About Gamefinity

Every game has its own page with a full-size player, a how-to-play guide, the controls for touch, mouse and keyboard, tips from the people who made it and, for almost every game, a leaderboard. You can sort all games by what is popular this week or by what is new, or browse every category.

The Daily Games give every player the same puzzle, quiz or question for one day, from a numbers puzzle and a treasure hunt to trivia and a geography game, so a result means something next to a friend's. They change at midnight Eastern Time (New York). The Daily is the ranked set of three: the same levels for everyone, one attempt a day, and a leaderboard for the day.

Swipe mode turns the whole catalogue into a full-screen feed where the next game is one swipe away, and the gauntlets string several games together into one combined score. For a quick test of yourself there is a typing speed test, an IQ test and a color memory test, and for a break, more than a thousand history pairs in Which Came First and past trivia questions and answers.

A leaderboard only means something if every score on it is real. When you play a game with a leaderboard, the game records your inputs, not just your score. Our servers then play the run again with the same game code, input by input, and only a run whose replayed score matches its claimed score is verified and shown on the leaderboards.

For some games, a person also looks over the top runs of each board, and can hide a run that looks automated. Bots, scripts and tampering are against our terms of use; accessibility tools that don't play for you are always fine.

We aim for games that are easy to start and hard to master. The first run should be finishable by anyone who has never seen the game before, and the skill shows in how far you get after that. Short rounds, clear rules on one screen and controls that work the same way every time matter more to us than long menus or upgrades to buy.

Games made for phones are built for touch from the start, with controls sized for a thumb, and games that play on a computer get a layout made for a big screen and a keyboard or mouse. When players tell us something is too hard, confusing or broken, we change the game, and the changes reach everyone at once, because there is nothing to install.

We ask for as little as we can. Playing needs no email address, no password and no real name: the first time you play a game with a leaderboard, a guest account is made for your browser, and signing in with Google or Apple is only for keeping your name and scores on any device. What we keep, why and for how long is all in our privacy policy, and the rules for playing are in our terms of use.

Questions, bug reports, ideas for games and requests about your data are all welcome. Our contact page says how to reach us and what to include so we can help quickly.