About Games for Boredom
Games for Boredom is twelve small games that each last 30 seconds. They play in a browser, on a phone or a computer, with nothing to download and no account to make before the first game.
Every run is played against another run: a real player from today, or a house player where there are not enough people yet, and a house player is always labelled House.
Why it exists
Most games for boredom ask for more than a bored person has to give: a download, a tutorial, a daily list of chores. The idea here is the opposite. You arrive with half a minute, you are playing inside a few seconds, and when the half minute is up you have a score and somebody to beat.
A score on its own is easy to forget. A stranger who did slightly better than you is not. That is why each game shows whose run you are up against and how far ahead or behind you are, the whole way through.
How it stays fair
Each game has a ladder for the day. At midnight UTC the ladder closes, the course changes for everybody, and the next day starts level, so nobody keeps an old advantage.
A score counts only after the server has played the run again from its inputs and reached the same number. Money never buys a better score or more attempts, and trophies are earned, never sold.
What it keeps simple
There is no chat. The only words another player sees from you are the name you pick, and names are checked and can be reported. What the site keeps about a visit is set out on the privacy page.
The site is made and run by one person. Questions, and reports of anything that looks wrong, go through the support page.