Games for kids online: puzzles, balls and cats with no violence

We picked these games as ones you can comfortably hand to a child: no shooting, no blood and no scary scenes, and the controls come down to a tap on the screen or a mouse click. Everything runs straight in the browser with nothing to download or install, on a computer, tablet or phone.

Many of them are about balls and physics. In Platform Jumper and Bouncing Ball a ball hops across platforms, in Rotate the Pipe! you turn the whole level so the ball rolls to the exit, and in Hit the Basket! you have to land it right in the target. Physics Drawing and Water Flow: Happy Glass teach kids to think with a pencil, because the line they draw becomes part of the level. Animal lovers get a kitten that steals sausages and hides from robot vacuums, a cat escape across a room and a hen sneaking off the farm past guard dogs.

Older kids can try calmer puzzles: Cube Puzzle, Three in a Row: Rings!, Cards! for memory training and the family-friendly Tetris 3030. High Tower and Rumbox Designer are great for children who like to build. The collection has no official age rating, so it's best to play together with the youngest ones.