★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★An octopus has nine brains.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The moon has moonquakes.

★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★An octopus has nine brains.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The moon has moonquakes.

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Move your mouse. Get a photo of someone pointing at it. Shouldn't be this entertaining, but here we are.

What it is

Pointer Pointer is a black page with one request: please move your pointer. Stop it anywhere and a photograph fills the screen of someone pointing at exactly that spot. Move again and a different stranger from a different party points at the new one. It does this single trick and nothing else, and it is still one of the fastest laughs on the internet.

How to play

Move your mouse, hold it still, and wait a second. The photo appears. Move again and it goes back to black until you stop. Try the corners, try the very edge, try the exact middle. Every position gets a picture, and a different one each time you settle somewhere new. On a touchscreen, tap and hold a spot instead. There is nothing else on the page: no menu, no score, no buttons, and no explanation of how it knows where you are. It simply waits for you to stop moving and then finds someone who has been pointing at that exact spot all along.

What makes it different

The photos are ordinary party and holiday snapshots, not staged studio shots, which is what makes it work: real people at real gatherings, all of them apparently aware of where your cursor is. The fun is not the technology, it is the sheer number of real people who have been recruited to point at you.

Why it is on Bored

Pointless fun, hall of fame. It is the site people mean when they say the internet used to be fun, and it has not changed a bit.

Tips

Hold still, it needs a moment to find the right photo
Try the extreme corners and see who they found for those
Move in small steps to see how precisely it tracks your cursor
Send it without explanation and let the other person discover what it does

FAQ

Is Pointer Pointer free?

Yes. It is free in the browser with no account. The page loads an ad script, though there is no cookie wall.

Does it work on a phone?

Mostly. Tap and hold a spot to place the pointer. It is built around a mouse, so a computer is the better experience.

Is there a score?

No. There is no score, no timer and no end, just the pointing.

Does it save anything?

No. Nothing is stored between visits.

Reviewed on 25 September 2026

URL: https://pointerpointer.com/

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