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Browser MUD with AI-driven NPCs that keep schedules and remember conversations; the single-player arc ends in a personalised PDF novel.

Business sim: run an EV startup for 24 quarters of pricing, production and R&D calls. Solo or PvP, ~90 min.

Solve a chess tactic on every new tab, from easy forks to expert mating sequences

Moon-lander simulator: fly a spacecraft over ray-cast voxel terrain built from real lunar elevation data and land it safely.

Daily puzzle where you deduce an environment's hidden rules and beat it in few actions

Upload a photo and guess the object a local AI model picked, Wordle style

Daily puzzle where you slide pieces through a grid, blocked by walls and other pieces, to reach the goal square.

POINTS is the inverse of a game (called Green Globs) that I used to play in elementary school, on my math teacher's Apple Macintosh II computers (he had several scattered around the room). A short writeup on POINTS is now available on my blog.

Asynchronous Dictionary Game: each day players submit fake definitions for an obscure word and vote for the real one.