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Accidental Dragonslayer

A title won by accident opens the road to something much larger. Sir Turnip's second chapter is still sealed.

Accidental Emperor

A crown waits beyond one last dragon-shaped disaster. Sir Turnip's final promotion is still sealed.

Accidental Knighthood

Play a turnip farmer who sets out to rescue a kidnapped princess from bandits, with nine possible endings

Backspin

Play a vintage pinball table by hand or program its flippers, plunger and nudges.

Baud

Typing test in the terminal — 30 s, 60 s, 25 words, or a passage; WPM and accuracy; race another typist live

Blockfall

Stack falling pieces and clear full rows, solo or in a two-minute race

Boxxy

Guide every crate onto its mark through compact, hand-crafted puzzles where each push matters and a small room can hide a wonderfully stubborn solution.

Hand made puzzles · @Sammyc

Bureaucratic Nightmare

Find both halves of Form 27B/6, assemble it and get it approved before your sanity runs out

Castline

Cast a line, reel in fish and keep or release each catch until your cooler is full

Checkers

American checkers for two players, on one board or by message

Chess

Chess against the computer or a friend, plus puzzles and board training

Cinderwake

Dodge the foes while your lantern fires on its own, collect embers for upgrades and survive three minutes

Claimline

Loop out and back to claim land and cut rival trails, solo or in a live two-player match

Coalesce

Drop discs into a jar and merge equal sizes into bigger ones before the pile reaches the line

Crater

Trade artillery shots with a rival rig across a changing hillside, one duel after another or online

Crossbar

Play three-a-side football: pass, sprint into space, shoot and direct your teammates.

Crossword

Crossword puzzles from 9x9 to 15x15, with a daily puzzle and four tech-themed classics

CTF: Capture the Flag

Master the command line one concept at a time. Graduated puzzles teach navigation, text processing, and shell mastery.

Datagram

Throw a note across the rooftops, steer it past the crows and land it on the lit window

Dial-Up Days

Summer 1998: one bot in your homemade botnet has gone dark. Find out why, expand the network and keep your heat down

Dockhand

Fly a space tug that picks up heavy cargo and delivers it to its bay, through eight training jobs and an endless shift

Dunerider

Drive a rocket dune buggy across open desert, then build ramps, loops and roads with place and remove, by hand or from a script

Dustline

Explore a huge shared world with other players: find items, trade and claim sites

Field Work

Fix a service outage in a practice shell: find the cause, keep the evidence, repair it and write a handoff note

Food Pyramid

Shift a 5 by 5 board so matching food merges up to Gold, then serve it with a rare sauce packet

Fusebox

Plant timed charges to disable rival robots in a crate maze, solo or in a live match

Glint

Swap neighboring gems to match three, build stripes and stars, and reach each level's target in 20 swaps

Go

Go on a 9x9 board: surround stones to capture them and enclose more of the board

Groffer

Hop a frog across moving buses and over packet streams on lily pads to connect every socket

Hairpin

Drive a kart around six circuits with free steering, manual throttle and six gears, solo, against three rivals or against a friend live

Hangman

Word guessing game

Interlock

Run a small town's traffic signals by typing commands, and get as many cars through as you can before the shift ends

Kiln

Match pairs of free tiles in mahjong solitaire until the table is empty

Knockabout

Knock rivals out or off the roof, solo or in a co-op run with a friend

Lamplight

Find the key and reach the stairs in three small puzzle rooms, with undo for every move

Latch

Steal cases from three locations and sneak past the guards to the exit

Linefeed

Drop pieces into a seven-column grid and get four in a row, against the computer or a friend

Magbubble

Fire bubbles to match three and pop them; any bubbles left hanging fall too

Mandate: Shell Rising

Write Bash scripts that command troops across thirteen levels in a fictional world inspired by Warring States China, ending in a linked operation; Level 12 is a provisional playtest candidate

Mass Driver

Switch electromagnets on and off to launch a payload, by hand or with a Bash script

Meter

Hit falling notes in four lanes in time with original music, build combos and finish the song

Minesweeper

Classic Minesweeper: open every safe cell without hitting a mine

Muster

Send troops down three lanes and destroy the enemy camp, solo or in a live match

Neon Descent: Day Zero

Build a private Nomero wallet, mine coins at home and at work, and exchange them two ways

P-Squash

Collect bytes through five circuits and squash the processes chasing you

Packetguard

Build and upgrade towers along five roads to stop endless waves of machines

Par

Putt a signal orb through twelve black-glass circuit gardens, then bank the round before the last orb falls

created by me & GPT · @frank

Paydirt

Dig for ore, sell it at the surface and upgrade your mining rig to reach deeper

Perigee

Launch a probe and let the planets bend it into the target

Port Governance

Run a town gate for three days by writing the Bash scripts that decide who gets in

Radix

Pour colored liquid between tubes until every color has a tube of its own

Rally

Paddle ball against the computer or another player, first to 7 goals

Redoubt

Lead up to three soldiers, dodge the raiders' marked shots and protect the radio transmitter

Regex Golf

Write the shortest regex that matches one list of strings and rejects the other

Retrace

Shoot down the invaders before they reach you, solo, in a race or with your crew

Ridgetop

Ride a motorbike over six trails of ridges and broken bridges, scoring points for wheelies, flips and airtime

Runlevel

Run across rooftops, jumping and sliding past obstacles until three hits end the run

Safe Harbor

Free a grounded boat, tow a disabled launch and pull people from the water in a harbor with waves, currents and passing boats

Sandfall

Drive the hopper and fill each truck with sand or gravel before it leaves; five strikes end the game

created by @frank

Scrollback

Run and jump across rooftops to deliver twelve parcels, collecting lost letters and avoiding pigeons and cats

ShiftSum

Shift rows of numbers until a column adds up to the target

Short Order

Prep, cook and serve six dishes as orders fill a tiny diner

Sidepocket

Play eight-ball pool: pot your group, then the black eight, against a bot or another player online

Snaker

Eat the food and grow longer without hitting a wall or your own tail, solo or in a two-minute race

Solitaire

Klondike solitaire with typed moves, unlimited undo and deals you can replay and share

Space Crypt

Explore a graveyard of fused spaceships and find a way out, with no combat

Spall

Bounce a ball off your paddle to break walls of blocks, catch multiball capsules and clear as many walls as you can

Splatface

Two-player paintball played by turns: pick a barrel to hide behind and one to shoot at, and the first to land three hits wins

Station Omega

Explore a derelict space station and escape in a pod before your oxygen runs out

Stencil

Fill squares to uncover a picture from number clues, with undo and hints that explain each step

Sudoku

Fill the 9x9 grid so every row, column and 3x3 box holds 1 to 9

Tavern Dice

Throw six dice and bank or risk your points to reach the target first

Tenfold

Fit pieces on a 10x10 board and clear full rows and columns, with no timer

Termiclanker

Learn Bash by scripting a robot through 40 levels and defend a base of your own

Terminal Poker

Play no-limit Texas Hold'em against two AI opponents

The Crypt

Explore a crumbling underground tomb and find one of three ways out, with no combat

The Vault of Greed

This encounter is sealed by in-world progression.

Thornhand

Win six card fights with a deck you build as you go, reading each enemy's next move

Tic-Tac-Toe

Classic 3x3 Tic-Tac-Toe: get three in a row against the computer or a friend

VM Test Lab

DataCore Systems, Work Order 0001: recover a customer archive from a legacy database nobody has powered on in years.

Waterfall

Fire balls at a field of pegs to clear each level; you start with eight balls and each level has one spare-ball peg

Wildcurrent

Follow your mother’s trail across an island, pairing with mechanical creatures from her old terminal and sparring with them

Word-King

Guess eight hidden words that share a theme, with one guess fewer for each word