Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?

15 points by saimiam · 35 comments
I play a few word games every day - Wordle, connections, crossword - but I feel I need to look at non-word games to keep the brain agile. Looking for ideas.

35 comments

I built https://poptimum.fun which works pretty great on a browser.

Right now it’s a daily game, but a campaign and roguelike mode is coming next week

Pretty neat. Just got a highscore yay
https://sutom.nocle.fr - French wordle referring to old french TV show MOTUS
hulitu
None. The Phone's browser is unsuitable for games and I am not masochistic.
Not everyone is stuck with Safari only.
https://www.bellika.dk/exponentile - first seen here on ShowHN
Gerrymandle, although it's started the slow slide into ads and popups in the past month. https://gerrymandle.com/puzzles

saimiam's comment mentioned 2048, so I'll plug my variant:

https://quuxplusone.github.io/2048

tkdb
It's been a bit since I've done anything other than Wordle.

Really Bad Chess was a daily driver for me. I loved the chaos, which strangely collapsed to recognizable patterns and strategies based on difficulty and board layout.

Oh, you said phone browser. Are you against native apps?

2048 is fun - you can probably find a browser version of that.

saimiam OP
I don’t like installing apps but that’s a personal peeve. 2048 is a good one. Thank you.

Chess gives me anxiety - like I’m supposed to play to win and not just enjoy the game, unlike, say, Sudoku where getting stuck or filling the grid wrongly doesn’t seem as life or death.

tkdb OC
Well...people who like chess who I've showed Really Bad Chess to really don't like Really Bad Chess. Maybe the flip side is true?

You may find the same anxiety as in real Chess but for me RBC is just a fun, soft brained exercise.

saimiam OP
Both these games need a proper "how to play" page. I couldn't figure out what I was doing in either.
I used to play 247 Hearts a lot but then I built a better version for myself.

https://spottedmarley.com/hearts

The opponents are not AI powered but claude wrote some much better procedural opponent game rules and strategies so its much more challenging than 247 hearts.