • Cookie ClickerThe original incremental clicking game that spawned an entire genre. Bake cookies. Forever.
  • Quick, Draw!An AI tries to guess what you're doodling in 20 seconds flat.