Play Temple Run

Tap to fly between pipes and die; the 2014 app its creator removed.

Sandboard through a desert forever; the calmest endless runner.

Bounce a character up a tower that has no top, chaining multi-floor combos while the floors scroll faster; Swedish freeware from 2001 that lived on school computers.

Match three sweets across thousands of levels, on five lives that refill on a timer.

Millions of user-made games in one client; the platform every child is on.

Adopt a pet and play flash games for Neopoints; the website of every 2000s childhood.

Harvest crops on Facebook and beg friends for nails; the social game that defined 2009.

One five-letter word a day and a grid to share; the New York Times bought it in 2022.