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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

A humble peasant stumbles into an adventure far beyond their station. Save the princess and earn glory - or meet one of many unfortunate ends.

Baud

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

Blockfall

Fit mixed industrial loads into full rows and feed the alternating hydraulic press

Bureaucratic Nightmare

A clerical discrepancy has made your legal existence provisional. Find, assemble, and authorize Form 27B/6 before the Department files you away.

Checkers

Checkers with AI opponent

Chess

Chess with AI opponent or local play

Coalesce

Drop discs into a jar, merge equal sizes into bigger ones, keep the pile below the line

Crossword

Tech-themed mini crossword puzzles

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 at dusk, steer it past the crows, and land it on the one lit sill

Dial-Up Days

Summer 1998, small-town America. One machine in your homemade botnet has gone dark. Find out why, expand carefully, and live with what follows.

Dustline

A shared frontier after the fall. Telegraph wires, ghost towns, and everyone else out there with you. Follow the wires.

Field Work

Choose a Night Shift practice focus: investigate, preserve evidence, repair, and hand off

Food Pyramid

Shift five-by-five food counters, place permanent plated meals, and master the Golden Dragon cycle

Go

The ancient territory game on a 9x9 board

Groffer

Hop a green process through hostile buses and packet streams

Hangman

Word guessing game

Linefeed

Feed the columns and lock a line of four

Magbubble

Fire bubbles into a hanging field — match three to pop, and everything they held up falls

Mandate: Shell Rising

Write Bash doctrine across thirteen levels in a fictional Warring States-inspired setting, ending in a linked operation; Level 12 is a provisional playtest candidate

Minesweeper

Classic minesweeper with ASCII graphics

Neon Descent: Day Zero

Build a self-custodied Nomero wallet, mine on hardware you can reach, and learn a two-step exchange route through the state ledger.

P-Squash

Route bytes through escalating circuits and squash pursuing processes during override windows

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

Perigee

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

Port Governance

Govern one crossing through three connected days of standing law, evidence, staffing and civic consequences.

Radix

Pour coloured liquid between tubes until every colour has a tube of its own

Rally

Real-time terminal paddle match, solo or live against another player

Regex Golf

Match A, reject B, fewest chars wins

Retrace

Outshoot a descending raster scan — finish scanlines to drive the beam back up

Sandfall

Run the quarry loading yard: drive the gantry hopper and fill each truck's stencil with sand or gravel before it rolls away

created by @frank

ShiftSum

Lane-shifting checksum puzzle

Snaker

Keep a growing signal alive solo or race a rival across mirrored seeded grids

Solitaire

Klondike solitaire with seeded deals, typed moves and unlimited undo

Space Crypt

An abandoned space station drifting in the void, its halls filled with mysteries and forgotten technology. Pure exploration - no combat, no resources. Find the escape pod... if you can.

Splatface

Async paintball. Pick a barrel to hide behind, pick one to shoot at, find out who wore it.

Station Omega

A derelict space station drifts in the void. Your oxygen is limited. Find a way off before you suffocate.

Sudoku

Classic Sudoku puzzle

Tavern Dice

Push-your-luck dice against the regulars of The Broken Pipe

Tenfold

Fit three pieces on a 10x10 board and clear full lines — no timer, one more piece

Termiclanker

Learn Bash through factory puzzles and a player-base defense workbench

Terminal Poker

CLI poker vs AI opponents

Tether

Release and catch across a chain of anchors, then land in a physical bucket

The Crypt

A crumbling underground tomb filled with ancient secrets and forgotten treasures. Pure exploration - no combat, no resources. Find the exit... if you can.

The Vault of Greed

This encounter is sealed by in-world progression.

Tic-Tac-Toe

Classic 3x3 grid game

VM Test Lab

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

Word-King

Claim eight related words as the guess budget shrinks