Play Flappy Bird Online

How to play Flappy Bird

In this version of Flappy Bird, you flap to keep the bird in the air and fly through the gap in each pair of green pipes. Each pair you pass is one point. The run ends when the bird touches a pipe or the ground.

• Flap: tap the game, click it, or press Space or ↑.
• Pause: press P or Esc. The game also pauses when the tab is hidden or the window loses focus. Press P or Esc again, tap, or press Space to go on. That tap only resumes the run; it does not flap.
• Play again: half a second after the game over screen appears, tap or press Space. The next run starts at once, and that tap is also your first flap.

Good to know

• A flap sets the bird's upward speed instead of adding to it, so fast tapping never sends it up faster than a single flap does.
• Every gap is the same size. Only its height changes from pipe to pipe.
• The top of the screen stops the bird without ending the run, but the top pipe reaches all the way up, so you cannot fly over it.
• The first pipe reaches the bird about two seconds after your first flap. After that, a new pair arrives every 1.5 seconds.
• Space and ↑ work while at least half of the game is on screen.

We checked these rules against this version's game code and in seven test runs on November 2, 2026. In those runs we pressed Space and clicked the game. In one run a new pair of pipes reached the bird every 1.5 seconds. The ↑ key and touch were read from the code and not tested on a real device.

Medals and your best score

This version gives a bronze medal at 10 points, silver at 20, gold at 30 and platinum at 40. Below 10 points the game over screen shows no medal. Your best score is saved in this browser and marked NEW when you beat it.

Medal	Score
Bronze	10
Silver	20
Gold	30
Platinum	40

Each run picks a random day or night sky and a yellow, blue or red bird. The choice is cosmetic and does not affect play.

Today's top 10

Today's top 10 shows each player's best verified score since 00:00 UTC, one row per player. The board is at the top of this page and starts over every day at 00:00 UTC.

See the all-time top 100

Every run starts from a seed, the number that sets the gap heights. The seed comes from the server and works once. The server replays each run it receives from that seed and the flap times, and only the score it gets counts. Your run is sent on its own when it beats your best of the day.

Where Flappy Bird comes from

Flappy Bird was created by Dong Nguyen and released by .GEARS, a Vietnam-based developer, for free on iOS on May 24, 2013, and Nguyen has said he coded it in two or three days (Forbes, February 11, 2014). It took off in early 2014, and in February 2014 Nguyen took it down himself (Rolling Stone, March 11, 2014).

This site is a separate, unofficial browser version by PLAY100, styled after the 2013 original. The rules on this page describe this version only.

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