Flash Arcade vs PatchWord by Brainy Day

Remember the browser arcade you played between classes — a swinging claw, a board of matching tiles, a floor-by-floor climb with keys and potions, a one-thumb dash down a hundred floors, a bubble-shooting puzzle? Flash Arcade brings that memory back, rebuilt from scratch for touch. TEN COMPLETE GAMES - A claw-timing mining game: swing, drop, and see what you haul up - A tile-matching puzzle: connect two matching tiles along an open path - A floor-by-floor dungeon climb: manage keys, potions, and monster math one room at a time - A one-thumb descent: hold left or right to dodge your way down a hundred floors - A bubble-popping puzzle: aim, shoot, and clear the board before it closes in - A lonely night highway: one lane, one thumb, and however far you can keep going - A dodge gauntlet famous for being brutally hard: one square, a swarm of circles, no excuses - A draw-your-own-track sled ride: sketch a slope with your finger and see how far it carries you - A momentum platformer: run, leap, and slide down rolling hills in very flowy pants - A slingshot launcher: pull back, fire a penguin off a ramp, and buy the wings that carry it further Every game was redesigned for one-hand touch play — no virtual mouse, no virtual keyboard, just your thumb. Play a full round in a ten-minute commute, or lose an evening to the dungeon climb. A GROWING MEMORY CATALOG Beyond the ten playable games, browse a hand-illustrated catalog of the era's other classics. Search by a half-remembered detail — a mechanic, a genre, a fragment of the name — mark the ones you used to play, and vote for which cabinet gets uncovered next. Your vote shapes what we build. PLAYS OFFLINE, FREE TO PLAY Every game works in airplane mode, on the train, underground, anywhere. No account is required to play, and there are no in-app purchases — nothing is locked behind a paywall. A banner ad sits in its own strip along the bottom edge, below the play area rather than on top of it, and that is what keeps the games free. Available in English and Simplified Chinese, switchable anytime in the app. More cabinets are uncovered in future free updates — a motorcycle racer and a soccer brawler are already on the wish list, waiting on your votes. This is the beginning of the collection, not the whole of it.

One grid. Fifteen hidden words. Fifteen pieces that fit exactly one way. PatchWord is a daily word puzzle you solve with your hands instead of your keyboard. Every day brings a fresh 11x11 letter grid and a themed word list you never get to see. Each word winds through the grid along a path, and each path has a piece shaped to cover it — drag the pieces out of the tray and work out where they belong. Claim all fifteen and the patch is complete. There is no timer and nothing to type. A puzzle is a thing to think about, not a thing to race. HOW IT PLAYS • Drag a piece from the tray onto the grid. One loose piece at a time — tap it to send it back to the tray, free of charge. • The pieces tile the board exactly, so every piece you place narrows the rest. • Hit Submit when you think a piece is home. Submit is final: a piece that is home locks and claims its word, and a piece that is not is lost for good. One miss and fifteen is out of reach for the day. • Claimed words collect behind the Words button — tap one to light up the piece covering it. • Give up reveals the whole solution and the word list, and marks the day Revealed rather than solved. EVERY DAY, EVERYWHERE • One puzzle a day, the same puzzle for everyone. • Streaks and solve stats, and an archive of recent days you can replay. • Share your result as fifteen squares — green for claimed, red for lost. Never the grid, so nothing is spoiled for anyone. • Sign in with Apple, sign in with email, or play as a guest. Your Brainy Day account carries your streak across devices. From Brainy Day.