Press and hold for three seconds to leave the game.
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A row of faded beach huts. Your child opens a door and something is behind it — a gull, a crab, a seal, a dog, a donkey, or, once in a while, five crabs at once. Close it and open it again: it's never the same twice.
Peekaboo is the oldest game there is, because object permanence — the idea that something still exists once it's out of sight — is a genuinely new discovery at this age. A door that opens on someone different every time keeps the discovery fresh long after "who's behind door one" has been answered a hundred times.
It also builds the same small, deliberate reach-and-touch skill as the rest of this camp, aimed here at a real target with a hinge, rather than a moving one.
There is no way to open the "wrong" door. Every door opens on a friend, every animal stays as long as your child wants to look at it, and closing a door is never a mistake — it's the other half of the game. Touching the sand between the huts leaves a footprint instead of doing nothing, so there's always something to do even before a door gets opened. There is no score, no timer, and no way to lose.
There are no links out of the game, no ads, no store and no chat. The only way off the screen is the corner control, and it has to be held for three seconds — long enough that a toddler won't find it by accident, short enough that you're not stuck.
The site sends only an anonymous start counter, plus whether this browser has opened the game before. There is no account, sign-in, identifier or activity trail. The game remembers one thing, on your own phone: a sticker on the Little scrapbook page for having played. Clear your browser and it's gone, which is exactly as it should be.
Sound is off until you press the one control in the corner, so opening this in a waiting room doesn't announce itself.
Made for one to four. The younger end will enjoy a door opening under their own hand; the older end will start noticing that the gull on the roof moves around, and that once in a while a door holds a surprise nothing on the screen ever mentions.
Play for two minutes or twenty. It ends whenever you decide it ends.