# What games do you play on your cell phone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436 "2007-06-18T07:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/1 "2007-06-18T07:21:25Z")
I have “Solitaire Deluxe 12-pack” on my Verizon phone and I have often been “saved” by it. Unexpectedly having to wait somewhere and I don’t have a book with me? Play solitaire to kill the time. What other games might I get? I do kind of get a little bored with Solitaire sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/2 "2007-06-18T07:24:22Z")
If my phone were any good, I’d be playing some kind of game. That Doom RPG looks interesting, but alas, my phone is the suxxorz. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/3 "2007-06-18T11:06:38Z")
Prince of Persia - Sands of Time. That and a Sims ripoff called New York Nights. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/4 "2007-06-18T11:12:28Z")
Tetris. Works on my crappy phone and even if I had a better one I’d probably be still playing it. I don’t even know why I go to class because all I do is just play Tetris. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/5 "2007-06-18T11:14:12Z")
Manic Miner! ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/6 "2007-06-18T11:50:15Z")
Last phone I had (Nokia 3410) I played Bantumi to death. Since upgrading to a 6230, I’ve been playing Backgammon to death. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/7 "2007-06-18T12:16:13Z")
Another Tetris player here. I downloaded Spy Hunter but have never gotten the hang of it. ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/juggler/32/3194_2.png) [@Juggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/8 "2007-06-18T12:35:16Z")
Backgammon. I like that I can play it for five minutes and continue where I left off a week later. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/9 "2007-06-18T12:38:17Z")
**supervenusfreak** is as addicted to Bejeweled on the phone as I am to WoW on the desktop. I, on the other hand, rarely use the cell phone at all. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/10 "2007-06-18T12:39:00Z")
[uninvited hijack] Those of you who play cellphone games in public which make noise: Those damn things are even more annoying than your fucking ringtones. Turn the goddam sound off, willya? Beep boop dwee tweekle doop all the way down the subway line is not pleasant. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/11 "2007-06-18T13:06:35Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] Those of you who play cellphone games in public which make noise [/QUOTE] Chill, I rarely play them outside of the loo. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/12 "2007-06-18T13:34:00Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] Chill, I rarely play them outside of the loo. [/QUOTE] Snerk. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/13 "2007-06-18T16:37:49Z")
They don’t bother me in the loo. Carry on 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/14 "2007-06-18T17:30:42Z")
I have most of the original NES games on my phone, complete with emulator. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/15 "2007-06-18T17:41:26Z")
One of my favorites is _Early Morning Drunken Prank Call to Ex-Girlfriend_. Never seems to get old. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/16 "2007-06-18T17:49:06Z")
Bejeweled. It’s kind of like stationary Tetris. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/17 "2007-06-18T20:15:26Z")
I _always_ mute my phone before playing… the beeping drives ME crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/18 "2007-06-19T00:37:26Z")
Bejeweled and Sudoku are my favorites. With the sound off - the sounds drives _me_ crazy, let alone bystanders. ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/19 "2007-06-20T05:29:53Z")
Bejeweled. Sadly, I’ve become addicted. I take about four times as long to vacate the stall as I used to. I can go for an hour and a half at the gym on the recumbant stationary bike. I arrive early at appointments so that I can fritter away the time until a punctual entry. And I haven’t even ventured past the basic configuration yet. What will become of me when I undertake to master Advanced? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436/20 "2007-06-20T10:13:09Z")
Nokia Bowling, though I’m confident the system cheats since I’ve never been able to get three opening strikes in a row. Despite the same position, same spin, same force, I always score strike-strike-8. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-play-on-your-cell-phone/408436.md?page=2)