50+ Fun Websites To Check Out When You're Bored
By Unnati Bhattarai | 5 September 2023 08:51 AM

In general, we think about social media to spend our time online when we have nothing to do. But have you ever thought beyond that? The internet has a plethora of other websites created to kill boredom.
There are millions of fun and quirky websites you may not have heard about yet. These can be an excellent pastime for times when you don't feel like being productive. Out of them, we have listed 50+ fun websites you should check out when you are bored.
1. Wordle
Wordle is an online puzzle game. Puzzle has always been a great way to pass our time. The web-based puzzling word game, Wordle, gives you six guesses for a five-letter word.
After each attempt, the color of the tiles changes. If you have the correct letter in the right spot, the color shows up green. If you have right letter but in the wrong spot, it shows yellow, and if the letter is not in that word, it shows gray. With these colorful feedbacks and clue, playing wordle is fun.
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2. Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website that documents the viral videos, messages, pictures, catchphrases and slangs interpreted as meme in social media.
Some memes are so confusing and many of us don't get it. Knowing your meme has a collection of such unlimited memes and explanation on each. Passing your time while learning the meaning behind each meme is quite funny and entertaining.
3. GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is a game about geography. The players are dropped in a random location and they will have to guess where they are. The imagery provided to the players are from the Google street view images.
4. Supercook
You are bored and don't even think you have enough supplies in the kitchen to make anything? What if I tell you there is a site where you just input what ingredients you have at home and you will get multiple choices of recipes you can make from those items? SuperCook is that website.
It is a cool site that allows to figure out what to cook in your next meal, which is always the most daunting task ever.
5. HowStuffWorks
How Stuff Works is a popular website that has been explaining about the working mechanisms of many things around you since 1998. If you have been curious about anything from factory food production to science and technology, this site has it all.
The site is also gaining popularity on YouTube and Discovery channel on your Television.
6. Heardle
Heardle is an amazing boredom killer for the music enthusiasts. The players are subjected to guess the song title from its intro. The song categories varies from hot, trending, new, old, Kpop, rap, rock, and many more.
Naming the tune based on a short clip is really fun. The game is similar to Wordle but here, instead of words, you need to guess the song name. The site is owned by Spotify now.
7. Wizarding World
Wizarding World was formerly known as Pottermore. The website is dedicated for Harry Potter fans.
This fun website has everything related to the Wizarding World from news and features, quizzes and puzzles, JK Rowling Archive, Portkey games, books, and more. So if you are obsessed with Harry Potter and the Hogwarts, Wizarding World is there for the ultimate wizarding experience online.
8. MapCrunch
MapCrunch is another free website that provides pictures from Streetview by Google Maps. The players are virtually teleported to a random location.
From the comfort of your own couch, you can travel to different places of the world. It even provides the details of the street or location.
9. Staggering Beauty
Staggering Beauty can be considered as one of the useless website. But it great to pass your time without having to think anything else.
This site just involves a strange black wiggling worm that can be shaken with the help of your mouse. The more you shake, the more it wiggles.
WARNING: For the epileptic people, it is a risky game because there appears flashy colorful lights in the background when you shake vigorously. This can trigger seizures in them.
10. Duotrigordle
Duotrigordle is another word puzzle game like Wordle. But Duotrigordle is much more challenging than Wordle because here, instead of a single 5-letter word, you have to guess 32 words at the same time. You get 37 guesses for 32 words to play on the same board.
The color blocks are of similar nature; that is, you get green for perfectly placed correct letter, yellow for incorrectly placed correct letter and grey for incorrect letter. It also has a ranking system which enables you to compete with others and climb the leaderboards.
11. Shut Up and Take My Money
Someone built a website based on the catchphrase "Shut up and take my money." This expression is generally used when you strongly approve of some product and want to buy it so you do not want to listen to anything else.
This website is an online shopping platform that sells interesting gadgets and gizmos. Some of the items found here are so unique and quirky. You may also want to gift your friends on holidays from this site.
12. 2048
2048 is a fun and challenging puzzle game. It is so easy to play that both kids and adults can enjoy it. You will get a 4x4 grid where some 2s and 4s pop up. Using arrow keys, you can shift those numbers up, down, right, or left such that you can add those numbers by sliding them together.
After each step one "2" pops anywhere in the grid and you need to keep adding them together otherwise the grid will be filled with only 2s. You need to add the numbers in such a way that altogether the total number exceeds 2048.
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13. ZoomQuilt
ZoomQuilt is a website with an infinite zoom art where you get a picture that keeps on zooming in to weird scenarios continuously. You can get this hypnotizing experience with the seamless animated illusion.
Some people even set this as a wallpaper through their app version. Its a sure way to kill your boredom by looking at the art for a long time. But beware, because this loop continues for over 10 hours and you may not even track your time.
14. Weave Silk
Weave silk is an interesting website where you can create unique art with just a click of your mouse. Spending time on this site is like a piece a cake because you keep creating awesome masterpiece the more you spend your time.
You can also download the final outcome and set it as your wallpaper on your desktop or phone.
15. Free Rice
Free rice literally provides rice to the people in developing countries. All you need to do is to play the multiple choice quiz game.
The quiz questions are based on an interactive vocabulary game. For each correct answer, ten grains of rice are donated by the United Nations World Food Programme to the needy. So its a win win game where you can build your vocabulary as well as feed the hungry around the world.
16. Don't Even Reply
Some emails are so offending, confusing, and funny that we don't even reply. Well, someone created a troll page by making a collection of such emails.
Mostly these emails are sent to the ad agencies in order to mess with them. Some ads make insane promises to which some pranksters or real people make insane requests prompting an even funnier reply. They are so hilarious that you forget about your boredom.
17. Kitten Rescue Cam
Kitten Rescue Cam is a website displaying live cam that shows the real-life happenings inside a cat fostering room in Tampa, Los Angeles, and other states.
If you are a cat lover, watching cute kittens snuggling all day inside a room can always warm your heart. You will lose your track of time by looking at these adorable cats.
18. Lifehackers
Lifehackers provide millions of shortcut skills and tricks to complete a task. With their creative and clever methods for making life easier, we can increase our productivity and same time.
You may find something useful to you unexpectedly when you spend time on this website. It helps to optimize the daily tasks of your life.
19. Eyebleach
When you have seen something scary or unwanted, you can never unsee it. However, you can eyebleach.
Eyebleaching means giving your eye the pleasure of watching pleasant images of adorable things so that you forget any other bad happenings you have seen prior. Eyebleach website provides plenty of such images, which makes you feel soothed.
20. Flight Radar 24
Flight Radar 24 is the live feature of the air traffic around the world. You can see which aeroplane is taking off from which airport at a given time and which aeroplane is landing. From flight over bermuda triangles to flight at your domestic airports, you can keep track of everything.
From the flight tracking information, flight numbers, aircraft types, altitudes, positions, headings and speeds, this site covers everything.
Other sites to kill your boredom apart from the above mentioned are as follows:
- Find The Invisible Cow
- The Useless Web
- ChatGPT
- Make A Cake
- Muscle Wiki
- Astronomy Picture of The Day
- The Oatmeal
- OCEARCH Shark Tracker
- Wayback Machine
- Imgur
- Gravity Points
- 9Gag
- The Toast
- Zillow
- The Onion
- Bored Panda
- Rainy Mood
- Duolingo
- Internet Live Stats
- This Is Sand
- Lizard Point
- Passive Aggressive Password Machine
- My Fridge Food
- Foddy
- Flash By Night
- Retail Me Not
- The Oregon Trail
- Touch Pianist
- Foddy
- Hackertype
- Pointer Pointer
- Scram Into The Void
- Stellarium
- Drive Me Insane
- This Is Sand