No internet? No problem.

Press Space or tap the field to make the dinosaur run.

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Space / ↑ — jump · ↓ — duck · on mobile just tap

How to play

The rules of the Dino Game have not changed since 2014, and that is exactly the point. Your dinosaur runs through an endless desert. Cacti grow in its path, and after 450 points pterodactyls join in. One touch of any obstacle ends the run.

Jump

Space or the up arrow lifts the T-Rex over cacti. Timing matters more than reflexes: jump late rather than early.

Duck

The down arrow makes the dinosaur crouch under low-flying pterodactyls. High ones can be ignored entirely.

Survive

The game speeds up every 100 points. Around 700, the screen inverts into night mode. There is no finish line — only your high score.

History

The dinosaur runner was built into Google Chrome in 2014 by designer Sebastien Gabriel and engineers Edward Jung and Alan Bettes. The team called the project "Project Bolan" — a nod to Marc Bolan, frontman of the band T. Rex.

The choice of a dinosaur is a joke about the offline state itself: no connection means you are living in the prehistoric era. The pixel-art T-Rex first appeared as a static easter egg on the "No internet" error page, and a month later it learned to run and jump.

Today the game hides behind the chrome://dino address in every copy of Chrome, and by Google's own estimates it is played hundreds of millions of times every month. If you'd rather play a full-screen version with extra modes and characters, the Dino Game at dino-chrome.com runs in any browser — no lost connection required.

Facts

Question	Answer
Maximum score	99,999 points — then the counter rolls over and the run restarts from zero
How long is a "perfect run"	About 17 minutes of continuous play
Dinosaur's name	Unofficially — Steve. Chrome's code refers to it simply as T-Rex
Top running speed	The game caps out at 13 pixels per frame — roughly twice the starting speed
Where to launch it	Type chrome://dino in Chrome's address bar — or just play on this page