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Territory-control Pong variant: rackets deflect bouncing balls that paint a grid for each side. Win by holding 80% of the board or the most territory at time-up.

Rhythm game where you spin rings to build the beat, generating the music live as you play

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.

Settlers of Catan-style hex game that runs entirely in the terminal, with a local LLM as the AI opponent.

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