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Daily word-guessing game: a binary-search Hi/Lo hint on each letter narrows you toward the hidden word.

Browser grand-strategy game on huge maps; expand territory and attack neighbours in matches with hundreds of players.

Text-based open-world crime game for the terminal, written in Bash: travel cities, take jobs and heists, buy weapons, manage health and inventory.

Terminal No-Limit Texas Hold'em in Claude Code: you act against three AI subagent opponents, with optional coaching.

Open-world low-poly 3D RPG written from scratch in C#/OpenGL: choose a class, explore procedurally generated worlds, complete quests and skill trees.

Card-based game: run IT support for a company overrun by eldritch horrors; balance tickets, budget and entropy.

Guess the area of a triangle formed by three cities you place anywhere on Earth

Find which four of sixteen words share a common theme, with daily vocabulary puzzles in 195 languages

Solve a murder mystery by debugging a real Linux binary and its core dump