Blog & game guides
Guides, strategies and stories from the crokocat library — how the classics work, how to get better at them, and where they came from.
Game guides
- Tap away puzzles: how to read a 3D block figure before you tap — Tap away 3D tips that hold up: spin before you tap, find the arrow hidden against a neighbour, read the cube that blocked you, and stop losing lives to guesses.
- Watermelon game strategy: how to grow the big melon — A watermelon game strategy that works: sort fruit by size along one wall, keep the middle free, think one merge ahead and stop feeding the red line.
- How to win at 2048: strategy that actually works — Learn the 2048 corner strategy that actually works: keep your biggest tile locked in a corner, build a snake, and stop making the one move that ruins boards.
- Breakout: tips, angles and how to clear every brick — Practical Breakout tips that work: control the bounce angle with your paddle, dig a tunnel up one side, and know which powerups are worth chasing.
- Snake game tips: how to get a high score — Practical snake game tips: hug the walls, coil in open space, plan two turns ahead and stop dying to your own tail. How to push your snake high score up.
- Klondike solitaire strategy: how to win more games — Klondike solitaire strategy that raises your win rate: flip the right cards first, don't rush aces to the foundation, and know when an empty column helps.
Stories & lists
- Do memory games actually improve your memory? — Do memory games improve your memory? What research actually shows about brain training, the 'transfer' problem, and the real benefits playing still gives you.
- Quick browser games to play when you're bored — Bored right now? These free browser games start in one click — no download, no sign-up. Sorted by how much brain you have left: from zero-thought to full-focus.
- The history of Snake: from arcade cabinet to every Nokia on Earth — The history of Snake: born as the 1976 arcade game Blockade, reborn on the Nokia 6110 in 1997, and shipped to hundreds of millions of phones. How it happened.