About Boss Games
Boss Games is a small collection of browser games — ten of them — plus eight guides about playing them well. Every game is written by hand in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript for this site. There are no embedded frames pulling in someone else's game, no advertising interstitial between you and the board, no account to create and nothing to install. You open a page, the game is already there, and when you close the tab it is gone.
Why build this in 2026
Search for a classic like Minesweeper or 2048 and you will find hundreds of pages that are the same game wrapped in a different layer of noise: a full-screen ad before the start button, a cookie banner that reappears every visit, a page that pulls two megabytes of trackers to run a puzzle that fits in ten kilobytes of code. The games themselves are usually the same handful of open implementations, copied from site to site.
We wanted the opposite: a short menu, each game written from scratch so we can actually fix it, and a page that loads on a bad connection. That constraint is also a discipline. When you write the game yourself you have to decide what a first click should do in Minesweeper, whether a puzzle generator guarantees a unique solution, and how the board should behave under a thumb on a small screen. Those decisions are the difference between a game and a wrapper.
How the games are built
One stylesheet, one shared script for the site itself, and one small script per game that loads only on that game's page. No frameworks and no build step, which means the file you download is the file we wrote. If you want to see how any of it works, your browser's view-source is the whole story.
Everything that needs to be random — mine placement, tile spawns, card shuffles, puzzle generation — uses your browser's cryptographic random number generator, drawn through a rejection loop so that no value is quietly more likely than its neighbours. That is more care than a card game strictly requires. We do it because the alternative, a plain modulo of a pseudo-random number, has a small but real bias, and because it means a bad run really was chance.
Scores, best times and your theme preference live in your browser's local storage, on your device. We do not have a copy. That also means clearing your browsing data clears your records, and that your best time does not follow you to another computer. It is a deliberate trade: no leaderboard, no account, no database of players.
How the guides are written
The eight guides exist because a start button is not an answer to "how do I get better at this". Each one is written here, from playing the game and reading the reasoning behind it, and each one tries to be specific enough to change how you play the next round.
Two editorial rules keep them honest. First, any number that describes difficulty, timing or a typical score is an estimate from our own play testing, and is labelled as one — we do not publish records we cannot verify or quote statistics we cannot source. Second, we do not cite studies we have not read. Where a claim is genuinely contested, such as whether puzzle games improve memory outside the game, the guide says it is contested instead of picking the flattering answer.
Advertising and how this site is funded
Boss Games plans to run advertising to cover hosting, and any advertising will be clearly separated from the games. No ad will sit inside a game board where it could be mistaken for a tile, a button or a result, and no ad will block a game you came to play. Our privacy policy explains what third-party advertising means for cookies and how you can control it.
What this site is not
There is no wagering here, no prizes, no entry fees and no way to play for money. Nothing on the site is gambling, and none of the games can be played for stakes. We also make no health or cognitive claims: the games are entertainment, and the guides say so where the subject invites hype.
Get in touch
Found a bug, a broken link, or a game that behaves badly on your device? That is genuinely useful to hear, and specific reports get fixed fastest. Tell us the browser, the device and what you did, through the contact page or at [email protected].