Free silly games

What are silly games

Silly games take an ordinary idea and push it much further than anybody sensible would. The ten on Kiloo look as if a twelve-year-old made them up and drew them in felt-tip in a school exercise book, with wobbly lines, notes in the margin, and googly eyes and a big grin on everything from a loaf of bread to the Moon. The cakes have been looking forward to being bowled at all week, and the hedges are improved by being mown.

Each game is one run. It starts almost normal, with a game of curling, a bath or a bus round town, and then it gets sillier page by page without anyone explaining why. Cats multiply, a dog grows until he fits once round the Earth, the bath turns out to be the sea, and the scores climb into the millions. The run ends somewhere absurd, nearly always in space. Nobody gets hurt on the way: things wobble, fall off and land in a heap, then get up grinning. Several title pages also have a button that says do not press.

Ten silly games and the one move each asks for

Two are drag back and let go. In Cat Curling you slide a cat down the ice on its belly, then tap or rub the ice so two grannies with leaf blowers push it further; whenever one cat hits another, both pop into three. In Bowling Bakery the ball is Kevin, a keen round loaf, and every cake he bursts makes him bigger, until he is about the size of the Moon.

Three are about timing one tap or one hold. Sandwich Tower slides lettuce, cheese, a sofa, a cow and in the end planets across the page, and a tap drops each one on the stack; whatever hangs over the edge falls off and waves goodbye. Pigeon Post is tap to flap, steering Doreen, a pigeon in a postman's cap, through round letterboxes. In Bendy Bus you hold to drive and let go to stop at the sign, and every passenger, from a granny to a planet, adds a bendy section.

The other five are about steering. Very Long Dog is the snake game with a dachshund called Noodle, who gets longer with every treat. In Goat Trampoline Brenda the goat bounces by herself while you steer her onto the next trampoline, and every goat she lands beside joins a wobbling tower. In Bathtub Fishing you steer Gloop, a sticky blob on Barry the bear's line, and everything he touches sticks. Custard Surfer sends Keith the banana down three lanes of a growing custard wave, and in Lawnmower Orchestra Norbert, a mower with no brakes, plays the next note of the tune with everything he mows on the beat.

Controls, run length and what is saved

Every silly game plays on a phone, a tablet or a computer. On a touch screen you drag, tap, hold or swipe; a mouse does the same with clicks, drags and holds, and in Very Long Dog and Bathtub Fishing the pointer alone steers. On a keyboard the arrow keys aim or steer, A and D steer too in the five steering games, and Space does the main job: it bowls, drops, flaps, jumps, reels in or, held down, drives the bus. P pauses and M mutes in every game.

A run is short: under a minute and a half in Lawnmower Orchestra, about two minutes in most, and a few minutes in Goat Trampoline, Bathtub Fishing and Bendy Bus. You get a few chances, such as three pickles, three haystacks or five bows, and a run that goes wrong early ends in a nap, a snack or a cup of tea.

Your best score is kept in the browser you play in, together with what your runs win: a new hat for Gary the cat, Kevin, Brenda, Gloop, Noodle or Doreen, and something new to wear for Norbert, Keith and the bus. Clear your browser data or switch device and they start again.

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