Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
I play a few word games every day - Wordle, connections, crossword - but I feel I need to look at non-word games to keep the brain agile. Looking for ideas.
The opponents are not AI powered but claude wrote some much better procedural opponent game rules and strategies so its much more challenging than 247 hearts.
It's been a bit since I've done anything other than Wordle.
Really Bad Chess was a daily driver for me. I loved the chaos, which strangely collapsed to recognizable patterns and strategies based on difficulty and board layout.
Oh, you said phone browser. Are you against native apps?
2048 is fun - you can probably find a browser version of that.
I don’t like installing apps but that’s a personal peeve. 2048 is a good one. Thank you.
Chess gives me anxiety - like I’m supposed to play to win and not just enjoy the game, unlike, say, Sudoku where getting stuck or filling the grid wrongly doesn’t seem as life or death.
saimiam's comment mentioned 2048, so I'll plug my variant:
https://quuxplusone.github.io/2048
Of these, I think Pips is probably something I should try more seriously.
https://spottedmarley.com/hearts
The opponents are not AI powered but claude wrote some much better procedural opponent game rules and strategies so its much more challenging than 247 hearts.
https://tapokgames.com/dicemerge.html
https://tapokgames.com/yatzy.html
Really Bad Chess was a daily driver for me. I loved the chaos, which strangely collapsed to recognizable patterns and strategies based on difficulty and board layout.
Oh, you said phone browser. Are you against native apps?
2048 is fun - you can probably find a browser version of that.
Chess gives me anxiety - like I’m supposed to play to win and not just enjoy the game, unlike, say, Sudoku where getting stuck or filling the grid wrongly doesn’t seem as life or death.
You may find the same anxiety as in real Chess but for me RBC is just a fun, soft brained exercise.
At a high level, why do you like Arknights?