Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs is a free silly chores game you play in your browser: a shift of forty tiny jobs, back to back, each one worse than the last. You are the newest temp at the agency, and the work orders keep coming. Flip a light switch. Peel a sticker off in one piece. Pour a bowl of cereal without burying the kitchen. Return the shopping cart. Fold the fitted sheet, then fold it again, because now it is bigger. Every job is a micro game that takes about five seconds and a single gesture, and every work order comes with a joke in its title and another one waiting for you if you botch it.

Each chore is a one gesture game of its own. Some want a tap at the right moment, like slipping into the elevator while the doors are open. Some want a slow, steady drag: pull the sticker too fast and it tears, scribble on the cracker too hard and it cracks. Some want a hold, a flick or a careful turn, and one of them, the wet paint, only wants you to keep your hands to yourself. The first jobs are easy on purpose, so anyone can clock in and get going; then the work orders turn absurd. You will pet a cat that does not want to be petted, parallel park a shopping cart and hang the boss's portrait straight while he watches.

The pressure comes from the clock and the write-ups. Every work order has a time strip that drains as you work, and each job gets a little less time than the one before. A botched or late job stamps WRITTEN UP on the order, and the third write-up gets you fired. The jobs come in the same order for everyone, so you can learn them, and the shift ends on a dot-matrix payslip with how many jobs you finished, your gross pay and the chore that finally broke you. On Gamefinity you also see how today's other temps did: how many of them got past the job that broke you, and which job fired the most people today.

Scoring is simple: your board position is how many jobs you got done, and your pay breaks ties. Each job pays a little more than the last, plus a tip for finishing quickly, so a fast shift beats a slow one that reached the same job. Play casually as often as you like, or take a ranked attempt for the leaderboards of our competitive games; ranked runs are verified by replaying them on our servers, so the boards show real shifts. A shift lasts at most two minutes, which makes Odd Jobs one of our quick games and a good fit for a coffee break, alongside our free games to play at work.

It plays the same on any screen. On a phone or tablet every job is one finger: tap, drag, hold or flick on the work order. On a computer the mouse does exactly the same, with a click, a drag or a held button, so there is nothing to learn twice. If you like games that test your reflexes, try our reaction games and timing games; for more short, light-hearted play, browse the casual games and the casual games for adults, or find more among our mobile games and PC games.