Woodkirk Stone
Every once in a while I need to find something that distracts me from stressful everyday activities, so I look for stimulating or relaxing things to do online. I wanted to share some of my recent findings with you, as you can also take a break from your usual daily chores or take the time to learn something new. Below are six websites that I enjoyed checking out:
1) City guesser – a geography-based browser game that strives to provide an exceptional travel and guessing experience. It is an interactive virtual travel experience, a guessing game that you can play with your family and friends. If you are a people watcher or enjoy visiting different places in the world virtually, you will enjoy this website.
https://virtualvacations.us/guess
2) Plays.org – a site offering more than 200 free and fun online games that can be played quickly from a browser. I immediately hooked while strolling on this site. There are so many different games to play and challenge yourself. Simple, casual and fun for yourself, your family and your friends. There are many different categories. My favorite games are The Sorcerer y Tetra Blocks.
https://plays.org
3) Chess.com – host more than ten million games of chess every day; this is a popular website with many influential online creators. In addition, it supports over 50 world-class chess players, coaches and professionals by paying them to create great content. My sons love to play chess, but I am completely new to it. Luckily there are players of all skill levels that you can align yourself with.
https://www.chess.com
4) SoloLearn – an educational site with a community of people learning to code. With over 25 programming courses, you can choose from thousands of topics to learn to code. I learned to code through various resources before this one. However, I like the way there is a community atmosphere here to help people learn.
https://www.sololearn.com
5) Drum machine – create music with this online tool to sketch and share chiptune melodies. All song data is grouped together in the URL at the top of your browser. When you make edits to the song, the URL updates to reflect your edits. I had fun playing with the mod online, but you can also download an offline version.
https://www.beepbox.co
6) Automatic draw – is a contemporary drawing tool that uses machine learning or artificial intelligence to transform crude and horrifying sketches, scribbles and scribbles into innovative and conventional icons. It’s completely free to create anything visually, and it doesn’t require any downloads. I know I’m going to be spending a lot more time here creating things.
https://www.autodraw.com/
If you feel the urge to express yourself and create things like I sometimes do, the websites above can be a good place to start quickly and open up any time of the day to lift your spirits.
Thank you!