https://notebookfun.com/Free hand-drawn physics games with real science: pinball, paper planes, fireworks, rockets, bridges, snowflakes and more. Like neal.fun, drawn on paper. No sign-up.enSun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://notebookfun.com/stack-the-jelly-friends/https://notebookfun.com/stack-the-jelly-friends/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTDrop squishy jelly friends from a paper cloud and stack a wobbly tower up to the line. Real soft-body physics: springs, pressure, friction and wind. Free. https://notebookfun.com/firefly-night/https://notebookfun.com/firefly-night/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTCatch glowing fireflies in a paper jar on a summer night. Each blinks on its own clock until they nudge each other into sync, like real ones do. Free. https://notebookfun.com/flip-the-pancakes/https://notebookfun.com/flip-the-pancakes/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTPour batter, wait for the bubbles, then flick the pan and catch your pancake. Real spin, air drag and browning. Stack them high with butter and syrup. Free. https://notebookfun.com/lead-the-ducklings/https://notebookfun.com/lead-the-ducklings/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTBe a mama duck: gather fluffy ducklings into a wobbly line and lead them home to the nest before sunset. Real Kelvin wakes and wave-riding. Free, no sign-up. https://notebookfun.com/roll-a-snowman/https://notebookfun.com/roll-a-snowman/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTRoll a snowball through fresh snow and watch it grow, heave three balls into a snowman, dress it up and watch it come alive. Real snow physics. Free. https://notebookfun.com/grow-a-paper-garden/https://notebookfun.com/grow-a-paper-garden/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTPlant sunflowers, tulips, daisies and bean vines in a paper window box. Water the soil, drag the sun and watch sleepy buds wake up and bloom. Free, no sign-up. https://notebookfun.com/notebook-pinball/https://notebookfun.com/notebook-pinball/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPlay free online pinball on a hand-drawn space table: real flipper physics, a ramp, pop bumpers, a skill shot and 3-ball multiball. No download, works on phones. https://notebookfun.com/paper-plane/https://notebookfun.com/paper-plane/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFold one of five real paper airplanes crease by crease, then throw it out of a classroom window and over a town. A free paper airplane game with real physics. https://notebookfun.com/paint-the-sky/https://notebookfun.com/paint-the-sky/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTLaunch fireworks over a watercolour town. Pick real metal salts for the colour (strontium red, barium green, copper blue) and shapes like willows and rings. Free. https://notebookfun.com/draw-a-sled-track/https://notebookfun.com/draw-a-sled-track/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTDraw a snowy track with a pencil, press Play and watch a little sledder ride it, loop it, or wipe out. Real gravity, friction and ragdoll falls. Free online. https://notebookfun.com/stack-it/https://notebookfun.com/stack-it/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free tower stacking game with real physics. Drop books, mugs, apples and rubber ducks from a swinging crane and build the tallest tower on your desk. https://notebookfun.com/blow-a-bubble/https://notebookfun.com/blow-a-bubble/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBlow a soap bubble by a sunny window and watch real thin-film colours swirl, drain and turn black before it pops. A free bubble physics game in your browser. https://notebookfun.com/land-the-rocket/https://notebookfun.com/land-the-rocket/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTLand a reusable rocket booster upright in this free rocket landing game: real thrust vectoring, drag, wind and a hoverslam burn, on a drone ship, the Moon and Mars. https://notebookfun.com/topple-the-dominoes/https://notebookfun.com/topple-the-dominoes/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free domino toppling game with real physics. Draw a path, stand up watercolour dominoes, tap the first and watch the wave race to the bell. 12 levels. https://notebookfun.com/swing-across/https://notebookfun.com/swing-across/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free rope swing game with real pendulum physics. Fire your rope at push pins, pump the swing, let go at 45° and fly across giant notebook pages. https://notebookfun.com/pour-it-perfectly/https://notebookfun.com/pour-it-perfectly/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free water pouring game with real fluid physics. Tilt a jug, teapot or watering can and fill every glass exactly to its pencil line without spilling. https://notebookfun.com/galton-board/https://notebookfun.com/galton-board/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPour 1,000 marbles through a Galton board and watch the normal distribution build itself, marble by marble. Tilt it, call a bin, beat the odds. Free. https://notebookfun.com/will-it-hold/https://notebookfun.com/will-it-hold/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free bridge building game on graph paper. Build trusses, arches and suspension bridges from wood, steel and rope, then watch a truck test them for real. https://notebookfun.com/harmonograph/https://notebookfun.com/harmonograph/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA Victorian drawing machine you can play with: two real pendulums steer a pen and draw spirals, roses and figures from musical ratios. Save your print. Free. https://notebookfun.com/trick-shot-pool/https://notebookfun.com/trick-shot-pool/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTClear hand-drawn pool tables in as few shots as you can. Real billiards physics: sliding and rolling, top spin, back spin, stun shots and cushions. Free. https://notebookfun.com/pop-the-popcorn/https://notebookfun.com/pop-the-popcorn/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTTap one kernel in a hot pan and watch the chain reaction: each pop heats its neighbours until the pan bursts into popcorn. How many can one tap pop? Free. https://notebookfun.com/paper-toss/https://notebookfun.com/paper-toss/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFlick a crumpled paper ball into the office bin past a desk fan. Real air drag, rim bounces and wind. How long a streak can you keep? Free, no sign-up. https://notebookfun.com/build-a-trebuchet/https://notebookfun.com/build-a-trebuchet/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTTune a medieval counterweight trebuchet (weight, sling length, release angle) and hurl stones at paper castles. Real swinging-arm physics and air drag. Free. https://notebookfun.com/fly-a-balloon/https://notebookfun.com/fly-a-balloon/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFly a hand-painted hot-air balloon with real buoyancy physics. You can only go up or down, so ride winds at different heights to land on the target. Free. https://notebookfun.com/egg-drop/https://notebookfun.com/egg-drop/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe classic egg drop challenge with real physics. Pick a parachute, straw cage and padding on a budget, then drop your egg from a table up to the Eiffel Tower. Free. https://notebookfun.com/snip-and-unfold/https://notebookfun.com/snip-and-unfold/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFold paper into a wedge, snip shapes with scissors and a hole punch, then unfold a perfectly symmetric snowflake. 4, 5, 6 or 8 folds. Save your flake. Free. https://notebookfun.com/murmuration/https://notebookfun.com/murmuration/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThousands of starlings swirl over a watercolour sunset. Be the peregrine falcon: send waves of panic through the flock, dive to split it, and change the rules each bird follows. https://notebookfun.com/pick-the-lock/https://notebookfun.com/pick-the-lock/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTLearn how lock picking really works. Lift each binding pin to the shear line in a see-through pin tumbler lock, from a diary lock to a bank vault with spool pins. https://notebookfun.com/grow-a-snowflake/https://notebookfun.com/grow-a-snowflake/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGuide one ice crystal down through a cloud and watch it grow live into a unique snowflake. Each layer of air shapes its arms, just like the Nakaya diagram predicts. https://notebookfun.com/bend-the-light/https://notebookfun.com/bend-the-light/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free optics puzzle game. Drag mirrors, beam splitters, colour filters, prisms and lenses to light every flower, lantern and crystal. Real reflection, refraction and colour mixing. https://notebookfun.com/keep-them-orbiting/https://notebookfun.com/keep-them-orbiting/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFling planets onto a watercolour night sky and keep your solar system alive. Real n-body gravity, moons, Trojans at Lagrange points, figure-eights, and every orbit plays a note. https://notebookfun.com/sandpit/https://notebookfun.com/sandpit/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free falling-sand sandbox painted like a watercolour notebook. Pour sand, water, oil and lava, light fires, plant seeds and freeze things, and fill a field notebook with nine reactions: glass, obsidian, geysers, steam clouds and more. https://notebookfun.com/make-sand-sing/https://notebookfun.com/make-sand-sing/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPlay a note on a vibrating brass plate and watch 20,000 grains of sand dance into Chladni figures. Find all 16 resonances, trace them into your sketchbook, then try a round plate. https://notebookfun.com/the-butterfly-effect/https://notebookfun.com/the-butterfly-effect/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTWatch 1,000 double pendulums that start one billionth of a degree apart burst into a rainbow, explore the Lorenz attractor, and try to forecast chaos. An interactive guide to chaos theory. https://notebookfun.com/marble-paper/https://notebookfun.com/marble-paper/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free paper marbling simulator. Float historical inks on a tray of size water, rake them with a stylus and comb, then lay down a sheet and pull a one-of-a-kind print, using the real maths of marbling. https://notebookfun.com/from-scratch/https://notebookfun.com/from-scratch/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTStart with energy, hydrogen and gravity. Combine them into stars, planets, life, dinosaurs, fire, writing, rockets and the internet. 98 discoveries, each with a real fact, on a timeline of the universe. https://notebookfun.com/dig-to-the-center-of-the-earth/https://notebookfun.com/dig-to-the-center-of-the-earth/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTScroll straight down from the grass to the center of the Earth. Pass worms, catacombs, the deepest mine, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, diamonds forming and an ocean of liquid iron, all at their real depths. https://notebookfun.com/follow-the-ants/https://notebookfun.com/follow-the-ants/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTWatch thousands of ink ants find food, lay pheromone trails and discover the shortest path with no leader. Drop cookies, draw walls, wipe the trail and bet on the famous double bridge experiment. https://notebookfun.com/park-it/https://notebookfun.com/park-it/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free top-down parking game. Start with an easy pull-in, then parallel park, beat rush hour, drive on black ice, park a bus in the dark and chase a parking space that runs away. https://notebookfun.com/count-to-a-googol/https://notebookfun.com/count-to-a-googol/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTStart counting at zero. Unlock tens, hundreds, doubling and squaring, pass the number of stars, sand grains and atoms in the universe, and reach a googol, written out in full. https://notebookfun.com/how-precise-are-you/https://notebookfun.com/how-precise-are-you/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTStop a hidden timer at exactly 10 seconds, tap the exact middle of a line, draw a perfect right angle, remember a colour and more. Ten tiny precision tests, scored to the pixel and the millisecond. https://notebookfun.com/gravity-golf/https://notebookfun.com/gravity-golf/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA free physics golf game in space. Slingshot your ball around planets, through wormholes and past black holes across 18 handmade holes. Can you finish under par? https://notebookfun.com/the-tree-that-saw-everything/https://notebookfun.com/the-tree-that-saw-everything/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTScroll through the life of Methuselah, a bristlecone pine that sprouted around 2833 BCE. Watch it grow while the pyramids, Rome and the Moon landing happen around it. https://notebookfun.com/fold-it-to-the-moon/https://notebookfun.com/fold-it-to-the-moon/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGuess how many times you would have to fold a sheet of paper to reach the Moon, then fold it and watch it grow past giraffes, skyscrapers, Everest and space. https://notebookfun.com/meanwhile-on-earth/https://notebookfun.com/meanwhile-on-earth/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHold the button and watch the planet live through your seconds: babies born, lightning, rain, a passing space station, a hurricane and a whale, all counted live with real rates. https://notebookfun.com/accept-all-cookies/https://notebookfun.com/accept-all-cookies/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTYou just want to read an article about otters. The cookie banner has other ideas. Ten escalating stages of dark patterns to beat. How fast can you reject all cookies?