There was a time when the internet was full of quirky little corners that existed just for the fun of it. Neal.fun is a love letter to that era. It is the brainchild of Neal Agarwal, a creative developer who seems to specialize in turning curiosity into rabbit holes of fun. It is the kind of site that instantly banishes boredom.
The site is a collection of small interactive experiments, fun web toys, and minimalist games that engage you without requiring too much effort.
Password Game
A humorous exercise in frustration
Password Game seems harmless at first. All you have to do is create a password. Easy, right? Not at all. What starts out as a few simple rules quickly turns into complete chaos. It starts with something simple, like a word, an uppercase letter, or a number—the usual stuff. Then it asks for a month of the year, then a Roman numeral, then today's Wordle answer. There's even a CAPTCHA at one point .
The genius here is how it simulates the real frustration of modern password requirements while pushing the absurdity to unbelievable levels. Each new condition builds on the previous one, forcing you to constantly rewrite your password while trying to satisfy every previous rule. It's both frustrating and hilarious, and it makes for a quick web game to play online when you're bored.
I'm Not a Robot
Using CAPTCHA as a form of entertainment
We've all clicked "I'm Not a Robot" more times than we can count, but on Neal.fun, that boring security step becomes fun. It starts with a familiar little box, then gradually opens up a series of challenges that get more difficult and silly as you play.
At first, the game seems boring as you solve a task, hit 'Verify' and move on. But after a while, the game starts to change the whole idea of CAPTCHA tests.
Sell! Sell! Sell!
Perspectives on consumer culture
With 'Sell! Sell! Sell!', you move from puzzle to visualization. The page shows you numbers—lots of numbers—about how many of a given popular product is sold per minute, per second, per year. For example, it says 81 Samsung TVs are sold per minute, 114 AirPods per minute, and 222 Amazon packages are delivered per second. These numbers aren't independently verified, so you can take them with a grain of salt.
The Deep Sea
An expedition into the abyss
The Deep Sea is perhaps the most fascinating part of the entire site. Starting placidly on the surface, in soft blues and teals, you'll see (un)familiar faces like Atlantic cod, spiny dogfish, and drifting Mahi-Mahi. Then you start scrolling. Scrolling. Scrolling. By the time you spot a beluga whale at 270 feet, you realize you haven't even begun your dive. The light fades as you go deeper, and the creatures become strange, almost otherworldly.
Progress
Time as a visual experience
Progress takes the idea of time and turns it into something you can actually see. The page is filled with progress bars for everything from 'Next minute' (which looks like 24 seconds) to 'Next millennium' (only 975 years to go). Each progress bar moves in real time, quietly reminding you that time isn't just passing, it's passing right now.
Seeing 'Next Year' at 70 days, with a nearly full progress bar, feels very different from looking at a calendar. Including events like 'Halley's Comet returns' (35 years away) and 'Voyager 1 reaches the Oort Cloud' (285 years away) gives a cosmic perspective. The interface is very simple, just progress bars and numbers.