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12 questions, 12 answers

FAQ: money, adverts, age and phones

Short answers with the facts behind them. Each answer names the games it is about, and every figure was checked on 10 or 11 November 2026.

Are the 6 games really free?

In the browser, yes: all 6 play without payment and without an account, and nothing on the screens we opened is sold for money. Retro Highway prices its bikes and upgrades in coins collected on the road. Money appears outside the browser. The iPhone app of Retro Highway sells packs from £2.99 to £14.99, the one of Super Fowlst sells named characters at £0.99 and ad removal at £4.99, and Rally Point 5 has a Windows edition at $2.99 or more.

Do any of them show adverts?

All 6 sit on portals that live on adverts. A Poki game page has 2 advert places and the CrazyGames page had 3. On 10 November 2026 the Poki places were empty in our screenshots and the CrazyGames ones showed adverts in Thai, because our check ran from Thailand. No video played before any game. 2 games add offers of their own: Retro Highway has 3 kinds of button that trade a video advert for a repair, a skipped challenge or coins, and Pinball Mania has 2. Super Fowlst showed no such button in the tutorial and first stage we played on 11 November; its character screen we did not reach.

Do I need an account or a download?

No. Each game starts in a browser tab. Poki's FAQ says: "All games on our website are available without registration or an account." Pinball Mania started on CrazyGames with the Log in button unused.

Is there an age limit?

The host sets it. On Poki the figure shown to us was 16, with a note that it depends on the country; our address was in Thailand, so the UK text is unread. CrazyGames' terms bar users under 13. Store ratings exist for 2 games: the console editions of Retro Highway are rated PEGI 3 and its iPhone app 9+, and the iPhone app of Super Fowlst is 9+ for infrequent cartoon or fantasy violence. All 6 are played alone or on 1 shared keyboard, without chat.

Can I really finish a game in 5 minutes?

For 5 of the 6, with room to spare. Our Retro Highway runs lasted 5 to 20 seconds, and our level 1 attempt in Breakoid under 35. A round of Pinball Mania took about 30 seconds and our longest QWOP attempt under 90. The first stage of Rally Point 5 has a target of 3:15. Super Fowlst is the exception: our chicken was still flying after about 7 minutes, so the length of a whole run is not verified. With the 5 short ones the risk is the opposite: each restarts within seconds, which is why this site has a clock.

What does "est." mean on a card?

It marks our own estimate where we have neither a stopwatch time nor a source. On this site that is the line that 5 minutes holds dozens of QWOP falls. The run lengths are times from our own attempts on 10 and 11 November 2026, and each card says what ended the attempt or, for Super Fowlst, that nothing had ended it yet.

Do the games work on a phone?

Partly, and we tested none of them on a phone. Poki lists Retro Highway, Breakoid and Super Fowlst for phones and tablets, and CrazyGames lists Pinball Mania for mobile and tablet browsers. Poki lists QWOP and Rally Point 5 for desktop only.

Will my high score be saved?

Within one sitting, yes for 2 games: Breakoid put up a personal high score after our Endless Mode run, and Retro Highway kept the best distance. Whether either survives closing the tab is not verified. Poki's FAQ says a guest's progress is saved in browser cookies and that private browsing can stop it. QWOP showed no best distance, and Super Fowlst showed no score counter in the part we played.

Who are Poki and CrazyGames?

2 large portals for browser games. Poki's privacy pages name Poki B.V. of Amsterdam, and the site claims 100 million players a month. The terms of CrazyGames name Maxflow B.V. of Leuven in Belgium. Both are free to use and paid for by adverts. 5 of the 6 games here are on Poki and 1 is on CrazyGames.

Are these official copies?

QWOP on Poki is credited to Bennett Foddy, its author, and Super Fowlst to Thomas K. Young, who sells the same game on the App Store under the name Thomas Young. Breakoid on Poki is credited to its studio, supernice.games. We left out a pinball game whose logo carries the name of another company's product, and a racing game whose cars wear the colours and sponsor names of real Formula 1 teams. The method page explains the check.

Why is there no rating out of 10?

Because we would have to invent it. We opened each game and timed a few attempts; we did not play each one for weeks. The fact cards do repeat the public rating of the host with its vote count, such as 4.42 out of 5 from 46,261 votes for Breakoid on Poki. The score table sorts by year, by run length or by name, and the page says that a rank there is a position in a list.

A fact on a card is out of date. What now?

Write to [email protected]. We open the game again, correct the card and add a dated line to the log. Hosts and game makers change adverts, prices and rules without notice, so every card carries the date 10 November 2026.