Guides

Short, practical guides to browser games: how to pick one, what runs on an old phone, and how progress is saved.

Old phone lagging mid-match: what to close first

A match stutters on an old phone: the order for closing apps, tabs, battery saver and graphics settings.

Buttons too small: making touch targets bigger

Tiny touch buttons lose matches: zoom the page, go landscape, hold with two hands, move the buttons.

How much data does one round actually use?

Data use of a browser match: one heavy load, small messages after, and the rules that keep the bill low.

Three reasons a room refuses to open

A room will not open: closed room, blocking network, stale page — the two-minute checking order.

A hot phone is a slow phone

Hot phones throttle themselves: remove the case, skip charge-play, lower brightness, play with pauses.

Two players, one phone

Two players on one phone: lay it flat, split the halves, silence notifications, agree best of three.

Tidy the browser before blaming the phone

Slow phone or cluttered browser? Close tabs, update, drop data saver, split profiles, restart in order.