Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority
TL;DR A Redditor discovered KindlePlay.com, a site offering simple old-school games for Kindle devices.
The available games include Minesweeper, Sudoku, Hangman, and Lost Pin.
Created by developer Peter, the games are optimized for e-ink displays and run in Kindle’s built-in browser.
If you thought your Kindle was only good for curling up with a novel, think again. Thanks to a clever web app called KindlePlay, you can now use your e-reader to play classic games, including the often-requested Sudoku, no jailbreaks, hacks, or sideloading required.
The discovery comes courtesy of Reddit user u/spaceuniversal, who shared the find on the r/kindle subreddit. Their post points readers to KindlePlay.com, a simple but surprisingly delightful website designed specifically for Kindle’s built-in web browser. The project is the work of Peter, the site’s developer, who built KindlePlay to run smoothly on e-ink screens, particularly the Kindle Oasis.
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority
Visiting the site through your Kindle’s browser reveals four games: Sudoku, Hangman, Lost PIN, and Minesweeper. They are all clean, monochrome, and touch-friendly, and of course, pleasantly nostalgic. I tested the games on multiple Kindle models and found the experience smoothest on my Kindle Scribe because of the stylus.
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