About BoomWick

Three small games you can play in a browser, on a phone or on a computer, against the machine or against somebody else. Nothing to download, nothing to pay, and no waiting around: every one of them starts the moment you press a button.

How to play

Short Fuse

An arena of crates. You lay a bomb, get clear, and the blast goes out in four directions — through crates, and through anybody standing in the way, including you.

Broken crates leave upgrades behind: another bomb to carry, a longer blast, more speed, or the ability to kick a bomb across the floor. One to eight players; bots fill whatever seats nobody takes, so a game never waits for a full table. If nobody has won by the time the clock runs out, the walls begin closing in.

Arrow keys to move, space to drop a bomb, R for a new match. On a phone there are buttons for all of it.

Football

The pencil-and-paper game, played on squared paper. The ball sits where the lines cross, and a move draws one segment to a neighbouring point — never the same segment twice.

The catch is the bounce: land the ball anywhere a line already touches, including the walls, and you go again. Good players chain those bounces the length of the pitch. Put the ball in the net behind your opponent and you win; wall it in so they have nowhere legal to go and you win too.

Against a bot, against somebody on the same screen, or against a friend online.

Airplanes

Avioane, as it is played on paper in Romania. You hide three planes on your own ten-by-ten sheet — each one ten squares: a cabin, a wing of five, a body and a tail — and then take turns calling out squares.

The answer is one of three words. Air is a miss. Hit is a wing or a tail, which tells you a plane is near without telling you where its cabin is. Shot down is the cabin, and it takes the whole plane with it. Find all three cabins first and the game is yours.

The bot is given exactly what you are: the answers to its own shots, and nothing else.

What this site does not do

No download. Every game runs in the browser you are already using.
No cost. All three are free, and there is nothing to buy inside them.
Nothing kept about you beyond a count of visits by address, described in full on the privacy page. Your name, your colours and your key bindings live in your own browser and never reach the server.

The site does carry advertising, which is what pays for the machine it runs on. Ads sit on the furniture of a page — never over a board you are playing on.

Who made it

BoomWick is made by one person, for the pleasure of making it. The games are the sort that were played on the back of a school notebook, rebuilt so they work on a phone on a bus.

If something is broken, or you have an idea, or you just want a game, come and say so on Discord — the link is in the header. If you would like to help keep the lights on, the Support button does that, and nothing about the games changes either way.