Games that start the second you pick one.

Every game on Deckchair Games runs in an ordinary browser tab. There is nothing to install, no account to create and no trial that quietly runs out. Open a game, play a hand of solitaire on the bus, and close the tab when your stop comes. Your scores and your half-finished puzzles are still there next time, kept on this device, and they follow you to your phone if you sign in.

The games were drawn for a phone screen first. Buttons are big enough to hit while you are standing up, boards turn sideways when that is the only way they fit, and nothing you need to press sits where your thumb already is. On a laptop they take a keyboard and mouse without complaining.

If you like a puzzle with your coffee, the daily boards give everybody the same solitaire, sudoku, word and anagram until midnight, and your streak lives on this device. You can play 25 of them against a real person: open a table, send the link or read out the four-letter code, and you are playing hearts, spades, whist or gin rummy against somebody you know. Neither of you needs an account, and the computer sits in for anyone who never turns up.

Never played one of them? Every game has a rules page written in plain English: what you are trying to do, how a turn goes, a hand played out step by step, and the mistakes that cost beginners the most games. Start with how to play solitaire, how to play sudoku or how to play minesweeper, or browse all 41 rules pages.