Games to play with friends on your phones, with no app
Most phone games for friends start with everyone downloading the same app, making an account and adding each other. These don't. One of you opens a lobby and sends the link to the group chat, and everyone plays in their phone's browser.
Every game here works on iPhone and Android, and on laptops too, so the friend without the right phone isn't left out. They're all free, and any of them takes from 2 to 100 players in one lobby.
For a big group
Quiz Rush and Squid Game put up to 100 of you in the same game. Snake Pit fits 20 snakes in one arena, Hide & Seek hides 16 in a house, and Scribble draws in rooms of 12.
- Quiz RushEveryone gets the same question at once. Right is good; right and fast is better.
- Squid GameSurvive three playground games against your friends. One slip and you're out.
- Snake PitEat, grow and cut across your friends. Hit another snake and you're dinner.
- Hide & SeekTurn into a lamp, a teapot or a pot plant, and stay very, very still.
- ScribbleOne draws, everyone guesses. The faster you guess, the more you score.
For two of you
Chess with a clock each, Air Hockey on a table the size of your screen, a Stick Fight duel, or Tiny Tanks banking shells round a maze. Each runs a knockout tournament when more friends turn up.
- ChessClassic chess with friends, on any device, on the clock you choose.
- Air HockeyThe arcade table on your phone. Slam the puck past your friend before they blink.
- Stick FightPunch, kick and knock your friends off the stage, in duels, brawls and knockouts.
- Tiny TanksBank your shells off the walls and blast your friends' tanks in a toy-box maze.
Sports
Cricket goes from 1v1 to 11 a side, with overs, wickets and a super over. Football goes from 1v1 to 5v5, with golden goal and penalties.
Races
Turbo Racers is top-down racing with drifts and boost. Road Brawl is a bike race where you punch the riders alongside. Lava Climb races up a tower ahead of rising lava, and Typing Speed Master races your fingers.
- Turbo RacersDrift the corners, hit the boost pads and beat your friends to the line.
- Road BrawlRace your friends down open roads, and fight them at full speed.
- Lava ClimbThe lava is rising. Jump, wall-climb and stomp on heads to reach the top first.
- Typing Speed MasterRace your friends to type the same passage, fastest and cleanest.
Teams
Paint Wars covers the floor in your team's colour, Kitchen Rush races two kitchens through the same orders, and Sumo Bumpers barges the other team out of the ring.
Cards
Poker is Texas Hold'em for chips, never money, at cash tables or a Sit & Go, from 2 seats a table to 9.
Questions
- Do my friends need to download anything?
- No. Every game runs in the phone's browser. Your friends open the link you send, type a name, and they're in.
- Can iPhone and Android play together?
- Yes. Phones of every kind and laptops all play in the same lobby.
- Do the games work on mobile data?
- Yes. Your moves show the instant you press, even on a slow connection.