Small games that open instantly
Lynxy is a collection of free browser games. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, no loading screen - a page opens and you are playing. Everything runs on your own device, so your progress stays there too.
- Free to play
- No account
- Phone & desktop
- Light & dark
- Progress saved locally
The games
Sixteen games so far - five puzzles to think through, six arcade games to react to, a card game to remember and a classic one to lay out, a pixel platformer to run through, a farm to grow and an asteroid belt to mine, all the kind you can pick up for a single round and put down again. New titles are added here as they are finished - each one built the same way: a single page, no install, no account.
Sudoku
The classic number puzzle: fill every row, column and 3×3 box with the digits 1 to 9. Easy, medium and hard puzzles are generated on your device, each with exactly one solution, so every board can be solved by pure logic. Pencil marks, undo, hints, a mistake limit and a timer are all there, and the puzzle you leave behind is waiting when you come back.
Play Sudoku →
Minesweeper
The classic tile hunt: open a tile, read how many mines touch it, flag the ones you can prove and clear everything else. Three board sizes, from a 9×9 warm-up to the 16×30 expert grid, with flags, chording, hints, a timer and a best time per level - and the first tile you open is always safe, so no board is lost on the opening click.
Play Minesweeper →
Snake
The arcade classic, rebuilt for the phone: swipe or use the big on-screen arrows to steer, eat fruit to grow, and keep clear of the walls and your own tail. Three speeds from a relaxed Easy to a frantic Hard, twelve different fruits, a golden bonus star that fades if you are too slow, and a pause button that is always under your thumb.
Play Snake →
Block Drop
The falling-block puzzle, rebuilt for the phone: tap to rotate, drag to move, flick down to drop - or use a gamepad-style set of buttons under your thumbs. Three starting speeds that climb every ten lines, a next queue, hold, a ghost piece that shows where you will land, and a pause button always within reach.
Play Block Drop →
Memory Match
The classic memory card game - also known as Concentration or Pairs. Turn over two cards at a time and find every matching pair in as few moves as you can. Boards of 16, 24 or 36 hand-drawn cards, a move counter and your best score per level, sized so the whole board fits on a phone screen.
Play Memory Match →
Mahjong
Mahjong Solitaire, the classic tile-matching puzzle. Take free tiles off the board in matching pairs until it is clear. Twelve layouts dealt at random, every deal solvable, three levels from 64 to 144 tiles, undo and shuffle, and 42 hand-drawn tiles sized so the whole board fits on a phone.
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Maria and the Missing Coder
A pixel platformer with a story: Maria crosses twelve worlds - from a bug-infested garden through cable tunnels, the cloud and a legacy attic to the deadline core - to find her boyfriend, who only popped into the server room for a minute. Stomp bugs, collect coffee beans for extra hearts, ride lifts over hot solder and beat two bosses, with big thumb-sized controls on the phone and the keyboard on a computer.
Play Maria and the Missing Coder →
Nova Bricks
A brick breaker with fifty hand-built stages: bricks shaped like hearts, invaders, rockets and a lynx, with armour, steel and chain-reacting bombs. Catch the capsules for multi-ball, a wider paddle, a fireball that melts steel, an ice ball that freezes a whole block of bricks and shatters it, and lasers. Swipe anywhere on the field to move the paddle.
Play Nova Bricks →
Harvest Hollow
A cosy farm game that grows in real time: plant radishes, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and a grape vine, harvest them into the barn and sell at a market whose prices move every few minutes. Keep hens and bees, fight aphids, beetles and slugs with sprays, use compost and growth tonic, and fill orders from the neighbours - just don't go broke.
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Star Prospector
Space mining and trading: fly with rotate and thrust, mine six minerals from iron to glowing xenite, and sell them at the planet that pays best. Watch your fuel, dodge the pull of the suns, fight pirates and rival miners, and upgrade your hold, lasers, engines and shields until you have earned enough to jump on - fifteen star systems.
Play Star Prospector →
Lily Leap
A frog's journey across five worlds: hop over roads, rails, rivers, ice and lava on scrolling maps, ride logs, turtles and floes, and find every lost baby frog before you hop home. Tap and swipe controls made for the phone - twenty levels in five worlds.
Play Lily Leap →
Puffer Reef
A one-tap swimming game: tap to push a little pufferfish up, let it sink between taps and slip through the gaps in an endless reef. Three hearts per dive, pearls that win them back, and four waters from the sunlit shallows to the midnight trench.
Play Puffer Reef →
Lynx Run
An endless runner starring the Lynxy lynx: tap to jump over rocks, logs and gaps, double jump the tall boulders and swipe down to slide under vines and birds. Berries charge a shield, and the path runs from a pine forest to the northern lights.
Play Lynx Run →
Gem Cascade
A match-3 puzzle with rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, topazes and amethysts: swap gems to line up three, make Line, Bomb and Prism gems, and thaw frozen tiles, crack stones and break chains across levels that never end.
Play Gem Cascade →
Solitaire
Klondike, the classic patience card game, redrawn for the phone. Tap a card and it finds its place, or drag whole runs between the columns; Draw 1 or Draw 3, unlimited undo, hints and an auto-finish - and every deal has been checked by a solver, so every game can be won.
Play Solitaire →
Pipe Flow
Turn the pipes so the water runs from the tap to every piece. Tap a pipe to rotate it and watch the water follow. Three levels from a small 5 x 6 board to a dense 8 x 10 maze, a freshly generated board every game that can always be solved, hints, undo and a splash of sound.
Play Pipe Flow →
What is Lynxy?
Lynxy is a small, independent collection of browser games. Every title is a static page: the code is sent to your browser once and then everything happens locally - the puzzle is generated on your device, your moves are handled on your device, and your progress is written to your own browser storage. There is no server holding an account for you, because there is no account.
A lot of the work goes into making sure the puzzles are fair: Sudoku boards are checked for a single solution, every Solitaire deal has been won by a solver before you see it, and every Mahjong deal is built so it can be cleared. The guides explain how, along with strategy for each game, and the about page tells the rest of the story.
Built for a phone first
Each game is laid out for a small screen before anything else: big touch targets, controls within thumb reach, and no layout that breaks when you rotate the device. On a laptop the same page spreads out and the keyboard works. Light and dark themes follow your system by default, and the switch in the corner overrides it for good.
Nothing to install, nothing to lose
Bookmark a game and it opens in about the time it takes to switch tabs. Close it mid-puzzle and the board, the timer and your notes are exactly where you left them next time. Clearing your browser data is the one thing that wipes the slate - there is no copy of it anywhere else.
How it pays for itself
The games are free and stay free. They are funded by ads from Google AdSense, shown on the pages around the games - nothing in a game is unlocked by an ad. If you accept it in the banner, Google Analytics measures how long the games are played; it does not load until you do. You can read exactly what that means in the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, and change your mind at any time through .
Why play here
The things that make a browser game pleasant are mostly the things it does not do.
Instant start
No download, no install, no sign-up form. Tap a game and the first puzzle is already on screen.
Private by design
We run no database. Your boards, stats and settings live in your browser and are never sent to us.
Made for touch
Controls sit where your thumb is. On desktop the same page gets a wider layout and keyboard shortcuts.
Light and dark
Both themes are designed, not inverted, and your choice carries across every game on the site.
Questions
Do I need an account to play?
No. There is no account, no e-mail address and no login anywhere on Lynxy. Open a game and play.
Are the games really free?
Yes. Every game is free to play in full, with no paid levels, no timers to wait out and no purchases. Advertising is what covers the hosting.
Where is my progress stored?
In your own browser, using localStorage. That means it survives a reload or a restart on the same device and the same browser, but it does not follow you to another device - and clearing your browsing data erases it.
Does it work on a phone?
That is the main target. Every game is built mobile-first and works in any modern mobile browser; a tablet or a desktop simply gets more room.
Will there be more games?
Yes - Sudoku, Minesweeper, Snake, Block Drop, Memory Match, Mahjong, Maria and the Missing Coder, Nova Bricks, Harvest Hollow, Star Prospector, Lily Leap, Puffer Reef, Lynx Run, Gem Cascade, Solitaire and Pipe Flow are the first sixteen. New games appear on this page as they are finished, and each one keeps the same promise: one page, no install, no account.