One Thing Each

One Thing Each is a free online toy where everyone in the world gets to add one thing to the same tiny planet. The planet sits inside a snow globe on a shelf, and it starts again every day at midnight UTC. You pick a single figurine from a drawer of 216 hand-painted ones (a cottage, a lighthouse, a windmill, a rocket, a cactus, a castle, a duck), tap the spot on the planet where it should stand, and set it down. Then you spin the globe and look at what everyone else added today: little villages, forests, harbours full of boats, jokes nobody explained, and a suspicious number of ducks. It runs in your browser with no download and no sign-up form, and a visit takes about half a minute.

The planet is shared and it grows all day. Every figurine stands up from the surface all the way to the horizon, so a busy evening turns the globe into a tiny crowded world. When someone builds on top of another thing, the new one stacks on it: a duck on a house, a rocket on a castle, a teapot on a mountain. Every spot takes a few things at most, so a place that fills up spills its next figurine into the spot next door. Each day has its own map of land and sea, and the brass plaque on the globe's wooden base keeps the count ("8,302 THINGS").

There is nothing to win and nothing to lose. One Thing Each has no score and no leaderboard: it is a toy, one of our most relaxing games, a quiet shared moment you can come back to every day. You can add one thing a day. Choosing and aiming need only a few taps; to keep it to one a day, setting your figurine down signs you in with a free guest account, the same kind the daily challenge uses, and the thing itself is stored without your account. There is no free text anywhere: every figurine comes from a fixed catalogue, so nothing unkind can be written on the planet. If a spot looks wrong, you can tap it and report it.

A visit has three small steps. First open the drawer's tabs (homes, fun, nature, animals, sea and sky, go and eat) and tap one figurine. Then drag inside the glass to spin the planet, tap the spot where it should go (a ghost shows it there) and turn it to face left or right if you like. Finally tap Place it: it drops onto the planet, marked YOURS, and the count goes up. Afterwards you can zoom in, tap any spot to see what stands there, and open Past planets to look at the shelf of earlier days, which are kept like a little museum of everyone's planets.

One Thing Each plays the same on every screen. On a phone, drag with one thumb to spin the planet and tap to choose, aim and place. On a computer, click and drag with the mouse, or spin the planet with the arrow keys and press Space to aim at the spot facing you and set your figurine down. You will find it among our quick games, our casual games, and our mobile games and PC games.