The essentials
- Free: every game, every day.
- No sign-up: students and residents do not create accounts or enter names or email addresses.
- No ads on any page.
- No download: games run in an ordinary browser on a computer, tablet, phone or interactive whiteboard.
- Touch, mouse and keyboard all work.
Games by age
| Group | Games and notes |
|---|---|
| Younger children | Memory Match, Sliding Puzzle, Lights Out Short boards with one clear goal. Sliding Puzzle and Lights Out have no timer. |
| Older primary and middle school | Mental Math, Make 24, Word Ladder, Word Scramble Arithmetic and vocabulary practice. Mental Math and Make 24 have no countdown. |
| Teens | Schulte Table, Code Breaker, Slitherlink, Pattern Recognition Logic and deduction puzzles, plus a timed visual scanning game. |
| Adults and older adults | Word Search, Mini Sudoku, CalcuDoku, Photographic Memory Test Untimed daily puzzles and gentle picture recall. See the seniors guide for more. |
These are suggestions, not age ratings. You know your group best; every game page shows the rules and a typical playing time before you start.
Games by setting
A five-minute warm-up
Open Schulte Table or Mental Math on the board. Each round takes a few minutes and has a clear finish.
Solve one puzzle as a class
Project today’s Nonogram, Word Search or Mini Sudoku and take suggestions from the room. Daily puzzles are the same for everyone on the same UTC date.
Early finishers
Point students to Code Breaker, Make 24 or Slitherlink. None of them has a timer.
Care-home or library activity group
Choose an untimed word game, read clues aloud and let different people take turns choosing the next move.
Projector and group play
- Open the game page and scroll to the board. The rules and tips sit below it if you want to read them aloud first.
- Use your browser’s zoom so the board is easy to read from the back of the room.
- One person operates the board; others call out moves. Untimed games work best for this.
- For daily puzzles, progress is saved in that browser, so you can pause and return later the same day.
Privacy and data
Scores and puzzle progress are saved only in the browser’s local storage on the device being used. They are not uploaded, and there is no public leaderboard. On a shared computer, use Clear my game history on My Progress to remove them.
The site uses analytics to count page visits and understand how pages are used; answers, typed text and scores are not sent. Visitors can reject analytics storage in the cookie notice. Our privacy policy lists the services and what they receive.
The games are recreational. They are not assessments, and results are not IQ scores or diagnoses.
Linking to this page
If you keep a resource list for a school, library or care organization, you are welcome to link here. A suggested listing:
Brain Workout — free brain games for classrooms and care settings
https://www.brainworkout.org/for-teachers-and-caregivers/
Questions or suggestions? Write to support@brainworkout.org. For older adults at home, see free brain games for seniors.
Written by Brain Workout. Practical notes about our games, for recreational play.