The No Internet Game: Play It With or Without WiFi
"No internet" used to be the worst thing a screen could say. Then Chrome hid a dinosaur behind those words, and a dead connection became a high-score opportunity. Here's everything about the no internet game — including how to play it when your internet is working fine.
What is the no internet game?
It's the endless runner built into Google Chrome's offline error page: a pixel T-Rex sprinting through a desert, jumping cacti and ducking pterodactyls until it collides with something. One button to start, one score to chase. It appears automatically whenever Chrome can't load a page.
Playing it without WiFi
Nothing to do — that's the point. When the connection drops, the game is already on screen: press space on a computer or tap the dinosaur on a phone. The entire game ships inside Chrome, so it needs no connection whatsoever; more on that design in Chrome's offline game explained.
Playing it with WiFi
Three options when your internet refuses to break:
- Play our dinosaur game online — same controls, full color, works in every browser and saves your best score.
- Type chrome://dino in Chrome's address bar.
- Type chrome://network-error/-106 to summon the classic gray error page itself.
Why the game fits the moment so well
The genius of the no internet game is that it needs nothing the error page doesn't already have: no servers, no accounts, no loading. It turns involuntary downtime into a tiny ritual — and it's deliberately just hard enough that your WiFi usually comes back before your patience does. If you want to outlast the outage, our strategy guide will stretch your runs, and Night Dino will train you for the dark stretches.