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Wikipedia racing used to be huge - you'd sit in a computer room at school trying to get from "Cheese" to "World War II" before your mate did. Rabbit Hole is a wordle-style daily version that I made: one Start article, one Target article, navigate there using only Wikipedia links.

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Breakdown is a daily game where you guess how some data is distributed. Today's puzzle is "what is the world's habitable land used for." Make your best guess and then reveal the answer.

it's based on a worldbuilding project i developed based on a dream my brother had where he was working a call center job, & keenly aware the caller on the other end of the line had died a long time ago, so helping her troubleshoot remotely was going to be extra challenging the game was assembled

I've been hosting small CTF for my alma mater high school every summer for the last few years, usually in the form of a sequence of website-based challenges that students could complete in an hour or two. This year, now that LLMs are startingly more capable (and people claiming CTFs are dead), I

I've been designing and running daily puzzle games for my puzzle enthusiast friends for a while now. Finally decided to polish one for public release.

Made a word game, inspired by other popular games but with a guesser powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Feedback welcome!

About 10 years ago, when my oldest daughter was a baby, we used to play with animal-shaped fridge magnets. I started trying to pack all of them into the smallest possible area, mostly to make the game more interesting for myself.