Little games you play over text.

Toybox Turns has six turn-based games you play through links in any chat app: Gumdrop Drop, Duck Duck Splash, Letter Ladle, Pen and Ewe, Felt Tip and Putter Around. You make a move and send the link; Grandma taps it, sees your move and takes hers whenever she likes. It's free in the browser, with nothing to install and no account.

Yes. Toybox Turns is free to play in your web browser, with no ads, no coins, no upgrades and no in-game purchases. Every game in the toy box is free for everyone.

No. Toybox Turns runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, so there's nothing to download. There's no account either: the first time you make a move you pick a short name and a felt animal face, and that's it.

Six: Gumdrop Drop (line up four gumdrops), Duck Duck Splash (hide your bath toys and splash theirs with water balloons), Letter Ladle (trace words in a bowl of pasta letters), Pen and Ewe (build fences and close pens to win sheep), Felt Tip (pocket-sized pool) and Putter Around (nine little putting holes).

Most of the games are for two players. Putter Around is for two to four. Letter Ladle can be two players, or the whole chat: everyone who opens the link plays the same bowl, up to 30 people. You can also practice alone against Bo the Bot.

Open Toybox Turns, pick a game and, if you like, type who it's for. Make your move and tap Send: your phone's share sheet opens with a link, and you drop it into any chat. The link's preview shows the board and says whose move it is. When they tap it, the board appears, your move plays out, and it's their turn. Every move after that works the same way.

No. Each player takes their turn whenever it suits them, and there's no turn timer, except the clock on a Letter Ladle round. If you both have the game open, moves arrive instantly. A game nobody touches for 14 days ends politely.

Toybox Turns has no ads, no purchases and no chat with strangers. Players send moves and nine friendly stickers, nothing else, and names are short and filtered for rude words. A link shows the board and the players' names and faces to whoever has it, and the first person to open an invite can take the open seat, so send links only to people you know.

A turn takes a few seconds to a minute; a Letter Ladle round is 90 seconds. Played live, most games are over in a few minutes, and nine holes of Putter Around in about ten. Over text, a game usually stretches across the day.

Toybox Turns runs in the web browser on any phone, tablet or computer from the last several years, iPhone or Android, and works in any chat app that can share a link. The game is in English for now.