Casual Games

Casual games are built so anyone can start playing in seconds. The rules fit in a sentence, the controls are a tap, a drag or a swipe, and a round rarely lasts longer than a few minutes. That does not mean they are shallow. Solitaire has kept people thinking for centuries, and a four-suit Spider deal can take real planning.

What sets casual games apart is their pace. You decide how hard to concentrate, and there is no long campaign to commit to.

After a long day, sometimes you want a game that does not need a tutorial. Casual games are great for that in-between time: waiting for dinner, taking a break from work or winding down before bed. A solitaire deal or a few bubble shooter levels take about as long as a cup of tea, and you can stop at any point. If you like a routine, the daily deals in our solitaire games and the daily levels in Tile Trio and Critter Swap give you one fresh round each day.

In solitaire, uncover hidden cards early, since information wins games, and in Spider, try to empty a column before you deal from the stock. In bubble shooters, bank shots off the walls reach colors you cannot hit straight on, and dropping a whole branch scores more than popping it. In Tile Trio, do not fill the tray with single tiles: pick the ones that complete a set. In merge games, keep the big pieces together on one side so the small ones have room to grow.

Klondike Solitaire: Daily Deal is classic solitaire with Draw 1 or Draw 3 and a daily deal that is the same for everyone, and Spider Solitaire: Daily Deal is the two-deck version with 1, 2 or 4 suits. Tiger Pop: Bubble Shooter and Comet Pop: Space Bubble Shooter are bubble shooters, one with a tiger cub launcher and one played as a single long run through space. Dessert Drop: Merge Puzzle drops sweets into a jar until two alike merge, Tile Trio clears tiles in threes from a tray of seven, and Critter Swap swaps critters to line up three or more of a kind.