⏱️ Two-minute games

Two minutes is the honest length of most office breaks: long enough for the kettle, not long enough to open a spreadsheet you will regret. Every game here ends fast — a Snake wall, a missed flap, a stack that reached the top — and restarts with one key. Nothing needs a save file, a tutorial or a second attempt to understand.

Short rounds also mean short feedback loops, which is why these are the games people quietly get good at. Par is set at a decent casual result and the house target at a strong one; both are ours and labelled as such, so you always know what the next number to beat is.

• Tetris ~5 min · Takes practice· since 1984 The purest five-minute reset there is: one more line, then back to work.
• Snake ~3 min · Easy to learn· since 1976 Two minutes from “just one game” to a new personal best. Or a wall.
• 2048 ~5 min · Easy to learn· since 2014 Four arrow keys, one corner strategy, and suddenly it’s 3 pm.
• Breakout ~4 min · Easy to learn· since 1976 Satisfying, loud in spirit, silent in practice. Ideal for open-plan offices.
• Flappy ~1 min · Brutal· since 2013 Sixty-second rounds. Infinite humility.
• Pac-Man ~4 min · Takes practice· since 1980 Four ghosts, four corners, one power pellet away from glory.