BNS Data Games

Free ASCII arcade games that play in your browser. 24 classics rendered as text, each one page, keyboard or touch. Every game plays locally in your browser.

Arcade

Fast, reflex-driven classics rendered as text. Keyboard or touch, high score kept on your device, nothing uploaded.

Breakout Bounce a ball off a paddle to knock out a wall of bricks, clearing the screen before you run out of lives.
Snake Steer a growing snake around a walled grid, eating food and avoiding your own tail.
Space Invaders Shoot down a descending grid of aliens before they reach the ground, dodging the bombs they drop.
Tetris Rotate and stack the seven falling tetrominoes to complete solid rows, which then clear.

Puzzle

Turn-based puzzles rendered as text. Take your time, undo a move, and beat your own best - all in the browser.

2048 Slide numbered tiles so that equal values merge, doubling until you reach the 2048 tile.
Lights Out Switch off every light on a grid, where pressing one cell also flips the four cells around it.
Minesweeper Reveal every safe square on a grid of hidden mines, using the neighbour counts to deduce where the mines are.
Sokoban Push each crate onto a target square on a tight grid, where a crate can only be pushed, never pulled.

Randomizers

Quick decision tools rendered as text - flip a coin, roll dice, pick a number or spin a wheel. Nothing is uploaded, and no result is kept.

Coin Flip Flip a virtual coin for a quick heads-or-tails decision, with a running tally of each side.
Dice Roller Roll a set of virtual dice and read the faces and their total, with a tally of your rolls.
Dreidel Spin a dreidel and land on nun, gimel, hey or shin, with a tally of each result.
Magic 8-Ball Ask a yes-or-no question and read one of the classic Magic 8-Ball replies.
Random Number Draw a random whole number between a low and high bound that you choose.
Rock Paper Scissors Throw rock, paper or scissors against the computer and keep score over many rounds.
Spinner Spin a wheel of options and let the pointer land on one choice at random.
Yes or No Get a quick yes or no verdict when you cannot decide, with a tally of each answer.

Board games

Board and strategy classics you play against a computer opponent - line up four, take the corners, flip the most discs. Keyboard or touch, nothing uploaded.

Battleship Search a hidden grid to find and sink a fleet of ships in as few shots as possible.
Checkers Move and jump diagonally to capture the computer pieces and crown your own as kings.
Connect Four Drop discs into a grid and race the computer to line up four of your colour in a row.
Dots and Boxes Draw lines to complete boxes and claim more of the grid than the computer does.
Gomoku Place stones and be first to make an unbroken line of five, blocking the computer rows.
Nim Take marks from a single row each turn and avoid being left to take the last one.
Reversi Flank the computer discs to flip them to your colour and hold the most discs at the end.
Tic-Tac-Toe Take squares on a three-by-three grid and make a line of three before the computer does.
Every game plays locally in your browser. Nothing about your play is uploaded to a server. Your high scores are kept in this browser on this device only, and you can clear anything these games have saved from the privacy page.