Top 10 Websites To Visit When You’re Bored
1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the RPG
This text-based role-playing game based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is really hard. Like really hard. I have been playing this game on and off for a couple of years, and have yet to get past the first spaceship.
Despite how tricky it is, it’s tremendously funny, seldom literal, and a must for all towel-remembers.
Play it here.
2. The Wiki Game
Essentially 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but for Wikipedia. Hopscotch between Wikipedia articles to find a path from say, Ashley Tisdale to HTML (Ashley Tisdale was born in California – Silicon Valley – Internet – HTML).
You can choose from a time trial, or to limit the amount of clicks you can use. Make it really hard by eliminating “the United States” as a pathway.
Play it here.
3. Geoguessr
Geoguessr is a guessing game using Google Maps. You’re dropped into a random location (left) and you have to guess where you are. You can use clues (what language are the street signs in?) or you can just go with your gut. If you sign up, you can play in challenge mode against another player.
Play it here.
4. Magic Pen
This physics-based doodle game is fiercely addictive. You have to push a red ball across the screen, using only shapes you draw. You can add in hinges and pins, and erase some poor choices if you must. One note: This is best suited to playing on graphics tablets (or even touchscreens) – with a mouse it’s a bit tricky.
Play it here.
5. Spy on the weather, worldwide.
“Weather?” you say. “Zzzzzz.” Let us prove you wrong with forecast.io. Super accurate, and helpful for your local area, but also weirdly absorbing for guessing temperatures around the world.
6. Browse some useless items at The Worst Things for Sale.
Created by the author Married to the Sea (more on that later), TWTFS is updated daily with the worst things for sale on Amazon. Check in and see if anything takes your fancy (like perhaps these ~unisex~ Chewbacca Crocs).
7. Never be bored again with Open Puppies.
Open Puppies
Keep it open in a tab all day long for a paw-some energy boost.
8. Lose yourself in Letters of Note.
Letters of Note/ Shaun Usher / Via julienslive.com
This gem of a website curates famous historical letters – including those from celebrities, poets, writers, politicians, scientists, and more. It’s easy to do a deep dive and only come up for air 30 minutes later, having read Marie Curie’s letter of recommendation for Albert Einstein.
The author also runs Lists of Note, which focuses on lists, and Letterheady, which focuses on beautiful stationary.
9. Playback.fm
Playback.fm has a really cool feature where you can plug in your birthday, and it’ll tell you what song was #1 on the charts when you were born. You can do this for yourself and find the #1 songs for your friends and family members too.
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