Five minute games
Five minutes is plenty. No set-up, no clearing away.
No equipment
- Rock, paper, scissors Best of five.
- Thumb war
- Twenty questions
- Word association
- Fizz buzz
- Categories Name ten of something in a minute.
Pocket equipment
- Coin football
- Dots and boxes
- Snap
- Pass the pigs
- Dice: Pig Roll and bank, or risk it.
On a phone
- Marble Rumble A round lasts sixty seconds. One player or up to four. We make Marble Rumble, so of course it is on this list. Everything else here is someone else’s game, and we have no connection to any of them.
- Daily word puzzles One a day.
- 2048
More game ideas
Common questions
What games take five minutes?
Rock paper scissors, thumb war, dots and boxes, snap, fizz buzz and a round or two of Marble Rumble.
What is a quick game for two people?
Thumb war, coin football, dots and boxes or a one-minute Marble Rumble round.
Ready to flick?
Marble Rumble is free, runs in the browser and needs no account or download.